The Complete Oscar Quest: 59th Academy Awards (1986)
1986
Best Picture
- Children of a Lesser God
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- The Mission
- Platoon
- A Room with a View
Best Director
- Woody Allen, Hannah and Her Sisters
- James Ivory, A Room with a View
- Roland Joffe, The Mission
- David Lynch, Blue Velvet
- Oliver Stone, Platoon
Best Actor
- Dexter Gordon, Round Midnight
- Bob Hoskins, Mona Lisa
- William Hurt, Children of a Lesser God
- Paul Newman, The Color of Money
- James Woods, Salvador
Best Actress
- Jane Fonda, The Morning After
- Marlee Matlin, Children of a Lesser God
- Sissy Spacek, Crimes of the Heart
- Kathleen Turner, Peggy Sue Got Married
- Sigourney Weaver, Aliens
Best Supporting Actor
- Tom Berenger, Platoon
- Michael Caine, Hannah and Her Sisters
- Willem Dafoe, Platoon
- Denholm Elliott, A Room with a View
- Dennis Hopper, Hoosiers
Best Supporting Actress
- Tess Harper, Crimes of the Heart
- Piper Laurie, Children of a Lesser God
- Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, The Color of Money
- Maggie Smith, A Room with a View
- Dianne Wiest, Hannah and Her Sisters
Best Original Screenplay
- Crocodile Dundee
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- My Beautiful Laundrette
- Platoon
- Salvador
Best Adapted Screenplay
- Children of a Lesser God
- The Color of Money
- Crimes of the Heart
- A Room with a View
- Stand by Me
Best Editing
- Aliens
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- The Mission
- Platoon
- Top Gun
Best Cinematography
- The Mission
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Platoon
- A Room with a View
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Best Original Score
- Aliens
- Hoosiers
- The Mission
- Round Midnight
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
Best Original Song
- “Glory of Love,” from The Karate Kid Part II
- “Life in a Looking Glass,” from That’s Life
- “Mean Green Mother from Outer Space,” from Little Shop of Horrors
- “Somewhere Out There,” from An American Tail
- “Take My Breath Away,” from Top Gun
Best Art Direction
- Aliens
- The Color of Money
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- The Mission
- A Room with a View
Best Costume Design
- The Mission
- Otello
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Pirates
- A Room with a View
Best Makeup
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- The Fly
- Legend
Best Visual Effects
- Aliens
- Little Shop of Horrors
- Poltergeist II: The Other Side
Best Sound Editing
- Aliens
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Top Gun
Best Sound Mixing
- Aliens
- Heartbreak Ridge
- Platoon
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- Top Gun
Best Foreign Language Film
- 38
- The Assault
- Betty Blue
- The Decline of the American Empire
- My Sweet Little Village
Best Documentary
- Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got
- Chile: Hasta Cuando?
- Down and Out in America
- Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis
- Witness to Apartheid
Best Documentary Short
- Debonair Dancers
- The Masters of Disaster
- Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
- Sam
- Women – for America, for the World
Best Live-Action Short
- Exit
- Love Struck
- Precious Images
Best Animated Short
- The Frog, the Dog and the Devil
- A Greek Tragedy
- Luxo Jr.
Total List of Films Nominated:
- Aliens
- An American Tail
- Blue Velvet
- Children of a Lesser God
- The Clan of the Cave Bear
- The Color of Money
- Crimes of the Heart
- Crocodile Dundee
- The Fly
- Hannah and Her Sisters
- Heartbreak Ridge
- Hoosiers
- The Karate Kid Part II
- Legend
- Little Shop of Horrors
- The Mission
- Mona Lisa
- The Morning After
- My Beautiful Laundrette
- Otello
- Peggy Sue Got Married
- Pirates
- Platoon
- Poltergeist II: The Other Side
- A Room with a View
- Round Midnight
- Salvador
- Stand by Me
- Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
- That’s Life
- Top Gun
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