58th Academy Awards (1985)
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- DirectorSydney PollackStarsMeryl StreepRobert RedfordKlaus Maria BrandauerIn 20th-century colonial Kenya, a Danish baroness/plantation owner has a passionate love affair with a free-spirited big-game hunter.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for Sydney Pollack
Nominated - Best Actress for Meryl Streep
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Klaus Maria Brandauer
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Kurt Luedtke
Winner - Best Original Score for John Barry
Winner - Best Sound Mixing
Winner - Best Art Direction
Winner - Best Cinematography for David Watkin
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Milena Canonero
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Fredric Steinkamp, William Steinkamp, Pembroke Herring and Sheldon Kahn - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsDanny GloverWhoopi GoldbergOprah WinfreyA tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the South who survives incredible abuse and bigotry.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Actress for Whoopi Goldberg
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Margaret Avery
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Oprah Winfrey
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Menno Meyjes
Nominated - Best Original Score for Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock, Rod Temperton, Caiphus Semenya, Andrae Crouch, Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli and Joel Rosenbaum, Fred Steiner, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey and Randy Kerber
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)"
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Allen Daviau
Nominated - Best Makeup for Ken Chase
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Aggie Guerard Rodgers - DirectorHector BabencoStarsWilliam HurtRaul JuliaSonia BragaA gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Hector Babenco
Winner - Best Actor for William Hurt
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Leonard Schrader - DirectorJohn HustonStarsJack NicholsonKathleen TurnerRobert LoggiaTwo professional assassins fall in love.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for John Huston
Nominated - Best Actor for Jack Nicholson
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for William Hickey
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Anjelica Huston
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Richard Condon and Janet Roach
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Donfeld
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Rudi Fehr and Kaja Fehr - DirectorPeter WeirStarsHarrison FordKelly McGillisLukas HaasWhile protecting an Amish boy - who is the sole witness to a brutal murder - and his mother, a detective is forced to seek refuge within their community when his own life is threatened.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Peter Weir
Nominated - Best Actor for Harrison Ford
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for William Kelley, Pamela Wallace and Earl W. Wallace
Nominated - Best Original Score for Maurice Jarre
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for John Seale
Winner - Best Film Editing for Thom Noble - DirectorAkira KurosawaStarsTatsuya NakadaiAkira TeraoJinpachi NezuIn Medieval Japan, an elderly warlord retires, handing over his empire to his three sons. However, he vastly underestimates how the new-found power will corrupt them and cause them to turn on each other...and him.Nominated - Best Director for Akira Kurosawa
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda and Asakazu Nakai
Winner - Best Costume Design for Emi Wada - DirectorMartin RittStarsSally FieldJames GarnerBrian KerwinEmma moves to a ranch with her son after a divorce and befriends the older Murphy, but things turn complicated when her ex shows up.Nominated - Best Actor for James Garner
Nominated - Best Cinematography for William A. Fraker - DirectorAndrey KonchalovskiyStarsJon VoightEric RobertsRebecca De MornayTwo escaped convicts and a female railway worker find themselves trapped on a speeding train with no brakes and nobody driving.Nominated - Best Actor for Jon Voight
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Eric Roberts
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Henry Richardson - DirectorPeter MastersonStarsGeraldine PageJohn HeardCarlin GlynnIn 1940s Texas, an elderly woman is determined to visit her childhood home one last time.Winner - Best Actress for Geraldine Page
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Horton Foote - DirectorNorman JewisonStarsJane FondaAnne BancroftMeg TillyWhen a naive novice nun is discovered with a dead newborn in her convent quarters, a court-appointed psychiatrist investigates her case.Nominated - Best Actress for Anne Bancroft
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Meg Tilly
Nominated - Best Original Score for Georges Delerue - DirectorKarel ReiszStarsJessica LangeEd HarrisAnn WedgeworthThe story of Patsy Cline, the velvet-voiced country music singer who died in a tragic plane crash at the height of her fame.Nominated - Best Actress for Jessica Lange
- DirectorRon HowardStarsDon AmecheWilford BrimleyHume CronynWhen a group of trespassing seniors swim in a pool containing alien cocoons, they find themselves energized with youthful vigor.Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Don Ameche
