1985 Academy Award® Nominations: winners are underlined.

Best Picture: The Color Purple Kiss of the Spider Woman Out of Africa Prizzi's Honor Witness

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

Best Actor: 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: 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 Supporting Actor: Don Ameche, Cocoon Klaus Maria Brandauer, Out of Africa William Hickey, Prizzi's Honor Robert Loggia, Jagged Edge Eric Roberts, Runaway Train

Best Supporting Actress: 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 Original Screenplay:
Woody Allen, The Purple Rose of Cairo
Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, Charles McKeown, Brazil
William Kelley, Pamela Wallace, Earl Wallace, Witness
Luis Puenzo, Aída Bortnik, La Historia oficial
Robert Zemeckis, Bob Gale, Back to the Future

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Richard Condon, Janet Roach, Prizzi's Honor
Horton Foote, The Trip to Bountiful
Kurt Luedtke, Out of Africa
Menno Meyjes, The Color Purple
Leonard Schrader, Kiss of the Spider Woman

Best Foreign Film: Bittere Ernte, West Germany La Historia oficial, Argentina Oberst Redl, Hungary Otac na sluzbenom putu, Yugoslavia Trois hommes et un couffin, France

Best Cinematography: The Color Purple Murphy's Romance Out of Africa Ran Witness

Visual Effects: Cocoon Return to Oz Young Sherlock Holmes

Sound Effects Editing: Back to the Future Ladyhawke Rambo: First Blood Part II

Best Makeup: The Color Purple Mask Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins...

Best Costumes: The Color Purple The Journey of Natty Gann Out of Africa Prizzi's Honor Ran

Best Sound: Back to the Future A Chorus Line Ladyhawke Out of Africa Silverado

Film Editing: A Chorus Line Out of Africa Prizzi's Honor Runaway Train Witness

Best Art Direction: Brazil The Color Purple Out of Africa Ran Witness

Best Original Score:
John Barry, Out of Africa
Bruce Broughton, Silverado
Georges Delerue, Agnes of God
Maurice Jarre, Witness
Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock, Rod Temperton, Caiphus Semenya, Andraé Crouch, Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli, Joel Rosenbaum, Fred Steiner, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey, Randy Kerber, The Color Purple

Best Original Song:
Stephen Bishop, "Separate Lives" from White Nights
Marvin Hamlisch, Ed Kleban, "Surprise, Surprise" from A Chorus Line
Chris Hayes, Johnny Colla, Huey Lewis, "The Power of Love" from Back to the Future
Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton, Lionel Richie, "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" from The Color Purple
Lionel Richie, "Say You, Say Me" from White Nights

Best Documentary Feature: Broken Rainbow Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo Soldiers in Hiding The Statue of Liberty Unfinished Business

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

Live Action Short Film: Graffiti Molly's Pilgrim Rainbow War

Animated Short Film: Anna & Bella The Big Snit Second Class Mail

The Academy Award® ceremonies were held on March 24th, 1986


Winners:
(15 movies)
Out of Africa (7) - Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound, Original Score
Cocoon (2) - Supporting Actor, Visual Effects
Witness (2) - Original Screenplay, Editing
Back to the Future (1) - Sound Effects Editing
Kiss of the Spider Woman (1) - Actor
Mask (1) - Makeup
Prizzi's Honor (1) - Supporting Actress
Ran (1) - Costumes
The Trip to Bountiful (1) - Actress
White Nights (1) - Original Song
La Historia oficial (1) - Foreign Film
Broken Rainbow (1) - Documentary Feature
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Molly's Pilgrim (1) - Live Action Short Film
Anna & Bella (1) - Animated Short Film

Nomination Totals:
(48 movies)
Commercial English language films:
Agnes of God (3) - Actress, Supporting Actress, Original Score
Back to the Future (4) - Original Screenplay, Sound Effects Editing, Sound, Original Song
Brazil (2) - Original Screenplay, Art Direction
A Chorus Line (3) - Sound, Editing, Original Song
Cocoon (2) - Supporting Actor, Visual Effects
The Color Purple (11) - Picture, Actress, Supporting Actress, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Makeup, Costumes, Art Direction, Original Score, Original Song
Jagged Edge (1) - Supporting Actor
The Journey of Natty Gann (1) - Costumes
Kiss of the Spider Woman (4) - Picture, Director, Actor, Adapted Screenplay
Ladyhawke (2) - Sound Effects Editing, Sound
Mask (1) - Makeup
Murphy's Romance (2) - Actor, Cinematography
Out of Africa (11) - Picture, Director, Actress, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Costumes, Sound, Editing, Art Direction, Original Score
Prizzi's Honor (8) - Picture, Director, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Costumes, Editing
The Purple Rose of Cairo (1) - Original Screenplay
Rambo: First Blood Part II (1) - Sound Effects Editing
Ran (4) - Director, Cinematography, Costumes, Art Direction
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins... (1) - Makeup
Return to Oz (1) - Visual Effects
Runaway Train (3) - Actor, Supporting Actor, Editing
Silverado (2) - Sound, Original Score
Sweet Dreams (1) - Actress
The Trip to Bountiful (2) - Actress, Adapted Screenplay
Twice in a Lifetime (1) - Supporting Actress
White Nights (2) - Original Song, Original Song
Witness (8) - Picture, Director, Actor, Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Editing, Art Direction, Original Score
Young Sherlock Holmes (1) - Visual Effects

Foreign language films:
Bittere Ernte (1) - Foreign Film
La Historia oficial (2) - Foreign Film, Original Screenplay
Oberst Redl (1) - Foreign Film
Otac na sluzbenom putu (1) - Foreign Film
Trois hommes et un couffin (1) - Foreign Film

Documentaries and short films:
Anna & Bella (1) - Animated Short Film
The Big Snit (1) - Animated Short Film
Broken Rainbow (1) - Documentary Feature
The Courage to Care (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Graffiti (1) - Live Action Short Film
Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Las Madres de la Plaza de Mayo (1) - Documentary Feature
Making Overtures: The Story of a Community Orchestra (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Molly's Pilgrim (1) - Live Action Short Film
Rainbow War (1) - Live Action Short Film
Second Class Mail (1) - Animated Short Film
Soldiers in Hiding (1) - Documentary Feature
The Statue of Liberty (1) - Documentary Feature
Unfinished Business (1) - Documentary Feature
Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
The Wizard of the Strings (1) - Documentary, Short Subject

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