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Best Feature

	Stand and Deliver
	Hairspray
	Patti Rocks
	The Thin Blue Line
	Torch Song Trilogy

Best Director

	Ramón Menéndez - Stand and Deliver
	David Burton Morris - Patti Rocks
	Errol Morris - The Thin Blue Line
	Oliver Stone - Talk Radio
	John Waters - Hairspray

Best Male Lead

	Edward James Olmos - Stand and Deliver
	Eric Bogosian - Talk Radio
	Harvey Fierstein - Torch Song Trilogy
	Chris Mulkey - Patti Rocks
	James Woods - The Boost

Best Female Lead

	Jodie Foster - Five Corners
	Ricki Lake - Hairspray
	Nobu McCarthy - The Wash
	Julia Roberts - Mystic Pizza
	Meg Ryan - Promised Land

Best Supporting Male

	Lou Diamond Phillips - Stand and Deliver
	Ernest Borgnine - Spike of Bensonhurst
	Divine - Hairspray
	John Lone - The Moderns
	John Turturro - Five Corners

Best Supporting Female

	Rosana De Soto - Stand and Deliver
	Bonnie Bedelia - The Prince of Pennsylvania
	Debbie Harry - Hairspray
	Amy Madigan - The Prince of Pennsylvania
	Patti Yasutake - The Wash

Best Screenplay

	Stand and Deliver - Ramón Menéndez and Tom Musca
	Five Corners - John Patrick Shanley
	Hairspray - John Waters
	The Moderns - Alan Rudolph and Jon Bradshaw
	Patti Rocks - John Jenkins, Karen Landry, David Burton Morris and Chris Mulkey

Best Cinematography

	The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Sven Nykvist
	The Moderns - Toyomichi Kurita
	Patti Rocks - Gregory Cummins
	Stand and Deliver - Tom Richmond
	Talk Radio - Robert Richardson

Best Foreign Film

	Wings of Desire • West Germany
	Bagdad Cafe • West Germany
	The Kitchen Toto • UK
	A World Apart • UK
	Yeelen • Mali

Best First Feature

	Mystic Pizza
	Border Radio - Allison Anders
	The Chocolate War
	The Prince of Pennsylvania
	The Wash