Oscar Rewrite: 1985

 

Best Picture: Out of Africa     Back to the Future

Best Director: Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)     Terry Gilliam (Brazil)

Best Actor: William Hurt (Kiss of the Spider Woman)    Harrison Ford (Witness)

Best Actress: Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful) Molly Ringwald (The Breakfast Club)

Best Supporting Actor: Don Ameche (Cocoon) John Matuszak (The Goonies)

Best Supporting Actress: Anjelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor) Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple)

Best Original Screenplay: Witness   The Purple Rose of Cairo

Best Adapted Screenplay: Out of Africa

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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