Winner - Best Visual Effects - DirectorRichard MarquandStarsJeff BridgesGlenn ClosePeter CoyoteA wealthy woman is murdered in her beach house. The husband is allegedly knocked out first. He inherits all. He has a female ex criminal prosecutor represent him in court.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Robert Loggia
- DirectorBud YorkinStarsGene HackmanAnn-MargretEllen BurstynA 50-year-old married man begins an extramarital relationship which creates uncomfortable friction in his family between his long-time wife and grown children.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Amy Madigan
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsMichael J. FoxChristopher LloydLea ThompsonMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent 30 years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the maverick scientist Doc Brown.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale
Nominated - Best Original Song for "The Power of Love"
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Winner - Best Sound Editing - DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJonathan PryceKim GreistRobert De NiroA bureaucrat in a dystopic society becomes an enemy of the state as he pursues the woman of his dreams.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown
Nominated - Best Art Direction - DirectorLuis PuenzoStarsNorma AleandroHéctor AlterioChunchuna VillafañeDuring the final months of Argentinian Military Dictatorship in 1983, a high school teacher sets out to find out who the mother of her adopted daughter is.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Luis Puenzo and Aída Bortnik
Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Argentina) - DirectorWoody AllenStarsMia FarrowJeff DanielsDanny AielloIn 1935 New Jersey, a movie character walks off the screen and into the real world.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Woody Allen
- DirectorAgnieszka HollandStarsArmin Mueller-StahlElisabeth TrissenaarWojciech PszoniakIn the winter of 1942-43, a Jewish family leaps from a train going through Silesia. They are separated in the woods, and Leon, a local peasant who's now a farmer of some wealth, discovers the woman, Rosa, and hides her in his cellar. Leon's a middle-aged Catholic bachelor, tormented by his sexual drive. He doesn't tell Rosa he's seen signs her husband is alive, and he begs her to love him. Rosa offers herself to Leon if he'll help a local Jew in hiding who needs money. Leon pays, and love between Rosa and him does develop, but then Leon's peasant subservience and his limited empathy lead to tragedy. At the war's end, a ray of sunshine comes from an unexpected place.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (West Germany)
- DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerHans Christian BlechArmin Mueller-StahlSet during the fading glory of the Austro-Hungarian empire, the film tells of the rise and fall of Alfred Redl (Brandauer), an ambitious young officer who proceeds up the ladder to become head of the Secret Police only to become ensnared in political deception.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Hungary)
- DirectorColine SerreauStarsRoland GiraudMichel BoujenahAndré DussollierJacques, Pierre, and Michel are three adult friends who enjoy single life until they find themselves stuck with a baby.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorEmir KusturicaStarsMoreno De BartoliPredrag 'Miki' ManojlovicMirjana KaranovicA family is deeply affected by the father's extramarital affairs and the turbulent consequences of the Tito-Stalin split.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Yoguslavia)
- DirectorVictoria MuddStarsMartin SheenBuffy Sainte-MarieBurgess MeredithDocumentary chronicling the government relocation of 10,000 Navajo Indians in Arizona.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorSusana Blaustein MuñozLourdes PortilloStarsCarmen ZapataThe movie follows the struggle of the Mothers of the Plaza of Mayo, a group of mothers who challenged authorities during the repressive regime in Argentina (1976-1983), trying to discover the whereabouts of their missing sons, taken by the regime.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorMalcolm ClarkeStarsBob GuntonA grim portrait of Vietnam War Veterans, living out their lonely lives in the American wilderness, unable to cope with the lasting effects of their traumatic war experiences.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorKen BurnsStarsDavid McCulloughJeremy IronsDerek JacobiDocumentary showing the history of the world-famous Statue of Liberty in New York harbor, the impact it still has on people and the state of liberty as a personal and political concept in America in 1985.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorSteven OkazakiStarsAmy HillGordon HirabayashiFred KorematsuSpring, 1942: F.D.R. signs executive order 9066, and more than 110,000 Japanese Americans, most of them U.S. citizens, are sent to internment camps. Three young men - Min Yasui, an attorney from Oregon, Gordon Hirabayashi, a Quaker college student in Washington, and Fred Korematsu, a Bay Area welder - serve jail sentences for violating laws against Japanese Americans; the U.S. Supreme Court upholds their convictions. Forty years later, the three file suits to have their sentences overturned. This documentary tells their stories and helps break 40 years of silence and shame. By the end of the documentary, the court proceedings remain unfinished.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorDeborah ShafferStarsCharlie ClementsRichard NixonDocumentary of Charlie Clements, a Vietnam War pilot who was convinced by his experiences in the war that he should become a doctor working behind enemy lines.