THE BALLOT
The nominations for the 57th annual Academy Awards: Motion Picture “Amadeus”
“The Killing Fields”
“A Passage to India”
“Places in the Heart”
“A Soldier’s Story”
Actor F. Murray Abraham, “Amadeus”
Jeff Bridges, “Starman”
Albert Finney, “Under the Volcano”
Tom Hulce, “Amadeus”
Sam Waterston, “The Killing Fields”
Actress Judy Davis, “A Passage to India”
Sally Field, “Places in the Heart”
Jessica Lange, “Country”
Vanessa Redgrave, “The Bostonians”
Sissy Spacek, “The River”
Supporting Actor Adolph Caesar, “A Soldier’s Story”
John Malkovich, “Places in the Heart”
Noriyuki (Pat) Morita, “The Karate Kid”
Haing S. Ngor, “The Killing Fields”
Ralph Richardson, “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes”
Supporting Actress Peggy Ashcroft, “A Passage to India”
Glenn Close, “The Natural”
Lindsay Crouse, “Places in the Heart”
Christine Lahti, “Swing Shift”
Geraldine Page, “The Pope of Greenwich Village”
Director Woody Allen, “Broadway Danny Rose”
Robert Benton, “Places in the Heart”
Milos Forman, “Amadeus”
Roland Joffe, “The Killing Fields”
David Lean, “A Passage to India”
Foreign-Language Film “Beyond the Walls” (Israel)
“Camila” (Argentina)
“Dangerous Moves” (Switzerland)
“Double Feature” (Spain)
“War-Time Romance” (Soviet Union)
Original Song “Against All Odds (Take a Look at Me Now),” music and lyric by Phil Collins (“Against All Odds”)
“Footloose,” music and lyric by Kenny Loggins and Dean Pitchford (‘Footloose”)
“Ghostbusters,” music and lyric by Ray Parker Jr. (“Ghostbusters”)
“I Just Called to Say I Love You,” music and lyric by Stevie Wonder (“The Woman in Red”)
“Let’s Hear It for the Boy,” music and lyric by Tom Snow and Dean Pitchford (“Footloose”)
Original Screenplay Daniel Petrie Jr., “Beverly Hills Cop”
Woody Allen, “Broadway Danny Rose”
Gregory Nava and Anna Thomas, “El Norte”
Robert Benton, “Places in the Heart”
Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman, “Splash”
Screenplay Adaptation Peter Shaffer, “Amadeus”
P.H. Vazak and Michael Austin, “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes”
Bruce Robinson, “The Killing Fields”
David Lean, “A Passage to India”
Charles Fuller, “A Soldier’s Story”
Cinematography Miroslav Ondricek, “Amadeus”
Chris Menges, “The Killing Fields”
Caleb Deschanel, “The Natural”
Ernest Day, “A Passage to India”
Vilmos Zsigmond, “The River”
Original Score John Williams, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”
Randy Newman, “The Natural”
Maurice Jarre, “A Passage to India”
John Williams, “The River”
Alex North, “Under the Volcano”
Original Song Score or Adaptation Score Jeffrey Moss, “The Muppets Take Manhattan”
Prince, “Purple Rain”
Kris Kristofferson, “Songwriter”
Art Direction Patrizia Von Brandenstein and Karel Cerny, “Amadeus”
Richard Sylbert and George Gaines, “The Cotton Club”
Angelo Graham and Bruce Weintraub, “The Natural”
John Box and Hugh Scaife, “A Passage to India”
Albert Brenner and Rick Simpson, “2010.”
Costume Design Theodor Pistek, “Amadeus”
Jenny Beavan and John Bright, “The Bostonians”
Judy Moorcroft, “A Passage to India”
Ann Roth, “Places in the Heart”
Patricia Norris, “2010”
Film Editing Nena Danevic and Michael Chandler, “Amadeus”
Barry Malkin and Robert Q. Lovett, “The Cotton Club”
Jim Clark, “The Killing Fields”
David Lean, “A Passage to India”
Donn Cambern and Frank Morriss, “Romancing the Stone”
Sound Mark Berger, Tom Scott, Todd Boekelheide and Chris Newman, “Amadeus”
Bill Varney, Steve Maslow, Kevin O’Connell and Nelson Stoll, “Dune”
Graham V. Hartstone, Nicolas Le Messurier, Michael A. Carter and John Mitchell, “A Passage to India”
Nick Alphin, Robert Thirlwell, Richard Portman and David Ronne, “The River”
Michael J. Kohut, Aaron Rochin, Carlos De Larios and Gene S. Cantamessa, “2010”
Visual Effects
Richard Edlund, John Bruno, Mark Vargo and Chuck Gasper, “Ghostbusters”
Dennis Muren, Michael McAlister, Lorne Peterson and George Gibbs, “Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom”
Richard Edlund, Neil Krepela, George Jensen and Mark Stetson, “2010.”
Makeup Paul LeBlanc and Dick Smith, “Amadeus”
Rick Baker and Paul Engelen, “Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan”
Michael Westmore, “2010”
Documentary Feature Charles Guggenheim and Nancy Sloss, “High Schools”
Alex W. Drehsler and Frank Christopher, “In the Name of the People”
Karel Dirka and Zev Braun, “Marlene”
Cheryl McCall, “Streetwise”
Robert Epstein and Richard Schmiechen, “The Times of Harvey Milk”
Documentary Short Subject UNICEF and the Soong Ching Ling Foundation, “The Children of Soong Ching Ling”
Ben Atchenberg and Joan Sawyer, “Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing”
Lawrence R. Hott and Roger M. Sherman, “The Garden of Eden”
Irina Kalinina, “Recollections of Pavlovsk”
Marjorie Hunt and Paul Wagner, “The Stone Carvers”
Animated Short Film Jon Minnis, “Charade”
Morton Schindel and Michael Sporn, “Doctor Desoto”
Ishu Patel, “Paradise”
Live-Action Short Film Michael MacMillan and Janice L. Platt, “The Painted Door”
Sharon Oreck and Lesli Linka Glatter, “Tales of Meeting and Parting”
Mike Hoover, “Up”
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