Beste mannelijke bijrol:
Jud Hirsch (Ordinary people), Timothy Hutton
(Ordinary people), Michael O'Keefe (The great
Santini), Joe Pesci (Raging Buil), Jason Robards
(Meivin and Howard)
Beste vrouwelijke bijrol:
Eileen Brennan (Private Benjamin), Eva Le
Galienne (Resurrection), Cathy Moriarty (Raging
Buil), Diana Scarwid (Inside moves), Mary Steen-
burgen (Meivin and Howard)
Beste cameraman:
Nestor Almendros (The blue lagoon), Ralf Detler
Bode (Coal miner's daughter), James Crabe
(The formula), Michael Chapman (Raging Buil),
Geoffrey Unsworth en Ghislain Cloquet (Tess)
Beste montage:
Arthur Schmidt (Coal Miner's daughter), David
Blewitt (The competition), Anne V. Coates
(The Elephant Man), Gerry Hambling (Fame),
Thelma Schoonmaker (Raging Buil)
Beste art directie:
art-directie: John Corso, decor-ontwerp: John
Dwyer (Coal Miner's daughter), art-directie:
Stuart Graig en Bob Cartwright, decor-ontwerp:
Hugh Scaife (The Elephant man), art-directie:
Norman Reynolds, Leslie Dilley, Harry Lange en
Alan Tomkins, decor-ontwerp: Michael Ford (The
Empire strikes back), art-directie: Yoshiro Muraki
(Kagemusha), art-directie: Pierre Guffroy en Jack
Stevens (Tess).
Beste costuumontwerp:
Patricia Norris (The Elephant man), Anna Senior
(My brilliant carreer), Jean-Pierre Dorleac
(Somewhere in time), Anthony Powell (Tess), Paul
Zastupnevich (When time ran out)
Beste lange documentaire:
Agee, The day after trinity, From Mao to Mozart:
Isaac Stern in China, Front Line, The Yellow Star
The persecution of European Jews 1933 - '45
Beste korte documentaire:
Don't mess with Bill, The eruption of Mount St.
Helens, It's the same world, Karl Hess: towards
Liberty, Luther Metke At 94
Beste orginele muziek:
John Corgliano (Altered states), John Morris (The
Elephant man), John Williams (The Empire strikes
back), Michael Gore (Fame), Philippe Sarde (Tess)
Beste originele song:
"Fame" uit Fame, muziek: Michael Gore, tekst;
Dean Pitchford, "9 to 5" uit "9 to 5" muziek en
tekst: Dolly Parton, "On the road again" uit
Honeysuckle Rosé, muziek en tekst: Willie Nelson,
"Out here on my own" uit Fame, muziek van
Michael Gore, tekst van Leslie Gore, "People
alone" uit The competition, muziek van Lalo
Schifrin, tekst van Wilbur Jennings
Beste korte animatiefilm:
All nothing (Canada), The fly (Hongarije), History
of the World in three Minutes flat (VS)
Beste korte film:
The dollar Bottom, Fall line, A jury of her Peers
Beste geluid:
Altered states: Arthur Piantadosi, Les Fresholtz,
Michael Minkler en Willue D. Burton; Coal Miner's
daughter: Richard Portman, Roger Homan en Jim
Alexander; The Empire strikes back: Bill Varnay,
Steve Maslow, Cregg Landaker en Peter Sutton;
Fame: Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochun, Roy M.
Harding en Chris Newman; Raging Buil: Donald O.
Mitchell, Bill Nicholson, David J. Kimball en Les
Lazarowitz
Beste originele scenario:
Brubaker: scenario: W.D. Richter, verhaal: W.D.
Richter en Arthur Ross; Fame door Christopher
Gore, Meivin and Howard door Bo Goldman; Mon
Oncle d'Amerique door Jean Gruault; Private
Benjamin door Nandy Meyers, Charles Shyer en
Harvey Miller
Beste scenario gebaseerd op al bestaand materiaal:
Breaker Morant door Jonathan Hardy, David
Stevens en Bruce Beresford: Coal Miner's daughter
daughter door Tom Rickman; The Elephant Man
door Christopher DeVore, Eric Bergren en David
Lynch; Ordinary people door Alvin Sargant; The
Stuntman door Lawrence B. Marcus
'Coal Miner's daughter'