Academy Awards 1990

Best Picture

WINNER
Driving Miss Daisy: Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck

NOMINEES
Born on the Fourth of July: A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone
Dead Poets Society: Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt, Tony Thomas
Field of Dreams: Lawrence Gordon, Charles Gordon
My Left Foot: Noel Pearson

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER
My Left Foot: Daniel Day-Lewis

NOMINEES
Henry V: Kenneth Branagh
Born on the Fourth of July: Tom Cruise
Driving Miss Daisy: Morgan Freeman
Dead Poets Society: Robin Williams

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER
Driving Miss Daisy: Jessica Tandy
Jessica Tandy became the oldest winner of a competitive Oscar, at nearly 81, surpassing the achievement of George Burns.

NOMINEES
Camille Claudel: Isabelle Adjani
Shirley Valentine: Pauline Collins
Music Box: Jessica Lange
The Fabulous Baker Boys: Michelle Pfeiffer

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER
Glory: Denzel Washington

NOMINEES
Do the Right Thing: Danny Aiello
Driving Miss Daisy: Dan Aykroyd
A Dry White Season: Marlon Brando
Crimes and Misdemeanors: Martin Landau

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER
My Left Foot: Brenda Fricker

NOMINEES
Enemies: A Love Story: Anjelica Huston
Enemies: A Love Story: Lena Olin
Steel Magnolias: Julia Roberts
Parenthood: Dianne Wiest

Best Director

WINNER
Born on the Fourth of July: Oliver Stone

NOMINEES
Crimes and Misdemeanors: Woody Allen
Henry V: Kenneth Branagh
My Left Foot: Jim Sheridan
Dead Poets Society: Peter Weir

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER
Dead Poets Society: Tom Schulman

NOMINEES
Crimes and Misdemeanors: Woody Allen
Do the Right Thing: Spike Lee
Sex, Lies, and Videotape: Steven Soderbergh
When Harry Met Sally: Nora Ephron

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

WINNER
Driving Miss Daisy: Alfred Uhry

NOMINEES
Born on the Fourth of July: Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic
Enemies: A Love Story: Roger L. Simon, Paul Mazursky
Field of Dreams: Phil Alden Robinson
My Left Foot: Jim Sheridan, Shane Connaughton

Best Cinematography

WINNER
Glory: Freddie Francis

NOMINEES
The Abyss: Mikael Salomon
Blaze: Haskell Wexler
Born on the Fourth of July: Robert Richardson
The Fabulous Baker Boys: Michael Ballhaus

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

WINNER
Batman: Anton Furst, Peter Young

NOMINEES
The Abyss: Leslie Dilley, Anne Kuljian
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Dante Ferretti, Francesca Lo Schiavo
Driving Miss Daisy: Bruno Rubeo, Crispian Sallis
Glory: Norman Garwood, Garrett Lewis

Best Costume Design

WINNER
Henry V: Phyllis Dalton

NOMINEES
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Gabriella Pescucci
Driving Miss Daisy: Elizabeth McBride
Harlem Nights: Joe I. Tompkins
Valmont: Theodor Pistek

Best Sound

WINNER
Glory: Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, Russell Williams II

NOMINEES
The Abyss: Don J. Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton, Lee Orloff
Black Rain: Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Keith A. Wester
Born on the Fourth of July: Michael Minkler, Gregory H. Watkins, Wylie Stateman, Tod A. Maitland
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy, Tony Dawe

Best Film Editing

WINNER
Born on the Fourth of July: David Brenner, Joe Hutshing

NOMINEES
The Bear: Noëlle Boisson
Driving Miss Daisy: Mark Warner
The Fabulous Baker Boys: William Steinkamp
Glory: Steven Rosenblum

Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

WINNER
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns

NOMINEES
Black Rain: Milton C. Burrow, William L. Manger
Lethal Weapon 2: Robert G. Henderson, Alan Robert Murray

Best Effects, Visual Effects

WINNER
The Abyss: Hoyt Yeatman, Dennis Muren, John Bruno, Dennis Skotak

NOMINEES
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Richard Conway, Kent Houston
Back to the Future Part II: Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell, Steve Gawley

Best Makeup

WINNER
Driving Miss Daisy: Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber, Kevin Haney

NOMINEES
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen: Maggie Weston, Fabrizio Sforza
Dad: Dick Smith, Ken Diaz, Greg Nelson

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER
The Little Mermaid: Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman (lyrics)
For the song "Under the Sea"

NOMINEES
Chances Are: Tom Snow (music), Dean Pitchford (lyrics)
For the song "After All"
Shirley Valentine: Marvin Hamlisch (music), Alan Bergman (lyrics), Marilyn Bergman (lyrics)
For the song "The Girl Who Used to Be Me"
Parenthood: Randy Newman
For the song "I Love to See You Smile"
The Little Mermaid: Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman (lyrics)
For the song "Kiss the Girl"

Best Music, Original Score

WINNER
The Little Mermaid: Alan Menken

NOMINEES
Born on the Fourth of July: John Williams
The Fabulous Baker Boys: Dave Grusin
Field of Dreams: James Horner
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade: John Williams

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER
Balance: Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein

NOMINEES
Korova: Aleksandr Petrov
The Hill Farm: Mark Baker

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER
Work Experience: James Hendrie

NOMINEES
Amazon Diary: Robert Nixon
The Child Eater: Jonathan Tammuz

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER
The Johnstown Flood: Charles Guggenheim

NOMINEES
Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9: David Petersen
Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future: Ray Errol Fox

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt: Rob Epstein, Bill Couturié

NOMINEES
Adam Clayton Powell: Richard Kilberg, Yvonne Smith
Crack USA: County Under Siege: Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag
For All Mankind: Al Reinert, Betsy Broyles Breier
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren: Judith Leonard, Bill Jersey

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER
Cinema Paradiso
Italy

NOMINEES
Camille Claudel
France
Jesus of Montreal
Canada
Lo que le pasó a Santiago
Puerto Rico
Dansen med Regitze
Denmark

Honorary Award

WINNER
Akira Kurosawa
For cinematic accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained worldwide audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world.

Special Commendation

WINNER
(SMPTE)
For continuing contributions of its members toward making film a primary form of international communication.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

WINNER
Howard W. Koch

Academy Award of Merit

WINNER

Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award

WINNERS
J. Noxon Leavitt (ISTEC, Inc.)
For the invention of (Leavitt) and for the continuing development
(ISTEC) of the WESCAM Stabilized Camera System.
James Ketcham (JSK Engineering)
For excellence in the engineering and adaptability of the SDA521B advance/retard system for magnetic film sound dubbing.
Geoffrey H. Williamson (Wilcam Photo Research Inc.), Robert D. Auguste
For the design and development (Williamson) and the electronic design and development (Auguste) of the Wilcam W-7 200 frames per second VistaVision Rotating Mirror Reflex camera.
Klaus Resch (FGV Panther Corp.)
For the design (Resch) and for the development (Panther) of the Super Panther MS-180 camera dolly.
J.L. Fisher (J.L. Fisher Inc.)
For the design and manufacture of the Fisher Model 10 Dolly.

Technical Achievement Award

WINNERS
Leo Cattozzo
For the design and development of the CIR-Catozzo self-perforating adhesive tape film splicer.
(Magna-Tech Electronic Co., Inc.)
For introduction of the first remotely controlled advance/retard function for magnetic film sound dubbing.

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

WINNER
Pierre Angenieux

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