The Killing Fields – David Puttnam
The Dresser – Peter Yates* Paris, Texas – Chris Sievernich and Anatole Dauman* A Private Function – Mark Shivas | Wim Wenders – Paris, Texas* Peter Yates – The Dresser* Roland Joffé – The Killing Fields* Sergio Leone – Once Upon a Time in America |
| Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields as Dith Pran* Albert Finney – The Dresser as Sir* Sam Waterston – The Killing Fields as Sydney Schanberg* Tom Courtenay – The Dresser as Norman | Maggie Smith – A Private Function as Joyce Chilvers* Helen Mirren – Cal as Marcella* Meryl Streep – Silkwood as Karen Silkwood* Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment as Aurora Greenway |
| Denholm Elliott – A Private Function as Charles Swaby* Ian Holm – Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as Capitaine Phillippe d'Arnot* Michael Elphick – Gorky Park as Pasha* Ralph Richardson – Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes as The 6th Earl of Greystoke | Liz Smith – A Private Function as Joyce's Mother* Cher – Silkwood as Dusty Ellis* Eileen Atkins – The Dresser as Madge* Tuesday Weld – Once Upon a Time in America as Carol |
| Broadway Danny Rose – Woody Allen* The Big Chill – Lawrence Kasdan and Barbara Benedek* Comfort and Joy – Bill Forsyth* A Private Function – Alan Bennett | The Killing Fields – Bruce Robinson* Another Country – Julian Mitchell* The Dresser – Ronald Harwood* Paris, Texas – Sam Shepard |
| The Killing Fields – Chris Menges* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes – John Alcott* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – Douglas Slocombe* Once Upon a Time in America – Tonino Delli Colli | Once Upon a Time in America – Gabriella Pescucci* The Bostonians – Jenny Beavan and John Bright* The Company of Wolves – Elizabeth Wailer* Swann in Love – Yvonne Sassinot De Nesle |
| The Killing Fields – Jim Clark* Another Country – Gerry Hambling* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – Michael Kahn* Under Fire – John Bloom and Mark Conte | Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes – Paul Engelen, Peter Frampton, Rick Baker and Joan Hills* The Company of Wolves – Jane Royle and Christopher Tucker* The Dresser – Alan Boyle* The Killing Fields – Tommie Manderson |
| Once Upon a Time in America – Ennio Morricone* Carmen – Paco de Lucía* The Killing Fields – Mike Oldfield* Paris, Texas – Ry Cooder | "Ghostbusters" – Ray Parker Jr.* "I Just Called to Say I Love You" – Stevie Wonder* "No More Lonely Nights" – Paul McCartney* "Together in Electric Dreams" – Giorgio Moroder and Philip Oakey |
| The Killing Fields – Roy Walker* The Company of Wolves – Anton Furst* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes – Stuart Craig* Nineteen Eighty-Four – Allan Cameron | The Killing Fields – Ian Fuller, Clive Winter and Bill Rowe* Carmen – Carlos Faruolo, Alfonso Marcos and Antonio Illan* Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes – Ivan Sharrock, Gordon McCallum, Les Wiggins and Roy Baker* Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – Ben Burtt, Simon Kaye and Laurel Ladevich |
| Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom – Dennis Muren, George Gibbs, Michael J. McAlister and Lorne Peterson* The Company of Wolves – Christopher Tucker and Alan Whibley* Ghostbusters – Richard Edlund* The Killing Fields – Fred Cramer | Haing S. Ngor – The Killing Fields as Dith Pran* John Lynch – Cal as Cal* Rupert Everett – Another Country as Guy Bennett* Tim Roth – The Hit as Myron |
| Up – Michael Apted* Afghanistan Reports: Allah Against the Sunships – Sandy Gall* GI Brides – Lavinia Warner* South Bank Show: Allan Bennett – David Hinton | Carmen – Emiliano Piedra and Carlos Saura* The Return of Martin Guerre – Daniel Vigne* A Sunday in the Country – Alain Sarde and Bertrand Tavernier* Swann in Love – Margaret Menegoz and Volker Schlöndorff |
| Rupert and the Frog Song – Geoff Dunbar* Danger Mouse – Brian Cosgrove and Mark Hall* Thomas the Tank Engine and Friends – Britt Allcroft, David Mitton and Robert D. Cardona* The Wind in the Willows – Mark Hall and Brian Cosgrove | The Dress – Eva Sereny* Killing Time – Chris O'Reilly* Samson and Delilah – Mark Peploe |