Winner

John Huston

Prizzi's Honor

Nominated

Steven Spielberg

The Color Purple

Richard Attenborough

A Chorus Line

Peter Weir

Witness

Sydney Pollack

Out of Africa

Winner

The Official Story

Nominated

A Year of the Quiet Sun

Colonel Redl

When Father Was Away on Business

Ran

Winner

The Jewel in the Crown

Nominated

Amos

Do You Remember Love

Death of a Salesman

An Early Frost

Winner

Prizzi's Honor

Nominated

A Chorus Line

Cocoon

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Back to the Future

Winner

Out of Africa

Nominated

Runaway Train

Witness

Kiss of the Spider Woman

The Color Purple

Winner

Out of Africa

John Barry

Nominated

Witness

Maurice Jarre

Year of the Dragon

David Mansfield

The Color Purple

Quincy Jones

White Nights

Michel Colombier

Winner

White Nights

Lionel Richie

Nominated

Back to the Future

Johnny Colla

Chris Hayes

Huey Lewis

The Last Dragon

Diane Warren

A View to a Kill

John Barry

Duran Duran

Mad Max: Beyond Thunderdome

Terry Britten

Graham Lyle

Winner

Dustin Hoffman

Death of a Salesman

Nominated

Richard Crenna

The Rape of Richard Beck

Peter Strauss

Kane & Abel

Kirk Douglas

Amos

Richard Chamberlain

Wallenberg: A Hero's Story

Winner

Jack Nicholson

Prizzi's Honor

Nominated

Michael J. Fox

Back to the Future

Jeff Daniels

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Griffin Dunne

After Hours

James Garner

Murphy's Romance

Winner

Jon Voight

Runaway Train

Nominated

Gene Hackman

Twice in a Lifetime

Harrison Ford

Witness

William Hurt

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Raul Julia

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Winner

Klaus Maria Brandauer

Out of Africa

Nominated

John Lone

Year of the Dragon

Eric Stoltz

Mask

Eric Roberts

Runaway Train

Joel Grey

Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

Winner

Edward James Olmos

Miami Vice

Nominated

David Carradine

North and South, Book I

John James

Dynasty

Ed Begley Jr.

St. Elsewhere

Pat Morita

Amos

Bruce Weitz

Hill Street Blues

John Malkovich

Death of a Salesman

Richard Farnsworth

Chase

Winner

Bill Cosby

The Cosby Show

Nominated

Michael J. Fox

Family Ties

Bruce Willis

Moonlighting

Tony Danza

Who's the Boss?

Bob Newhart

Newhart

Winner

Don Johnson

Miami Vice

Nominated

Tom Selleck

Magnum, P.I.

John Forsythe

Dynasty

Philip Michael Thomas

Miami Vice

Daniel J. Travanti

Hill Street Blues

Winner

Liza Minnelli

A Time to Live

Nominated

Joanne Woodward

Do You Remember Love

Gena Rowlands

An Early Frost

Peggy Ashcroft

The Jewel in the Crown

Marlo Thomas

Consenting Adult

Winner

Kathleen Turner

Prizzi's Honor

Nominated

Sally Field

Murphy's Romance

Rosanna Arquette

Desperately Seeking Susan

Glenn Close

Maxie

Mia Farrow

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Winner

Whoopi Goldberg

The Color Purple

Nominated

Cher

Mask

Meryl Streep

Out of Africa

Geraldine Page

The Trip to Bountiful

Anne Bancroft

Agnes of God

Winner

Meg Tilly

Agnes of God

Nominated

Oprah Winfrey

The Color Purple

Amy Madigan

Twice in a Lifetime

Kelly McGillis

Witness

Anjelica Huston

Prizzi's Honor

Sonia Braga

Kiss of the Spider Woman

Winner

Sylvia Sidney

An Early Frost

Nominated

Katherine Helmond

Who's the Boss?

Kate Reid

Death of a Salesman

Inga Swenson

Benson

Lesley-Anne Down

North and South, Book I

Winner

Cybill Shepherd

Moonlighting

Nominated

Bea Arthur

The Golden Girls

Betty White

The Golden Girls

Rue McClanahan

The Golden Girls

Winner

Sharon Gless

Cagney & Lacey

Nominated

Angela Lansbury

Murder, She Wrote

Tyne Daly

Cagney & Lacey

Joan Collins

Dynasty

Linda Evans

Dynasty

Winner

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Woody Allen

Nominated

Prizzi's Honor

Janet Roach

Richard Condon

Witness

William Kelley

Earl W. Wallace

Back to the Future

Bob Gale

Robert Zemeckis

Out of Africa

Kurt Luedtke

Winner

The Golden Girls

Nominated

The Cosby Show

Moonlighting

Family Ties

Kate & Allie

Winner

Murder, She Wrote

Nominated

Cagney & Lacey

St. Elsewhere

Miami Vice

Dynasty