1987 (60th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1987 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Jeremy Thomas, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role

Michael Douglas in Wall Street, Oaxatal Production; 20th Century Fox.

Actress in a Leading Role

Cher in Moonstruck, Patrick Palmer & Norman Jewison Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Sean Connery in The Untouchables, Art Linson Production; Paramount.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Olympia Dukakis in Moonstruck, Patrick Palmer & Norman Jewison Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.

Directing

The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Bernardo Bertolucci.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Art direction by Ferdinando Scarfiotti; set decoration by Bruno Cesari and Osvaldo Desideri.

Cinematography

The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Vittorio Storaro.

Costume Design

The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) James Acheson.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Ten Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table, Aviva Films Production. Aviva Slesin, Producer.

(Short Subject)

Young at Heart, Sue Marx Films, Inc. Production. Sue Marx and Pamela Conn, Producers.

Film Editing

The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Gabriella Cristiani.

Foreign Language Film

Babette’s Feast, Panorama Film International Production in cooperation with Nordisk Film and the Danish Film Institute. (Denmark)

Makeup

Harry and the Hendersons, Universal/Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. Rick Baker.

Music

(Original Score)

The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Byrne and Cong Su.

(Original Song)

(I’ve Had) The Time of My Life from Dirty Dancing, Vestron Pictures Production in association with Great American Films Limited Partnership; Vestron. Music by Franke Previte, John DeNicola and Donald Markowitz; lyric by Franke Previte.

Short Films

(Animated)

The Man Who Planted Trees, Société Radio-Canada/Canadian Broadcasting Corporation. (Canada) Frédéric Back, Producer.

(Live Action)

Ray’s Male Heterosexual Dance Hall, Chanticleer Films. Jonathan Sanger and Jana Sue Memel, Producers.

Sound

The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Bill Rowe and Ivan Sharrock.

Special Achievement Award

(Sound Effects Editing)

RoboCop, Tobor Pictures Production; Orion. Stephen Flick and John Pospisil.

Visual Effects

Innerspace, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Dennis Muren, William George, Harley Jessup and Kenneth Smith.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

The Last Emperor, Hemdale Film Production; Columbia. (UK, Italy, China, France) Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Moonstruck, Patrick Palmer & Norman Jewison Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. John Patrick Shanley.

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Fred Hynes

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Billy Wilder

Scientific or Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Bernard Kühl and Werner Block and to the OSRAM GmbH Research and Development Department for the invention and the continuing improvement of the OSRAM HMI light source for motion picture photography.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Willi Burth and Kinotome Corporation for the invention and development of the Non-rewind Platter System for motion picture presentations.

To Montage Group, Ltd. for the development, and to Ronald C. Barker and Chester L. Schuler for the invention, of the Montage Picture Processor electronic film editing system.

To Colin F. Mossman and Rank Film Laboratories’ Development Group for creating a fully-automated, film handling system for improving productivity of high speed film processing.

To Eastman Kodak Company for the development of Eastman Color High Speed Daylight Negative Film 5297/7297.

To Eastman Kodak Company for the development of Eastman Color High Speed SA Negative Film 5295 for blue-screen traveling matte photography.

To Fritz Gabriel Bauer for the invention and development of the improved features of the Moviecam Camera System.

To Zoran Perisic of Courier Films Ltd. for the Zoptic dual-zoom front projection system for visual effects photography.

To THE Carl Zeiss Company for the design and development of a series of super-speed lenses for motion picture photography.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Ioan Allen of Dolby Laboratories, Inc., for the Cat. 43 playback-only noise reduction unit and its practical application to motion picture sound recordings.

To John Eppolito, Wally Gentleman, William Mesa, Les Paul Robley and Geoffrey H. Williamson for refinements to a dual screen, front projection, image-compositing system.

To Jan Jacobsen for the application of a dual screen, front projection system to motion picture special effects photography.

To Thaine Morris and David Pier for the development of DSC Spark Devices for motion picture special effects.

To Tadeuz Krzanowski of Industrial Light and Magic, Inc., for the development of a Wire Rig Model Support Mechanism used to control the movements of miniatures in special effects.

To Dan C. Norris and Tim Cook of Norris Film Products for the development of a single-frame exposure system for motion picture photography.