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Best Picture

	1. Ran
	2. Prizzi's Honor
	2. The Purple Rose of Cairo

Best Director

	1. John Huston - Prizzi's Honor
	2. Akira Kurosawa - Ran

Best Actor

	1. Jack Nicholson - Prizzi's Honor
	2. William Hurt - Kiss of the Spider Woman

Best Actress

	1. Vanessa Redgrave - Wetherby
	2. Jessica Lange - Sweet Dreams
	3. Norma Aleandro - The Official Story (La historia oficial)

Best Supporting Actor

	1. John Gielgud - Plenty and The Shooting Party
	2. William Hickey - Prizzi's Honor
	3. Ian Holm - Wetherby, Brazil and Dance with a Stranger
	4. Klaus Maria Brandauer - Out of Africa

Best Supporting Actress

	1. Anjelica Huston - Prizzi's Honor
	2. Mieko Harada - Ran

Best Screenplay

	1. Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson - Lost in America
	2. Woody Allen - The Purple Rose of Cairo
	3. Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown - Brazil
	3. Richard Condon and Janet Roach - Prizzi's Honor

Best Cinematography

	1. Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda and Asakazu Nakai - Ran
	2. Kiyoshi Hasegawa - The Makioka Sisters (Sasame-yuki)
	3. Michael Ballhaus - After Hours

Best Documentary

	1. Shoah
	2. 28 Up
	3. Streetwise