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Best Picture of the Year
 BROADCAST NEWS - 20th Century-Fox. Produced by James L. Brooks
FATAL ATTRACTION - Jaffe/Lansing, Paramount. Produced by Stanley R. Jaffe & Sherry Lansing
HOPE AND GLORY - Davros Production Services Ltd., Columbia. Produced by John Boorman
 THE LAST EMPEROR (Won 9 Awards, swept every nominated category) - Hemdale, Columbia. Produced by Jeremy Thomas
MOONSTRUCK - Palmer & Jewison, MGM. Produced by Patrick Palmer & Norman Jewison
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Michael Douglas in WALL STREET
William Hurt in BROADCAST NEWS
Marcello Mastroianni in OCI CIORNIE (DARK EYES)
Jack Nicholson in IRONWEED
Robin Williams in GOOD MORNING, VIETNAM
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Cher in MOONSTRUCK
Glenn Close in FATAL ATTRACTION
Holly Hunter in BROADCAST NEWS
Sally Kirkland in ANNA
Meryl Streep in IRONWEED
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Albert Brooks in BROADCAST NEWS
Sean Connery in THE UNTOUCHABLES
Morgan Freeman in STREET SMART
Vincent Gardenia in MOONSTRUCK
Denzel Washington in CRY FREEDOM
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Norma Aleandro in GABY - A TRUE STORY
Anne Archer in FATAL ATTRACTION
Olympia Dukakis in MOONSTRUCK
Anne Ramsey in THROW MOMMA FROM THE TRAIN
Ann Sothern in THE WHALES OF AUGUST
Achievement in Direction
Bernardo Bertolucci for THE LAST EMPEROR
John Boorman for HOPE AND GLORY
Lasse Hallström for MITT LIV SOM HUND (MY LIFE AS A DOG)
Norman Jewison for MOONSTRUCK
Adrian Lyne for FATAL ATTRACTION
Achievement in Writing: Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Woody Allen - RADIO DAYS
John Boorman - HOPE AND GLORY
James L. Brooks - BROADCAST NEWS
Louis Malle - AU REVOIR, LES ENFANTS
John Patrick Shanley - MOONSTRUCK
Achievement in Writing: Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
James Dearden - FATAL ATTRACTION
Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jonsson, Brasse Brannstrom & Per Berglund - MITT LIV SOM HUND (MY LIFE AS A DOG)
Tony Huston - THE DEAD
Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr & Gustav Hasford - FULL METAL JACKET
Mark Peploe & Bernardo Bertolucci - THE LAST EMPEROR
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
AU REVOIR, LES ENFANTS (France)
BABETTES GÆSTEBUD [BABETTE'S FEAST, Denmark - Just Betzer, Bo Christensen & Benni Korzen (uncredited) - Producers]
ASIGNATURA APROBADA (COURSE COMPLETED, Spain - José Luis Garci, producer)
LA FAMIGLIA (THE FAMILY, Italy - Franco Committeri, producer)
OFELAS (PATHFINDER, Norway - John M. Jacobsen, producer)
Achievement in Art Direction
Norman Reynolds - Art Direction, Harry Cordwell - Set Decoration EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Anthony Pratt - Art Direction, Joan Woollard - Set Decoration HOPE AND GLORY
Ferdinando Scarfiotti - Art Direction, Bruno Cesari - Set Decoration THE LAST EMPEROR
Santo Loquasto - Art Direction, Carol Joffe, Les Bloom & George DeTitta, Jr. - Set Decoration RADIO DAYS
William A. Elliott - Art Direction, Patrizia von Brandenstein - Visual Consultant, Hal Gausman - Set Decoration THE UNTOUCHABLES
Achievement in Cinematography
Michael Ballhaus - BROADCAST NEWS
Allen Daviau - EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Philippe Rousselot - HOPE AND GLORY
Vittorio Storaro - THE LAST EMPEROR
Haskell Wexler - MATEWAN
Achievement in Costume Design
Dorothy Jeakins - THE DEAD
Bob Ringwood - EMPIRE OF THE SUN
James Acheson - THE LAST EMPEROR
Jenny Beavan & John Bright - MAURICE
Marilyn Vance-Straker - THE UNTOUCHABLES
Achievement in Documentary Features
Callie Crossley & James A. DeVinney - Producers EYES ON THE PRIZE: AMERICA'S CIVIL RIGHTS YEARS/BRIDGE TO FREEDOM 1965
John Junkerman & John W. Dower - Producers HELLFIRE: A JOURNEY FROM HIROSHIMA
Robert Stone - Producer RADIO BIKINI
Barbara Herbich & Cyril Christo - Producers A STITCH FOR TIME
Aviva Slesin - Producer THE TEN-YEAR LUNCH: THE WIT AND LEGEND OF THE ALGONQUIN ROUND TABLE
Achievement in Documentary Short Subjects
Deborah Dickson - Producer FRANCES STELOFF: MEMOIRS OF A BOOKSELLER
University of Southern California School of Cinema/TV - Producer IN THE WEE WEE HOURS
Megan Williams - Producer LANGUAGE SAYS IT ALL
Lynn Mueller - Producer SILVER INTO GOLD
Sue Marx & Pamela Conn - Producers YOUNG AT HEART
Achievement in Film Editing
Richard Marks - BROADCAST NEWS
Michael Kahn - EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Michael Kahn & Peter E. Berger - FATAL ATTRACTION
Gabriella Cristiani - THE LAST EMPEROR
