1988 (61st Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners

Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1988. 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

The Accidental Tourist, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun and Michael Grillo, Producers.

Dangerous Liaisons, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Norma Heyman and Hank Moonjean, Producers.

Mississippi Burning, Frederick Zollo Production; Orion. Frederick Zollo and Robert F. Colesberry, Producers.

Rain Man, Guber-Peters Company Production; United Artists. Mark Johnson, Producer.

Working Girl, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Douglas Wick, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role

Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning, Frederick Zollo Production; Orion.

Tom Hanks in Big, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox.

Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man, Guber-Peters Company Production; United Artists.

Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver, Menendez/Musca & Olmos Production; Warner Bros.

Max Von Sydow in Pelle the Conqueror, Per Holst/Kaerne Films Production; Miramax Films. (Denmark, Sweden)

Actress in a Leading Role

Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK)

Jodie Foster in The Accused, Jaffe/Lansing Production; Paramount. (Canada, USA)

Melanie Griffith in Working Girl, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox.

Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark, Cannon Entertainment/Golan-Globus Production; Warner Bros. (Australia, USA)

Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros./Universal.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Alec Guinness in Little Dorrit, Sands Films Production; Cannon Releasing. (UK)

Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda, Michael Shamberg-Prominent Features Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA)

Martin Landau in Tucker the Man and His Dream, Lucasfilm Production; Paramount.

River Phoenix in Running on Empty, Lorimar Production; Warner Bros.

Dean Stockwell in Married to the Mob, Mysterious Arts-Demme Production; Orion.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Joan Cusack in Working Girl, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox.

Geena Davis in The Accidental Tourist, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros.

Frances McDormand in Mississippi Burning, Frederick Zollo Production; Orion.

Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Liaisons, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK)

Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox.

Directing

A Fish Called Wanda, Michael Shamberg-Prominent Features Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Charles Crichton.

The Last Temptation of Christ, Testament Production; Universal/Cineplex Odeon. (Canada, USA) Martin Scorsese.

Mississippi Burning, Frederick Zollo Production; Orion. Alan Parker.

Rain Man, Guber-Peters Company Production; United Artists. Barry Levinson.

Working Girl, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Mike Nichols.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Beaches, Touchstone Pictures Production in association with Silver Screen Partners III; Buena Vista. Art direction by Albert Brenner; set decoration by Garrett Lewis.

Dangerous Liaisons, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Art direction by Stuart Craig; set decoration by Gerard James.

Rain Man, Guber-Peters Company Production; United Artists. Art direction by Ida Random; set decoration by Linda DeScenna.

Tucker the Man and His Dream, Lucasfilm Production; Paramount. Art direction by Dean Tavoularis; set decoration by Armin Ganz.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Art direction by Elliot Scott; set decoration by Peter Howitt.

Cinematography

Mississippi Burning, Frederick Zollo Production; Orion. Peter Biziou.

Rain Man, Guber-Peters Company Production; United Artists. John Seale.

Tequila Sunrise, Mount Company Production; Warner Bros. Conrad L. Hall.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Saul Zaentz Company Production; Orion. Sven Nykvist.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Dean Cundey.

Costume Design

Coming to America, Eddie Murphy Production; Paramount. Deborah Nadoolman.

Dangerous Liaisons, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) James Acheson.

A Handful of Dust, Stage Screen Production; New Line. (UK) Jane Robinson.

Sunset, Hudson Hawk Production; Tri-Star. (USA, Italy) Patricia Norris.

Tucker the Man and His Dream, Lucasfilm Production; Paramount. Milena Canonero.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Cry of Reason—Beyers Naude: An Afrikaner Speaks Out, Worldwide Documentaries, Inc. Robert Bilheimer and Roland Mix, Producers.

Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, The Memory Pictures Company. (West Germany, France, USA) Marcel Ophuls, Producer.

Let’s Get Lost, Little Bear Films, Inc. Bruce Weber and Nan Bush, Producers.

Promises to Keep, Durrin Productions, Inc. (USA, Canada) Ginny Durrin, Producer.

