The Complete Oscar Quest: 61st Academy Awards (1988)
1988
Best Picture
- The Accidental Tourist
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Mississippi Burning
- Rain Man
- Working Girl
Best Director
- Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda
- Barry Levinson, Rain Man
- Mike Nichols, Working Girl
- Alan Parker, Mississippi Burning
- Martin Scorsese, The Last Temptation of Christ
Best Actor
- Gene Hackman, Mississippi Burning
- Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man
- Tom Hanks, Big
- Edward James Olmos, Stand and Deliver
- Max von Sydow, Pelle the Conqueror
Best Actress
- Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons
- Jodie Foster, The Accused
- Melanie Griffith, Working Girl
- Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark
- Sigourney Weaver, Gorillas in the Mist
Best Supporting Actor
- Alec Guinness, Little Dorritt
- Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda
- Martin Landau, Tucker: The Man and His Dream
- River Phoenix, Running on Empty
- Dean Stockwell, Married to the Mob
Best Supporting Actress
- Joan Cusack, Working Girl
- Geena Davis, The Accidental Tourist
- Frances McDormand, Mississippi Burning
- Michelle Pfeiffer, Dangerous Liaisons
- Sigourney Weaver, Working Girl
Best Original Screenplay
- Big
- Bull Durham
- A Fish Called Wanda
- Rain Man
- Running on Empty
Best Adapted Screenplay
- The Accidental Tourist
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Little Dorritt
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
Best Editing
- Die Hard
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Mississippi Burning
- Rain Man
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Best Cinematography
- Mississippi Burning
- Rain Man
- Tequila Sunrise
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Best Original Score
- The Accidental Tourist
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Gorillas in the Mist
- The Milagro Beanfield War
- Rain Man
Best Original Song
- “Calling You,” from Bagdad Cafe
- “Let the River Run,” from Working Girl
- “Two Hearts,” from Buster
Best Art Direction
- Beaches
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Rain Man
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Best Costume Design
- Coming to America
- Dangerous Liaisons
- A Handful of Dust
- Sunset
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream
Best Makeup
- Beetlejuice
- Coming to America
- Scrooged
Best Visual Effects
- Die Hard
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Willow
Best Sound Editing
- Die Hard
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Willow
Best Sound Mixing
- Bird
- Die Hard
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Mississippi Burning
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
Best Foreign Language Film
- Hanussen
- The Music Teacher
- Pelle the Conqueror
- Salaam Bombay!
- Woman on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
Best Documentary
- The Cry of REason: Beyers Naude – An Afrikaner Speaks Out
- Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
- Let’s Get Lost
- Promises to Keep
- Who Killed Vincent Chin?
Best Documentary Short
- The Children’s Storefront
- Family Gathering
- Gang Cops
- Portrait of Imogen
- You Don’t Have to Die
Best Live-Action Short
- The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
- Cadillac Dreams
- Gullah Tales
Best Animated Short
- The Cat Came Back
- Technological Threat
- Tin Toy
Total List of Films Nominated:
- The Accidental Tourist
- The Accused
- Bagdad Cafe
- Beaches
- Beetlejuice
- Big
- Bird
- Bull Durham
- Buster
- Coming to America
- A Cry in the Dark
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Die Hard
- A Fish Called Wanda
- Gorillas in the Mist
- A Handful of Dust
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- Little Dorritt
- Married to the Mob
- The Milagro Beanfield War
- Mississippi Burning
- Pelle the Conqueror
- Rain Man
- Running on Empty
- Scrooged
- Stand and Deliver
- Sunset
- Tequila Sunrise
- Tucker: The Man and His Dream
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Willow
- Working Girl
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