Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Amadeus
Saul Zaentz, producer — swept eight Oscars including Picture, Director, Actor, Screenplay
Best Director
Winner
Milos Forman
Amadeus — his second Best Director Oscar after One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Acting
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Winner
F. Murray Abraham
Amadeus — as the jealous composer Antonio Salieri
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Winner
Sally Field
Places in the Heart — her second Oscar win; memorable "You like me!" speech
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Haing S. Ngor
The Killing Fields — a real-life survivor of the Cambodian genocide in his first film role
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Peggy Ashcroft
A Passage to India — the first British actress to win for an Oscar while absent from the ceremony
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Broadway Danny Rose— Woody Allen
El Norte— Gregory Nava, Anna Thomas
Splash— Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel, Bruce Jay Friedman
Best Adapted Screenplay
The Killing Fields— Bruce Robinson
A Passage to India— David Lean
A Soldier's Story— Charles Fuller
Craft & Technical
Best Foreign Language Film
Beyond the Walls— Israel
Camila— Argentina
Double Feature— Spain
Best Documentary Feature
Streetwise— Cheryl McCall
The Atomic Cafe— Kevin Rafferty
Best Original Score
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom— John Williams
The Natural— Randy Newman
Ghostbusters— Elmer Bernstein
Best Original Song
Winner
"I Just Called to Say I Love You"
The Woman in Red — Stevie Wonder
"Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now)"— Against All Odds, Phil Collins
"Footloose"— Footloose, Kenny Loggins
Best Cinematography
Amadeus— Miroslav Ondříček
A Passage to India— Ernest Day
Best Film Editing
Amadeus— Nena Danevic, Michael Chandler
The Right Stuff— Glenn Farr et al.
Best Art Direction
The Natural— Angelo Graham, Mel Bourne
2010— Albert Brenner
Best Costume Design
2010— Patricia Norris
Places in the Heart— Ann Roth
Best Makeup
Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan— Rick Baker, Paul Engelen
2010— Michael Westmore
Best Visual Effects
Winner
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom
Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Lorne Peterson, George Gibbs
Ghostbusters— Richard Edlund et al.
2010— Henry Millar Jr. et al.
Best Sound Mixing
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom— Gene Cantamessa et al.
Dune— Bill Varney et al.
Best Sound Editing
Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom— Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns
Dune— Samuel Shaw, Nelson Stoll