Who Killed Vincent Chin?, Film News Now Foundation and Detroit Educational Television Foundation Production. Renee Tajima and Christine Choy, Producers.

(Short Subject)

The Children’s Storefront, Simon and Goodman Picture Company Production. Karen Goodman, Producer.

Family Gathering, Lise Yasui Production. Lise Yasui and Ann Tegnell, Producers.

Gang Cops, University of Southern California Center for Visual Anthropology and the School of Cinema/Television. Thomas B. Fleming and Daniel J. Marks, Producers.

Portrait of Imogen, Pacific Pictures Production. Nancy Hale and Meg Partridge, Producers.

You Don’t Have to Die, Tiger Rose Production in association with Filmworks, Inc. William Guttentag and Malcolm Clarke, Producers.

Film Editing

Die Hard, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Frank J. Urioste and John F. Link.

Gorillas in the Mist, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros./Universal. Stuart Baird.

Mississippi Burning, Frederick Zollo Production; Orion. Gerry Hambling.

Rain Man, Guber-Peters Company Production; United Artists. Stu Linder.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Arthur Schmidt.

Foreign Language Film

Hanussen, Objektiv Studio/CCC Filmkunst/ZDF/Hungarofilm/Mokep Production. (Hungary, West Germany, Austria)

The Music Teacher, RTBF/K2 One Production. (Belgium)

Pelle the Conqueror, Per Holst/Kaerne Films Production; Miramax Films. (Denmark, Sweden)

Salaam Bombay!, Mirabai Production. (UK, India, France)

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, El Deseo/Laurenfilm Production. (Spain)

Makeup

Beetlejuice, Geffen Film Company Production; Geffen/Warner Bros. Ve Neill, Steve La Porte and Robert Short.

Coming to America, Eddie Murphy Production; Paramount. Rick Baker.

Scrooged, Art Linson Production; Paramount. Tom Burman and Bari Dreiband-Burman.

Music

(Original Score)

The Accidental Tourist, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. John Williams.

Dangerous Liaisons, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) George Fenton.

Gorillas in the Mist, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros./Universal. Maurice Jarre.

The Milagro Beanfield War, Robert Redford/Moctesuma Esparza Production; Universal. Dave Grusin.

Rain Man, Guber-Peters Company Production; United Artists. Hans Zimmer.

(Original Song)

Calling You from Bagdad Café, Pelemele Film Production; Island Pictures. (West Germany) Music and lyric by Bob Telson.

Let the River Run from Working Girl, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Music and lyric by Carly Simon.

Two Hearts from Buster, N.F.H. Production; Hemdale Releasing. (UK, Mexico) Music by Lamont Dozier; lyric by Phil Collins.

Short Films

(Animated)

The Cat Came Back, National Film Board of Canada. (Canada) Cordell Barker.

Technological Threat, Kroyer Films, Inc. Bill Kroyer and Brian Jennings.

Tin Toy, Pixar. John Lasseter and William Reeves.

(Live Action)

The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, Schooner Productions, Inc. Dean Parisot and Steven Wright.

Cadillac Dreams, Cadillac Dreams Production. Matia Karrell and Abbee Goldstein.

Gullah Tales, Georgia State University. (USA, Canada) George deGolian and Gary Moss.

Sound

Bird, Malpaso Production; Warner Bros. Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore and Willie D. Burton.

Die Hard, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Don Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton and Al Overton.

Gorillas in the Mist, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros./Universal. Andy Nelson, Brian Saunders and Peter Handford.

Mississippi Burning, Frederick Zollo Production; Orion. Robert Litt, Elliot Tyson, Rick Kline and Danny Michael.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Robert Knudson, John Boyd, Don Digirolamo and Tony Dawe.

Sound Effects Editing

Die Hard, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Stephen H. Flick and Richard Shorr.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Charles L. Campbell and Louis L. Edemann.

Willow, Lucasfilm Production in association with Imagine Entertainment; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns.

Special Achievement Award

(Animation Direction)

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Richard Williams.

