59th Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 59th
caption = "Platoon"
date = Monday, March 30, 1987
site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
host = Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Paul Hogan
producer = Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
director = Marty Pasetta
duration = 3 hours, 19 minutes
network = ABC
last = 58th
next = 60thThe 59th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Paul Hogan.

Winners

Best Picture

"Platoon"
*"Children of a Lesser God"
*"Hannah and Her Sisters"
*"The Mission"
*"A Room with a View"

Best Direction

"Platoon" - Oliver Stone
*"Blue Velvet" - David Lynch
*"Hannah and Her Sisters" - Woody Allen
*"The Mission" - Roland Joffe
*"A Room with a View" - James Ivory

Best Actor in a Leading Role

"The Color of Money" - Paul Newman
*"Round Midnight" - Dexter Gordon
*"Children of a Lesser God" - William Hurt
*"Mona Lisa" - Bob Hoskins
*"Salvador" - James Woods

Best Actress in a Leading Role

"Children of a Lesser God" - Marlee Matlin
*"Aliens" - Sigourney Weaver
*"Crimes of the Heart" - Sissy Spacek
*"The Morning After" - Jane Fonda
*"Peggy Sue Got Married" - Kathleen Turner

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

"Hannah and Her Sisters" - Michael Caine
*"Hoosiers" - Dennis Hopper
*"Platoon" - Tom Berenger
*"Platoon" - Willem Dafoe
*"A Room with a View" - Denholm Elliot

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

"Hannah and Her Sisters" - Dianne Wiest
*"Children of a Lesser God" - Piper Laurie
*"The Color of Money" - Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio
*"Crimes of the Heart" - Tess Harper
*"A Room with a View" - Maggie Smith

Best Original Screenplay

"Hannah and Her Sisters" - Woody Allen
*"Crocodile Dundee" - Paul Hogan, Ken Shadie and John Cornell
*"My Beautiful Laundrette" - Hanif Kureishi
*"Platoon" - Oliver Stone
*"Salvador" - Oliver Stone and Rick Boyle

Best Adapted Screenplay

"A Room with a View" - Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
*"Children of a Lesser God" - Hesper Anderson and Mark Medoff
*"The Color of Money" - Richard Price
*"Crimes of the Heart" - Beth Henley
*"Stand by Me" - Raynold Gideon and Bruce A. Evans

Best Cinematography

"The Mission" - Chris Menges

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

"A Room with a View" - Gianna Quaranta, Brian Ackland-Snow, Brian Savegar and Elio Altramura

Best Costume Design

"A Room with a View" - Jenny Beaven and John Bright

Best Sound

"Platoon" - Christopher Wilkinson, Richard D. Rogers, Simon Kaye and Charles Grenzbach

Best Film Editing

"Platoon - Claire Simpson

Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

"Aliens - Don Sharpe

Best Effects, Visual Effects

"Aliens" - Robert Skotak, Stan Winston, John Richardson and Suzanne M. Benson

Best Makeup

"The Fly" - Chris Walas and Stephan Dupuis

Best Music, Original Song

"Top Gun" - Giorgio Moroder and Tom Whitlock for the song Take My Breath Away

Best Music, Original Score

"Round Midnight" - Herbie Hancock

Best Short Film, Animated

"A Greek Tragedy"

Best Short Film, Live Action

"Precious Images"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

"Women - for America, for the World"

Best Documentary, Features

"Down and Out in America" ' "'

Best Foreign Language Film

"The Assault" - Netherlands

Notable events

The Academy Awards show was broadcast on the ABC network at the same time as CBS network broadcast of the 1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship game between Indiana and Syracuse. Chevy Chase quipped later in the evening, "Is the game over yet?" The show would subsequently be scheduled around the tournament broadcast by moving it later in April for two years.