60th Academy Awards

The nominees for the 60th Academy Awards were announced on February 16, 1988, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Wise, president of the Academy, and actress Shirley MacLaine.[8] The Last Emperor received the most nominations with nine total; Broadcast News came in second with seven.[9][10]

The winners were announced at the awards ceremony on April 11, 1988.[11] The Last Emperor became the second film after 1958's Gigi to earn nine Oscar nominations and win all of them.[12] For the first time in Oscar history, all five Best Director nominees were born outside the United States.[13] Best Actor winner Michael Douglas became the second person to win Oscars for both acting and producing; he previously won a Best Picture award as co-producer of One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest.^[A][14]

Awards

Jeremy Thomas, Best Picture winner

Bernardo Bertolucci, Best Director winner and Best Adapted Screenplay co-winner

Michael Douglas, Best Actor winner

Cher, Best Actress winner

Sean Connery, Best Supporting Actor winner

Olympia Dukakis, Best Supporting Actress winner

John Patrick Shanley, Best Original Screenplay winner

David Byrne, Best Original Score co-winner

Ryuichi Sakamoto, Best Original Score co-winner

Vittorio Storaro, Best Cinematography winner

Rick Baker, Best Makeup winner

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().[15]

Best Picture The Last Emperor – Jeremy Thomas, producer Broadcast News – James L. Brooks, producer Fatal Attraction – Stanley R. Jaffe and Sherry Lansing, producers Hope and Glory – John Boorman, producer Moonstruck – Norman Jewison and Patrick Palmer, producers	Best Director Bernardo Bertolucci – The Last Emperor Adrian Lyne – Fatal Attraction John Boorman – Hope and Glory Norman Jewison – Moonstruck Lasse Hallström – My Life as a Dog
Best Actor Michael Douglas – Wall Street as Gordon Gekko William Hurt – Broadcast News as Tom Grunick Marcello Mastroianni – Dark Eyes as Romano Jack Nicholson – Ironweed as Francis Phelan Robin Williams – Good Morning, Vietnam as Adrian Cronauer	Best Actress Cher – Moonstruck as Loretta Castorini Glenn Close – Fatal Attraction as Alex Forrest Holly Hunter – Broadcast News as Jane Craig Sally Kirkland – Anna as Anna Meryl Streep – Ironweed as Helen Archer
Best Supporting Actor Sean Connery – The Untouchables as Jim Malone Albert Brooks – Broadcast News as Aaron Altman Morgan Freeman – Street Smart as Leo "Fast Black" Smalls Jr. Vincent Gardenia – Moonstruck as Cosmo Castorini Denzel Washington – Cry Freedom as Steve Biko	Best Supporting Actress Olympia Dukakis – Moonstruck as Rose Castorini Norma Aleandro – Gaby: A True Story as Florencia Sánchez Morales Anne Archer – Fatal Attraction as Beth Gallagher Anne Ramsey – Throw Momma from the Train as Mrs. Lift Ann Sothern – The Whales of August as Tisha Doughty
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Moonstruck – John Patrick Shanley Au revoir les enfants – Louis Malle Broadcast News – James L. Brooks Hope and Glory – John Boorman Radio Days – Woody Allen	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium The Last Emperor – Mark Peploe and Bernardo Bertolucci based on the autobiography From Emperor to Citizen: The Autobiography of Aisin-Gioro Pu Yi by Henry Pu Yi The Dead – Tony Huston based on the short story by James Joyce Fatal Attraction – James Dearden based on the teleplay Diversion by James Dearden Full Metal Jacket – Stanley Kubrick, Michael Herr, and Gustav Hasford based on the novel The Short-Timers by Gustav Hasford My Life as a Dog – Lasse Hallström, Reidar Jonsson, Brasse Brännström, and Per Berglund based on the novel Mitt liv som hund by Reidar Jönsson
Best Foreign Language Film Babette's Feast (Denmark) in Danish and French – Gabriel Axel Au revoir les enfants (France) in French  – Louis Malle Course Completed (Spain) in Spanish – José Luis Garci The Family (Italy) in Italian – Ettore Scola Pathfinder (Norway) in Sami – Nils Gaup	Best Documentary Feature The Ten-Year Lunch: The Wit and Legend of the Algonquin Round Table – Aviva Slesin Eyes on the Prize: America's Civil Rights Years/Bridge to Freedom 1965 – Callie Crossley and James A. DeVinney Hellfire: A Journey from Hiroshima – John Junkerman and John W. Dower Radio Bikini – Robert Stone A Stitch for Time – Barbara Herbich and Cyril Christo
Best Documentary Short Subject Young at Heart – Sue Marx and Pamela Conn Frances Steloff: Memoirs of a Bookseller – Deborah Dickson In the Wee Wee Hours... – Frank Daniel and Izak Ben-Meir Language Says It All – Megan Williams Silver into Gold – Lynn Mueller	Best Live Action Short Film Ray's Male Heterosexual Dance Hall – Jonathan Sanger and Jana Sue Memel Making Waves – Ann Wingate Shoeshine – Robert A. Katz
Best Animated Short Film The Man Who Planted Trees – Frédéric Back George and Rosemary – Eunice Macaulay Your Face – Bill Plympton	Best Original Score The Last Emperor – David Byrne, Cong Su, and Ryuichi Sakamoto Cry Freedom – George Fenton and Jonas Gwangwa Empire of the Sun – John Williams The Untouchables – Ennio Morricone The Witches of Eastwick – John Williams
Best Original Song "(I've Had) The Time of My Life" from Dirty Dancing – Music by Franke Previte, John DeNicola, and Donald Markowitz; Lyrics by Franke Previte "Cry Freedom" from Cry Freedom – Music and Lyrics by George Fenton and Jonas Gwangwa "Nothing's Gonna Stop Us Now" from Mannequin – Music and Lyrics by Albert Hammond and Diane Warren "Shakedown" from Beverly Hills Cop II – Music by Harold Faltermeyer and Keith Forsey; Lyrics by Harold Faltermeyer, Keith Forsey, and Bob Seger "Storybook Love" from The Princess Bride – Music and Lyrics by Willy DeVille	Best Sound The Last Emperor – Bill Rowe and Ivan Sharrock Empire of the Sun – Robert Knudson, Don Digirolamo, John Boyd, and Tony Dawe Lethal Weapon – Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, and Bill Nelson RoboCop – Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios, Aaron Rochin, and Robert Wald The Witches of Eastwick – Wayne Artman, Tom Beckert, Tom E. Dahl, and Art Rochester
Best Art Direction The Last Emperor – Art Direction: Ferdinando Scarfiotti; Set Decoration: Bruno Cesari and Osvaldo Desideri Empire of the Sun – Art Direction: Norman Reynolds; Set Decoration: Harry Cordwell Hope and Glory – Art Direction: Anthony D. G. Pratt; Set Decoration: Joanne Woollard Radio Days – Art Direction: Santo Loquasto; Set Decoration: Carol Joffe, Leslie Bloom, and George DeTitta Jr. The Untouchables – Art Direction: Patrizia von Brandenstein and William A. Elliott; Set Decoration: Hal Gausman	Best Cinematography The Last Emperor – Vittorio Storaro Broadcast News – Michael Ballhaus Empire of the Sun – Allen Daviau Hope and Glory – Philippe Rousselot Matewan – Haskell Wexler
Best Makeup Harry and the Hendersons – Rick Baker Happy New Year – Bob Laden	Best Costume Design The Last Emperor – James Acheson The Dead – Dorothy Jeakins Empire of the Sun – Bob Ringwood Maurice – Jenny Beavan and John Bright The Untouchables – Marilyn Vance-Straker
Best Film Editing The Last Emperor – Gabriella Cristiani Broadcast News – Richard Marks Empire of the Sun – Michael Kahn Fatal Attraction – Michael Kahn and Peter E. Berger RoboCop – Frank J. Urioste	Best Visual Effects Innerspace – Dennis Muren, Bill George, Harley Jessup, and Kenneth F. Smith Predator – Joel Hynek, Robert M. Greenberg, Richard Greenberg, and Stan Winston

