That was another poor year, IIRC. The Last Emporer was up against Empire of the Sun (a little confusion with the names back then for me); "Hope and Glory", a slice-of-life kind of film set in WWII; Kenneth Brannagh's "Henry V", which was comparitively low-budget; and a fifth movie, which I'm forgetting. Oddly enough, I recall that only film of the five that I didn't see was "Empire of the Sun". (Yes, I remember that I saw the fifth film even if I can't actually remember what it is now.) Granted, 2 of them I saw on VHS.