| Award |
Winner |
Nominee(s) |
| Best Actor in a Leading Role |
Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown |
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| Best Actor in a Supporting Role |
Denzel Washington – Glory |
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| Best Actress in a Leading Role |
Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy |
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| Best Actress in a Supporting Role |
Brenda Fricker – My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown |
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| Best Art Direction |
Batman – Art Direction: Anton Furst; Set Decoration: Peter Young |
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| Best Cinematography |
Glory – Freddie Francis |
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| Best Costume Design |
Henry V – Phyllis Dalton |
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| Best Director |
Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July |
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| Best Documentary (Feature) |
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt – Robert Epstein and Bill Couturié, Producers |
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| Best Documentary (Short Subject) |
"The Johnstown Flood" – Charles Guggenheim, Producer |
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| Best Film Editing |
Born on the Fourth of July – David Brenner and Joe Hutshing |
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| Best Foreign Language Film |
Nuovo cinema Paradiso – Italy |
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| Best Makeup |
Driving Miss Daisy – Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber and Kevin Haney |
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| Best Music (Original Score) |
The Little Mermaid – Alan Menken |
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| Best Music (Original Song) |
"Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid – Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman |
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| Best Picture |
Driving Miss Daisy – Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck, Producers |
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| Best Short Film (Animated) |
"Balance" – Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein, Producers |
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| Best Short Film (Dramatic Live Action) |
"Work Experience" – James Hendrie, Producer |
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| Best Sound |
Glory – Donald O. Mitchell , Gregg Rudloff , Elliot Tyson and Russell Williams II |
- The Abyss – Don Bassman, Kevin Cleary, Richard Overton, Lee Orloff
- Black Rain – Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg Russell, Keith Wester
- Born on the Fourth of July – Michael Minkler, Gregory Watkins, Wylie Stateman, Tod Maitland
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy, Tony Dawe
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| Best Sound Editing |
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – Richard Hymns and Ben Burtt |
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| Best Visual Effects |
The Abyss – Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, John Bruno and Dennis Skotak |
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| Best Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) |
Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry |
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| Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) |
Dead Poets Society – Tom Schulman |
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