Oscars Rematch: 1989
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- DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.Best Picture!
Winner: Do the Right Thing!
Nominees:
Born on the Fourth of July
Dead Poets Society
Glory
My Left Foot - DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.Best Director!
Winner: Spike Lee!
Nominees:
Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
Edward Zwick - Glory
Jim Sheridan - My Left Foot - DirectorJim SheridanStarsDaniel Day-LewisBrenda FrickerAlison WhelanChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.Best Actor!
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis!
Nominees:
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July
Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society - DirectorBruce BeresfordStarsMorgan FreemanJessica TandyDan AykroydAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.Best Actress!
Winner: Jessica Tandy!
Nominees:
Isabelle Adjani - Camille Claudel
Andie MacDowell - Sex, Lies and Videotapes
Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys
Meg Ryan - When Harry Met Sally... - DirectorEdward ZwickStarsMatthew BroderickDenzel WashingtonCary ElwesRobert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.Best Supporting Actor!
Winner: Denzel Washington!
Nominees:
Danny Aiello - Do the Right Thing
Sean Connery - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Morgan Freeman - Glory
Hugh O'Connor - My Left Foot - DirectorJim SheridanStarsDaniel Day-LewisBrenda FrickerAlison WhelanChristy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.Best Supporting Actress!
Winner: Brenda Fricker!
Nominees:
Ruby Dee - Do the Right Thing
Carrie Fisher - When Harry Met Sally
Julia Roberts - Steel Magnolias
Dianne Wiest - Parenthood - DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.Best Original Screenplay!
Winner: Spike Lee!
Nominees:
Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
Tom Schulman - Dead Poets Society
Steven Soderbergh - Sex, Lies and Videotape
Nora Ephron - When Harry Met Sally... - DirectorOliver StoneStarsTom CruiseBryan LarkinRaymond J. BarryThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.Best Adapted Screenplay!
Winner: Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic!
Nominees:
Alfred Uhry - Driving Miss Daisy
Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky - Enemies, A Love Story
Phil Alden Robinson - Field of Dreams
Jim Sheridan and Shane Connaughton - My Left Foot - DirectorBruno NuyttenStarsIsabelle AdjaniGérard DepardieuMadeleine RobinsonCamille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.Best Foreign Language Film!
Winner: Camille Claudel!
Nominees:
Jesus of Montreal
The Killer
Memories of a Marriage
What Happened to Santiago - DirectorRob EpsteinJeffrey FriedmanStarsSara LewinsteinDavid MandellSuzi MandellA collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.Best Documentary Feature!
Winner: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt!
Nominees:
Adam Clayton Powell
Crack USA: County Under Siege
For All Mankind
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren - DirectorCharles GuggenheimStarsLen CariouElam BenderRandy BenderOn May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very heavy rains and poor maintenance by the dam's owners. The burst dam sent a wall of water and debris, 40 feet high and half a mile wide, 14 miles downstream to the bustling industrial city of Johnstown, Pennsylvania. More than 2000 people lost their lives in the disaster. This documentary tells the story, and tells us that the disaster was easily avoidable.Best Documentary Short!
Winner: The Johnstown Flood!
Nominees:
Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
Yad Vashem: Preserving to Past to Ensure the Future - DirectorJames HendrieStarsLenny HenrySusan BrownKathy BurkeTerence is caught in a vicious circle. he cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job!Best Live Action Short!
Winner: Work Experience!
Nominees:
Amazon Diary
The Childeater - DirectorChristoph LauensteinWolfgang LauensteinA group of fishermen on a precariously balanced platform fight over a trunk.Best Animated Short!
Winner: Balance!
Nominees:
The Cow
The Hill Farm - DirectorOliver StoneStarsTom CruiseBryan LarkinRaymond J. BarryThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.Best Original Score!
Winner: Born on the Fourth of July!
Nominees:
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Field of Dreams
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Little Mermaid - DirectorRon ClementsJohn MuskerStarsJodi BensonSamuel E. WrightRene AuberjonoisA mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.Best Original Song!
Winner: "Under the Sea", The Little Mermaid!
Nominees:
"After All" - Chances Are
"The Girl Who Used to Be Me" - Shirley Valentine
"I Love To See You Smile" - Parenthood
"Kiss the Girl" - The Little Mermaid - DirectorSteven SpielbergStarsHarrison FordSean ConneryAlison DoodyIn 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.Best Sound Effects!
Winner: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade!
Nominees:
Black Rain
Lethal Weapon 2 - DirectorEdward ZwickStarsMatthew BroderickDenzel WashingtonCary ElwesRobert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.Best Sound!
Winner: Glory!
Nominees:
The Abyss
Black Rain
Born on the Fourth of July
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - DirectorTim BurtonStarsMichael KeatonJack NicholsonKim BasingerThe Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.Best Art Direction!
Winner: Batman!
Nominees:
The Abyss
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Driving Miss Daisy
Glory - DirectorEdward ZwickStarsMatthew BroderickDenzel WashingtonCary ElwesRobert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.Best Cinematography!
Winner: Glory!
Nominees:
The Abyss
Born on the Fourth of July
Blaze
The Fabulous Baker Boys - DirectorTerry GilliamStarsJohn NevilleEric IdleSarah PolleyAn account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.Best Makeup!
Winner: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen!
Nominees:
Dad
Driving Miss Daisy - DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsKenneth BranaghDerek JacobiSimon ShepherdIn the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.Best Costume Design!
Winner: Henry V!
Nominees:
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Driving Miss Daisy
Harlem Nights
Valmont - DirectorSpike LeeStarsDanny AielloOssie DavisRuby DeeOn the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.Best Film Editing!
Winner: Do the Right Thing!
Nominees:
Born on the Fourth of July
Driving Miss Daisy
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Glory - DirectorJames CameronStarsEd HarrisMary Elizabeth MastrantonioMichael BiehnA civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.Best Visual Effects!
Winner: The Abyss!
Nominees:
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Back to the Future Part II