59th Academy Awards

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59th Academy Awards
Date	Monday, March 30, 1987
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Host	Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, Paul Hogan
Producer	Samuel Goldwyn, Jr.
Director	Marty Pasetta

The 59th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1987 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The ceremonies were presided over by Chevy Chase, Goldie Hawn, and Paul Hogan.

Contents 1 Winners 1.1 Feature Films 1.2 Acting 1.3 Screenplay & Direction 2 Notable Events

[edit] Winners

[edit] Feature Films

Category	Winner
Best motion picture	Platoon	Arnold Kopelson
Best foreign language film	The Assault	The Netherlands
Best documentary feature	Artie Shaw: Time Is All You've Got and Down and Out in America (tie)	Brigitte Berman, and Joseph Feury and Milton Justice
Best Cinematography	The Mission

[edit] Acting

Category	Winner	Movie
Best actor in a leading role	Paul Newman	The Color of Money
Best actress in a leading role	Marlee Matlin	Children of a Lesser God
Best actor in a supporting role	Michael Caine	Hannah and Her Sisters
Best actress in a supporting role	Dianne Weist	Hannah and Her Sisters

[edit] Screenplay & Direction

Category	Winner	Movie
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Woody Allen	Hannah and Her Sisters
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala	A Room with a View
Best Director	Oliver Stone	Platoon

[edit] Notable Events

The Academy awards show was broadcast on the ABC network at the same time as CBS network broadcast of the 1987 NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Tournament championship game between Indiana and Syracuse. Chevy Chase quipped later in the evening, "Is the game over yet?" The show would subsequently be scheduled around the tournament broadcast by moving it later in April for two years.