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Academy Awards, USA: 1990

Oscar

Date:	26 March
Host:	Billy Crystal
Location:	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, L.A. County Music Center, Los Angeles, California, USA
Notes:	The show included segments broadcast from various places around the world, including a birthday tribute from Tokyo for honoree Akira Kurosawa. There were also segments done from Buenos Aires, London, Sydney and Moscow.

Best Picture


Winner:
	Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Richard D. Zanuck; Lili Fini Zanuck
Other Nominees:
	Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - A. Kitman Ho; Oliver Stone (I) Dead Poets Society (1989) - Steven Haft; Paul Junger Witt; Tony Thomas (I) Field of Dreams (1989) - Lawrence Gordon (I); Charles Gordon (I) My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) - Noel Pearson (I)

Best Actor in a Leading Role


Winner:
	My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) - Daniel Day-Lewis
Other Nominees:
	Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - Tom Cruise Dead Poets Society (1989) - Robin Williams (I) Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Morgan Freeman (I) Henry V (1989) - Kenneth Branagh

Best Actress in a Leading Role


Winner:
	Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Jessica Tandy - Jessica Tandy became the oldest winner of a competitive Oscar, at nearly 81, surpassing the achievement of George Burns.
Other Nominees:
	Camille Claudel (1988) - Isabelle Adjani Music Box (1989) - Jessica Lange Shirley Valentine (1989) - Pauline Collins The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) - Michelle Pfeiffer

Best Actor in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	Glory (1989) - Denzel Washington
Other Nominees:
	A Dry White Season (1989) - Marlon Brando Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - Martin Landau Do the Right Thing (1989) - Danny Aiello Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Dan Aykroyd

Best Actress in a Supporting Role


Winner:
	My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) - Brenda Fricker
Other Nominees:
	Enemies: A Love Story (1989) - Anjelica Huston Enemies: A Love Story (1989) - Lena Olin Parenthood (1989) - Dianne Wiest Steel Magnolias (1989) - Julia Roberts (I)

Best Director


Winner:
	Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - Oliver Stone (I)
Other Nominees:
	Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - Woody Allen Dead Poets Society (1989) - Peter Weir Henry V (1989) - Kenneth Branagh My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) - Jim Sheridan (I)

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen


Winner:
	Dead Poets Society (1989) - Tom Schulman
Other Nominees:
	Crimes and Misdemeanors (1989) - Woody Allen Do the Right Thing (1989) - Spike Lee Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1989) - Steven Soderbergh When Harry Met Sally... (1989) - Nora Ephron

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium


Winner:
	Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Alfred Uhry
Other Nominees:
	Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - Oliver Stone (I); Ron Kovic Enemies: A Love Story (1989) - Roger L. Simon; Paul Mazursky Field of Dreams (1989) - Phil Alden Robinson My Left Foot: The Story of Christy Brown (1989) - Jim Sheridan (I); Shane Connaughton

Best Cinematography


Winner:
	Glory (1989) - Freddie Francis
Other Nominees:
	Blaze (1989) - Haskell Wexler Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - Robert Richardson (I) The Abyss (1989) - Mikael Salomon The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) - Michael Ballhaus (I)

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration


Winner:
	Batman (1989) - Anton Furst; Peter Young (I)
Other Nominees:
	Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Bruno Rubeo; Crispian Sallis Glory (1989) - Norman Garwood; Garrett Lewis (I) The Abyss (1989) - Leslie Dilley; Anne Kuljian The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) - Dante Ferretti; Francesca Lo Schiavo

Best Costume Design


Winner:
	Henry V (1989) - Phyllis Dalton
Other Nominees:
	Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Elizabeth McBride Harlem Nights (1989) - Joe I. Tompkins The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) - Gabriella Pescucci Valmont (1989) - Theodor Pistek (II)

Best Sound


Winner:
	Glory (1989) - Donald O. Mitchell; Gregg Rudloff; Elliot Tyson; Russell Williams II
Other Nominees:
	Black Rain (1989/I) - Donald O. Mitchell; Kevin O'Connell (II); Greg P. Russell; Keith A. Wester Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - Michael Minkler; Gregory H. Watkins; Wylie Stateman; Tod A. Maitland Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - Ben Burtt; Gary Summers; Shawn Murphy (I); Tony Dawe The Abyss (1989) - Don J. Bassman; Kevin F. Cleary; Richard Overton; Lee Orloff

