The 1988 Academy Awards®
Host: none
Date: April 19, 1989

Best Picture
The Accidental Tourist
Dangerous Liaisons
Mississippi Burning
Rain Man--winner
Working Girl

Best Director
Charles Crichton, A Fish Called Wanda
Barry Levinson, Rain Man--winner
Mike Nichols, Working Girl
Alan Parker, Mississippi Burning
Martin Scorsese, The Last Temptation of Christ

Best Actor
Gene Hackman, Mississippi Burning
Tom Hanks, Big
Dustin Hoffman, Rain Man--winner
Edward James Olmos, Stand and Deliver
Max von Sydow, Pelle erobreren

Best Actress
Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons
Jodie Foster, The Accused--winner
Melanie Griffith, Working Girl
Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark
Sigourney Weaver, Gorillas in the Mist

Best Supporting Actor
Alec Guinness, Little Dorrit
Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda--winner
Martin Landau, Tucker: The Man and His Dream
River Phoenix, Running on Empty
Dean Stockwell, Married to the Mob

Best Supporting Actress
Joan Cusak, Working Girl
Geena Davis, The Accidental Tourist--winner
Frances McDormand, Mississippi Burning
Michelle Pfeiffer, Dangerous Liaisons
Sigourney Weaver, Working Girl

Best Foreign Language Film
Hanussen (Hungary)
Le Maître de musique (Belgium)
Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios (Spain)
Pelle erobreren (Denmark)--winner
Salaam Bombay! (India)

Best Original Screenplay
Big (Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg)
Bull Durham (Ron Shelton)
A Fish Called Wanda (John Cleese, Charles Crichton)
Rain Man (Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow)--winner
Running on Empty (Naomi Foner)

Best Adapted Screenplay
The Accidental Tourist (Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan)
Dangerous Liaisons (Christopher Hampton)--winner
Gorillas in the Mist (Anna Hamilton Phelan)
Little Dorrit (Christine Edzard)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman)

Best Original Score
The Accidental Tourist (John Williams)
Dangerous Liaisons (George Fenton)
Gorillas in the Mist (Maurice Jarre)
The Milagro Beanfield War (Dave Grusin)--winner
Rain Man (Hans Zimmer)

Best Cinematography
Mississippi Burning (Peter Biziou)--winner
Rain Man (John Seale)
Tequila Sunrise (Conrad L. Hall)
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Sven Nykvist)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Dean Cundey)

Other Categories:

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Dangerous Liaisons (Stuart Craig, Gérard James)

Best Costume Design
Dangerous Liaisons (James Acheson)

Best Makeup
Beetlejuice (Ve Neill, Steve La Porte, Robert Short)

Best Film Editing
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Arthur Schmidt)

Best Visual Effects
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Ed Jones, George Gibbs)

Best Sound
Bird (Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, Willie D. Burton)

Best Sound Effects Editing
Who Framed Roger Rabbit (Charles L. Campbell, Louis L. Edemann)

Best Original Song
Working Girl, for the song "Let the River Run," written by Carly Simon

Best Animated Short Film
Tin Toy (John Lasseter, William Reeves)

Best Live Action Short Film
The Appointments of Dennis Jennings (Dean Parisot, Steven Wright)

Best Documentary, Short Subject
You Don't Have to Die (Bill Guttentag, Malcolm Clarke)

Best Documentary, Feature
Hôtel Terminus (Marcel Ophüls)

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