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Best Picture |
| The Big Chill | The Dresser | The Right Stuff | Tender Mercies | Terms of Endearment |
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Best Actor |
| The Dresser | The Dresser | Educating Rita | Reuben, Reuben | Tender Mercies |
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| Albert Finney | Tom Courtenay | Michael Caine | Tom Conti | Robert Duvall |
Best Actress |
| Educating Rita | Silkwood | Terms of Endearment | Terms of Endearment | Testament |
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| Julie Walters | Meryl Streep | Debra Winger | Shirley MacLaine | Jane Alexander |
Best Supporting Actor |
| Cross Creek | The Right Stuff | Terms of Endearment | Terms of Endearment | To Be Or Not To Be |
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| Rip Torn | Sam Shepard | John Lithgow | Jack Nicholson | Charles Durning |
Best Supporting Actress |
| The Big Chill | Cross Creek | Silkwood | The Year of Living Dangerously | Yentl |
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| Glenn Close | Alfre Woodard | Cher | Linda Hunt | Amy Irving |
Best Director |
| The Dresser | Fanny & Alexander | Silkwood | Tender Mercies | Terms of Endearment |
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| Peter Yates | Ingmar Bergman | Mike Nichols | Bruce Beresford | James L. Brooks |
Best Original Screenplay |
| The Big Chill | Fanny & Alexander | Silkwood | Tender Mercies | WarGames |
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| Lawrence Kasdan, Barbara Benedek | Ingmar Bergman | Nora Ephron, Alice Arlen | Horton Foote | Lawrence Lasker, Walter F. Parkes |
Best Adapted Screenplay |
| Betrayal | The Dresser | Educating Rita | Reuben, Reuben | Terms of Endearment |
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| Harold Pinter | Ronald Harwood | Willy Russell | Julius J. Epstein | James L. Brooks |
Best Cinematography |
| Fanny & Alexander | Flashdance | The Right Stuff | WarGames | Zelig |
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| Sven Nykvist | Donald Peterman | Caleb Deschanel | William A. Fraker | Gordon Willis |
Best Art Direction |
| Fanny & Alexander | Return of the Jedi | The Right Stuff | Terms of Endearment | Yentl |
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| Anna Asp, Susanne Lingheim | Norman Reynolds, Fred Hole, James L. Schoppe, Michael Ford | Geoffrey Kirkland, Richard Lawrence, W. Stewart Campbell, Peter R. Romero, Jim Poynter, George R. Nelson | Polly Platt, Tom Pedigo | Roy Walker, Leslie Tomkins, Tessa Davies |
Best Costume Design |
| Cross Creek | Fanny & Alexander | Heart Like a Wheel | The Return of Martin Guerre | Zelig |
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| Joe I. Tompkins | Marik Vos-Lundh | William Ware Theiss | Anne-Marie Marchand | Santo Loquasto |
Best Sound |
| Never Cry Wolf | Return of the Jedi | The Right Stuff | Terms of Endearment | WarGames |
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| Alan Splet, Todd Boekelheide, Randy Thom, David Parker | Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Randy Thom, Tony Dawe | Mark Berger, Thomas Scott, Randy Thom, David MacMillan | Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell, James R. Alexander | Michael J. Kohut, Carlos DeLarios, Aaron Rochin, Willie D. Burton |
Best Editing |
| Blue Thunder | Flashdance | The Right Stuff | Silkwood | Terms of Endearment |
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| Frank Morriss, Edward M. Abroms | Bud S. Smith, Walt Mulconery | Glenn Farr, Lisa Fruchtman, Stephen A. Rotter, Douglas Stewart, Tom Rolf | Sam O'Steen | Richard Marks |
Best Sound Editing |
| Return of the Jedi | The Right Stuff |
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| Ben Burtt | Jay Boekelheide |
Best Original Song |
| Flashdance | Flashdance | Tender Mercies | Yentl | Yentl |
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| Maniac | Flashdance...What a Feeling | Over You | The Way He Makes Me Feel | Papa, Can You Hear Me? |
Best Original Score |
| Cross Creek | Return of the Jedi | The Right Stuff | Terms of Endearment | Under Fire |
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| Leonard Rosenman | John Williams | Bill Conti | Michael Gore | Jerry Goldsmith |
Best Adaptation Score |
| The Sting II | Trading Places | Yentl |
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| Lalo Schifrin | Elmer Bernstein | Michel Legrand, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman |
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