Academy Awards 1985 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Film
Best Animated Short Film	Best Original Score
Best Original Song Score	Best Original Song
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Makeup
Best Costume Design	Best Film Editing
Best Visual Effects

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Best Picture

• A Passage to India
• A Soldier's Story
• Amadeus
• Places in the Heart
• The Killing Fields

Best Director

• A Passage to India (David Lean)
• Amadeus (Milos Forman)
• Broadway Danny Rose (Woody Allen)
• Places in the Heart (Robert Benton)
• The Killing Fields (Roland Joffé)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Amadeus (F. Murray Abraham)
• Amadeus (Tom Hulce)
• Starman (Jeff Bridges)
• The Killing Fields (Sam Waterston)
• Under the Volcano (Albert Finney)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• A Passage to India (Judy Davis)
• Country (Jessica Lange)
• Places in the Heart (Sally Field)
• The Bostonians (Vanessa Redgrave)
• The River (Sissy Spacek)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• A Soldier's Story (Adolph Caesar)
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes (Ralph Richardson)
• Places in the Heart (John Malkovich)
• The Karate Kid (Pat Morita)
• The Killing Fields (Haing S. Ngor)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• A Passage to India (Peggy Ashcroft)
• Places in the Heart (Lindsay Crouse)
• Swing Shift (Christine Lahti)
• The Natural (Glenn Close)
• The Pope of Greenwich Village (Geraldine Page)

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• Beverly Hills Cop
• Broadway Danny Rose
• El Norte
• Places in the Heart
• Splash

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

• A Passage to India
• A Soldier's Story
• Amadeus
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
• The Killing Fields

Best Foreign Language Film

• Beyond the Walls (Israel)
• Camila (Argentina)
• Dangerous Moves (Switzerland)
• Sesión continua (Spain)
• Voenno-polevoy roman (Russia)

Best Documentary Feature

• High Schools
• In the Name of the People
• Marlene
• Streetwise
• The Times of Harvey Milk

Best Documentary Short

• Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
• Recollections of Pavlovsk
• The Children of Soong Ching Ling
• The Garden of Eden
• The Stone Carvers

Best Live Action Short Film

• Tales of Meeting and Parting
• The Painted Door
• Up

Best Animated Short Film

• Charade
• Doctor DeSoto
• Paradise

Best Original Score

• A Passage to India
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
• The Natural
• The River
• Under the Volcano

Best Original Song Score

• Purple Rain
• Songwriter
• The Muppets Take Manhattan

Best Original Song

• Against All Odds ("Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)")
• Footloose ("Let's Hear It for the Boy")
• Footloose ("Footloose")
• Ghostbusters ("Ghostbusters")
• The Woman in Red ("I Just Called to Say I Love You")

Best Sound

• 2010
• A Passage to India
• Amadeus
• Dune
• The River

Best Art Direction

• 2010
• A Passage to India
• Amadeus
• The Cotton Club
• The Natural

Best Cinematography

• A Passage to India
• Amadeus
• The Killing Fields
• The Natural
• The River

Best Makeup

• 2010
• Amadeus
• Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Best Costume Design

• 2010
• A Passage to India
• Amadeus
• Places in the Heart
• The Bostonians

Best Film Editing

• A Passage to India
• Amadeus
• Romancing the Stone
• The Cotton Club
• The Killing Fields

Best Visual Effects

• 2010
• Ghostbusters
• Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom