57th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1985)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Monday, March 25, 1985
  • For films released in: 1984
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 57th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

  • Amadeus
    Saul Zaentz [Producer]
  • The Killing Fields
    David Puttnam [Producer]
  • A Passage to India
    John Brabourne [Producer] and Richard Goodwin [Producer]
  • Places in the Heart
    Arlene Donovan [Producer]
  • A Soldier's Story
    Norman Jewison [Producer], Ronald L. Schwary [Producer] and Patrick Palmer [Producer]

Best Directing

  • Amadeus
    Milos Foreman
  • Broadway Danny Rose
    Woody Allen
  • The Killing Fields
    Roland Joffé
  • A Passage to India
    David Lean
  • Places in the Heart
    Robert Benton

Best Actor in a Leading Role

  • Amadeus
    F. Murray Abraham
  • Amadeus
    Tom Hulce
  • The Killing Fields
    Sam Waterston
  • Starman
    Jeff Bridges
  • Under the Volcano
    Albert Finney

Best Actress in a Leading Role

  • The Bostonians
    Vanessa Redgrave
  • Country
    Jessica Lange
  • A Passage to India
    Judy Davis
  • Places in the Heart
    Sally Field
  • The River
    Sissy Spacek

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
    Ralph Richardson
  • The Karate Kid
    Noriyuki 'Pat' Morita
  • The Killing Fields
    Haing S. Ngor
  • Places in the Heart
    John Malkovich
  • A Soldier's Story
    Adolph Caesar

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • The Natural
    Glenn Close
  • A Passage to India
    Peggy Ashcroft
  • Places in the Heart
    Lindsay Crouse
  • The Pope of Greenwich Village
    Geraldine Page
  • Swing Shift
    Christine Lahti

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Beyond the Walls
  • Camila
  • Dangerous Moves
  • Double Feature
  • Wartime Romance

Best Art Direction

  • 2010
    Albert Brenner [Art Direction] and Rick Simpson [Set Decoration]
  • Amadeus
    Patrizia Von Brandenstein [Art Direction] and Karel Cerny [Set Decoration]
  • The Cotton Club
    Richard Sylbert [Art Direction], George Gaines [Set Decoration] and Les Bloom [Set Decoration]
  • The Natural
    Angelo Graham [Art Direction], Mel Bourne [Art Direction], James J. Murakami [Art Direction], Speed Hopkins [Art Direction] and Bruce Weintraub [Set Decoration]
  • A Passage to India
    John Box [Art Direction], Leslie Tomkins [Art Direction] and Hugh Scaife [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

  • Amadeus
    Miroslav Ondricek
  • The Killing Fields
    Chris Menges
  • The Natural
    Caleb Deschanel
  • A Passage to India
    Ernest Day
  • The River
    Vilmos Zsigmond

Best Costume Design

  • 2010
    Patricia Norris
  • Amadeus
    Theodor Pistek
  • The Bostonians
    Jenny Beavan and John Bright
  • A Passage to India
    Judy Moorcroft
  • Places in the Heart
    Ann Roth

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • High Schools
    Charles Guggenheim and Nancy Sloss
  • In the Name of the People
    Alex W. Drehsler and Frank Christopher
  • Marlene
    Karel Dirka and Zev Braun
  • Streetwise
    Cheryl McCall
  • The Times of Harvey Milk
    Robert Epstein and Richard Schmiechen

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • The Children of Soong Ching Ling
    Gary Bush and Paul T.K. Lin
  • Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing
    Ben Achtenberg and Joan Sawyer
  • The Garden of Eden
    Lawrence R. Hott and Roger M. Sherman
  • Recollections of Pavlovsk
    Irina Kalinina
  • The Stone Carvers
    Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner

Best Film Editing

  • Amadeus
    Nena Danevic and Michael Chandler
  • The Cotton Club
    Barry Malkin and Robert Q. Lovett
  • The Killing Fields
    Jim Clark
  • A Passage to India
    David Lean
  • Romancing the Stone
    Donn Cambern and Frank Morriss

Best Makeup

  • 2010
    Michael Westmore
  • Amadeus
    Paul LeBlanc and Dick Smith
  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
    Rick Baker and Paul Engelen

Best Music (Original Score)

  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
    John Williams
  • The Natural
    Randy Newman
  • A Passage to India
    Maurice Jarre
  • The River
    John Williams
  • Under the Volcano
    Alex North

Best Music (Original Song Score)

  • The Muppets Take Manhattan
    Jeff Moss
  • Purple Rain
    Prince
  • Songwriter
    Kris Kristofferson

Best Music (Original Song)

  • Against All Odds "Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"
    Phil Collins [Music and Lyrics by]
  • Footloose "Footloose"
    Kenny Loggins [Music and Lyrics by] and Dean Pitchford [Music and Lyrics by]
  • Footloose "Let's Hear It for the Boy"
    Tom Snow [Music and Lyrics by] and Dean Pitchford [Music and Lyrics by]
  • Ghostbusters
    Ray Parker Jr. [Music and Lyrics by]
  • The Woman in Red "I Just Called To Say I Love You"
    Stevie Wonder [Music and Lyrics by]

Best Short Film (Animated)

  • Charade
    Jon Minnis
  • Doctor De Soto
    Morton Schindel and Michael Sporn
  • Paradise
    Ishu Patel

Best Short Film (Live Action)

  • The Painted Door
    Michael MacMilan and Janice L. Platt
  • Tales of Meeting and Parting
    Sharon Oreck and Lesli Linka Glatter
  • Up
    Mike Hoover

Best Sound

  • 2010
    Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Carlos de Larios and Gene S. Cantamessa
  • Amadeus
    Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Todd Boekelheide and Chris Newman
  • Dune
    Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Kevin O'Connell and Nelson Stoll
  • A Passage to India
    Graham V. Hartstone, Nicholas Le Messurier, Michael A. Carter and John Mitchell
  • The River
    Nick Alphin, Robert M. Thirlwell, Richard Portman and David Ronne

Best Visual Effects

  • 2010
    Richard Edlund, Neil Krepela, George Jenson and Mark Stetson
  • Ghostbusters
    Richard Edlund, John Bruno, Mark Vargo and Chuck Gaspar
  • Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
    Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Lorne Peterson and George Gibbs

Best Writing (Screenplay - based on material from another medium)

  • Amadeus
    Peter Shaffer
  • Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes
    P.H. Vazak and Michael Austin
  • The Killing Fields
    Bruce Robinson
  • A Passage to India
    David Lean
  • A Soldier's Story
    Charles Fuller

Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

  • Beverly Hills Cop
    Daniel J. Petrie [Screenplay and Story by] and Danilo Bach [Story by]
  • Broadway Danny Rose
    Woody Allen
  • El Norte
    Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas
  • Places in the Heart
    Robert Benton
  • Splash
    Lowell Ganz [Screenplay by], Babaloo Mandel [Screenplay by], Bruce Jay Friedman [Screenplay and Screen Story by] and Brian Grazer [Based on the Story by]
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