1988 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees
The AwardWentTo archive contains 104 Academy Award records for the 1988 film year, covering 53 films and including 24 wins.
Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.
Best Picture result
- ★ Rain ManMark Johnson, Producer
5 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history
Acting category results
Leading winning films
Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.
- Rain Man
4 wins from 8 award records
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
4 wins from 7 award records
- Dangerous Liaisons
3 wins from 7 award records
- Mississippi Burning
1 win from 7 award records
- Working Girl
1 win from 6 award records
- The Accidental Tourist
1 win from 4 award records
Category winners
Select a category to explore its history, or jump to this year's full records.
- ★ Rain Man
- ★ Rain Man — Raymond Babbitt
- ★ A Fish Called Wanda — Otto
- ★ The Accused — Sarah Tobias
- ★ The Accidental Tourist — Muriel
- ★ Rain Man
- ★ Working Girl — Let The River Run
- ★ Tin Toy
- ★ Bird
- ★ Rain Man
Nominations and award records by category
Showing 104 of 104 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.
Best Picture
- ★ Rain Man IMDB — Mark Johnson, Producer
- The Accidental Tourist IMDB — Lawrence Kasdan, Charles Okun and Michael Grillo, Producers
- Dangerous Liaisons IMDB — Norma Heyman and Hank Moonjean, Producers
- Mississippi Burning IMDB — Frederick Zollo and Robert F. Colesberry, Producers
- Working Girl IMDB — Douglas Wick, Producer
Best Actor
- ★ Rain Man IMDB — Dustin HoffmanRaymond Babbitt
- Mississippi Burning IMDB — Gene HackmanAnderson
- Big IMDB — Tom HanksJosh
- Stand and Deliver IMDB — Edward James OlmosJaime Escalante
- Pelle the Conqueror IMDB — Max von SydowLasse Karlsson
Best Supporting Actor
- ★ A Fish Called Wanda IMDB — Kevin KlineOtto
- Little Dorrit IMDB — Alec GuinnessWilliam Dorrit
- Tucker The Man and His Dream IMDB — Martin LandauAbe
- Running on Empty IMDB — River PhoenixDanny Pope
- Married to the Mob IMDB — Dean StockwellTony 'the Tiger' Russo
Best Actress
- ★ The Accused IMDB — Jodie FosterSarah Tobias
- Dangerous Liaisons IMDB — Glenn CloseMarquise de Merteuil
- Working Girl IMDB — Melanie GriffithTess McGill
- A Cry in the Dark IMDB — Meryl StreepLindy
- Gorillas in the Mist IMDB — Sigourney WeaverDian Fossey
Best Supporting Actress
- ★ The Accidental Tourist IMDB — Geena DavisMuriel
- Working Girl IMDB — Joan CusackCyn
- Mississippi Burning IMDB — Frances McDormandMrs. Pell
- Dangerous Liaisons IMDB — Michelle PfeifferMadame de Tourvel
- Working Girl IMDB — Sigourney WeaverKatharine Parker
Art Direction
- ★ Dangerous Liaisons IMDB — Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Gerard James
- Beaches IMDB — Art Direction: Albert Brenner; Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis
- Rain Man IMDB — Art Direction: Ida Random; Set Decoration: Linda DeScenna
- Tucker The Man and His Dream IMDB — Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis; Set Decoration: Armin Ganz
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit IMDB — Art Direction: Elliot Scott; Set Decoration: Peter Howitt
Cinematography
Costume Design
Best Director
Documentary Feature
- ★ Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie IMDB — Marcel Ophuls, Producer
- The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naudé: An Afrikaner Speaks Out IMDB — Robert Bilheimer and Ronald Mix, Producers
- Let's Get Lost IMDB — Bruce Weber and Nan Bush, Producers
- Promises to Keep IMDB — Ginny Durrin, Producer
- Who Killed Vincent Chin? IMDB — Renee Tajima and Christine Choy, Producers
Documentary Short Subject
- ★ You Don't Have to Die IMDB — William Guttentag and Malcolm Clarke, Producers
- The Children's Storefront IMDB — Karen Goodman, Producer
- Family Gathering IMDB — Lise Yasui and Ann Tegnell, Producers
- Gang Cops IMDB — Thomas B. Fleming and Daniel J. Marks, Producers
- Portrait of Imogen IMDB — Nancy Hale and Meg Partridge, Producers
Film Editing
- ★ Who Framed Roger Rabbit IMDB — Arthur Schmidt
- Die Hard IMDB — Frank J. Urioste, John F. Link
