1988 (61st Annual Awards)
Winners Only
Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1988 (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
Actor in a Leading Role
Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda, Michael Shamberg-Prominent Features Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (UK, USA)Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
Art Direction-Set Decoration
Dangerous Liaisons, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Art direction by Stuart Craig; set decoration by Gerard James.Cinematography
Costume Design
Documentary
(Feature)
Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, The Memory Pictures Company. (West Germany, France, USA) Marcel Ophuls, Producer.(Short Subject)
You Don’t Have to Die, Tiger Rose Production in association with Filmworks, Inc. William Guttentag and Malcolm Clarke, Producers.Film Editing
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Arthur Schmidt.Foreign Language Film
Pelle the Conqueror, Per Holst/Kaerne Films Production; Miramax Films. (Denmark, Sweden)Makeup
Beetlejuice, Geffen Film Company Production; Geffen/Warner Bros. Ve Neill, Steve La Porte and Robert Short.Music
(Original Score)
(Original Song)
Let the River Run from Working Girl, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Music and lyric by Carly Simon.Short Films
(Animated)
(Live Action)
Sound
Bird, Malpaso Production; Warner Bros. Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore and Willie D. Burton.Sound Effects Editing
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Charles L. Campbell and Louis L. Edemann.Special Achievement Award
(Animation Direction)
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Richard Williams.Visual Effects
Who Framed Roger Rabbit, Amblin Entertainment and Touchstone Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones and George Gibbs.Writing
(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Rain Man, Guber-Peters Company Production; United Artists. Screenplay by Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow; story by Barry Morrow.Honorary Award
To The National Film Board of Canada in recognition of its 50th anniversary and its dedicated commitment to originate artistic, creative and technological activity and excellence in every area of filmmaking. [ [Statuette]]To Eastman Kodak Company in recognition of the company’s fundamental contributions to the art of motion pictures during the first century of film history. [ [Statuette]]Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Scientific or Technical Award
(Academy Award of Merit)
To Ray Dolby and Ioan Allen of Dolby Laboratories Incorporated for their contributions to motion picture sound through the research and development programs of Dolby Laboratories.(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To Roy W. Edwards and the Engineering Staff of Photo-Sonics, Incorporated for the design and development of the Photo-Sonics 35mm-4ER High Speed Motion Picture Camera with Reflex Viewing and Video Assist.To the Arnold & Richter Engineering Staff, Otto Blaschek and Arriflex Corporation for the concept and engineering of the Arriflex 35-3 Motion Picture Camera.To Bill Tondreau of Tondreau Systems / to Alvah Miller and Paul Johnson of Lynx Robotics / to Peter A. Regla of ELICON / to Dan Slater / to Bud Elam, Joe Parker and Bill Bryan of Interactive Motion Control / and to Jerry Jeffress, Ray Feeney, Bill Holland and Kris Brown for their individual contributions and the collective advancements they have brought to the motion picture industry in the field of motion control technology.(Technical Achievement Award)
To Grant Loucks of Alan Gordon Enterprises Incorporated for the design concept, and to Geoffrey H. Williamson of Wilcam for the mechanical and electrical engineering, of the Image 300 35mm High-Speed Motion Picture Camera.To Michael V. Chewey III for the development of the motion picture industry’s first paper tape reader incorporating microprocessor technology.To BHP, Inc., successor to the Bell & Howell Professional Equipment Division, for the development of a high-speed reader incorporating microprocessor technology for motion picture laboratories.To Hollywood Film Company for the development of a high-speed reader incorporating microprocessor technology for motion picture laboratories.To Bruce W. Keller and Manfred G. Michelson of Technical Film Systems for the design and development of a high-speed light valve controller and constant current power supply for motion picture laboratories.To Dr. Antal Lisziewicz and Glenn M. Berggren of ISCO-OPTIC GmbH for the design and development of the Ultra-Star series of motion picture lenses.To James K. Branch of Spectra Cine, Incorporated, and to William L. Blowers and Nasir J. Zaidi for the design and development of the Spectra CineSpot one-degree spotmeter for measuring the brightness of motion picture screens.To Bob Badami, Dick Bernstein and Bill Bernstein of Offbeat Systems for the design and development of the Streamline Scoring System, Mark IV, for motion picture music editing.To Gary Zeller of Zeller International Limited for the development of Zel-Jel fire protection barrier for motion picture stunt work.To Emanuel Trilling of Trilling Resources Limited for the development of Stunt-Gel fire protection barrier for motion picture stunt work.To Paul A. Roos for the invention of a method known as Video Assist, whereby a scene being photographed on motion picture film can be viewed on a monitor and/or recorded on video tape.