Oscar Nominations and Winners (1986)

Best Picture

• Children of a Lesser God
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• The Mission
• Platoon
• A Room with a View

Best Director

• David Lynch (Blue Velvet)
• Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters)
• Roland Joffe (The Mission)
• Oliver Stone (Platoon)
• James Ivory (A Room with a View)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Dexter Gordon ('Round Midnight)
• Bob Hoskins (Mona Lisa)
• William Hurt (Children of a Lesser God)
• Paul Newman (The Color of Money)
• James Woods (Salvador)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Tom Berenger (Platoon)
• Michael Caine (Hannah and Her Sisters)
• Willem DaFoe (Platoon)
• Denholm Elliot (A Room with a View)
• Dennis Hopper (Hoosiers)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Jane Fonda (The Morning After)
• Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)
• Sissy Spacek (Crimes of the Heart)
• Kathleen Turner (Peggy Sue Got Married)
• Sigourney Weaver (Aliens)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Tess Harper (Crimes of the Heart)
• Piper Laurie (Children of a Lesser God)
• Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio (The Color of Money)
• Maggie Smith (A Room with a View)
• Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Children of a Lesser God (Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff)
• The Color of Money (Richard Price)
• Crimes of the Heart (Beth Henley)
• A Room with a View (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)
• Stand By Me (Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans)

Best Original Screenplay

• "Crocodile" Dundee (Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell)
• Hannah and Her Sisters (Woody Allen)
• My Beautiful Laundrette (Hanif Kureishi)
• Platoon (Oliver Stone)
• Salvador (Oliver Stone and Richard Boyle)

Best Foreign Language Film

• The Assault (The Netherlands)
• Betty Blue (France)
• The Decline of the American Empire (Canada)
• My Sweet Little Villiage (Czechoslovakia)
• "38" (Austria)

Art Direction

• Aliens
• The Color of Money
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• The Mission
• A Room with a View

Cinematography

• The Mission
• Peggy Sue Got Married
• Platoon
• A Room with a View
• Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home

Costume Design

• The Mission
• Otello
• Peggy Sue Got Married
• Pirates
• A Room with a View

Documentary Feature

• Artie Shaw: Time is All You've Got
• Chile: Hasta Cuando?
• Down and Out in America
• Issac in America: A Journey with Issac Bashevis Singer
• Witness to Apartheid

Documentary Short Subject

• Debonair Dancers
• The Masters of Disaster
• Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse
• Sam
• Women - For America, For the World

Film Editing

• Aliens
• Hannah and Her Sisters
• The Mission
• Platoon
• Top Gun

Makeup

• The Clan of the Cave Bear
• The Fly
• Legend

Original Score

• Aliens (James Horner)
• Hoosiers (Jerry Goldsmith)
• The Mission (Ennio Morricone)
• 'Round Midnight (Herbie Hancock)
• Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home (Leonard Rosenman)

Original Song

• "Glory of Love" (The Karate Kid Part II) Music by Peter Cetera and David Foster. Lyrics by Peter Cetera and Diane Nini.
• "Life in a Looking Glass" (That's Life) Music by Henry Mancini. Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.
• "Mean Green Mother From Outer Space" (Little Shop of Horrors) Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Howard Ashman.
• "Somewhere Out There" (An American Tail) Music by James Horner and Barry Mann. Lyrics by Cynthia Weil.
• "Take My Breath Away" (Top Gun) Music by Giorgio Moroder. Lyrics by Tom Whitlock.

Animated Short Film

• The Frog, the Dog and the Devil
• A Greek Tragedy
• Luxo Jr.

Live Action Short Film

• Exit
• Love Struck
• Precious Images

Sound

• Aliens
• Heartbreak Ridge
• Platoon
• Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home
• Top Gun

Sound Editing

• Aliens
• Star Trek IV : The Voyage Home
• Top Gun

Visual Effects

• Aliens
• Little Shop of Horrors
• Poltergeist II: The Other Side