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- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.BEST PICTURE
Back to the Future
Revolt (Ran)
Come and See (Idi i smotri)
A Room with a View
Witness
Out of Africa
Clue
The Breakfast Club
The Color Purple
Brazil - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.BEST DIRECTOR
Akira Kurosawa - Revolt (Ran)
Elem Klimov - Come and See (Idi i smotri)
Steven Spielberg - The Color Purple
James Ivory - A Room with a View
Peter Weir - Witness
Robert Zemeckis - Back to the Future - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.BEST ACTOR
Tatsuya Nakadai - Revolt (Ran)
Michael J. Fox - Back to the Future
Aleksey Kravchenko - Come and See (Idi i smotri)
Tim Curry - Clue
Harrison Ford - Witness
Jonathan Pryce - Brazil - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDanny GloverWhoopi GoldbergOprah WinfreyA tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.BEST ACTRESS
Whoopi Goldberg - The Color Purple
Meryl Streep - Out of Africa
Helena Bonham Carter - A Room with a View
Kelly McGillis - Witness
Molly Ringwald - The Breakfast Club
Kathleen Turner - Prizzi's Honor - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Christopher Lloyd - Back to the Future
Daniel Day-Lewis - My Beautiful Laundrette
Daniel Day-Lewis - A Room with a View
Crispin Glover - Back to the Future
Pîtâ - Revolt (Ran)
Lukas Haas - Witness - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDanny GloverWhoopi GoldbergOprah WinfreyA tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Oprah Winfrey - The Color Purple
Maggie Smith - A Room with a View
Margaret Avery - The Color Purple
Mieko Harada - Revolt (Ran)
Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
Lea Thompson - Back to the Future - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDanny GloverWhoopi GoldbergOprah WinfreyA tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.BEST CASTING
The Color Purple
Clue
A Room with a View
Revolt (Ran)
Prizzi's Honor
Out of Africa - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
Brazil
Witness
My Beautiful Laundrette
Come and See (Idi i smotri) - DirectorJonathan LynnStarsEileen BrennanTim CurryMadeline KahnSix guests are anonymously invited to a strange mansion for dinner, but after their host is killed, they must cooperate with the staff to identify the murderer as the bodies pile up.BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Clue
A Room with a View
Out of Africa
The Color Purple
Revolt (Ran)
Prizzi's Honor - DirectorMacoto TezukaStarsShingo KubotaKan TakagiKyôko TogawaIn 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film.BEST TITLES/CREDITS DESIGN
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (Hoshikuzu kyôdai no densetsu)
Clue
Back to the Future
A View to a Kill
A Room with a View
The Black Cauldron - DirectorPeter WeirStarsHarrison FordKelly McGillisLukas HaasWhile protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.BEST EDITING
Witness
Back to the Future
Out of Africa
Revolt (Ran)
Prizzi's Honor
Brazil - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Revolt (Ran)
Brazil
Out of Africa
A Room with a View
Come and See (Idi i smotri)
Legend - DirectorRidley ScottStarsTom CruiseMia SaraTim CurryA young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.BEST PRODUCTION DESIGN
Legend
Brazil
Revolt (Ran)
A Room with a View
Out of Africa
The Color Purple - DirectorJames IvoryStarsMaggie SmithHelena Bonham CarterDenholm ElliottLucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) shares a brief romance with George Emerson in Florence. Yet as she tries to move on with her life and look for marriage elsewhere, can she truly forget the events of that summer?BEST COSTUME DESIGN
A Room with a View
Out of Africa
Revolt (Ran)
The Color Purple
Brazil
Back to the Future - DirectorRidley ScottStarsTom CruiseMia SaraTim CurryA young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.BEST MAKE-UP & HAIR
Legend
Teen Wolf
The Color Purple
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Back to the Future
Revolt (Ran) - DirectorRon HowardStarsDon AmecheWilford BrimleyHume CronynWhen a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Cocoon
Back to the Future
A View to a Kill
Legend
Brazil
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - DirectorSydney PollackStarsMeryl StreepRobert RedfordKlaus Maria BrandauerIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.BEST SCORE
Out of Africa
Back to the Future
Revolt (Ran)
A Room with a View
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Legend - DirectorMacoto TezukaStarsShingo KubotaKan TakagiKyôko TogawaIn 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film.BEST SOUNDTRACK/ADAPTED SCORE
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (Hoshikuzu kyôdai no densetsu)
The Breakfast Club - DirectorGeorge MillerGeorge OgilvieStarsMel GibsonTina TurnerBruce SpenceAfter being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.BEST SONG
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome - "We Don't Need Another Hero"
The Color Purple - "Miss Celie's Blues"
Back to the Future - "The Power of Love"
A View to a Kill - "A View to a Kill"
Teen Wolf - "Shootin' for the Moon"
Teen Wolf - "Win in the End" - DirectorMacoto TezukaStarsShingo KubotaKan TakagiKyôko TogawaIn 1985, Makoto Tezuka, the son of manga genius Osamu Tezuka, was still a film student with a few experimental shorts to his credit and who was entrusted with the mission to turn an album by Haruo Chikada into a musical film.BEST DANCE CHOREOGRAPHY
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (Hoshikuzu kyôdai no densetsu) - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.BEST SOUND
Back to the Future
Out of Africa
Revolt (Ran)
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Come and See (Idi i smotri)
Prizzi's Honor - DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.BEST SOUND EDITING
Back to the Future
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Legend
A View to a Kill
Brazil
Revolt (Ran) - DirectorGeorge MillerGeorge OgilvieStarsMel GibsonTina TurnerBruce SpenceAfter being exiled from the most advanced town in post-apocalyptic Australia, a drifter travels with a group of abandoned children to rebel against the town's queen.BEST STUNTS
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Revolt (Ran)
A View to a Kill
Come and See (Idi i smotri)
Back to the Future
Legend - DirectorTed BermanRichard RichStarsGrant BardsleyFreddie JonesSusan SheridanA young boy and a group of misfit friends embark on a quest to find a dark magic item of ultimate power before a diabolical tyrant can.BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
The Black Cauldron
The Care Bears Movie - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.BEST FOREIGN FILM
Revolt (Ran)
Come and See (Idi i smotri)
The Legend of the Stardust Brothers (Hoshikuzu kyôdai no densetsu)