Oscar Nominations Spotlight 1987 Best Picture Picks
The Academy lists Best Picture nominees including Platoon A Room With a View Children of a Lesser God Hannah and Her Sisters and The Mission. Best Actor nominees include Paul Newman Dexter Gordon Bob Hoskins William Hurt James Woods. Best Supporting Actor includes Tom Berenger Willem Dafoe Michael Caine Denholm Elliott Dennis Hopper. Best Actress nominees feature Jane Fonda Sissy Spacek Maree Matlin Kathleen Turner Sigourney Weaver. Best Supporting Actress includes Maggie Smith Tess Harper Piper Laurie Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio Dianne Wiest. Best Director contenders are Lynch Allen Joffe Stone Ivory. Foreign Language Film nominees include The Assault Betty Blue The Decline of the American Empire My Sweet Village and 38. Top Songs include The Glory of Love Life in a Looking Glass Mean Green Mother From Outer Space Somewhere Out There Take My Breath Away. Original Screenplay nominees list Crocodile Dundee Hannah and Her Sisters My Beautiful Laundrette Platoon Salvador. Best Screenplay Adaptation nominees feature Children of a Lesser God The Color of Money Crimes of the Heart A Room With a View Stand by Me.
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Platoon and A Room With a View Lead Oscar Nominations
The 59th Academy Awards nominees include Platoon and A Room With a View with eight nominations each, followed by seven for Aliens Hannah and Her Sisters and The Mission. Paul Newman scores his seventh acting nod for The Color of Money, with Dexter Gordon and others earning acting nominations.
Waste plan faces criticism over interim storage site in Tennessee
Rep. Bart Gordon charges the DOE lacks congressional authorization for a $3 billion Monitored Retrievable Storage facility in Tennessee to temporarily hold nuclear waste. He argues the move dodges the Nuclear Waste Policy Act's push for a permanent repository while Herrington defends the interim site as essential, though he concedes specific congressional approval is required.
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