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The Academy Awards
The Eighties: 1988
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Best Picture
Rain Man, Guber-Peter Co., United Artists, Produced by Mark Johnson

The Accidental Tourist, Warner Bros., Produced by Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun, and Michael Grillo

Dangerous Liaisons, Lorimar, Warner Bros., Produced by Norma Heymen and Hank Moonjean

Mississippi Burning, Zollo, Orion, Produced by Frederick Zollo and Robert F. Colesberry

Working Girl, 20th Century-Fox, Produced by Douglas Wick

Best Director
Barry Levinson for Rain Man
Charles Crichton for A Fish Called Wanda

Mike Nichols for Working Girl
Alan Parker for Mississippi Burning
Martin Scorsese for The Last Temptation of Christ

Best Actor
Dustin Hoffman in Rain Man
Gene Hackman in Mississippi Burning
Tom Hanks in Big
Edward James Olmos in Stand and Deliver
Max von Sydow in Pelle the Conqueror

Best Actress
Jodie Foster in The Accused
Glenn Close in Dangerous Liaisons
Melanie Griffith in Working Girl
Meryl Streep in A Cry in the Dark
Sigourney Weaver in Gorillas in the Mist

Best Supporting Actor
Kevin Kline in A Fish Called Wanda
Alec Guinness in Little Dorrit
Martin Landau in Tucker: The Man and His Dream
River Phoenix in Running on Empty
Dean Stockwell in Married to the Mob

Best Supporting Actress
Geena Davis in The Accidental Tourist
Joan Cusack in Working Girl
Frances McDormand in Mississippi Burning
Michelle Pfeiffer in Dangerous Liaisons
Sigourney Weaver in Working Girl


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