Visual Effects

Die Hard, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Richard Edlund, Al DiSarro, Brent Boates and Thaine Morris.

Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones and George Gibbs.

Willow, Lucasfilm Production in association with Imagine Entertainment; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Phil Tippett and Chris Evans.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

The Accidental Tourist, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan.

Dangerous Liaisons, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Christopher Hampton.

Gorillas in the Mist, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros./Universal. Screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan; story by Anna Hamilton Phelan and Tab Murphy.

Little Dorrit, Sands Films Production; Cannon Releasing. (UK) Christine Edzard.

The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Saul Zaentz Company Production; Orion. Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Big, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg.

Bull Durham, Mount Company Production; Orion. Ron Shelton.

A Fish Called Wanda, Michael Shamberg-Prominent Features Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA) Screenplay by John Cleese; story by John Cleese and Charles Crichton.

Rain Man, Guber-Peters Company Production; United Artists. Screenplay by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow; story by Barry Morrow.

Running on Empty, Lorimar Production; Warner Bros. Naomi Foner.

Honorary Award

To The National Film Board of Canada in recognition of its 50th anniversary and its dedicated commitment to originate artistic, creative and technological activity and excellence in every area of filmmaking. [ [Statuette]]

To Eastman Kodak Company in recognition of the company’s fundamental contributions to the art of motion pictures during the first century of film history. [ [Statuette]]

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Gordon Henry Cook

Scientific or Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Ray Dolby and Ioan Allen of Dolby Laboratories Incorporated for their contributions to motion picture sound through the research and development programs of Dolby Laboratories.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Roy W. Edwards and the Engineering Staff of Photo-Sonics, Incorporated for the design and development of the Photo-Sonics 35mm-4ER High Speed Motion Picture Camera with Reflex Viewing and Video Assist.

To the Arnold & Richter Engineering Staff, Otto Blaschek and Arriflex Corporation for the concept and engineering of the Arriflex 35-3 Motion Picture Camera.

To Bill Tondreau of Tondreau Systems / to Alvah Miller and Paul Johnson of Lynx Robotics / to Peter A. Regla of ELICON / to Dan Slater / to Bud Elam, Joe Parker and Bill Bryan of Interactive Motion Control / and to Jerry Jeffress, Ray Feeney, Bill Holland and Kris Brown for their individual contributions and the collective advancements they have brought to the motion picture industry in the field of motion control technology.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Grant Loucks of Alan Gordon Enterprises Incorporated for the design concept, and to Geoffrey H. Williamson of Wilcam for the mechanical and electrical engineering, of the Image 300 35mm High-Speed Motion Picture Camera.

To Michael V. Chewey III for the development of the motion picture industry’s first paper tape reader incorporating microprocessor technology.

To BHP, Inc., successor to the Bell & Howell Professional Equipment Division, for the development of a high-speed reader incorporating microprocessor technology for motion picture laboratories.

To Hollywood Film Company for the development of a high-speed reader incorporating microprocessor technology for motion picture laboratories.

To Bruce W. Keller and Manfred G. Michelson of Technical Film Systems for the design and development of a high-speed light valve controller and constant current power supply for motion picture laboratories.

To Dr. Antal Lisziewicz and Glenn M. Berggren of ISCO-OPTIC GmbH for the design and development of the Ultra-Star series of motion picture lenses.

To James K. Branch of Spectra Cine, Incorporated, and to William L. Blowers and Nasir J. Zaidi for the design and development of the Spectra CineSpot one-degree spotmeter for measuring the brightness of motion picture screens.

To Bob Badami, Dick Bernstein and Bill Bernstein of Offbeat Systems for the design and development of the Streamline Scoring System, Mark IV, for motion picture music editing.

To Gary Zeller of Zeller International Limited for the development of Zel-Jel fire protection barrier for motion picture stunt work.

To Emanuel Trilling of Trilling Resources Limited for the development of Stunt-Gel fire protection barrier for motion picture stunt work.

To Paul A. Roos for the invention of a method known as Video Assist, whereby a scene being photographed on motion picture film can be viewed on a monitor and/or recorded on video tape.