Two films win 22 nominations for Oscar

Press, 7 February 1986, Page 7

Two films win 22 nominations for Oscar

NZPA-AP Beverly Hills, California “The Colour Purple,” the drama of a rural black woman’s struggle for independence, and “Out of Africa,” a romantic adventure set in a British colony, scored 11 nominations apiece yesterday for the fifty-eighth Academy Awards. “Prizzi’s Honour,” the bitter comedy of a hus-band-and-wife Mafia hitteam, and “Witness,” a police chase against a backdrop of Amish farm country, received eight nominations apiece. Peter Weir, an Australian, was nominated as best director for “Witness.” Nominees for best actor of 1985 were Harrison Ford, of “Witness,” Jack Nicholson, of “Prizzi’s Honour,” James Garner, of “Murphy’s Romance,” William Hurt of “Kiss of the Spider Woman," and

Jon Voight, of “Runaway Train.”

Whoopie Goldberg, the stand-up comic making her film debut, was nominated for best actress in “The Colour Purple.” Also nominated were three previous Oscar winners — Anne Bancroft for “Agnes of God,” Jessica Lange for “Sweet Dreams,” and Meryl Streep for “Out of Africa” — and Geraldine Page, for “The Trip to Bountiful.” Page, aged 61, has been nominated eight times and has never won.

Don Ameche, whose film career began in 1936, finally made the Oscar race as supporting actor in “Cocoon”

Margaret Avery and Oprah Winfrey, both of “The Colour Purple,” appeared among the nominees for supporting actress, with Anjelica Huston, who was directed by her father, John Huston,

in “Prizzi’s Honour.” In the race for best direction were two classic film-makers: Huston, aged 79, for “Prizzi’s Honour,” and Akiro Kurasawa, of Japan, for “Ran.” The director, Steven Spielberg, the record money-making champion, was not named for his most ambitious drama, “The Colour Purple.” One nomination for the best picture of 1985 was “Kiss of the Spider Woman,” the story of a homosexual prisoner living out his fantasies by telling the plots of old Bmovies. The full list of nominees is:

Best picture.— “The Colour Purple”; “Kiss of the Spider Woman”; “Out of Africa”; “Prizzie’s Honour”; “Witness.”

Best actor.— Harrison Ford, “Witness”; James Garner, “Murphys

Roman”; William Hurt, “Kiss of The Spider Woman”; Jack Nicholson, "Prizzi’s Honour”; Jon Voight, “Runaway Train.” Best actress.— Anne Bancroft, “Agnes of God”; Whoopi Goldberg, “The Colour Purple”; Jessica Lange, “Sweet Dreams”; Geraldine Page, “The Trip of Bountiful”; Meryl Streep, “Out of Africa.” Supporting actor. — Don Ameche, “Cocoon”; Klaus Maria Brandauer, “Out of Africa”; William Hickey, “Prizzi’s Honour”; Robert Loggia, “Jagged Edge”; Eric Roberts, “Runaway Train." Supporting actress.— Margaret Avery, “The Colour Purple"; Anjelica Huston, “Prizzi’s Honour”; Amy Madigan, “Twice in a Lifetime”; Meg Tilly, “Agnes of God”; Oprah Winfrey, “The Colour Purple.” Director.— Hector Ba-

benco, “Kiss of the Spider Woman"; Sydney Pollack, “Out of Africa”; John Huston, "Prizzi’s Honour”; Akira Kurosawa, “Ran”; Peter Weir, “Witness.” Foreign-language film— “Angry Harvest” West Germany; "Colonel Redl,” Hungary; “The Official Story,” Argentina; “Three Men and a Cradle,” France; “When Father Was Away on Business,” Yugoslavia. Original song: “Miss Celie’s Blues (Sister),” “The Colour Purple”; “Power of Love, “Back to the Future”; “Say You, Say Me,” “White Nights”;“Separate Lives,” "White Nights;” "Surprise, Surprise,” “A Chorus Line.”

Original screenplay.— Robert Zemeckis and Bob Gale, “Back to the Future”; Terry Gilliam, Tom Stoppard, and Charles McKeown,

“Brazil”; Luis Puenzo and Aida Bortnik, “The Official Story”; Woody Allen, “The Purple Rose of Cairo”; William Kelley, Pamela Wallace and Earl W. Wallace, “Witness.” Screenplay adaptation.— Menno Meyjes, “The Colour Purple”; Leonard Schrader, “Kiss of the Spider Woman”; Kurt Luedtke, “Out of Africa”; Richard Condon and Janet Roach, “Prizzi’s Honour”; Horton Foote, “The Trip to Bountiful.” Cinematography.— Allen Daviau, “The Colour Purple”; William A. Fraker, “Murphy’s Romance”; David Watkin, “Out of Africa”; Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda, and Asakazu Nakai, “Ran”; John Seale, “Witness.”

Original score.— Georges Delerue, “Agnes of God”; Quincy Jones, Jeremy Lubbock, Rod

Temperton, Caiphus Semenya, Andrae Crouch, Chris Boardman, Jorge Calandrelli, Joel Rosenbaum, Fred Steiner, Jack Hayes, Jerry Hey, and Randy Kerber, “The Colour Purple"; John Barry, “Out of Africa”; Bruce Broughton, “Silverado”; Maurice Jarre, “Witness.” Art direction.— “Brazil”; “The Colour Purple”; “Out of Africa”; “Ran”; “Witness.”

Costume design.— “The Colour Purple”; “The Journey of Natty Gann”; “Out of Africa”; “Prizzi’s Honour”; “Ran.”

Documentary feature.— “Broken Rainbow”; “Las Madres”; “Soldiers in Hiding”; “The Statue of Liberty”; “Unfinished Business.”

Documentary short subject— "The Courage to Care”; “Keats and his Nightingale”; “Making Overtures”; “Witness to

War”; “The Wizard of the Strings.”

Film editing.— “A Chorus Line”; “Out of Africa”; “Prizzi’s Honour”; “Runaway Train”; "Witness.” Animated short film. — "Anna Bella”; “The Big Snit”; “Second Class Mail.”

Live action short film.— “Graffiti”; “Molly’s Pilgrim”; “Rainbow War.” Sound: “Back to the Future”; “A Chorus Line”; “Ladyhawke”; “Out of Africa"; “Silverado.” Sound-effects editing: “Back to the Future”; “Ladyhawke”; “Rambo: First Blood Part II.” Visual effects: “Cocoon”; “Return to Oz”; “Young Sherlock Holmes.”

Make-up: “The Colour Purple”; “Mask”; "Remo Williams”: “The Adventure Begins.”