1985 Alternate Oscars

The Academy picked Out of Africa as the year's best movie but I think Back to the Future is the one that has become a permanent part of the culture ...

Best Picture of 1985

★ Back To The Future

Blood Simple

Brazil

The Breakfast Club

The Color Purple

✔ Out of Africa

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Ran

Shoah

Witness

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Best Actor of 1985

Griffin Dunne (After Hours)

Harrison Ford (Witness)

Michael J. Fox (Back To The Future)

★ ✔ William Hurt and Raul Julia (Kiss of the Spider Woman)

Jonathan Pryce (Brazil)

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Best Actress of 1985

Norma Aleandro (The Official Story)

Mia Farrow (The Purple Rose of Cairo)

★ Whoopi Goldberg (The Color Purple)

✔ Geraldine Page (The Trip to Bountiful)

Meryl Streep (Out of Africa and Plenty)

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Best Director of 1985

Terry Gilliam (Brazil)

John Hughes (The Breakfast Club)

★ Akira Kurosawa (Ran)

✔ Sydney Pollack (Out of Africa)

Robert Zemeckis (Back to the Future)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1985

Klaus Maria Brandauer (Out of Africa)

Crispin Glover (Back to the Future)

Danny Glover (The Color Purple, Silverado and Witness)

★ Christopher Lloyd (Back to the Future)

M. Emmet Walsh (Blood Simple)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1985

Margaret Avery (The Color Purple)

Mieko Harada (Ran)

★ ✔ Anjelica Huston (Prizzi’s Honor)

Lea Thompson (Back to the Future)

Oprah Winfrey (The Color Purple)

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Special Award

Robert Zemeckis & Bob Gale (Back to the Future) (original screenplay)

Kevin Pike and Ken Ralston (Back to the Future) (visual effects)

Akira Kurosawa, Hideo Oguni & Masato Ide, from the play King Lear by William Shakespeare (Ran) (adapted screenplay)

"Don't You (Forget About Me)" (The Breakfast Club) music and lyrics by Keith Forsey and Steve Schiff (song)

Emilio Estevez, Anthony Michael Hall, Judd Nelson, Molly Ringwald and Ally Sheedy (The Breakfast Club) (best ensemble cast)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.