Best Film Editing


Winner:
	Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - David Brenner (I); Joe Hutshing
Other Nominees:
	Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Mark Warner (I) Glory (1989) - Steven Rosenblum L'ours (1988) - No�lle Boisson The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) - William Steinkamp (I)

Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing


Winner:
	Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - Ben Burtt; Richard Hymns
Other Nominees:
	Black Rain (1989/I) - Milton C. Burrow; William L. Manger Lethal Weapon 2 (1989) - Robert G. Henderson; Alan Robert Murray

Best Effects, Visual Effects


Winner:
	The Abyss (1989) - Hoyt Yeatman; Dennis Muren; John Bruno (I); Dennis Skotak
Other Nominees:
	Back to the Future Part II (1989) - Ken Ralston (I); Michael Lantieri; John Bell (I); Steve Gawley The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) - Richard Conway (I); Kent Houston

Best Makeup


Winner:
	Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - Manlio Rocchetti; Lynn Barber (I); Kevin Haney
Other Nominees:
	Dad (1989) - Dick Smith (II); Ken Diaz; Greg Nelson (I) The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988) - Maggie Weston (II); Fabrizio Sforza

Best Music, Original Song


Winner:
	The Little Mermaid (1989) - Alan Menken (music); Howard Ashman (lyrics) - For the song "Under the Sea"
Other Nominees:
	Chances Are (1989) - Tom Snow (music); Dean Pitchford (lyrics) - For the song "After All" Parenthood (1989) - Randy Newman (I) - For the song "I Love to See You Smile" Shirley Valentine (1989) - Marvin Hamlisch (music); Alan Bergman (I) (lyrics); Marilyn Bergman (lyrics) - For the song "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" The Little Mermaid (1989) - Alan Menken (music); Howard Ashman (lyrics) - For the song "Kiss the Girl"

Best Music, Original Score


Winner:
	The Little Mermaid (1989) - Alan Menken
Other Nominees:
	Born on the Fourth of July (1989) - John Williams (I) Field of Dreams (1989) - James Horner Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989) - John Williams (I) The Fabulous Baker Boys (1989) - Dave Grusin

Best Short Film, Animated


Winner:
	Balance (1989) - Christoph Lauenstein; Wolfgang Lauenstein
Other Nominees:
	Korova (1989) - Aleksandr Petrov (I) The Hill Farm (1989) - Mark Baker (III)

Best Short Film, Live Action


Winner:
	Work Experience (1989) - James Hendrie
Other Nominees:
	Amazon Diary (1989) - Robert Nixon (I) The Child Eater (1989) - Jonathan Tammuz

Best Documentary, Short Subjects


Winner:
	The Johnstown Flood (1989) - Charles Guggenheim
Other Nominees:
	Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 (1989) - David Petersen (II) Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future (1989) - Ray Errol Fox

Best Documentary, Features


Winner:
	Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989) - Rob Epstein (I); Bill Couturi�
Other Nominees:
	Adam Clayton Powell (1989) - Richard Kilberg; Yvonne Smith (II) Crack USA: County Under Siege (1989) - Vince DiPersio; Bill Guttentag For All Mankind (1989) - Al Reinert; Betsy Broyles Breier Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1989) - Judith Leonard; Bill Jersey

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1988) - Italy
Other Nominees:
	Camille Claudel (1988) - France Dansen med Regitze (1989) - Denmark Jésus de Montréal (1989) - Canada Lo que le pasó a Santiago (1989) - Puerto Rico

Honorary Award


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

Special Commendation


Awarded to:
	SMPTE - For continuing contributions of its members toward making film a primary form of international communication.

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award


Awarded to:
	Howard W. Koch

Academy Award of Merit

Date:	3 March
Location:	Grand Ball Room, Beverly Hilton Hotel, Los Angeles, California, USA


Winner:
	- Not awarded.

Scientific and Engineering Award


Winners:
	J.L. Fisher (J.L. Fisher Inc.) - For the design and manufacture of the Fisher Model 10 Dolly. James Ketcham (JSK Engineering) - For excellence in the engineering and adaptability of the SDA521B advance/retard system for magnetic film sound dubbing. J. Noxon Leavitt; ISTEC, Inc. - For the invention of (Leavitt) and for the continuing development (ISTEC) of the WESCAM Stabilized Camera System. Klaus Resch; FGV Panther Corp. - For the design (Resch) and for the development (Panther) of the Super Panther MS-180 camera dolly. 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.

Technical Achievement Award


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

Gordon E. Sawyer Award


Awarded to:
	Pierre Angenieux