Box Office Hits

1. Top Gun ($176.8 million)
2. Crocodile Dundee ($174.6 million)
3. Platoon ($138 million)
4. The Karate Kid II ($115.1 million)
5. Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home ($109.7 million)
6. Back to School ($91.3 million)
7. Aliens ($85.2 million)
8. The Golden Child ($79.8 million)
9. Ruthless People ($71.6 million)
10. Ferris Bueller's Day Off ($70.1 million)

Academy Awards

• Best Picture: Platoon
• Best Director: Oliver Stone (Platoon)
• Best Actor: Paul Newman (The Color of Money)
• Best Actress: Marlee Matlin (Children of a Lesser God)
• Best Supporting Actor: Michael Caine (Hannah and Her Sisters)
• Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest (Hannah and Her Sisters)
• Best Original Screenplay: Woody Allen (Hannah and Her Sisters)
• Best Original Song: "Take My Breath Away" Morodor/Whitlock (Top Gun)

Other Films That Year

• About Last Night • At Close Range • The Best of Times • Big Trouble in Little China • Children of a Lesser God • The Clan of the Cave Bear
• Club Paradise • Cobra • The Color of Money • Crimes of the Heart • Critters • The Delta Force • Down and Out in Beverly Hills • F/X
• Flight of the Navigator • The Fly • Hannah and Her Sisters • Highlander • The Hitcher • Hoosiers • Howard the Duck • Iron Eagle
• Legal Eagles • Little Shop of Horrors • Lucas • Manhunter • The Money Pit • The Name of the Rose • Nine 1/2 Weeks • No Mercy
• Peggy Sue Got Married • Power • Pretty in Pink • Quicksilver • River's Edge • A Room with a View • Short Circuit • Sid and Nancy
• Something Wild • Soul Man • Stand by Me • The Transformers: The Movie

Music Singles

1. "That's What Friends Are For" - (Dionne & Friends)
2. "Walk Like An Egyptian" - (The Bangles)
3. "On My Own" - (Patti Labelle & Michael McDonald)
4. "The Way It Is" - (Bruce Hornsby & The Range)
5. "You Give Love A Bad Name" - (Bon Jovi)
6. "Greatest Love Of All" - (Whitney Houston)
7. "There'll Be Sad Songs" - (Billy Ocean)
8. "How Will I Know" - (Whitney Houston)
9. "Kyrie" - (Mr. Mister)
10. "Kiss" - (Prince & The Revolution)

TV (85-86 season)

1. The Cosby Show
2. Family Ties
3. Murder, She Wrote
4. 60 Minutes
5. Cheers
6. Dallas
7. Dynasty
8. The Golden Girls
9. Miami Vice
10. Who's the Boss

TV (86-87 season)

1. The Cosby Show
2. Family Ties
3. Cheers
4. Murder, She Wrote
5. The Golden Girls
6. 60 Minutes
7. Night Court
8. Growing Pains
9. Moonlighting
10. Who's the Boss?