Academy Awards 1987

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The 1987 Academy Awards took place on March 31, 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles . It was the 59th Annual Academy Awards . In the year of the award, awards are always given to films from the previous year, in this case films from 1986.

Movie	N	S.
Statistics (films with more than one nomination are listed) N = nomination; S = victory
Platoon	8th	4th
room with view	8th	3
Hannah and her sisters	7th	3
Aliens - The Return	7th	2
mission	7th	1
God's forgotten children	5	1
Top Gun - you fear neither death nor the devil	4th	1
The color of money	4th	1
Star Trek IV: Back to the Present	4th	0
Peggy Sue got married	3	0
Criminal hearts	3	0
At midnight	2	1
Free throw	2	0
The little horror shop	2	0
Salvador	2	0

Moderation

Chevy Chase , Goldie Hawn and Paul Hogan hosted the Academy Awards. The presenters of the candidates are listed below for the respective categories.

Winners and nominations

Best movie

presented by Dustin Hoffman

Platoon - Arnold Kopelson

Children of a Lesser God (Children of a Lesser God) - Burt Sugarman , Patrick J. Palmer

Hannah and Her Sisters - Robert Greenhut

Mission (The Mission) - Fernando Ghia , David Puttnam

Room with a View (A Room with a View) - Ismail Merchant

Best director

presented by Elizabeth Taylor

Oliver Stone - Platoon

Woody Allen - Hannah and Her Sisters (Hannah and Her Sisters)

James Ivory - Room with a View (A Room with a View)

Roland Joffé - Mission (The Mission)

David Lynch - Blue Velvet

Best Actor

presented by Bette Davis

Paul Newman - The Color of Money (The Color of Money)

Dexter Gordon - At midnight (Round Midnight)

Bob Hoskins - Mona Lisa

William Hurt - Children of a Lesser God (Children of a Lesser God)

James Woods - Salvador

Best main actress

presented by William Hurt

Marlee Matlin - Children of a Lesser God (Children of a Lesser God)

Jane Fonda - The Morning After (The Morning After)

Sissy Spacek - Crimes of the Heart (Crimes of the Heart)

Kathleen Turner - Peggy Sue Got Married (Peggy Sue Got Married)

Sigourney Weaver - Aliens - The Return (Aliens)

Best sound editing

presented by Chevy Chase

Don Sharpe - Aliens - The Return (Aliens)

Mark A. Mangini - Star Trek IV: Back To The Present (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

Cecelia Hall , George Watters II - Top Gun - You Fear Neither Death nor the Devil (Top Gun)

Best cut

presented by Molly Ringwald

Claire Simpson - Platoon

Jim Clark - Mission (The Mission)

Chris Lebenzon , Billy Weber - Top Gun - They Fear Neither Death nor the Devil (Top Gun)

Ray Lovejoy - Aliens - The Return (Aliens)

Charles E. Morse - Hannah and Her Sisters (Hannah and Her Sisters)

Best makeup

presented by Rodney Dangerfield

Stephan Dupuis , Chris Walas - Die Fliege (The Fly)

Rob Bottin , Peter Robb-King - Legend (Legend)

Michèle Burke , Michael Westmore - Ayla and the Clan of the Bear (The Clan of the Cave Bear)

Visual effects

presented by Leonard Nimoy and William Shatner

Suzanne M. Benson , John Richardson , Robert Skotak , Stan Winston - Aliens - The Return (Aliens)

John Bruno , Richard Edlund , Bill Neil , Gary Waller - Poltergeist II - The Other Side (Poltergeist II: The Other Side)

Lyle Conway , Bran Ferren , Martin Gutteridge - The Little Shop of Horrors

Best song

presented by Bernadette Peters

" Take My Breath Away " from Top Gun - You fear neither death nor the devil (Top Gun) - Giorgio Moroder , Tom Whitlock

" Glory of Love " from Karate Kid II - Decision in Okinawa (The Karate Kid, Part II) - Peter Cetera , David Foster

"Life in a Looking Glass" from That's Life! That's life (That's Life!) - Henry Mancini , Henry Mancini

" Mean Green Mother From Outer Space " from Little Shop of Horrors (Little Shop of Horrors) - Howard Ashman , Alan Menken

