59th Academy Awards (1986)
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- DirectorOliver StoneStarsCharlie SheenTom BerengerWillem DafoeChris Taylor, a neophyte recruit in Vietnam, finds himself caught in a battle of wills between two sergeants, one good and the other evil. A shrewd examination of the brutality of war and the duality of man in conflict.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for Oliver Stone
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Tom Berenger
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Willem Dafoe
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Oliver Stone
Winner - Best Sound
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Robert Richardson
Winner - Best Film Editing for Claire Simpson - DirectorRanda HainesStarsWilliam HurtMarlee MatlinPiper LaurieA new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for William Hurt
Winner - Best Actress for Marlee Matlin
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Piper Laurie
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff - DirectorWoody AllenStarsMia FarrowDianne WiestMichael CaineBetween two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Woody Allen
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Michael Caine
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Dianne Wiest
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Susan Morse - DirectorRoland JofféStarsRobert De NiroJeremy IronsRay McAnallyEighteenth-century Spanish Jesuits try to protect a remote South American tribe in danger of falling under the rule of pro-slavery Portugal.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Roland Joffe
Nominated - Best Original Score for Ennio Morricone
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Winner - Best Cinematography for Chris Menges
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Enrico Sabbatini
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Jim Clark - 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?Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for James Ivory
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Denholm Elliott
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Maggie Smith
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
Winner - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Tony Pierce-Roberts
Winner - Best Costume Design for Jenny Beavan and John Bright - DirectorDavid LynchStarsIsabella RosselliniKyle MacLachlanDennis HopperThe discovery of a severed human ear found in a field leads a young man on an investigation related to a beautiful, mysterious nightclub singer and a group of psychopathic criminals who have kidnapped her child.Nominated - Best Director for David Lynch
- DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsPaul NewmanTom CruiseMary Elizabeth MastrantonioFast Eddie Felson teaches a cocky but immensely talented protégé the ropes of pool hustling, which in turn inspires him to make an unlikely comeback.Winner - Best Actor for Paul Newman
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Richard Price
Nominated - Best Art Direction - DirectorBertrand TavernierStarsDexter GordonFrançois CluzetGabrielle HakerA troubled, but talented musician flees the US to escape his problems, finding refuge and support in Paris.Nominated - Best Actor for Dexter Gordon
Winner - Best Original Score for Herbie Hancock - DirectorNeil JordanStarsBob HoskinsCathy TysonMichael CaineA man recently released from prison manages to get a job driving a call girl from customer to customer.Nominated - Best Actor for Bob Hoskins
- DirectorOliver StoneStarsJames WoodsJim BelushiMichael MurphyA burnt-out photojournalist becomes involved in a Central American revolution.Nominated - Best Actor for James Woods
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Oliver Stone and Rick Boyle - DirectorSidney LumetStarsJane FondaJeff BridgesRaul JuliaA washed up, alcoholic actress who is prone to blackouts wakes up next to a murdered man. Did she kill him and, if not, is she in danger?Nominated - Best Actress for Jane Fonda
- DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsDiane KeatonJessica LangeSissy SpacekThree southern sisters try to come to grips with the meaning of their mother's suicide.Nominated - Best Actress for Sissy Spacek
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Tess Harper
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Beth Henley - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsKathleen TurnerNicolas CageBarry MillerPeggy Sue faints at a high school reunion. When she wakes up, she finds herself in her own past, just before she finished school.Nominated - Best Actress for Kathleen Turner
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Jordan Cronenweth
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Theadora Van Runkle - DirectorJames CameronStarsSigourney WeaverMichael BiehnCarrie HennDecades after surviving the Nostromo incident, Ellen Ripley is sent out to re-establish contact with a terraforming colony but finds herself battling the Alien Queen and her offspring.Nominated - Best Actress for Sigourney Weaver
Nominated - Best Original Score for James Horner
Nominated - Best Sound
