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