| Best Picture  
1. Die Hard🏆
2. Grave on the Fireflies
3. Mississippi Burning
4. Rain Man
5. Akira

| Best Director
1. John McTiernan (Die Hard)🏆
2. Martin Scorsese (The Last Temptation of Christ)
3. Barry Levinson (Rain Man)
4. Sidney Lumet (Running on Empty)
5. Tim Burton (Beetlejuice)

| Best Actress
1. Glenn Close (Dangerous Liaisons) 🏆
2. Genna Davis (The Accidental Tourist)
3. Sigourney Weaver (Working Girl)
4. Jodie Foster (The Accused)
5. Elizabeth Perkins (Big)

| Best Actor
1. Dustin Hoffman (Rain Man)🏆
2. Willem Dafoe (The Last Temptation of Christ)
3. Gene Hackman (Mississippi Burning)
4. Bill Murray (Scrooged)
5. Bruce Willis (Die Hard)

| Best Supporting Actress
1. Frances McDormand (Mississippi Burning)🏆
2. Winona Ryder (Beetlejuice)
3. Barbara Hershey (The Last Temptation of Christ)
4. Genna Davis (Beetlejuice)
5. Kathleen Turner (The Accidental Tourist)

| Best Supporting Actor
1. Willem Dafoe (Mississippi Burning)🏆
2. Tom Cruise (Rain Man)
3. Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice)
4. Alan Rickman (Die Hard)
5. Christopher Walken (Biloxi Blues)

| Best Adapted Screenplay
1. Die Hard🏆
2. Grave of the Fireflies
3. The Last Temptation of Christ
4. They Live
5. Akira

| Best Original Screenplay
1. Mississippi Burning🏆
2. Rain Man
3. Big
4. Beetlejuice
5. Coming to America

| Best Cinematography
1. Die Hard🏆
2. The Last Temptation of Christ
3. Mississippi Burning
4. Cocktail
5. Beetlejuice

| Best Production Design
1. Die Hard🏆
2. The Last Temptation of Christ
3. Mississippi Burning
4. Beetlejuice
5. Big

| Best Film Editing
1. Die Hard🏆
2. Beetlejuice
3. They Live
4. Scrooged
5. Grave of the Fireflies

| Best Costume Design
1. Coming to America🏆
2. Mississippi Burning
3. Beetlejuice
4. Big
5. The Last Temptation of Christ

| Best Makeup and Hairstyling 
1. Beetlejuice🏆
2. Coming to America
3. The Last Temptation of Christ
4. Scrooged
5. Mississippi Burning

| Best Sound Mixing
1. Die Hard🏆
2. Akira
3. Beetlejuice
4. They Live
5. The Last Temptation of Christ

| Best Sound Editing
1. Die Hard🏆
2. Beetlejuice
3. Big
4. Scrooged
5. Coming to America

| Best Score
1. Rain Man🏆
2. Die Hard
3. Beetlejuice
4. The Accidental Tourist
5. They Live

| Best Song
1. Let the River Run (Working Girl/Carly Simon)🏆

| Best Visual Effects (Shortlist of 10)
1. Die Hard🏆
2. Big
3. Mississippi Burning
4. The Last Temptation of Christ
5. Coming to America
6. Rain Man
7. Scrooged
8. Beetlejuice
9. They Live
10. School Daze

| Best Animated Feature
1. Grave of the Fireflies🏆
2. Akira
3. Who Framed Roger Rabbit

| Best International Film
1. Grave of the Fireflies🏆

| Best Movie of 1988
1. Die Hard🏆