- Gorillas in the Mist IMDB — Stuart Baird
- Mississippi Burning IMDB — Gerry Hambling
- Rain Man IMDB — Stu Linder
International Feature Film
- ★ Pelle the Conqueror IMDB — Denmark
- Hanussen IMDB — Hungary
- The Music Teacher IMDB — Belgium
- Salaam Bombay! IMDB — India
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown IMDB — Spain
Makeup and Hairstyling
- ★ Beetlejuice IMDB — Ve Neill, Steve La Porte, Robert Short
- Coming to America IMDB — Rick Baker
- Scrooged IMDB — Tom Burman, Bari Dreiband-Burman
Original Score
Original Song
- ★ Working Girl IMDB — Music and Lyric by Carly SimonLet The River Run
- Bagdad Cafe IMDB — Music and Lyric by Bob TelsonCalling You
- Buster IMDB — Music by Lamont Dozier; Lyric by Phil CollinsTwo Hearts
Animated Short Film
- ★ Tin Toy IMDB — John Lasseter, William Reeves
- The Cat Came Back IMDB — Cordell Barker
- Technological Threat IMDB — Bill Kroyer, Brian Jennings
Live Action Short Film
- ★ The Appointments of Dennis Jennings IMDB — Dean Parisot, Steven Wright
- Cadillac Dreams IMDB — Matia Karrell, Abbee Goldstein
- Gullah Tales IMDB — George deGolian, Gary Moss
Sound Editing
Sound Mixing
- ★ Bird IMDB — Les Fresholtz, Dick Alexander, Vern Poore, Willie D. Burton
- Die Hard IMDB — Don Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton, Al Overton
- Gorillas in the Mist IMDB — Andy Nelson, Brian Saunders, Peter Handford
- Mississippi Burning IMDB — Robert Litt, Elliot Tyson, Rick Kline, Danny Michael
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit IMDB — Robert Knudson, John Boyd, Don Digirolamo, Tony Dawe
Special Achievement Award
- ★ Who Framed Roger Rabbit IMDB — Richard Williams
Source context
To Richard Williams for the animation direction of Who Framed Roger Rabbit.
Visual Effects
Adapted Screenplay
- ★ Dangerous Liaisons IMDB — Christopher Hampton
- The Accidental Tourist IMDB — Frank Galati, Lawrence Kasdan
- Gorillas in the Mist IMDB — Screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan; Story by Anna Hamilton Phelan, Tab Murphy
- Little Dorrit IMDB — Christine Edzard
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being IMDB — Jean-Claude Carrière, Philip Kaufman
Original Screenplay
- ★ Rain Man IMDB — Screenplay by Ronald Bass, Barry Morrow; Story by Barry Morrow
- Big IMDB — Gary Ross, Anne Spielberg
- Bull Durham IMDB — Ron Shelton
- A Fish Called Wanda IMDB — Screenplay by John Cleese; Story by John Cleese, Charles Crichton
- Running on Empty IMDB — Naomi Foner
Nominated films and other recorded entries
53 films represented in the 1988 archive selection.
- A Cry in the Dark
- A Fish Called Wanda
- A Handful of Dust
- Bagdad Cafe
- Beaches
- Beetlejuice
- Big
- Bird
- Bull Durham
- Buster
- Cadillac Dreams
- Coming to America
- Dangerous Liaisons
- Die Hard
- Family Gathering
- Gang Cops
- Gorillas in the Mist
- Gullah Tales
- Hanussen
- Hotel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie
- Let's Get Lost
- Little Dorrit
- Married to the Mob
- Mississippi Burning
- Pelle the Conqueror
- Portrait of Imogen
- Promises to Keep
- Rain Man
- Running on Empty
- Salaam Bombay!
- Scrooged
- Stand and Deliver
- Sunset
- Technological Threat
- Tequila Sunrise
- The Accidental Tourist
- The Accused
- The Appointments of Dennis Jennings
- The Cat Came Back
- The Children's Storefront
- The Cry of Reason - Beyers Naudé: An Afrikaner Speaks Out
- The Last Temptation of Christ
- The Milagro Beanfield War
- The Music Teacher
- The Unbearable Lightness of Being
- Tin Toy
- Tucker The Man and His Dream
- Who Framed Roger Rabbit
- Who Killed Vincent Chin?
- Willow
- Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
- Working Girl
- You Don't Have to Die
About these award records
This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.
Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.
Totals can include honorary, special and historical awards alongside competitive nominations. Awards without a linked film are outside these page totals. Source notes and uncertain records are retained; category comparisons omit groups with unresolved notes, ties or conflicting identities.
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