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorRobert H. GardnerA profile of individuals who knowingly risked their lives during the Holocaust to aid Jews.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJim WolpawStarsAlan PowersNominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorLarry WeinsteinStarsFernando DaSilvaNiv FichmanPhilip ShausA small-town orchestra and choir are the focus of this loving and humorous portrait. "Making Overtures" unveils the musician's passion for performance, their imaginative fund-raising methods and collective will to survive. This film includes a colorful cast of characters ranging from students to seniors, from business executives to hog farmers. Holding it all together is the outrageously flamboyant conductor who inspires everyone with his endless enthusiasm. "Making Overtures" reveals how an entire community us enriched by its orchestra.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorPeter FriedmanStarsRoy SmeckProfiles Roy Smeck, a former vaudeville star known as "The Wizard of the Strings" because of his virtuoso talents on the guitar, banjo, ukelele and Hawaiian guitar, and who is shown to be still active, in his mid-80s, teaching students and giving occasional public performances.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorJeffrey D. BrownStarsLilly BalabanJessica BertanTravis BlankBased on the sensitive children's book by Barbara Cohen, Molly's Pilgrim is the story of a young Russian Jewish girl who has emigrated to America with her parents to escape religious persecution.Winner - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorMatthew PatrickStarsBarbara AmmonAlex AndranianRamon AngeloniA young man who lives in a South American military dictatorship goes out during curfew to make drawings with chalk, for thrills.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorBob RogersStarsGary CarreSaffron HendersonGillian BarberThree nearby kingdoms, floating separately in space, can each see the other, but have no means to communicate or visit. Each has developed a fanatical obsession for a specific color for clothing, architecture, and even plant life: one blue, one red, one golden. A forbidden inter-kingdom romance and a war of conquest ensues when a means of travel between the kingdoms is found.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorBørge RingStarsTonny HuurdemanAnnemieke RingPeter RingTwo sisters look back on their life together.Winner - Best Animated Short
- DirectorRichard CondieStarsJay BrazeauIda OslerRandy WoodsA couple have a fight over a scrabble game unaware that a full scale nuclear war has started.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorAlison SnowdenA lonely woman sends off for a special mail-order package.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorLawrence KasdanStarsKevin KlineScott GlennKevin CostnerA misfit bunch of friends comes together to right the injustices which exist in a small town.Nominated - Best Original Score for Bruce Broughton
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing - DirectorTaylor HackfordStarsMikhail BaryshnikovGregory HinesJerzy SkolimowskiA Russian American ballet dancer's airplane is forced to land in USSR, where he's "repatriated". He stays with an American man married to a Russian. Will the American help him flee USSR?Winner - Best Original Song for "Say You, Say Me"
Nominated - Best Original Song for "Separate Lives" - DirectorRichard AttenboroughStarsMichael DouglasTerrence MannMichael BlevinsHopefuls try out before a demanding director for a part in a new musical.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Surprise Surprise"
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Film Editing for John Bloom - DirectorRichard DonnerStarsMatthew BroderickRutger HauerMichelle PfeifferThe thief Gaston escapes the dungeon of medieval Aquila through the latrine. Soldiers are about to kill him when Navarre saves him. Navarre, traveling with his spirited hawk, plans to kill the bishop of Aquila with help from Gaston.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Sound Editing - DirectorGeorge P. CosmatosStarsSylvester StalloneRichard CrennaCharles NapierRambo returns to the jungles of Vietnam on a mission to infiltrate an enemy base-camp and rescue the American POWs still held captive there.Nominated - Best Sound Editing
- DirectorPeter BogdanovichStarsCherEric StoltzSam ElliottA teenager with a massive facial skull deformity and biker gang mother attempt to live as normal a life as possible under the circumstances.Winner - Best Makeup for Michael Westmore and Zoltan Elek
- DirectorGuy HamiltonStarsFred WardJoel GreyWilford BrimleyAn officially "dead" cop is trained to become an extraordinary unique assassin in service of the US President.Nominated - Best Makeup for Carl Fullerton
- DirectorJeremy KaganStarsMeredith SalengerJohn CusackJedIn the 1930s, a tomboy runs away from her guardian to join her single father who is 2,000 miles away, where he has found work.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Albert Wolsky
- DirectorWalter MurchStarsFairuza BalkNicol WilliamsonJean MarshDorothy, saved from a psychiatric experiment by a mysterious girl, is somehow called back to Oz when a vain witch and the Nome King destroy everything that makes the magical land beautiful.Nominated - Best Visual Effects
- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsNicholas RoweAlan CoxSophie WardWhen assorted people start having inexplicable delusions that lead to their deaths, a teenage Sherlock Holmes decides to investigate.Nominated - Best Visual Effects