| Best Science Fiction Film | Best Fantasy Film |
- Alien Nation
- * The Blob
- * '
- * My Stepmother Is an Alien
- * Short Circuit 2
- * They Live
| Who Framed Roger Rabbit* Big* The Land Before Time* Scrooged* Willow* Without a Clue |
| Best Horror Film | Best Performance by a Younger Actor |
| Beetlejuice* Child's Play* Dead Ringers* '* '* '* Waxwork | Fred Savage – Vice Versa as Charlie Seymour* Warwick Davis – Willow as Willow Ufgood* Rodney Eastman – Deadly Weapon as Zeke* Lukas Haas – Lady in White as Frankie Scarlatti* Corey Haim – Watchers as Travis Cornell* Jared Rushton – Big as Billy* Alex Vincent – Child's Play as Andy Barclay |
| Best Actor | Best Actress |
| Tom Hanks – Big as Josh Baskin* Hume Cronyn – ' as Joe Finley* Bob Hoskins – Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Eddie Valiant* Jeremy Irons – Dead Ringers as Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle* Bill Murray – Scrooged as Frank Cross* James Spader – Jack's Back as John / Rick Wesford | Catherine Hicks – Child's Play as Karen Barclay* Kim Basinger – My Stepmother Is an Alien as Celeste Martin* Amanda Donohoe – The Lair of the White Worm as Lady Sylvia Marsh* Cassandra Peterson – Elvira, Mistress of the Dark as Elvira* Joanna Pacuła – The Kiss as Felice Dunbar* Jessica Tandy – ' as Alma Finley |
| Best Supporting Actor | Best Supporting Actress |
| Robert Loggia – Big as MacMillan* Robert Englund – ' as Freddy Krueger* Jack Gilford – ' as Bernie Lefkowitz* Michael Keaton – Beetlejuice as Betelgeuse* Christopher Lloyd – Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Judge Doom* Mandy Patinkin – Alien Nation as Det. Samuel 'George' Francisco | Sylvia Sidney – Beetlejuice as Juno* Joanna Cassidy – Who Framed Roger Rabbit as Dolores* Katherine Helmond – Lady in White as Amanda Harper* Clare Higgins – ' as Julia Cotton* Jean Marsh – Willow as Queen Bavmorda* Zelda Rubinstein – Poltergeist III as Tangina Barrons* Meredith Salenger – The Kiss as Amy |
| Best Director | Best Writing |
| Robert Zemeckis – Who Framed Roger Rabbit* Tim Burton – Beetlejuice* Renny Harlin – '* Anthony Hickox – Waxwork* Penny Marshall – Big* Charles Matthau – Doin' Time on Planet Earth | Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg – Big* Michael McDowell and Warren Skaaren – Beetlejuice* Tom Holland, John Lafia and Don Mancini – Child's Play* David Cronenberg and Norman Snider – Dead Ringers* Alan B. McElroy – '* Jeffrey Price and Peter S. Seaman – Who Framed Roger Rabbit |
| Best Music | Best Costume |
| Christopher Young – * Danny Elfman – Beetlejuice* Michael Hoenig – The Blob* Howard Shore – Dead Ringers* John Massari – Killer Klowns from Outer Space* John Carpenter and Alan Howarth – They Live* Alan Silvestri – Who Framed Roger Rabbit | Barbara Lane – Willow* Denise Cronenberg – Dead Ringers* Darcie F. Olson – Killer Klowns from Outer Space* Michael Jeffery – The Lair of the White Worm* Stephen M. Chudej – Nightfall* Leonard Pollack – Waxwork |
| Best Make-up | Best Special Effects |
| Ve Neill, Steve La Porte and Robert Short – Beetlejuice* John M. Elliott, Jr. and Stan Winston – Alien Nation* R. Christopher Biggs and Sheri Short – '* Mark Shostrom – Phantasm II* David LeRoy Anderson and Lance Anderson – The Serpent and the Rainbow* Bob Keen – Waxwork | George Gibbs, Ken Ralston, Richard Williams – Who Framed Roger Rabbit* Peter Kuran, Alan Munro, Ted Rae and Robert Short – Beetlejuice* Kevin Pike, Hoyt Yeatman and Will Vinton – Moonwalker* Eric Brevig, Allen Hall – Scrooged* Eric Allard and Jeff Jarvis – Short Circuit 2* John Richardson – Willow |
