1986 (59th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1986 (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

Platoon, Hemdale Film Production; Orion. (USA, UK) Arnold Kopelson, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role

Paul Newman in The Color of Money, Touchstone Pictures Production in association with Silver Screen Partners II; Buena Vista.

Actress in a Leading Role

Marlee Matlin in Children of a Lesser God, Burt Sugarman Production; Paramount.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Michael Caine in Hannah and Her Sisters, Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production; Orion.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Dianne Wiest in Hannah and Her Sisters, Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production; Orion.

Directing

Platoon, Hemdale Film Production; Orion. (USA, UK) Oliver Stone.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

A Room with a View, Merchant Ivory Production for Goldcrest and Cinecom; Cinecom Pictures. (UK) Art direction by Gianni Quaranta and Brian Ackland-Snow; set decoration by Brian Savegar and Elio Altramura.

Cinematography

The Mission, Warner Bros./Goldcrest and Kingsmere Production; Warner Bros. (UK, France) Chris Menges.

Costume Design

A Room with a View, Merchant Ivory Production for Goldcrest and Cinecom; Cinecom Pictures. (UK) Jenny Beavan and John Bright.

Documentary

(Feature)

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You’ve Got, Bridge Film Production. (Canada) Brigitte Berman, Producer.

Down and Out in America, Joseph Feury Production. Joseph Feury and Milton Justice, Producers.

(Short Subject)

Women—For America, for the World, Educational Film & Video Project. Vivienne Verdon-Roe, Producer.

Film Editing

Platoon, Hemdale Film Production; Orion. (USA, UK) Claire Simpson.

Foreign Language Film

The Assault, Fons Rademakers Production B.V. for Cannon Group Holland. (Netherlands)

Makeup

The Fly, Brooksfilms Limited Production; 20th Century-Fox. (USA, UK, Canada) Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis.

Music

(Original Score)

’Round Midnight, Irwin Winkler Production; Warner Bros. (USA, France) Herbie Hancock.

(Original Song)

Take My Breath Away from Top Gun, Don Simpson/Jerry Bruckheimer Production; Paramount. Music by Giorgio Moroder; lyric by Tom Whitlock.

Short Films

(Animated)

A Greek Tragedy, CineTe pvba. (Belgium) Linda Van Tulden and William Thijssen, Producers.

(Live Action)

Precious Images, Calliope Films, Inc. Chuck Workman, Producer.

Sound

Platoon, Hemdale Film Production; Orion. (USA, UK) John K. Wilkinson, Richard Rogers, Charles “Bud” Grenzbach and Simon Kaye.

Sound Effects Editing

Aliens, 20th Century Fox Film Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, UK) Don Sharpe.

Visual Effects

Aliens, 20th Century Fox Film Production; 20th Century Fox. (USA, UK) Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson and Suzanne Benson.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

A Room with a View, Merchant Ivory Production for Goldcrest and Cinecom; Cinecom Pictures. (UK) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Hannah and Her Sisters, Jack Rollins and Charles H. Joffe Production; Orion. Woody Allen.

Honorary Award

To Ralph Bellamy, for his unique artistry and his distinguished service to the profession of acting. [ [Statuette]]

To E. M. (Al) Lewis, in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [Medal of Commendation]]

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

Steven Spielberg

Scientific or Technical Award

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Bran Ferren, Charles Harrison and Kenneth Wisner of Associates and Ferren for the concept and design of an advanced optical printer.

To Richard Benjamin Grant and Ron Grant of Auricle Control Systems for their invention of the Film Composer’s Time Processor.

To Anthony D. Bruno and John L. Baptista of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Laboratories Incorporated and to Manfred G. Michelson and Bruce W. Keller of Technical Film Systems, Incorporated, for the design and engineering of a Continuous-Feed Printer.

To Robert Greenberg, Joel Hynek and Eugene Mamut OF R/Greenberg Associates, Incorporated, and to Dr. Alfred Thumim, Elan Lipschitz and Darryl A. Armour of the Oxberry Division of Richmark Camera Service, Incorporated, for the design and development of the RGA/Oxberry Compu-Quad Special Effects Optical Printer.

To Professor Fritz Sennheiser of Sennheiser Electronic Corporation for the invention of an interference tube directional microphone.

To Richard Edlund, Gene Whiteman, David Grafton, Mark West, Jerry Jeffress and Bob Wilcox of Boss Film Corporation for the design and development of a Zoom Aerial (ZAP) 65mm Optical Printer.

To William L. Fredrick and Hal Needham for the design and development of the Shotmaker Elite camera car and crane.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Lee Electric (Lighting) Limited for the design and development of an electronic, flicker-free, discharge lamp control system.

To Peter D. Parks of Oxford Scientific Films’ Image Quest Division for the development of a live aero-compositor for special effects photography.

To Matt Sweeney and Lucinda Strub for the development of an automatic capsule gun for simulating bullet hits for motion picture special effects.

To Carl Holmes of Carl E. Holmes Company and to Alexander Bryce of The Burbank Studios for the development of a mobile DC power supply unit for motion picture production photography.

To Bran Ferren of Associates and Ferren for the development of a laser synchro-cue system for applications in the motion picture industry.

To John L. Baptista of Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Laboratories, Inc. for the development and installation of a computerized silver recovery operation.

To David W. Samuelson for the development of programs incorporated into a pocket computer for motion picture cinematographers, and to William B. Pollard for contributing new algorithms on which the programs are based.

To Hal Landaker and Alan Landaker of The Burbank Studios for the development of the Beat System low-frequency cue track for motion picture production sound recording.