Academy Awards 1987 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Leading Actor	Best Leading Actress
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Best International Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short
Best Animated Short Film	Best Original Score
Best Original Song	Best Sound Editing
Best Sound Mixing	Best Production Design
Best Cinematography	Best Makeup and Hairstyling
Best Costume Design	Best Film Editing
Best Visual Effects

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Best Picture

• A Room with a View
• Children of a Lesser God
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Platoon
• The Mission

Best Director

• A Room with a View (James Ivory)
• Blue Velvet (David Lynch)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
• Platoon (Oliver Stone)
• The Mission (Roland Joffé)

Best Leading Actor

• 'Round Midnight (Dexter Gordon)
• Children of a Lesser God (William Hurt)
• Mona Lisa (Bob Hoskins)
• Salvador (James Woods)
• The Color of Money (Paul Newman)

Best Leading Actress

• Aliens (Sigourney Weaver)
• Children of a Lesser God (Marlee Matlin)
• Crimes of the Heart (Sissy Spacek)
• Peggy Sue Got Married (Kathleen Turner)
• The Morning After (Jane Fonda)

Best Supporting Actor

• A Room with a View (Denholm Elliott)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (Michael Caine)
• Hoosiers (Dennis Hopper)
• Platoon (Willem Dafoe)
• Platoon (Tom Berenger)

Best Supporting Actress

• A Room with a View (Maggie Smith)
• Children of a Lesser God (Piper Laurie)
• Crimes of the Heart (Tess Harper)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (Dianne Wiest)
• The Color of Money (Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio)

Best Original Screenplay

• Crocodile Dundee
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• My Beautiful Laundrette
• Platoon
• Salvador

Best Adapted Screenplay

• A Room with a View
• Children of a Lesser God
• Crimes of the Heart
• Stand by Me
• The Color of Money

Best International Film

• '38 - Vienna Before the Fall (Austria)
• Betty Blue (France)
• My Sweet Little Village (Czechoslovakia)
• The Assault (Netherlands)
• The Decline of the American Empire (Canada)

Best Documentary Feature

• Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got
• Chile: Hasta Cuando?
• Down and Out in America
• Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer
• Witness to Apartheid

Best Documentary Short

• Debonair Dancers
• Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
• Sam
• The Masters of Disaster
• Women - for America, for the World

Best Live Action Short

• Exit
• Love Struck
• Precious Images

Best Animated Short Film

• A Greek Tragedy
• Luxo Jr.
• The Frog, the Dog, and the Devil

Best Original Score

• 'Round Midnight
• Aliens
• Hoosiers
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• The Mission

Best Original Song

• An American Tail ("Somewhere Out There")
• Little Shop of Horrors ("Mean Green Mother from Outer Space")
• That's Life! ("Life in a Looking Glass")
• The Karate Kid Part II ("Glory of Love")
• Top Gun ("Take My Breath Away")

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 Production Design

• A Room with a View
• Aliens
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• The Color of Money
• The Mission

Best Cinematography

• A Room with a View
• Peggy Sue Got Married
• Platoon
• Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home
• The Mission

Best Makeup and Hairstyling

• Legend
• The Clan of the Cave Bear
• The Fly

Best Costume Design

• A Room with a View
• Otello
• Peggy Sue Got Married
• Pirates
• The Mission

Best Film Editing

• Aliens
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• Platoon
• The Mission
• Top Gun

Best Visual Effects

• Aliens
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Poltergeist II: The Other Side