63rd Academy Awards (1991)

Highlights of 63rd Academy Awards ceremony

The 63rd Academy Awards honored the best films of 1990.
The award ceremony was held on 25th March 1991 at the Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California.
Billy Crystal was the anchor of the show.
Dances with Wolves won the Best Picture award.
Jeremy Irons won the Best Actor award for his role in Reversal of Fortune.
Kathy Bates won the Best Actess award for her role in Misery.
Kevin Costner won the Best Director award for Dances with Wolves.
- WINNER

Best Picture

Dances with Wolves
Awakenings
Ghost
The Godfather Part III
Goodfellas

Best Director

Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner
The Godfather Part III - Francis Ford Coppola
The Grifters - Stephen Frears
Reversal of Fortune - Barbet Schroeder
Goodfellas - Martin Scorsese

Best Original Screenplay

Ghost - Bruce Joel Rubin
Alice - Woody Allen
Avalon - Barry Levinson
Green Card - Peter Weir
Metropolitan - Whit Stillman

Best Adapted Screenplay

Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake
Awakenings - Steven Zaillian
Goodfellas - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
The Grifters - Donald E. Westlake
Reversal of Fortune - Nicholas Kazan

Best Actor in a Leading Role

Reversal of Fortune - Jeremy Irons
Dances with Wolves - Kevin Costner
Awakenings - Robert De Niro
Cyrano de Bergerac - Gerard Depardieu
The Field - Richard Harris

Best Actress in a Leading Role

Misery - Kathy Bates
The Grifters - Anjelica Huston
Pretty Woman - Julia Roberts
Postcards from the Edge - Meryl Streep
Mr. and Mrs. Bridge - Joanne Woodward

Best Supporting Actor

Goodfellas - Joe Pesci
Longtime Companion - Bruce Davison
The Godfather Part III - Andy Garcia
Dances with Wolves - Graham Greene
Dick Tracy - Al Pacino

Best Supporting Actress

Ghost - Whoopi Goldberg
The Grifters - Annette Bening
Goodfellas - Lorraine Bracco
Wild at Heart - Diane Ladd
Dances with Wolves - Mary McDonnell

Best Art Direction

Dick Tracy
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dances with Wolves
The Godfather Part III
Hamlet

Best Cinematography

Dances with Wolves - Dean Semler
Avalon - Allen Daviau
Dick Tracy - Vittorio Storaro
The Godfather Part III - Gordon Willis
Henry And June - Philippe Rousselot

Best Original Song

Dick Tracy for "Sooner or Later"
Young Guns II for "Blaze of Glory"
Postcards from the Edge for "I'm Checkin Out"
The Godfather Part III for "Promise Me You'll Remember"
Home Alone for "Somewhere in My Memory"

Best Original Score

Dances with Wolves - John Barry
Avalon - Randy Newman
Ghost - Maurice Jarre
Havana - David Grusin
Home Alone - John Williams

Best Sound Mixing

Dances With Wolves
Days Of Thunder
Dick Tracy
The Hunt for Red October
Total Recall

Best Sound Editing

The Hunt for Red October
Flatliners
Total Recall

Best Costume Design

Cyrano de Bergerac - Franca Squarciapino
Avalon - Gloris Gresham
Dances with Wolves - Elsa Zamparelli
Dick Tracy - Milena Canonero
Hamlet - Maurizio Millenotti

Best Makeup

Dick Tracy - John Caglione, Jr., Doug Drexler
Cyrano de Bergerac - Michele Burke, Jean-Pierre Eychenne
Edward Scissorhands - Ve Neill, Stan Winston

Best Animated Short Film

Creature Comforts
A Grand Day Out
Grasshoppers

Best Documentary Feature

American Dream
Berkeley in the Sixties
Building Bombs
Forever Activists - Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Waldo Salt - A Screenwriter's Journey

Best Documentary Short Subject

Days of Waiting
Burning Down Tomorrow
Chimps - So Like Us
Journey into Life
Rose Kennedy - A Life to Remember

Best Foreign Language Film

Journey of Hope
Cyrano de Bergerac
Ju Dou
The Nasty Girl
Open Doors

Academy Honorary Award

Sophie Loren
Myrna Loy

Best Live Action Short Film

The Lunch Date
Bronx Cheers
Dear Rosie
Senzeni Na?
12:01 PM

Best Film Editing

Dances with Wolves - Neil Travis
Ghost - Walter Murch
The Godfather Part III - Barry Malkin, Lisa Fruchtman, Walter Murch
Goodfellas - Thelma Schoonmaker
The Hunt for Red October - Dennis Virkler, John Wright
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