| 62nd Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | March 26, 1990 | |||
| Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Los Angeles, California | |||
| Host | Billy Crystal | |||
| Highlights | ||||
| Best Picture | Driving Miss Daisy | |||
| Most wins | Driving Miss Daisy (4) | |||
| Most nominations | Driving Miss Daisy (9) | |||
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The 62nd Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1989 and took place on March 26, 1990, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles. During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Jeff Margolis. Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the first time. Three weeks earlier in a ceremony held at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 3, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Richard Dysart and Diane Ladd.
Nominations & Winners[]
On February 14, 1990, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences announced its nominees for the 62nd Academy Awards. The winners were announced on March 26, 1990, from the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Hollywood, California.
Best Picture[]
See also: Best Picture
- Winner
- Driving Miss Daisy — Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck, producers
- Nominees
- Born on the Fourth of July — A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone, producers
- Dead Poets Society — Stevem Haft, Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas, producers
- Field of Dreams — Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon, producers
- My Left Foot — Noel Pearson, producer
Best Director[]
See also: Best Director
- Winner
- Born on the Fourth of July — Oliver Stone
- Nominees
- Crimes and Misdeameanors — Woody Allen
- Dead Poets Society — Peter Weir
- Henry V — Kenneth Branagh
- My Left Foot — Jim Sheridan
Best Actor[]
See also: Best Actor
- Winner
- Daniel Day Lewis — My Left Foot
- Nominees
- Kenneth Branagh — Henry V
- Tom Cruise — Born on the Fourth of July
- Morgan Freeman — Driving Miss Daisy
- Robin Williams — Dead Poets Society
Best Actress[]
See also: Best Actress
- Winner
- Jessica Tandy — Driving Miss Daisy
- Nominees
- Isabelle Adjani — Camille Claudel
- Pauline Collins — Shirley Valentine
- Jessica Lange — Music Box
- Michelle Pfeiffer — The Fabulous Baker Boys
Best Supporting Actor[]
See also: Best Supporting Actor
- Winner
- Denzel Washington — Glory
- Nominees
- Danny Aiello — Do the Right Thing
- Dan Aykroyd — Driving Miss Daisy
- Marlon Brando — A Dry White Season
- Martin Landau — Crimes and Misdemeanors
Best Supporting Actress[]
See also: Best Supporting Actress
- Winner
- Brenda Fricker — My Left Foot
- Nominees
- Anjelica Huston — Enemies, A Love Story
- Lena Olin — Enemies, A Love Story
- Julia Roberts — Steel Magnolias
- Dianne Wiest — Parenthood
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen[]
See also: Best Original Screenplay
- 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 Screenplay Based from Another Medium[]
See also: Best Adapted Screenplay
- Winner
- Driving Miss Daisy — Alfred Uhry
- Nominees
- Born on the Fourth of July — Oliver Stone and Ron Kavic
- Enemies, A Love Story — Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky
- Field of Dreams — Phil Alden Robinson
- My Left Foot — Jim Sheridan and Shane Connaughton
Best Foreign Language Film[]
See also: Best Foreign Language Film
- Winner
- Cinema Paradiso from Italy — Giuseppe Tornatore
- Nominees
- Camille Claudel from France — Bruno Nuytten
- Jesus of Montreal from Canada — Denys Arcand
- Waltzing Regitze from Denmark — Kaspar Rostrup
- What Happened to Santiago from Puerto Rico — Jacobo Morales
Best Documentary Feature[]
See also: Best Documentary Feature
- Winner
- Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt — Robert Epstein and Bill Couturie, producers
- Nominees
- Adam Clayton Powell — Richard Kilberg and Yvonne Smith, producers
- Crack USA: County under Siege — Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag, producers
- For All Mankind — Al Reinert and Betsy Broyles Breier, producers
- Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren — Judith Leonard and Bill Jersey, producers
Best Documentary Short[]
See also: Best Documentary Short
- Winner
- The Johnstown Flood — Charles Guggenheim, producer
- Nominees
- Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 — David Petersen, producer
- Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future — Ray Errol Fox, producer
Best Live Action Short[]
See also: Best Live Action Short
- Winner
- Work Experience — James Hendrie
- Nominees
- Amazon Diary — Robert Nixon
- The Childeater — Jonathan Tammuz
Best Animated Short[]
See also: Best Animated Short
- Winner
- Balance — Christoph lauenstein and Wolfgang Lauenstein
- Nominees
- The Cow — Alexander Petrov
