Alternate Oscars: 1987

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Beverly Hills Cop II

Lethal Weapon*

Little Dorrit

The Monster Squad

The Untouchables

BEST DIRECTOR:

Brian De Palma, The Untouchables

Richard Donner, Lethal Weapon

Christine Edzard, Little Dorrit*

Tony Scott, Beverly Hills Cop II

Wim Wenders, Wings of Desire

BEST ACTOR:

Christian Bale, Empire of the Sun*

John Candy, Planes, Trains and Automobiles

Richard E. Grant, Withnail & I

Mark Harmon, Summer School

Mickey Rourke, Barfly

BEST ACTRESS:

Stéphane Audran, Babette’s Feast

Cher, Moonstruck

Barbara Hershey, Shy People

Holly Hunter, Broadcast News*

Sarah Pickering, Little Dorrit

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Sean Connery, The Untouchables

Vincent D’Onofrio, Full Metal Jacket

Robert Downey Jr., Less Than Zero*

Morgan Freeman, Street Smart

Alec Guinness, Little Dorrit

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Kathy Baker, Street Smart

Faye Dunaway, Barfly

Anjelica Huston, The Dead

Mary Stuart Masterson, Some Kind of Wonderful*

Martha Plimpton, Shy People

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

The Dead

Full Metal Jacket

Little Dorrit

The Princess Bride*

The Untouchables

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Beverly Hills Cop II

Broadcast News

Lethal Weapon*

The Monster Squad

The Year My Voice Broke

BEST ART DIRECTION:

Empire of the Sun

Hope and Glory

The Last Emperor

Little Dorrit

The Untouchables*

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Empire of the Sun

The Last Emperor

The Untouchables

Wings of Desire*

Wolf’s Hole

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Babette's Feast

The Last Emperor*

Little Dorrit

The Princess Bride

The Untouchables

BEST FILM EDITING:

Blind Chance

Evil Dead II

Full Metal Jacket

Lethal Weapon*

The Untouchables

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Angel Heart

Empire of the Sun

The Last Emperor

The Untouchables*

The Witches of Eastwick

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"Dangerous Business" from Ishtar

"(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing

"Nothing’s Gonna Stop Us Now" from Mannequin

"Rock Until You Drop" from The Monster Squad

"Shakedown" from Beverly Hills Cop II*

BEST MAKEUP:

Evil Dead II*

The Last Emperor

The Monster Squad

Near Dark

The Princess Bride

BEST SOUND:

Empire of the Sun

Evil Dead II

Full Metal Jacket*

Lethal Weapon

The Untouchables

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Evil Dead II

Innerspace*

The Monster Squad

Predator

RoboCop

BEST STUNTS:

Beverly Hills Cop II*

Full Metal Jacket

Lethal Weapon

The Living Daylights

Predator

BEST CASTING:

Broadcast News

Little Dorrit

Matewan

The Princess Bride

The Untouchables*

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

Blind Chance

Little Dorrit*

Wings of Desire

Withnail & I

The Year My Voice Broke

Alternate Oscars: 1988

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Cinema Paradiso

Die Hard*

Miracle Mile

A Short Film About Love

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

BEST DIRECTOR:

Francis Ford Coppola, Tucker: The Man and His Dream

Steve De Jarnatt, Miracle Mile

Krzysztof Kieślowski, A Short Film About Killing

John McTiernan, Die Hard

Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso*

BEST ACTOR:

Olaf Lubaszenko, A Short Film About Love

Bill Murray, Scrooged

Philippe Noiret, Cinema Paradiso

Forest Whitaker, Bird

Bruce Willis, Die Hard*

BEST ACTRESS:

Isabelle Adjani, Camille Claudel

Glenn Close, Dangerous Liaisons

Jamie Lee Curtis, A Fish Called Wanda*

Meryl Streep, A Cry in the Dark

Grazyna Szapolowska, A Short Film About Love

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Raul Julia, Tequila Sunrise

Michael Keaton, Beetlejuice

Kevin Kline, A Fish Called Wanda*

Alan Rickman, Die Hard

Raghuvir Yadav, Salaam Bombay!

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Anita Kanwar, Salaam Bombay!

Frances McDormand, Mississippi Burning

Lena Olin, The Unbearable Lightness of Being*

Mercedes Ruehl, Married to the Mob

Sigourney Weaver, Working Girl

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Die Hard*

Eight Men Out

Grave of the Fireflies

Story of Women

The Vanishing

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Cinema Paradiso

A Fish Called Wanda

Midnight Run

A Short Film About Love*

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

BEST ART DIRECTION:

Dangerous Liaisons

Hairspray

Tucker: The Man and His Dream*

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Cinema Paradiso

Distant Voices, Still Lives

A Short Film About Killing*

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

The Unbearable Lightness of Being

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Camille Claudel

Dangerous Liaisons

Hairspray

Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown*

BEST FILM EDITING:

Cinema Paradiso

Die Hard*

Miracle Mile

The Thin Blue Line

Tucker: The Man and His Dream

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Beetlejuice

Cinema Paradiso*

Miracle Mile

My Neighbor Totoro

A Short Film About Love

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"Hairspray" from Hairspray

"Let the River Run" from Working Girl

"Two Hearts" from Buster*

"Why Should I Worry?" from Oliver & Company

"Zaar" from The Last Temptation of Christ

BEST MAKEUP:

Beetlejuice*

Coming to America

Hairspray

The Lair of the White Worm

Scrooged

BEST SOUND:

Big Time

Bird

Die Hard*

Distant Voices, Still Lives

Miracle Mile

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Beetlejuice

Die Hard

Scrooged

Who Framed Roger Rabbit*

Willow

BEST STUNTS:

Crocodile Dundee II

Die Hard

Police Story 2*

Rambo III

Young Guns

BEST CASTING:

Die Hard

Eight Men Out

A Fish Called Wanda*

Mystic Pizza

Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

Cinema Paradiso*

Grave of the Fireflies

Salaam Bombay!

A Short Film About Killing

A Short Film About Love