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Best Film:

	The Accidental Tourist
	Runners-up: A World Apart and Dead Ringers

Best Director:

	Chris Menges - A World Apart
	Runners-up: Clint Eastwood - Bird, Wim Wenders - Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) and Lawrence Kasdan - The Accidental Tourist

Best Actor:

	Jeremy Irons - Dead Ringers
	Runners-up: Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man, Tom Hanks - Big and Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning

Best Actress:

	Meryl Streep - A Cry in the Dark
	Runners-up: Jodie Foster - The Accused, Melanie Griffith - Working Girl and Carmen Maura - Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios)

Best Supporting Actor:

	Dean Stockwell - Married to the Mob and Tucker: The Man and His Dream
	Runners-up: Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit, Martin Landau - Tucker: The Man and His Dream and Tim Robbins - Bull Durham

Best Supporting Actress:

	Diane Venora - Bird
	Runner-up: Jodhi May - A World Apart

Best Screenplay:

	Ron Shelton - Bull Durham
	Runners-up: Shawn Slovo - A World Apart and Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan - The Accidental Tourist

Best Cinematography:

	Henri Alekan - Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin)
	Runners-up: Sven Nykvist - The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Jörgen Persson - Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren)

Best Foreign Language Film:

	Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios) • Spain
	Runner-up: Au Revoir Les Enfants • France/West Germany/Italy

Best Documentary:

The Thin Blue Line