DK's Best Achievements in Cinema - 1987


Best Director
Stanley Kubrick    Full Metal Jacket
James L. Brooks    Broadcast News
Brian De Palma    The Untouchables
Woody Allen    Radio Days
Joe Dante    Innerspace
Also worth mentioning
John McTiernan    Predator
George Miller    The Witches of Eastwick

Best Actor
Vincent D'Onofrio    Full Metal Jacket
R. Lee Ermey    Full Metal Jacket
Albert Brooks    Broadcast News
Robert De Niro    The Untouchables
Jack Nicholson    The Witches of Eastwick
Also worth mentioning
Sean Connery    The Untouchables
Dennis Quaid    Innerspace
Martin Short    Innerspace
William Hurt    Broadcast News

Best Cinematography
Stephen H. Burum    The Untouchables
Also worth mentioning
Douglas Milsome    Full Metal Jacket
Andrew Laszlo    Innerspace
Donald McAlpine    Predator
Michael Ballhaus    Broadcast News

Best Score
Ennio Morricone    The Untouchables
Jerry Goldsmith    Innerspace
Alan Silvestri    Predator
Christopher Young    Hellraiser
Also worth mentioning
Bill Conti    Broadcast News
Vivian Kubrick    Full Metal Jacket
John Williams    The Witches of Eastwick

Best Makeup
Rob Bottin    The Witches of Eastwick
Bob Keen    Hellraiser
Rick Baker    Harry and the Hendersons

Best Sound Editing
Full Metal Jacket
Predator
The Untouchables
The Witches of Eastwick
Best Picture
Full Metal Jacket
Broadcast News
The Untouchables
Radio Days
Innerspace
Also worth mentioning
Predator
The Witches of Eastwick

Best Actress
Holly Hunter    Broadcast News
Dianne Wiest    Radio Days
Also worth mentioning
Joan Cusack    Broadcast News
Cher    The Witches of Eastwick

Best Writing
James L. Brooks    Broadcast News
Woody Allen    Radio Days
Stanley Kubrick,
Michael Herr,
Gustav Hasford
   Full Metal Jacket
Also worth mentioning
Michael Cristofer    The Witches of Eastwick
David Mamet    The Untouchables

Best Editing
Gerald B. Greenberg,
Bill Pankow
   The Untouchables
Martin Hunter    Full Metal Jacket
Also worth mentioning
Richard Marks    Broadcast News

Best Special/Visual Effects
Dennis Muren,
Rob Bottin
   Innerspace
?    The Witches of Eastwick
?    Full Metal Jacket
?    Predator

Best Production Design
The Untouchables
Radio Days
Full Metal Jacket

Best Steadicam
Gregory Lundsgaard    The Untouchables
Robert Agganis    Predator
Jean Marc Bringuier,
John Ward
   Full Metal Jacket

Leading movies:

Movies that were considered (32):
Adventures in Babysitting | Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold | Amazon Women on the Moon | Bad Taste | Broadcast News | Cry Freedom | Evil Dead II | Family Viewing | Full Metal Jacket | Hamburger Hill | Harry and the Hendersons | Hellraiser | Innerspace | Ishtar | Lung fu fong wan | Outrageous Fortune | Planes | Trains & Automobiles | Predator | Prince of Darkness | Project X | Radio Days | Roxanne | Some Kind of Wonderful | Street Trash | Superman IV: The Quest for Peace | Suspect | The Belly of an Architect | The Living Daylights | The Running Man | The Untouchables | The Witches of Eastwick | Wall Street.

Movies that were not considered (and should have):
Angel Heart | No Way Out | Raising Arizona | RoboCop | Spaceballs | Stakeout.


Special Awards

Worst Movie: Street Trash.
Worst Sequel: Superman IV: The Quest for Peace, Allan Quatermain and the Lost City of Gold.