- The Hill Farm — Mark Baker
Best Original Score[]
See also: Best Original Score
- Winner
- The Little Mermaid — Alan Menken
- Nominees
- Born on the Fourth of July — John Williams
- The Fabulous Baker Boys — David Grusin
- Field of Dreams — John Horner
- Indiana JOnes and the Last Crusade — John Williams
Best Original Song[]
See also: Best Original Song
- Winner
- "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid — Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman
- Nominees
- "After All" from Chances Are — Music by Tom Snow; Lyric by Dean Pitchford
- "The Girl Who Used To Be Me" from Shirley Valentine — Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyric by Alan Berman and Marilyn Bergman
- "I Love To See You Smile" from Parenthood — Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
- "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid — Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman
Best Cinematography[]
See also: 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 Balhaus
Best Art Direction[]
See also: Best Art Direction
- Winner
- Batman — Art Direction: Anton Furst; Set Decoration: Peter Young
- Nominees
- The Abyss — Art Direction: Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Anne Kuljian
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca La Schiavo
- Driving Miss Daisy — Art Direction: Bruno Rubeo; Set Decoration Crispian Sallis
- Glory — Art Direction: Norman Garwood; Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis
Costume Design[]
See also: 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 Makeup[]
See also: Best Makeup
- Winner
- Driving Miss Daisy — Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber and Kevin Haney
- Nominees
- The Adventures of Baron Munchausen — Maggie Weston and Fabrizio Sforza
- Dad — Dick Smith, Ken Diaz and Greg Nelson
Best Film Editing[]
See also: Best Film Editing
- Winner
- Born on the Fourth of July — David Brenner and Joe Hutshing
- Nominees
- The Bear — Noelle Boisson
- Driving Miss Daisy — Mark Warner
- The Fabulous Baker Boys — William Steinkamp
- Glory — Steven Rosenblum
Sound[]
See also: Best Sound
- Winner
- Glory — Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg C. Rudloff, Elliot Tyson and Russell Williams II
- Nominees
- The Abyss — Don Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton and Lee Orloff
- Black Rain — Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith A. Wester
- Born on the Fourth of July — Michael Minkler, Gregory H. Watkins, Wylie Stateman and Tod A. Maitland
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy and Tony Dawe
Best Sound Effects Editing[]
See also: Best Sound Effects Editing
- Winner
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade — Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns
- Nominees
- Black Rain — Milton C. Burrow and William L. Manger
- Lethal Weapon 2 — robert Henderson and Alan Robert Murray
Best Visual Effects[]
See also: Best Visual Effects
- Winner
- The Abyss — John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman and Dennis Skotak
- Nominees
- The Adventure of Baron Munchausen — Richard Conway and Kent Houston
- Back to the Future Part II — Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell and Steve Gawley
Honorary Awards[]
- Akira Kurosawa
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award[]
- Howard W. Koch
Gordon E. Sawyer Award[]
- Pierre Angenieux
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD[]
- James Ketcham of JSK Engineering, for the excellence in engineering and the broad adaptability of the SDA521B Advance/Retard system for magnetic film sound dubbing.
- J. Noxon Leavitt for the invention of, and Istec, Incorporated for the continuing development of the Wescam Stabilized Camera System.
- Geoffrey H. Williamson of Wilcam Photo Research, Incorporated, for the design and development, and to Robert D. Auguste for the electronic design and development of the Wilcam W-7 200 frames-per-second VistaVision Rotating Mirror Reflex Camera.
- J.L. Fisher, for the design and manufacture of a small, mobile motion picture camera platform known as the Fisher Model Ten Dolly.
- Klause Resch for the design, Erich Fitz and FGV Schmidle & for the development of the Super Panther MS-180 Camera Dolly.
- Dr. Leo Catozzo for the design and development of the CIR-Catozzo Self-Perforating Adhesive Tape Film Splicer.
- Magna-Tech Electonic Company for the introduction of the first remotely controlled Advance/Retard function for magnetic film sound dubbing.
AWARD OF COMMENDATION[]
The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors commends the contributions of the members of the engineering committees of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). By establishing industry standards, they have greatly contributed to making film a primary form of international communication.