1987 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Winner
![Children of a Lesser God Marlee Matlin](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/children-of-a-lesser-god-randa-haines-image.jpg)
Children of a Lesser God
Marlee Matlin
A new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.
1987 Academy Awards – Actress in a Leading Role Nominees
![Aliens Sigourney Weaver](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/aliens-james-cameron-image.jpg)
Aliens
Sigourney Weaver
![Crimes of the Heart Sissy Spacek](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/crimes-of-the-heart-bruce-beresford-image.jpg)
Crimes of the Heart
Sissy Spacek
![Peggy Sue Got Married Kathleen Turner](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/peggy-sue-got-married-francis-ford-coppola-image.jpg)
Peggy Sue Got Married
Kathleen Turner
![The Morning After Jane Fonda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-morning-after-sidney-lumet-image.jpg)