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1986 Oscar Nominations

Best Picture
    ✔ Out of Africa (Winner)
   The Color Purple
   Kiss of the Spider Woman
   Prizzi's Honor
   Witness

Best Director
    ✔ Sydney Pollack – Out of Africa (Winner)
   Héctor Babenco – Kiss of the Spider Woman
   John Huston – Prizzi's Honor
   Akira Kurosawa – Ran
   Peter Weir – Witness

Best Actor in a Leading Role
   William Hurt – Kiss of the Spider Woman (Winner)
   Harrison Ford – Witness
   James Garner – Murphy's Romance
   Jack Nicholson – Prizzi's Honor
   Jon Voight – Runaway Train

Best Actress in a Leading Role
   Geraldine Page – The Trip to Bountiful (Winner)
   Anne Bancroft – Agnes of God
   Whoopi Goldberg – The Color Purple
   Jessica Lange – Sweet Dreams
    ✔ Meryl Streep – Out of Africa

Best Actor in a Supporting Role
   Don Ameche – Cocoon (Winner)
   Klaus Maria Brandauer – Out of Africa
   William Hickey – Prizzi's Honor
   Robert Loggia – Jagged Edge
   Eric Roberts – Runaway Train

Best Actress in a Supporting Role
   Anjelica Huston – Prizzi's Honor (Winner)
   Margaret Avery – The Color Purple
   Amy Madigan – Twice in a Lifetime
   Meg Tilly – Agnes of God
   Oprah Winfrey – The Color Purple

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

Best Adapted Screenplay
    ✔ Out of Africa – Kurt Luedtke (Winner)
   The Color Purple – Menno Meyjes
   Kiss of the Spider Woman – Leonard Schrader
   Prizzi's Honor – Richard Condon and Janet Roach
   The Trip to Bountiful – Horton Foote


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