Frank J. Urioste - ROBOCOP
Achievement in Make-Up
Bob Laden - HAPPY NEW YEAR
Rick Baker - HARRY AND THE HENDERSONS
Achievement in Music: Original Score
George Fenton & Jonas Gwangwa - CRY FREEDOM
John Williams - EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne & Cong Su - THE LAST EMPEROR
Ennio Morricone - THE UNTOUCHABLES
John Williams - THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
Achievement in Music: Original Song
George Fenton & Jonas Gwangwa - Music & Lyric CRY FREEDOM "Cry Freedom"
Franke Previte - Music & Lyric, John DeNicola & Donald Markowitz - Music DIRTY DANCING "(I've Had) The Time Of My Life" 
Albert Hammond & Diane Warren - Music & Lyric MANNEQUIN "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now"
Harold Faltermeyer & Keith Forsey - Music, Bob Seger - Lyric BEVERLY HILLS COP II "Shakedown"
Willy DeVille - Music & Lyric THE PRINCESS BRIDE "Storybook Love"
Achievement in Animated Short Films
Eunice Macaulay - Producer GEORGE AND ROSEMARY
Frédéric Back - Producer L'HOMME QUIPLANTAIT DES ARBRES (THE MAN WHO PLANTED TREES)
Bill Plympton - Producer YOUR FACE
Achievement in Live Action Short Films
Ann Wingate - Producer MAKING WAVES
Jonathan Sanger & Jana Sue Memel - Producers RAY'S MALE HETEROSEXUAL DANCE HALL
Robert A. Katz - Producer SHOESHINE
Achievement in Sound
Robert Knudson, Don Digirolamo, John Boyd & Tony Dawe - EMPIRE OF THE SUN
Bill Rowe & Ivan Sharrock - THE LAST EMPEROR
Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore & Bill Nelson
- LETHAL WEAPON
Michael J. Kohut, Carlos DeLarios, Aaron Rochin & Robert Wald - ROBOCOP
Wayne Artman, Tom Beckert, Tom Dahl & Art Rochester - THE WITCHES OF EASTWICK
Achievement in Sound Effects Editing
See Special Achievement Awards
Achievement in Visual Effects
Joel Hynek, Robert M. Greenberg, Richard Greenberg & Stan Winston - PREDATOR
Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup & Kenneth F. Smith - INNERSPACE
Special Achievement Award
For Sound Effects Editing: Stephen Flick and John Pospisil, for ROBOCOP
Scientific or Technical Awards
Academy Award of Merit (Statuette)
Dr. Bernhard Kuhl & Dr. Werner Block (OSRAM GmbH Research and Development
Department) - For the invention and the continuing improvement of the OSRAM HMI light source for motion picture photography.
Scientific and Engineering Award (Plaque)
 Willi Burth (Kinotone Corporation) - For the invention and development of the Non-rewind Platter System for motion picture presentations.
Montage Group Ltd. - Development, Ronald C. Barker & Chester L. Schuler - Invention - For the development and invention of the Montage Picture Processor electronic film editing system.
Colin F. Mossman (Rank Film Laboratories Development Group) - For creating a fully-automated film handling system for improving productivity of high speed film processing.
Eastman Kodak Company - For the development of Eastman Color High Speed Daylight Negative Film 5297 / 7297.
Eastman Kodak Company - For the development of Eastman Color High Speed SA Negative Film 5295 for blue screen traveling matte photography.
Fritz Gabriel Bauer - For the invention and development of the improved features of the Moviecam Camera System.
Zoran Perisic (Courier Films Ltd.) - For the Zoptic dual-zoom front projection system for visual effects photography.
Carl Zeiss Company - For the design and development of a series of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography.
Technical Achievement Award (Certificate)
 Ioan R. Allen & Ray M. Dolby (Dolby Laboratories) - For the Cat 43 playback-only noise reduction unit and its practical application to motion picture sound recordings.
John Eppolito, Wally Gentleman, William Mesa, Les Paul Robley & Geoffrey H. Williamson - For refinements to a dual screen, front projection, image-compositing system.
Jan Jacobsen - For the application of a dual screen, front projection system to motion picture special effects photography.
Thaine Morris & David Pier - For the development of DSC Spark Devices for motion picture special effects.
Tadeuz Krzanowski (Industrial Light and Magic Inc.) - For the development of a Wire Rig Model Support Mechanism used to control the movements of miniatures in special effects.
Dan C. Norris & Tim Cook (Norris Film Products) - For the development of a single-frame exposure system for motion picture photography.
Honorary and Other Awards
No Award given for 1987.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
Billy Wilder
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
No Award given for 1987.