"Somewhere Out There" from Feivel, the mouse wanderer (An American Tail) - James Horner , Barry Mann , Cynthia Weil

Best film score

presented by Bette Midler

Herbie Hancock - At midnight (Round Midnight)

Jerry Goldsmith - Free Throw (Hoosiers)

James Horner - Aliens - The Return (Aliens)

Ennio Morricone - Mission (The Mission)

Leonard Rosenman - Star Trek IV: Back To The Present (Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home)

Note: Hancock's award was not without controversy, as the soundtrack he produced only contained adaptations of existing songs and no new compositions. The composers of the original versions (not used in the film) include jazz greats such as George Gershwin and Thelonious Monk , whose songs were simply rearranged by Hancock and recorded with a band. In an interview after the award ceremony, Hancock's defeated Ennio Morricone even went so far that he said the Oscar had been “stolen” from him, which he “definitely should have won” for Mission . The soundtrack, which “only consists of existing pieces”, was “excellently arranged by Hancock”, but “ultimately not comparable” to his work due to the lack of originality. In fact, the English-language term for the category is Best Original Score and already implied at the time that it had to be music specially composed for the respective film (which is now explicitly required).

Best animated short film

presented by Sônia Braga , Michael Douglas and Tom Hanks

Een Griekse tragedie - Linda Van Tulden , Willem Thijssen

The Little Lamp (Luxo Jr.) - John Lasseter , William Reeves

The Frog, the Dog, and the Devil - Bob Stenhouse

Best short film

Precious Images - Chuck Workman

Exit - Stefano Reali , Pino Quartullo

Love Struck - Fredda Weiss

Best documentary

presented by Oprah Winfrey

Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got - Brigitte Berman
Down and Out in America - Joseph Feury , Milton Justice

Chile: Hasta Cuando? - David Bradbury

Isaac in America: A Journey with Isaac Bashevis Singer - Kirk Simon , Amram Nowak

Witness to Apartheid - Sharon I. Sopher

Best documentary short film

presented by Helena Bonham Carter and Matthew Broderick

Women - for America, for the World - Vivienne Verdon-Roe

Debonair Dancers - Alison Nigh-Strelich

Red Grooms: Sunflower in a Hothouse - Tom Neff , Madeline Bell (Producer)

Sam - Aaron D. Weisblatt

The Masters of Disaster - Sonya Friedman

Foreign language film

presented by Anthony Quinn

The attack (De Aanslag) - Netherlands - Director: Fons Rademakers

Betty Blue - 37.2 degrees in the morning (37 ° 2 le matin) - France - Director: Jean-Jacques Brilleix

The Fall of the American Empire (Le déclin de l'empire américain) - Canada - Director: Denys Arcand

Home, sweet home (Vesnicko má stredisková) - Czechoslovakia - Director: Jiří Menzel

38 - That was Vienna - Austria - Director: Wolfgang Glück

Honorary Oscars

Honorary Award

presented by Karl Malden

Ralph Bellamy

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

presented by Richard Dreyfuss

Steven Spielberg

literature

Norbert Stresau : The Oscar. All award-winning films, directors and actors since 1929 . 3rd, updated edition. Heyne-Filmbibliothek, No. 198. Heyne, Munich 1996, 607 pages, ISBN 3-453-07872-1
Hans-Jürgen Kubiak: The Oscar Films. The best films from 1927/28 to 2004. The best non-English language films from 1947 to 2004. The best animated films from 2001 to 2004 . Schüren, Marburg 2005, ISBN 3-89472-386-6

Web links

Academy Awards 1987 in theInternet Movie Database(English)

Individual evidence

↑ Round Midnight [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Dexter Gordon | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .
^ Adam Sweeting: The Friday interview: Ennio Morricone. February 23, 2001, accessed August 30, 2018 .
↑ The 59th Academy Awards | 1987 . In: Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . ( oscars.org [accessed August 30, 2018]).

[1] Round Midnight [Original Motion Picture Soundtrack] - Dexter Gordon | Songs, Reviews, Credits | AllMusic. Retrieved August 30, 2018 .

[2] Adam Sweeting: The Friday interview: Ennio Morricone. February 23, 2001, accessed August 30, 2018 .

[3] The 59th Academy Awards | 1987 . In: Oscars.org | Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences . ( oscars.org [accessed August 30, 2018]).