Academy Awards 1988 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	Best Sound
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects

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Best Picture

• Broadcast News
• Fatal Attraction
• Hope and Glory
• Moonstruck
• The Last Emperor

Best Director

• Fatal Attraction (Adrian Lyne)
• Hope and Glory (John Boorman)
• Moonstruck (Norman Jewison)
• My Life as a Dog (Lasse Hallström)
• The Last Emperor (Bernardo Bertolucci)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Broadcast News (William Hurt)
• Dark Eyes (Marcello Mastroianni)
• Good Morning, Vietnam (Robin Williams)
• Ironweed (Jack Nicholson)
• Wall Street (Michael Douglas)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Anna (Sally Kirkland)
• Broadcast News (Holly Hunter)
• Fatal Attraction (Glenn Close)
• Ironweed (Meryl Streep)
• Moonstruck (Cher)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Broadcast News (Albert Brooks)
• Cry Freedom (Denzel Washington)
• Moonstruck (Vincent Gardenia)
• Street Smart (Morgan Freeman)
• The Untouchables (Sean Connery)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Fatal Attraction (Anne Archer)
• Gaby: A True Story (Norma Aleandro)
• Moonstruck (Olympia Dukakis)
• The Whales of August (Ann Sothern)
• Throw Momma from the Train (Anne Ramsey)

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• Au revoir les enfants
• Broadcast News
• Hope and Glory
• Moonstruck
• Radio Days

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

• Fatal Attraction
• Full Metal Jacket
• My Life as a Dog
• The Dead
• The Last Emperor

Best Foreign Language Film

• Au revoir les enfants (France)
• Babette's Feast (Denmark)
• Course Completed (Spain)
• Pathfinder (Norway)
• The Family (Italy)

Best Documentary Feature

• A Stitch for Time
• Eyes on the Prize
• Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima
• Radio Bikini
• The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table

Best Documentary Short

• Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller
• In the Wee Wee Hours...
• Language Says It All
• Silver Into Gold
• Young at Heart

Best Live Action Short Film

• Making Waves
• Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall
• Shoeshine

Best Animated Short Film

• George and Rosemary
• The Man Who Planted Trees
• Your Face

Best Original Score

• Cry Freedom
• Empire of the Sun
• The Last Emperor
• The Untouchables
• The Witches of Eastwick

Best Original Song

• Beverly Hills Cop II ("Shakedown")
• Cry Freedom ("Cry Freedom")
• Dirty Dancing ("(I've Had) The Time of My Life")
• Mannequin ("Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now")
• The Princess Bride ("Storybook Love")

Best Sound

• Empire of the Sun
• Lethal Weapon
• RoboCop
• The Last Emperor
• The Witches of Eastwick

Best Art Direction

• Empire of the Sun
• Hope and Glory
• Radio Days
• The Last Emperor
• The Untouchables

Best Cinematography

• Broadcast News
• Empire of the Sun
• Hope and Glory
• Matewan
• The Last Emperor

Best Makeup

• Happy New Year
• Harry and the Hendersons

Best Costume Design

• Empire of the Sun
• Maurice
• The Dead
• The Last Emperor
• The Untouchables

Best Film Editing

• Broadcast News
• Empire of the Sun
• Fatal Attraction
• RoboCop
• The Last Emperor

Best Visual Effects

• Innerspace
• Predator