Academy Awards 1989 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 Effects Editing
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Makeup
Best Costume Design	Best Film Editing
Best Visual Effects

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Best Picture

• Dangerous Liaisons
• Mississippi Burning
• Rain Man
• The Accidental Tourist
• Working Girl

Best Director

• A Fish Called Wanda (Charles Crichton)
• Mississippi Burning (Alan Parker)
• Rain Man (Barry Levinson)
• The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese)
• Working Girl (Mike Nichols)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Big (Tom Hanks)
• Mississippi Burning (Gene Hackman)
• Pelle the Conqueror (Max von Sydow)
• Rain Man (Dustin Hoffman)
• Stand and Deliver (Edward James Olmos)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• A Cry in the Dark (Meryl Streep)
• Dangerous Liaisons (Glenn Close)
• Gorillas in the Mist (Sigourney Weaver)
• The Accused (Jodie Foster)
• Working Girl (Melanie Griffith)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• A Fish Called Wanda (Kevin Kline)
• Little Dorrit (Alec Guinness)
• Married to the Mob (Dean Stockwell)
• Running on Empty (River Phoenix)
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream (Martin Landau)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Dangerous Liaisons (Michelle Pfeiffer)
• Mississippi Burning (Frances McDormand)
• The Accidental Tourist (Geena Davis)
• Working Girl (Joan Cusack)
• Working Girl (Sigourney Weaver)

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• A Fish Called Wanda
• Big
• Bull Durham
• Rain Man
• Running on Empty

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

• Dangerous Liaisons
• Gorillas in the Mist
• Little Dorrit
• The Accidental Tourist
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Best Foreign Language Film

• Hanussen (Hungary)
• Pelle the Conqueror (Denmark)
• Salaam Bombay! (India)
• The Music Teacher (Belgium)
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Spain)

Best Documentary Feature

• Hôtel Terminus
• Let's Get Lost
• Promises to Keep
• The Cry of Reason: Beyers Naude - An Afrikaner Speaks Out
• Who Killed Vincent Chin?

Best Documentary Short

• Family Gathering
• Gang Cops
• Portrait of Imogen
• The Children's Storefront
• You Don't Have to Die

Best Live Action Short Film

• Cadillac Dreams
• Gullah Tales
• The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

Best Animated Short Film

• Technological Threat
• The Cat Came Back
• Tin Toy

Best Original Score

• Dangerous Liaisons
• Gorillas in the Mist
• Rain Man
• The Accidental Tourist
• The Milagro Beanfield War

Best Original Song

• Bagdad Cafe ("Calling You")
• Buster ("Two Hearts")
• Working Girl ("Let the River Run")

Best Sound Effects Editing

• Die Hard
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Willow

Best Sound

• Bird
• Die Hard
• Gorillas in the Mist
• Mississippi Burning
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Best Art Direction

• Beaches
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Rain Man
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Best Cinematography

• Mississippi Burning
• Rain Man
• Tequila Sunrise
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Best Makeup

• Beetlejuice
• Coming to America
• Scrooged

Best Costume Design

• A Handful of Dust
• Coming to America
• Dangerous Liaisons
• Sunset
• Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Best Film Editing

• Die Hard
• Gorillas in the Mist
• Mississippi Burning
• Rain Man
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Best Visual Effects

• Die Hard
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit
• Willow