Winner - Best Sound Effects Editing for Don Sharpe
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Ray Lovejoy
Winner - Best Visual Effects - DirectorDavid AnspaughStarsGene HackmanBarbara HersheyDennis HopperA coach with a checkered past and a local drunk train a small-town high school basketball team to become a top contender for the state championship in 1950s Indiana.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Dennis Hopper
Nominated - Best Original Score for Jerry Goldsmith - DirectorPeter FaimanStarsPaul HoganLinda KozlowskiJohn MeillonAn American reporter goes to the Australian outback to meet an eccentric crocodile poacher and invites him to New York City.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell
- DirectorStephen FrearsStarsSaeed JaffreyRoshan SethDaniel Day-LewisAn ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open a glamorous laundromat.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Hanif Kureishi
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsWil WheatonRiver PhoenixCorey FeldmanA writer recounts a childhood journey with his friends to find the body of a missing boy.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans
- DirectorFons RademakersStarsDerek de LintMarc van UchelenMonique van de VenA Dutch doctor, haunted by grueling childhood memories of World War II, struggles to find peace as he spends his life looking for answers about the tragic night that shaped him.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (The Netherlands)
- DirectorJean-Jacques BeineixStarsJean-Hugues AngladeBéatrice DalleGérard DarmonA lackadaisical handyman and aspiring novelist tries to support his younger girlfriend as she slowly succumbs to madness.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorDenys ArcandStarsDominique MichelDorothée BerrymanLouise PortalSexual revelations emerge when a group of academics and their partners spend a weekend at a country retreat.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Canada)
- DirectorJirí MenzelStarsJános BánMarián LabudaRudolf HrusínskýThe life of a small village runs on its own.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Czechoslovakia)
- DirectorWolfgang GlückStarsTobias EngelSunnyi MellesHeinz TrixnerIn 1938, Austria is about to become a part of the Third Reich. A theater actress and a Jewish journalist fall in love and spend time together, completely ignoring the political turmoil of the time despite friendly warnings.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Austria)
- DirectorBrigitte BermanStarsArtie ShawJohn BestLee CastleDocumentary cataloging the life and music of the band leader and clarinetist, Artie Shaw.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorLee GrantStarsLee GrantJeff FarmerBob HansonA recession in the mid-1980s affects Minnesota farm workers, unemployed urban workers and the newly homeless in Los Angeles and New York.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorDavid BradburyStarsSalvador AllendeMarion CampbellJohn DenverFilmmakers enters Chile in 1985, one of the cruelest years of Augusto Pinochet right-wing military dictatorship. With the excuse of documenting religion and Viña del Mar Festival, they witness the truth about Chile under Pinochet.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- 1985– 58mTV-146.1 (118)TV EpisodeDirectorAmram NowakStarsJudd HirschIsaac Bashevis SingerPresents a biography of Nobel Prize winning author Isaac Bashevis Singer as he converses with friends in a popular cafeteria, responds to post-lecture questions, and addresses people in his study.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorKevin HarrisSharon I. SopherFilmed in secret in 1985 South Africa. Exposes state violence through interviews with victims of and witnesses to atrocities.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorVivienne Verdon-RoeStarsJoanne WoodwardJean Shinoda BolenBetty Bumpers22 prominent American women discuss their activism for nuclear disarmament and their motivations in seeking the end of the arms race.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorAlison Nigh-StrelichStarsJack LemmonDee OlsonProduced and directed by Alison Strelich, narrated by Jack Lemmon, about The Debonaire Special Dancers of Bakersfield, CA. This wonderful group was started decades ago by John Soiu and continues today under the direction of Sheri Fortino. The group fosters social and life skills while stimulating creativity and confidence in the special needs students it serves.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorSonya FriedmanFollows a gifted teacher in an inner city school who teaches kids to play chess. They are very successful.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorThomas L. NeffStarsMichele OrrIn this vibrant glimpse of the life and work of American artist Red Grooms, he reveals his secret weapon - a hot glue gun - and the sources of inspiration for his life-size three-dimensional works which he has dubbed "picto-sculptoramas."Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorAaron D. WeisblattStarsSam PhelpsSam Phelps, a New York State farmer takes a stand against the possible destruction of a nearby watershed, pointing out the need for thoughtful planning and careful land management.