62nd Academy Awards (1990)
Highlights of 62nd Academy Awards ceremony
The 62nd Academy Awards honored the best films of 1989.
The award ceremony was held on 26th March 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles, California.
Billy Crystal was the anchor of the show.
Driving Miss Daisy won the Best Picture award.
Daniel Day-Lewis won the Best Actor award for his role in My Left Foot.
Jessica Tandy won the Best Actess award for her role in Driving Miss Daisy.
Oliver Stone won the Best Director award for Born on the Fourth of July.
- WINNER
Best Picture
Driving Miss Daisy
- Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck
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 - The Story of Christy Brown
- Noel Pearson
Best Director
Born on the Fourth of July
- Oliver Stone
Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Woody Allen
Henry V
- Kenneth Branagh
My Left Foot - The Story of Christy Brown
- Jim Sheridan
Dead Poets Society
- Peter Weir
Best Original Screenplay
Driving Miss Daisy
- Alfred Uhry
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 - The Story of Christy Brown
- Jim Sheridan, Shane Connaughton
Best Adapted Screenplay
Dead Poets Society
- Tom Schulman
Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Woody Allen
Do the Right Thing
- Spike Lee
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
- Steven Soderbergh
When Harry Met Sally...
- Nora Ephron
Best Actor in a Leading Role
My Left Foot - The Story of Christy Brown
- Daniel Day-Lewis
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
Driving Miss Daisy
- Jessica Tandy
Camille Claudel
- Isabelle Adjani
Shirley Valentine
- Pauline Collins
Music Box
- Jessica Lange
The Fabulous Baker Boys
- Michelle Pfeiffer
Best Supporting Actor
Glory
- Denzel Washington
Do the Right Thing
- Danny Aiello
Driving Miss Daisy
- Dan Aykroyd
A Dry White Season
- Marlon Brando
Crimes and Misdemeanors
- Martin Landau
Best Supporting Actress
My Left Foot - The Story of Christy Brown
- Brenda Fricker
Enemies - A Love Story
- Anjelica Huston
Enemies - A Love Story
- Lena Olin
Steel Magnolias
- Julia Roberts
Parenthood
- Dianne Wiest
Best Art Direction
Batman
- Anton Furst, Peter Young
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 Cinematography
Glory
- Freddie Francis
The Abyss
- Mikael Salomon
Blaze
- Haskell Wexler
Born on the Fourth of July
- Robert Richardson
The Fabulous Baker Boys
- Michael Ballhaus
Best Original Song
The Little Mermaid
- Alan Menken, Howard Ashman
for "Under the Sea"
Chances Are
- Tom Snow, Dean Pitchford
for "After All"
Parenthood
- Randy Newman
for "I Love To See You Smile"
Shirley Valentine
- Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman
for "The Girl Who Used to Be Me"
The Little Mermaid
- Alan Menken, Howard Ashman
for "Kiss the Girl"
Best Original Score
The Little Mermaid
- Alan Menken
The Fabulous Baker Boys
- Dave Grusin
Field of Dreams
- James Horner
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- John Williams
Born on the Fourth of July
- John Williams
Best Sound Mixing
Glory
- Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, Russell Williams II
The Abyss
- Don Bassman, Kevin Cleary, Richard Overton, Lee Orloff
Black Rain
- Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg Russell, Keith Wester
Born on the Fourth of July
- Michael Minkler, Gregory Watkins, Wylie Stateman, Tod Maitland
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy, Tony Dawe
Best Sound Editing
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
- Richard Hymns, Ben Burtt
Black Rain
- Milton Burrow, William Manger
Lethal Weapon 2
- Robert Henderson, Alan Robert Murray
Best Visual Effects
The Abyss
- Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, John Bruno, Dennis Skotak
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Richard Conway, Kent Houston
Back to the Future Part II
- Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell, Steve Gawley
Best Costume Design
Henry V
- Phyllis Dalton
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Gabriella Pescucci
Driving Miss Daisy
- Elizabeth McBride
Harlem Nights
- Joe Tompkins
Valmont
- Theodor Pistek
Best Makeup
Driving Miss Daisy
- Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber, Kevin Haney
Dad
- Dick Smith, Ken Diaz, Greg Nelson
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
- Maggie Weston, Fabrizio Sforza
Best Animated Short Film
Balance
- Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
The Cow
- Aleksandr Petrov
The Hill Farm
- Mark Baker
Best Documentary Feature
Common Threads - Stories from the Quilt
- Robert Epstein, Bill Couturie
Adam Clayton Powell
- Richard Killberg, Yvonne Smith
Crack USA - County Under Siege
- Vince DiPersio, William Guttentag
For All Mankind
- Al Reinert, Betsy Broyles Breier
Super Chief - The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
- Judith Leonard, Bill Jersey
Best Documentary Short Subject
The Johnstown Flood
- Charles Guggenheim
Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
- David Petersen
Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future
- Ray Errol Fox
Best Foreign Language Film
Nuovo cinema Paradiso
Camille Claudel
Jesus of Montreal
Waltzing Regitze
What Happened to Santiago
Academy Honorary Award
Akira Kurosawa
Best Live Action Short Film
Work Experience
- James Hendrie
Amazon Diary
- Robert Nixon
The Childeater
- Jonathan Tammuz
Best Film Editing
Born on the Fourth of July
- David Brenner, Joe Hutshing
The Bear
- Noelle Boisson
Driving Miss Daisy
- Mark Warner
The Fabulous Baker Boys
- William Steinkamp
Glory
- Steven Rosenblum
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Howard W. Koch