1987 (60th Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1987. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Picture
Fatal Attraction, Jaffe/Lansing Production; Paramount. Stanley R. Jaffe and Sherry Lansing, Producers.Hope and Glory, Davros Production Services Limited Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) John Boorman, Producer.The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Jeremy Thomas, Producer.Moonstruck, Patrick Palmer & Norman Jewison Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Patrick Palmer and Norman Jewison, Producers.Actor in a Leading Role
Marcello Mastroianni in Dark Eyes, Excelsior TV & RAI Uno Production; Island Pictures. (Italy, Soviet Union)Robin Williams in Good Morning, Vietnam, Touchstone Pictures Production in association with Silver Screen Partners III; Buena Vista.Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Bernardo Bertolucci.My Life as a Dog, Svensk Filmindustri/Filmteknik Production; Skouras Pictures. (Sweden) Lasse Hallstrom.Art Direction-Set Decoration
Empire of the Sun, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Art direction by Norman Reynolds; set decoration by Harry Cordwell.Hope and Glory, Davros Production Services Limited Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) Art direction by Anthony Pratt; set decoration by Joan Woollard.The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Art direction by Ferdinando Scarfiotti; set decoration by Bruno Cesari and Osvaldo Desideri.Radio Days, Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production; Orion. Art direction by Santo Loquasto; set decoration by Carol Joffe, Les Bloom and George DeTitta, Jr.The Untouchables, Art Linson Production; Paramount. Art direction by Patrizia Von Brandenstein and William A. Elliott; set decoration by Hal Gausman.Cinematography
Hope and Glory, Davros Production Services Limited Production; Columbia. (UK, USA) Philippe Rousselot.Costume Design
Documentary
(Feature)
Eyes on the Prize: America’s Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965, Blackside, Inc Production. Callie Crossley and James A. DeVinney, Producers.Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima, Muraki Film Project. John Junkerman and John W. Dower, Producers.A Stitch for Time, Production of Peace Quilters Production Company, Inc. Barbara Herbich and Cyril Christo, Producers.The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, Aviva Films Production. Aviva Slesin, Producer.(Short Subject)
Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller, Winterlude Films, Inc. Production. Deborah Dickson, Producer.In the Wee Wee Hours . . ., University of Southern California School of Cinema/Television. Dr. Frank Daniel and Izak Ben-Meir, Producers.Film Editing
The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Gabriella Cristiani.Foreign Language Film
Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children), NEF (Paris) Production; Orion Classics. (France, West Germany, Italy)Babette’s Feast, Panorama Film International Production in cooperation with Nordisk Film and the Danish Film Institute. (Denmark)Course Completed, Nickel Odeon Dos Production. (Spain)The Family, Massfilm-Cinecitta-Les Films Ariane-Cinemax Production. (Italy, France)Pathfinder, Filmkameratene Production. (Norway)Makeup
Music
(Original Score)
The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su.(Original Song)
Cry Freedom from Cry Freedom, Marble Arch Production; Universal. (UK) Music and lyric by George Fenton and Jonas Gwangwa.(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life from Dirty Dancing, Vestron Pictures Production in association with Great American Films Limited Partnership; Vestron. Music by Franke Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz; lyric by Franke Previte.Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now from Mannequin, Gladden Entertainment Production; 20th Century-Fox. Music and lyric by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren.Shakedown from Beverly Hills Cop II, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Production in association with Eddie Murphy Productions; Paramount. Music by Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey; lyric by Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey and Bob Seger.Storybook Love from The Princess Bride, Act III Communications Production; 20th Century-Fox. Music and lyric by Willy DeVille.Short Films
(Animated)
The Man Who Planted Trees, Société Radio-Canada/Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (Canada) Frédéric Back, Producer.(Live Action)
Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall, Chanticleer Films. Jonathan Sanger and Jana Sue Memel, Producers.Sound
Empire of the Sun, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Robert Knudson, Don Digirolamo, John Boyd and Tony Dawe.The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Bill Rowe and Ivan Sharrock.Lethal Weapon, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore and Bill Nelson.RoboCop, Tobor Pictures Production; Orion. Michael J. Kohut, Carlos de Larios, Aaron Rochin and Robert Wald.The Witches of Eastwick, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Wayne Artman, Tom Beckert, Tom Dahl and Art Rochester.Special Achievement Award
(Sound Effects Editing)
Visual Effects
Innerspace, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup and Kenneth Smith.Predator, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, Mexico) Joel Hynek, Robert M. Greenberg, Richard Greenberg and Stan Winston.Writing
(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
Full Metal Jacket, Natant Production; Warner Bros. (UK, USA) Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr and Gustav Hasford.The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci.My Life as a Dog, Svensk Filmindustri/Filmteknik Production; Skouras Pictures. (Sweden) Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jönsson, Brasse Brännström and Per Berglund.(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Au Revoir Les Enfants (Goodbye, Children), NEF (Paris) Production; Orion Classics. (France, West Germany, Italy) Louis Malle.Gordon E. Sawyer Award
NOTE: The Gordon E. Sawyer Award was presented at the Scientific or Technical Awards ceremony on March 27, 1988, in the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Scientific or Technical Award
(Academy Award of Merit)
To Bernard Kühl and Werner Block and to the OSRAM GmbH Research and Development Department for the invention and the continuing improvement of the OSRAM HMI light source for motion picture photography.(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To Willi Burth and Kinotome Corporation for the invention and development of the Non-rewind Platter System for motion picture presentations.To Montage Group, Ltd. for the development, and to Ronald C. Barker and Chester L. Schuler for the invention, of the Montage Picture Processor electronic film editing system.To Colin F. Mossman and Rank Film Laboratories’ Development Group for creating a fully-automated, film handling system for improving productivity of high speed film processing.To Eastman Kodak Company for the development of Eastman Color High Speed Daylight Negative Film 5297/7297.To Eastman Kodak Company for the development of Eastman Color High Speed SA Negative Film 5295 for blue-screen traveling matte photography.To Fritz Gabriel Bauer for the invention and development of the improved features of the Moviecam Camera System.To Zoran Perisic of Courier Films Ltd. for the Zoptic dual-zoom front projection system for visual effects photography.To THE Carl Zeiss Company for the design and development of a series of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography.(Technical Achievement Award)
To Ioan Allen of Dolby Laboratories, Inc., for the Cat. 43 playback-only noise reduction unit and its practical application to motion picture sound recordings.To John Eppolito, Wally Gentleman, William Mesa, Les Paul Robley and Geoffrey H. Williamson for refinements to a dual screen, front projection, image-compositing system.To Jan Jacobsen for the application of a dual screen, front projection system to motion picture special effects photography.To Thaine Morris and David Pier for the development of DSC Spark Devices for motion picture special effects.To Tadeuz Krzanowski of Industrial Light and Magic, Inc., for the development of a Wire Rig Model Support Mechanism used to control the movements of miniatures in special effects.To Dan C. Norris and Tim Cook of Norris Film Products for the development of a single-frame exposure system for motion picture photography.NOTE: The Scientific or Technical Awards were presented at their own ceremony on March 27, 1988, in the Grand Ballroom of the Beverly Hilton Hotel.