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorChuck WorkmanA montage of nearly 500 film clips from eight decades of American movies, made to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the Director's Guild of America.Winner - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorPino QuartulloStefano RealiStarsPasquale AnselmoLuca Di FulvioMonica GuazziniOn July 12, 3503, a research team explores remnants of humans past and find themselves in a very unusual and strange place, a movie theater.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorRichard MasurStarsJohn Simon JonesJoanna KernsJudge ReinholdAn awkward, lovable girl goes after her crush.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorNicole Van GoethemThree scantily-clad female figures struggle to hold up the crumbling remains of an ancient Greek temple.Winner - Best Animated Short
- DirectorBob StenhouseStarsGrant TillyA frog gets trapped in a liquor bottle.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorJohn LasseterA larger lamp watches while a smaller, younger lamp plays exuberantly with a ball but doesn't pick up the knack of correct handling.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorLeonard NimoyStarsWilliam ShatnerLeonard NimoyDeForest KelleyTo save Earth from an alien probe, Admiral James T. Kirk and his fugitive crew go back in time to San Francisco in 1986 to retrieve the only beings who can communicate with it: humpback whales.Nominated - Best Original Score for Leonard Rosenman
Nominated - Best Sound
Nominated - Best Sound Effects Editing for Mark Mangini
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Don Peterman - DirectorTony ScottStarsTom CruiseTim RobbinsKelly McGillisAs students at the United States Navy's elite fighter weapons school compete to be best in the class, one daring young pilot learns a few things from a civilian instructor that are not taught in the classroom.Winner - Best Original Song for "Take My Breath Away"
Nominated - Best Sound
Nominated - Best Sound Effects Editing for Cecelia Hall and George Watters II
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Billy Weber - DirectorJohn G. AvildsenStarsPat MoritaRalph MacchioPat E. JohnsonDaniel accompanies his mentor, Mr. Miyagi, to Miyagi's childhood home in Okinawa. Miyagi visits his dying father and confronts his old rival, while Daniel falls in love and inadvertently makes a new rival of his own.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Glory of Love"
- DirectorBlake EdwardsStarsJack LemmonJulie AndrewsSally KellermanA wealthy yet depressed architect and his sympathetic wife strive to conquer their life issues in anticipation of Harvey Fairchild's (Jack Lemmon's) 60th birthday party.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Life in a Looking Glass"
- DirectorFrank OzStarsRick MoranisEllen GreeneVincent GardeniaA nerdy florist finds his chance for success and romance with the help of a giant man-eating plant who demands to be fed.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Mean Green Mother from Outer Space"
Nominated - Best Visual Effects - DirectorDon BluthStarsDom DeLuiseChristopher PlummerErica YohnWhile emigrating to the United States, a young Russian mouse gets separated from his family and must locate them while trying to survive in a new country.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Somewhere Out There"
- DirectorClint EastwoodStarsClint EastwoodMarsha MasonEverett McGillHard-nosed, hard-living Marine Gunnery Sergeant Tom Highway clashes with his superiors and his ex-wife as he takes command of a spoiled recon platoon with a bad attitude.Nominated - Best Sound
- DirectorDavid CronenbergStarsJeff GoldblumGeena DavisJohn GetzA brilliant but eccentric scientist begins to transform into a giant man/fly hybrid after one of his experiments goes horribly wrong.Winner - Best Makeup for Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis
- DirectorMichael ChapmanStarsDaryl HannahPamela ReedJames RemarA young Cro-Magnon woman is raised by Neanderthals.Nominated - Best Makeup for Michael George Westmore and Michèle Burke
- DirectorRidley ScottStarsTom CruiseMia SaraTim CurryA young man must stop the Lord of Darkness from destroying daylight and marrying the woman he loves.Nominated - Best Makeup for Rob Bottin and Peter Robb-King
- DirectorFranco ZeffirelliStarsPlácido DomingoKatia RicciarelliJustino DíazVerdi's famous opera is brought to life in this production. The immortal tale of the noble Moor and his beautiful young wife, and of his lieutenant, whose jealousy and lust for power lead him to commit the ultimate treason.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Anna Anni and Maurizio Millenotti
- DirectorRoman PolanskiStarsWalter MatthauCris CampionDamien ThomasThe adventures of pirate Captain Red and his first mate Frog.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Anthony Powell
- DirectorBrian GibsonStarsJoBeth WilliamsCraig T. NelsonHeather O'RourkeThe Freeling family have a new house, but their troubles with supernatural forces don't seem to be over.Nominated - Best Visual Effects