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers.[19][20]

Chevy Chase hosted the 60th Academy Awards.

In view of the 60th anniversary of the Academy Awards, the Academy hired film producer Samuel Goldwyn Jr. in October 1987 to oversee the telecast for the second straight year.[2] Three months later, Goldwyn selected actor and comedian Chevy Chase to emcee the 1988 ceremony.[21] In addition, after being held at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion for almost two decades, AMPAS decided to move the telecast to the Shrine Auditorium in order to accommodate more rehearsal time and take advantage of the large venue's seating capacity.[22] This marked the first time the facility served as the site for the Oscars since the 20th ceremony held in 1948.[23] Additionally, Goldwyn and Passetta originally planned to feature pre-recorded red carpet arrivals footage of actors who had roles in the 59 previous Best Picture winners. However, the segment was dropped altogether due to traffic problems amongst guests arriving to the ceremony.[24][25]

Furthermore, the 1988 Writers Guild of America strike, which began more than a month before the ceremony, affected the telecast and its surrounding events. Despite the Writers Guild of America refusing to grant a waiver permitting writers to work on the scripted dialogue for the gala, the three head writers for the telecast, Ernest Lehman, Melville Shavelson, and Jack Rose, assured to the Academy and ABC that more than half of the material had already been completed.[26] To compensate for the missing portions of the script, Goldwyn heavily utilized comedians such as John Candy, Billy Crystal, Eddie Murphy, and Robin Williams to ad lib and improvise jokes.[27][28] During the show, many of the participants expressed support for the writers such as Best Supporting Actor winner Sean Connery who remarked in his acceptance speech, "If such a thing as a wish accompanied this award mine would be that we ended the writers' strike."[29]

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A^ : Laurence Olivier was the first person to accomplish this feat. He won Best Picture as one of the producers of Hamlet and won Best Actor for playing the titular role in that same film.[14]

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