46th Golden Globe Awards

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The 46th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1988, were held on January 28, 1989.

Winners and nominees

Film

Best Actor - Drama

Dustin Hoffman - Rain Man

• Gene Hackman - Mississippi Burning
• Tom Hulce - Dominick and Eugene
• Edward James Olmos - Stand and Deliver
• Forest Whitaker - Bird

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Tom Hanks - Big

• Michael Caine - Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
• John Cleese - A Fish Called Wanda
• Robert De Niro - Midnight Run
• Bob Hoskins - Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Best Actress - Drama

Jodie Foster - The Accused

Shirley Maclaine - Madame Sousatzka

Sigourney Weaver - Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey

• Christine Lahti - Running on Empty
• Meryl Streep - Evil Angels

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Melanie Griffith - Working Girl

• Jamie Lee Curtis - A Fish Called Wanda
• Amy Irving - Crossing Delancey
• Michelle Pfeiffer - Married to the Mob
• Susan Sarandon - Bull Durham

Best Director

Clint Eastwood - Bird

• Barry Levinson - Rain Man
• Sidney Lumet - Running on Empty
• Mike Nichols - Working Girl
• Alan Parker - Mississippi Burning
• Fred Schepisi - Evil Angels

Best Film - Drama

Rain Man

• The Accidental Tourist
• Evil Angels
• Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey
• Mississippi Burning
• Running on Empty
• The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Best Film - Musical or Comedy

Working Girl

• Big
• A Fish Called Wanda
• Midnight Run
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit

Best Foreign Language Film

Pelle the Conqueror (Pelle erobreren), Denmark

• Babette's Feast (Babettes gæstebud), Denmark
• Hanussen, West Germany
• Salaam Bombay!, India
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown (Mujeres al borde de un ataque de nervios), Spain

Best Original Score

"Gorillas in the Mist: The Story of Dian Fossey" - Maurice Jarre

• "The Accidental Tourist" - John Williams
• "Passion: Music for The Last Temptation of Christ" - Peter Gabriel
• "Madame Sousatzka" - Gerald Gouriet
• "The Milagro Beanfield War" - Dave Grusin

Best Original Song

"Two Hearts" - Buster
"Let the River Run" - Working Girl

• "When a Woman Loves a Man" - Bull Durham
• "Kokomo" - Cocktail
• "Why Should I Worry?" - Oliver & Company
• "Twins" - Twins

Best Screenplay

Running on Empty - Naomi Foner

• Evil Angels - Robert Caswell and Fred Schepisi
• Mississippi Burning - Chris Gerolmo
• Rain Man - Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
• Working Girl - Kevin Wade

Best Supporting Actor

Martin Landau - Tucker: The Man and His Dream

• Alec Guinness - Little Dorrit
• Neil Patrick Harris - Clara's Heart
• Raul Julia - Moon Over Parador
• Lou Diamond Phillips - Stand and Deliver
• River Phoenix - Running on Empty

Best Supporting Actress

Sigourney Weaver - Working Girl

• Sonia Braga - Moon Over Parador
• Barbara Hershey - The Last Temptation of Christ
• Lena Olin - The Unbearable Lightness of Being
• Diane Venora - Bird

Television

Best Actor - Drama Series

Ron Perlman - Beauty and the Beast

• Corbin Bernsen - L.A. Law
• Harry Hamlin - L.A. Law
• Carroll O'Connor - In the Heat of the Night
• Ken Wahl - Wiseguy

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Series

Michael J. Fox - Family Ties
Judd Hirsch - Dear John
Richard Mulligan - Empty Nest

• Ted Danson - Cheers
• Tony Danza - Who's the Boss?
• John Goodman - Roseanne

Best Actor - Miniseries or TV Film

Michael Caine - Jack the Ripper
Stacy Keach - Hemingway

• Richard Chamberlain - The Bourne Identity
• Anthony Hopkins - The Tenth Man
• Jack Lemmon - The Murder of Mary Phagan

Best Actress - Drama Series

Jill Eikenberry - L.A. Law

• Susan Dey - L.A. Law
• Sharon Gless - Cagney & Lacey
• Linda Hamilton - Beauty and the Beast
• Angela Lansbury - Murder, She Wrote

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Series

Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown

• Beatrice Arthur - The Golden Girls
• Roseanne - Roseanne
• Tracey Ullman - The Tracey Ullman Show
• Betty White - The Golden Girls

Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Film

Ann Jillian - The Ann Jillian Story

• Vanessa Redgrave - A Man for All Seasons
• Jane Seymour - War and Remembrance
• Jane Seymour - The Woman He Loved
• JoBeth Williams - Baby M

Best Series - Drama

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• Beauty and the Beast
• L.A. Law
• Murder, She Wrote
• Wiseguy

Best Series - Musical or Comedy

The Wonder Years

• Cheers
• The Golden Girls
• Murphy Brown
• Roseanne

Best Miniseries or TV Film

War and Remembrance

• Hemingway
• Jack the Ripper
• The Murder of Mary Phagan
• The Tenth Man

Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Film

Barry Bostwick - War and Remembrance
John Gielgud - War and Remembrance

• Armand Assante - Jack the Ripper
• Kirk Cameron - Growing Pains
• Larry Drake - L.A. Law
• Derek Jacobi - The Tenth Man
• Edward James Olmos - Miami Vice

Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or TV Film

Katherine Helmond - Who's the Boss?

• Jackée Harry - 227
• Swoosie Kurtz - Baja Oklahoma
• Rhea Perlman - Cheers
• Susan Ruttan - L.A. Law

See also

• 61st Academy Awards
• 9th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 40th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 41st Primetime Emmy Awards
• 42nd British Academy Film Awards
• 43rd Tony Awards
• 1988 in film
• 1988 in American television