Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

Since 1929 99 editions in the catalogue Official site

1985 edition

• Academy Award for Best Sound

  🏆 Chris Newman

  🏆 Mark Berger

  🏆 Todd Boekelheide

  🏆 Tom Scott

  For the film: Amadeus

  Also nominated: 2010 · Aaron Rochin · A Passage to India · Bill Varney · Carlos Delarios · David M. Ronne · Dune · Gene Cantamessa · Graham V. Hartstone · John W. Mitchell · Kevin O'Connell · Michael A. Carter · Michael J. Kohut · Nelson Stoll · Nick Alphin · Nicolas Le Messurier · Richard Portman · Robert Thirlwell · Steve Maslow · The River

• Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

  🏆 Dennis Muren

  🏆 George Gibbs

  🏆 Lorne Peterson

  🏆 Michael J. McAlister

  For the film: Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom

  Also nominated: 2010 · Chuck Gaspar · George Jenson · John Bruno · Mark Stetson · Mark Vargo · Neil Krepela · Ghostbusters · Richard Edlund

• Academy Award for Best Original Score

  🏆 A Passage to India

  🏆 Maurice Jarre

  🏆 Out of Africa

  For the film: A Passage to India

  Also nominated: Alex North · Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom · John Williams · Randy Newman · The Natural · The River · Under the Volcano

• Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  🏆 Marjorie Hunt

  🏆 Paul Wagner

  🏆 The Stone Carvers

  Also nominated: Ben Achtenberg · Code Gray: Ethical Dilemmas in Nursing · Gary Bush · Irina Kalinina · Joan Sawyer · Paul T.K. Lin · Recollections of Pavlovsk · Roger Sherman · The Children of Soong Ching Ling · The Garden of Eden

• Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling

  🏆 Dick Smith

  🏆 Paul LeBlanc

  For the film: Amadeus

  Also nominated: 2010 · Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes · Michael Westmore · Paul Engelen · Rick Baker

• Academy Award for Best Production Design

  🏆 Karel Černý

  🏆 Patrizia von Brandenstein

  For the film: Amadeus

  Also nominated: 2010 · Albert Brenner · Angelo P. Graham · A Passage to India · Bruce Weintraub · The Cotton Club · George Gaines · Hugh Scaife · John Box · Mel Bourne · Richard Sylbert · Rick Simpson · The Natural

• Academy Award for Technical Achievement

  🏆 Donald Trumbull

  🏆 Howard Preston

  🏆 Stephen Fog

• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

  🏆 Jon Minnis

  For the film: Charade

  Also nominated: Doctor De Soto · Ishu Patel · Michael Sporn · Morton Schindel · Paradise

• Academy Award for Best Cinematography

  🏆 Chris Menges

  For the film: The Killing Fields

  Also nominated: Amadeus · A Passage to India · Caleb Deschanel · Ernest Day · Miroslav Ondříček · The Natural · The River · Vilmos Zsigmond

• Academy Award for Best Costume Design

  🏆 Theodor Pištěk

  For the film: Amadeus

  Also nominated: 2010 · Ann Roth · A Passage to India · Jenny Beavan · John Bright · Judy Moorcroft · Patricia Norris · Places in the Heart · The Bostonians

• Academy Award for Best Director

  🏆 Miloš Forman

  For the film: Amadeus

  Also nominated: A Passage to India · Broadway Danny Rose · David Lean · Places in the Heart · Robert Benton · Roland Joffé · The Killing Fields · Woody Allen

• Academy Award for Best Film Editing

  🏆 Jim Clark

  For the film: The Killing Fields

  Also nominated: Amadeus · Barry Malkin · The Cotton Club · David Lean · Donn Cambern · Frank Morriss · Michael Chandler · Nena Danevic · Robert Q. Lovett · Romancing the Stone

• Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

  🏆 Mike Hoover

  For the film: Up

  Also nominated: Janice L. Platt · Lesli Linka Glatter · Michael MacMillan · Sharon Oreck · Tales of Meeting and Parting · The Painted Door

• Academy Award for Best Original Song Score

  🏆 Prince

  For the film: Purple Rain

  Also nominated: Jeff Moss · Kris Kristofferson · Songwriter · The Muppets Take Manhattan

• Academy Award for Best Picture

  🏆 Saul Zaentz

  For the film: Amadeus

  Also nominated: A Passage to India · Arlene Donovan · A Soldier's Story · David Puttnam · John Brabourne · Norman Jewison · Patrick J. Palmer · Places in the Heart · Richard Goodwin · Ronald L. Schwary · The Killing Fields

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

  🏆 The Killing Fields

  Also nominated: Adolph Caesar · A Soldier's Story · Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes · Haing S. Ngor · John Malkovich · Pat Morita · Places in the Heart · Ralph Richardson · The Karate Kid

• Special Achievement Academy Award

  🏆 Kay Rose

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