Oscar Rewrite: 1986

 

Best Picture: Platoon

Best Director: Oliver Stone (Platoon)   David Lynch (Blue Velvet)

Best Actor: Paul Newman (The Color of Money)   Tom Cruise (Top Gun)

Best Actress: Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)   Sigourney Weaver (Aliens)

Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine (Hannah & Her Sisters) Dennis Hopper (Blue Velvet / Hoosiers)

Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest   Barbara Hershey (Hannah & Her Sisters / Hoosiers)

Best Original Screenplay: Hannah & Her Sisters    Ferris Bueller’s Day Off

Best Adapted Screenplay: A Room With a View    The Fly

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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