58th Annual Academy Awards Nominations (1986)

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  • Date of Ceremony: Monday, March 24, 1986
  • For films released in: 1985
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Here is a complete list of nominations for the 58th Annual Academy Awards.

And the nominees are:

Best Picture

  • The Color Purple
    Steven Spielberg [Producer], Kathleen Kennedy [Producer], Frank Marshall [Producer] and Quincy Jones [Producer]
  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
    David Weisman [Producer]
  • Out of Africa
    Sydney Pollack [Producer]
  • Prizzi's Honor
    John Foreman [Producer]
  • Witness
    Edward S. Feldman [Producer]

Best Directing

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

Best Actor in a Leading Role

  • Kiss of the Spider Woman
    William Hurt
  • Murphy's Romance
    James Garner
  • Prizzi's Honor
    Jack Nicholson
  • Runaway Train
    Jon Voight
  • Witness
    Harrison Ford

Best Actress in a Leading Role

  • Agnes of God
    Anne Bancroft
  • The Color Purple
    Whoopi Goldberg
  • Out of Africa
    Meryl Streep
  • Sweet Dreams
    Jessica Lange
  • The Trip to Bountiful
    Geraldine Page

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

  • Cocoon
    Don Ameche
  • Jagged Edge
    Robert Loggia
  • Out of Africa
    Klaus Maria Brandauer
  • Prizzi's Honor
    William Hickey
  • Runaway Train
    Eric Roberts

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

  • Agnes of God
    Meg Tilly
  • The Color Purple
    Margaret Avery
  • The Color Purple
    Oprah Winfrey
  • Prizzi's Honor
    Anjelica Huston
  • Twice in a Lifetime
    Amy Madigan

Best Foreign Language Film

  • Angry Harvest
  • Colonel Redl
  • The Official Story
  • Three Men and a Cradle
  • When Father Was Away on Business

Best Art Direction

  • Brazil
    Norman Garwood [Art Direction] and Maggie Gray [Set Decoration]
  • The Color Purple
    J. Michael Riva [Art Direction], Robert W. Welch [Art Direction] and Linda DeScenna [Set Decoration]
  • Out of Africa
    Stephen Grimes [Art Direction] and Josie MacAvin [Set Decoration]
  • Ran
    Yoshiro Muraki [Art Direction] and Shinobu Muraki [Art Direction]
  • Witness
    Stan Jolley [Art Direction] and John Anderson [Set Decoration]

Best Cinematography

  • The Color Purple
    Allen Daviau
  • Murphy's Romance
    William A. Fraker
  • Out of Africa
    David Watkin
  • Ran
    Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda and Asakazu Nakai
  • Witness
    John Seale

Best Costume Design

  • The Color Purple
    Aggie Guerard Rodgers
  • The Journey of Natty Gann
    Albert Wolsky
  • Out of Africa
    Milena Canonero
  • Prizzi's Honor
    Donfeld
  • Ran
    Emi Wada

Best Documentary (Feature)

  • Broken Rainbow
    Maria Florio and Victoria Mudd
  • Las Madres--The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
    Susana Muñoz and Lourdes Portillo
  • Soldiers in Hiding
    Japhet Asher
  • The Statue of Liberty
    Ken Burns and Buddy Squires
  • Unfinished Business
    Steven Okazaki

Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  • The Courage to Care
    Robert Gardner
  • Keats and His Nightingale: A Blind Date
    Michael Crowley and James Wolpaw
  • Making Overtures--The Story of a Community Orchestra
    Barbara Willis Sweete
  • Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
    David Goodman
  • The Wizard of the Strings
    Alan Edelstein

Best Film Editing

  • A Chorus Line
    John Bloom
  • Out of Africa
    Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke J. Herring and Sheldon Kahn
  • Prizzi's Honor
    Rudi Fehr and Kaja Fehr
  • Runaway Train
    Henry Richardson
  • Witness
    Thom Noble

Best Makeup

  • The Color Purple
    Ken Chase
  • Mask
    Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek
  • Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins
    Carl Fullerton

Best Music (Original Score)

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

Best Music (Original Song)

  • Back to the Future "The Power of Love"
    Chris Hayes [Music by], Johnny Colla [Music by] and Huey Lewis [Lyric by]
  • A Chorus Line "Surprise, Surprise"
    Marvin Hamlisch [Music by] and Edward Kleban [Lyric by]
  • The Color Purple "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)"
    Quincy Jones [Music and Lyric by], Rod Temperton [Music and Lyric by] and Lionel Richie [Lyric by]
  • White Nights "Say You, Say Me"
    Lionel Richie [Music and Lyric by]
  • White Nights "Separate Lives (Love Theme from 'White Nights')"
    Stephen Bishop [Music and Lyric by]

Best Short Film (Animated)

  • Anna & Bella
    Cilia Van Dijk
  • The Big Snit
    Richard Condie and Michael Scott
  • Second Class Mail
    Alison Snowden

Best Short Film (Live Action)

  • Graffiti
    Dianna Costello
  • Molly's Pilgrim
    Jeff Brown and Chris Pelzer
  • Rainbow War
    Bob Rogers

Best Sound

  • Back to the Future
    Bill Varney, B. Tennyson Sebastian II, Robert M. Thirlwell and William B. Kaplan
  • A Chorus Line
    Donald O. Mitchell, Michael Minkler, Gerry Humphreys and Chris Newman
  • Ladyhawke
    Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore and Bud Alper
  • Out of Africa
    Chris Jenkins, Gary Alexander, Larry Stensvold and Peter Handford
  • Silverado
    Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell and David Ronne

Best Sound Effects Editing

  • Back to the Future
    Charles L. Campbell and Robert Rutledge
  • Ladyhawke
    Bob Henderson and Alan Murray
  • Rambo: First Blood Part II
    Frederick J. Brown

Best Visual Effects

  • Cocoon
    Ken Ralston, Ralph McQuarrie, Scott Farrar and David Berry
  • Return to Oz
    Wil Vinton, Ian Wingrove, Zoran Perisic and Michael Lloyd
  • Young Sherlock Holmes
    Dennis Muren, Kit West, John Ellis and David Allen

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

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

Best Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

  • Back to the Future
    Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
  • Brazil
    Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown
  • The Official Story
    Luis Puenzo and Aida Bortnik
  • The Purple Rose of Cairo
    Woody Allen
  • Witness
    Earl W. Wallace [Screenplay and Story by], William Kelley [Screenplay and Story by] and Pamela Wallace [Story by]
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