Oscar Nominations and Winners (1985)

Best Picture

• The Color Purple
• Kiss of the Spider Woman
• Out of Africa
• Prizzi's Honor
• Witness

Best Director

• Hector Babenco (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
• Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)
• John Huston (Prizzi's Honor)
• Akira Kurosawa (Ran)
• Peter Weir (Witness)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Harrison Ford (Witness)
• James Garner (Murphy's Romance)
• William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)
• Jack Nicholson (Prizzi's Honor)
• John Voight (Runaway Train)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Don Ameche (Cocoon)
• Klaus Maria Brandauer (Out of Africa)
• William Hickley (Prizzi's Honor)
• Robert Loggia (Jagged Edge)
• Eric Roberts (Runaway Train)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Anne Bancroft (Agnes of God)
• Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple)
• Jessica Lange (Sweet Dreams)
• Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful)
• Meryl Streep (Out of Africa)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Margaret Avery (The Color Purple)
• Anjelica Huston (Prizzi's Honor)
• Amy Madigan (Twice in a Lifetime)
• Meg Tilly (Agnes of God)
• Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• The Color Purple (Menno Mayjes)
• Kiss of the Spider Woman (Leonard Schrader)
• Out of Africa (Kurt Luedtke)
• Prizzi's Honor (Richard Condon and Janet Roach)
• The Trip To Bountiful (Horton Foote)

Best Original Screenplay

• Back to the Future (Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale)
• Brazil (Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard and Charles McKeown)
• The Official Story (Luis Puenzo and Aida Bortnik)
• The Purple Rose of Cairo (Woody Allen)
• Witness (William Kelley, Pamela Wallace and Earl W. Wallace)

Best Foreign Language Film

• Angry Harvest (Federal Republic of Germany)
• Colonel Redl (Hungary)
• The Official Story (Argentina)
• Three Men and a Cradle (France)
• When Father Was Away on Business (Yugoslavia)

Art Direction

• Brazil
• The Color Purple
• Out of Africa
• Ran
• Witness

Cinematography

• The Color Purple
• Murphy;s Romance
• Out of Africa
• Ran
• Witness

Costume Design

• The Color Purple
• The Journey of Natty Gann
• Out of Africa
• Prizzi's Honor
• Ran

Documentary Feature

• Broken Rainbow
• Las Madres - The Mothers of Plaza de Mayo
• Soldiers in Hiding
• The Statue of Liberty
• Unfinished Business

Documentary Short Subject

• The Courage to Care
• Keats and Nightingale: A Blind Date
• Making Overtures - The Story of a Community Orchestra
• Witness to War: Dr. Charlie Clements
• The Wizard of the Strings

Film Editing

• A Chorus Line
• Out of Africa
• Prizzi's Honor
• Runaway Train
• Witness

Makeup

• The Color Purple
• Mask
• Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins

Original Score

• Agnes of God (George Delerue)
• The Color Purple (Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock, Rod Temperton, Caiphus Semenya, Andrae Crouch, Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli, Joel Rosenbaum, Fred Steiner, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey and Randy Kerber)
• Out of Africa (John Barry)
• Silverado (Bruce Boughton)
• Witness (Maurice Jarre)

Original Song

• "Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)" (The Color Purple) Music by Quincy Jones and Rod Temperton. Lyrics by Quincy Jones, Rod Temperton and Lionel Richie.
• "The Power of Love" (Back to the Future) Music by Chris Hayes and Johnny Colla. Lyrics by Huey Lewis.
• "Say You, Say Me" (White Nights) Music and Lyrics by Lionel Richie.
• "Separate Lives" (White Nights) Music and Lyrics by Stephen Bishop.
• "Surprise, Surprise" (A Chorus Line) Music by Marvin Hamlisch. Lyrics by Edward Kleban.

Animated Short Film

• Anna & Bella
• The Big Snit
• Second Class Mail

Live Action Short Film

• Graffiti
• Molly's Pilgrim
• Rainbow War

Sound

• Back to the Future
• A Chorus Line
• LadyHawke
• Out of Africa
• Silverado

Sound Editing

• Back to the Future
• Ladyhawke
• Rambo: First Blood Part II

Visual Effects

• Cocoon
• Return to Oz
• Young Sherlock Holmes