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Fred Hynes
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FIRSTS
· The Last Emperor wins 9 Oscars®, sweeping all its nominated categories.
· No Americans nominated for Best Director.
RULE CHANGES
· No musical score eligible for Original Score if "diluted by the use of tracked or pre-existing music."
· Sound Effects Editing given as a non- competitive, Special Achievement Award.
ROLE REVERSALS
· Fatal Attraction director Adrian Lyne was the third director approached to make the film, which began development as Diversions. Brian De Palma thought it was too much like Clint Eastwood's Play Misty for Me (1971), and John Boorman preferred to make Hope and Glory.
· Isabel Adjani and Debra Winger passed on Glenn Close's part in Fatal Attraction, and Barbara Hershey wasn't available.
· John Patrick Shanley wrote Cher's role in Moonstruck for Sally Field.
· Debra Winger was slated to play the lead in Broadcast News, but she became pregnant. Two days before rehearsals began, director James L. Brooks found a 29-year-old NY stage actress from Georgia named Holly Hunter.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Empire of the Sun, Full Metal Jacket
Director: Steven Spielberg - Empire of the Sun, James L. Brooks - Broadcast News
Actor: Steve Martin - Roxanne
Foreign Film: Wings of Desire - (W. Germany)
Song: "Hungry Eyes, Who's That Girl?"
UNMENTIONABLES
· Paramount had two summer movies score at the box office: Beverly Hills Cop II and Brian De Palma's The Untouchables.
· When Paramount tested Fatal Attraction, audiences loved it until the very end, when Close's temptress frames Michael Douglas's paramour with her suicide. Two months before the opening, cast and crew were reassembled in New York to film a new ending, at a cost of $1.3 million.
· John Boorman went to Germany and 19 other countries to secure financing for Hope and Glory, his irreverant portrait of growing up in Britain during the Blitz. David Puttnam, the new head of Columbia, supplied the money needed to finish the film and guaranteed US distribution. However, when Puttnam was removed by Coca-Cola, the owner of the studio, the film was released in only 50 theatres -- despite its critical success.
· Bernardo Bertolucci spent two years negotiating with the Peoples Republic of China to secure permission to film The Last Emperor on location, including the previously off-limits Forbidden City. Once again, though, the new regime at Columbia reneged on one of Puttnams's deals, withholding the film from 150 of Cineplex Odeon's chain of theatres.
· Oliver Stone's new film, Wall Street, starred Platoon's Charlie Sheen as another innocent, this time in New York's financial district. As the villain, Stone cast Michael Douglas, who had just finished shooting Fatal Attraction. "I was warned by everyone in Hollywood that Michael couldn't act," Stone said. When shooting started, Stone may have wondered if he should have listened to that advice. "I was amazed, for an actor who has done so many movies, how nervous he was in the beginning," Stone recalled. "He couldn't believe it when on the first day I gave him three pages of monologue." Douglas hung in there, because, he said, his father Kirk had told him that he was finally about to become a real actor, who could play a heel as well as a hero.
· Good Morning, Viet Nam, which featured the full-frontal free- form adlibbing of Robin Williams, led at the box office for two months. Williams was appreciative because "this is the first role that calls upon me to do what I do best -- me." That was fine for Adrian Cronauer -- the real-life character William portrayed -- who quipped, "Robin was the me I would have liked to have been."
· Sally Kirkland, the star of Anna -- a little-seen indie made for $700,000 -- took it upon herself to promote her performance. Notorious in the 60s by being the first actress to appear totally nude on-stage in Sweet Eros, by throwing money on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange with Abbie Hoffman and Jerry Rubin, and by showing up on the cover of Screw magazine naked and riding a pig, Kirkland mailed letters to every Academy member and enlisted Shelley Winters to make 150 phone calls soliciting votes on her behalf.
· Kirkland's efforts were dwarfed by the massive campaign sums studios were shelling out for Richard Attenborough's Cry Freedom, Barbra Streisand's Nuts (dubbed by one critic as "Mentl"), and Faye Dunaway's Barfly -- none of which paid off.
· The Writers Guild called a strike 5 weeks before the Awards show and refused to grant a waiver for the broadcast. With the script only half-written, show producer Sam Goldwyn Jr. recruited several comedians as presenters and relied on their adlibbing skills to make an entertaining show.
· To celebrate its 60th Awards show, the Academy moved it back to the 6,000-seat Shrine Auditorium.
· A massive traffic jam forced many stars to rush for several blocks through the less-than-Beverly Hills neighborhood in order to get to the Shrine in time for the show.
· Billy Wilder ended his Thalberg acceptance speech with "I hope you're watching, I.A.L., because part of this is yours. So get well, will you?" Wilder's longtime collaborator I.A.L. Diamond died of cancer ten days later.
· Robin Williams got the biggest laugh of the show when he defined a writer- director-producer as "one of the few creatures on the planet who can blow smoke up his own ass."
· In the press tent after the show, Billy Wilder pulled no punches in his assessment of the Coca-Cola/Columbia controversy: "It would never occur to a film- maker to go to Atlanta and tell them how to make a soft drink."
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