1986 Academy Awards Nomination

BEST PICTURE
The Color Purple
Kiss of the Spider Woman
Out of Africa
Prizzi's Honor
Witness

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
Harrison Ford, Witness
James Garner, Murphy's Romance
William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Jack Nicholson, Prizzi's Honor
Jon Voight, Runaway Train

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
Anne Bancroft, Agnes of God
Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple
Jessica Lange, Sweet Dreams
Geraldine Page, The Trip to Bountiful
Meryl Streep, Out of Africa

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Don Ameche, Cocoon
Klaus Maria Brandauer, Out of Africa
William Hickey, Prizzi's Honor
Robert Loggia, Jagged Edge
Eric Roberts, Runaway Train

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
Margaret Avery, The Color Purple
Anjelica Huston, Prizzi's Honor
Amy Madigan, Twice in a Lifetime
Meg Tilly, Agnes of God
Oprah Winfrey, The Color Purple

BEST ART DIRECTION
Norman Garwood (Art Direction); Maggie Gray (Set Decoration), Brazil
J. Michael Riva and Robert W. Welch (Art Direction); Linda DeScenna (Set Decoration), The Color Purple
Stephen Grimes (Art Direction); Josie MacAvin (Set Decoration), Out of Africa
Yoshiro Muraki and Shinobu Muraki (Art Direction), Ran
Stan Jolley (Art Direction); John Anderson (Set Decoration), Witness

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Allen Daviau, The Color Purple
William A. Fraker, Murphy's Romance
David Watkin, Out of Africa
Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda and Asakazu Nakai, Ran
John Seale, Witness

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Aggie Guerard Rodgers, The Color Purple
Albert Wolsky, The Journey of Natty Gann
Milena Canonero, Out of Africa
Donfeld, Prizzi's Honor
Emi Wada, Ran

BEST DIRECTING
Hector Babenco, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Sydney Pollack, Out of Africa
John Huston, Prizzi's Honor
Akira Kurosawa, Ran
Peter Weir, Witness

BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURE)
Broken Rainbow
Las Madres: The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
Soldiers in Hiding
The Statue of Liberty
Unfinished Business

BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECT)
The Courage to Care
Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date
Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
The Wizard of the Strings

BEST FILM EDITING
John Bloom, A Chorus Line
Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke Herring and Sheldon Kahn, Out of Africa
Rudi Fehr and Kaja Fehr, Prizzi's Honor
Henry Richardson, Runaway Train
Thom Noble, Witness

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Angry Harvest (Federal Republic of Germany)
Colonel Redl (Hungary)
The Official Story (Argentina)
Three Men and a Cradle (France)
When Father Was Away on Business (Yugoslavia)

BEST MAKEUP
Ken Chase, The Color Purple
Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek, Mask
Carl Fullerton, Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
Georges Delerue, Agnes of God
Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock, Rod Temperton, Caiphus Semenya, Andrae Crouch, Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli, Joel Rosenbaum, Fred Steiner, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey and Randy Kerber, The Color Purple
John Barry, Out of Africa
Bruce Broughton, Silverado
Maurice Jarre, Witness

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SONG)
"The Power of Love", Music by Chris Hayes and Johnny Colla; Lyric by Huey Lewis, Back to the Future
"Surprise, Surprise", Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyric by Edward Kleban, A Chorus Line
"Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)", Music by Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton; Lyric by Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton and Lionel Richie, The Color Purple
"Say You, Say Me", Music and Lyric by Lionel Richie, White Nights
"Separate Lives (Love Theme from 'White Nights')", Music and Lyric by Stephen Bishop, White Nights

BEST SHORT FILM (ANIMATED)
Anna and Bella
The Big Snit
Second Class Mail

BEST SHORT FILM (LIVE ACTION)
Graffiti
Molly's Pilgrim
Rainbow War

BEST SOUND
Bill Varney, B. Tennyson Sebastian II, Robert Thirlwell and William B. Kaplan, Back to the Future
Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Minkler, Gerry Humphreys and Chris Newman, A Chorus Line
Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore and Bud Alper, Ladyhawke
Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold and Peter Handford, Out of Africa
Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell and David Ronne, Silverado

BEST SOUND EFFECTS EDITING
Charles L. Campbell and Robert Rutledge, Back to the Future
Bob Henderson and Alan Murray, Ladyhawke
Frederick J. Brown, Rambo: First Blood Part II

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar and David Berry, Cocoon
Will Vinton, Ian Wingrove, Zoran Perisic and Michael Lloyd, Return to Oz
Dennis Muren, Kit West, John Ellis and David Allen, Young Sherlock Holmes

BEST WRITING (SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM)
Menno Meyjes, The Color Purple
Leonard Schrader, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Kurt Luedtke, Out of Africa
Richard Condon and Janet Roach, Prizzi's Honor
Horton Foote, The Trip to Bountiful

BEST WRITING (SCREENPLAY WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN)
Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, Back to the Future
Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown, Brazil
Luis Puenzo and Aida Bortnik, The Official Story
Woody Allen, The Purple Rose of Cairo
Earl W. Wallace, William Kelley and Pamela Wallace, Witness