Academy Awards for 1989

By Patrick Mondout

The 62^nd Annual Academy Awards were hosted by Billy Crystal on March 26, 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavillion (Los Angeles) and broadcast live on ABC.

BEST PICTURE
	Born on the Fourth of July, A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone, producers
	Dead Poet's Society, Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas, producers
	Driving Miss Daisy, Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck, producers
	Field of Dreams, Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon, producers
	My Left Foot, Noel Pearson, producers

BEST ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE
	Isabelle Adjani, Camille Claudel
	Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy
	Michelle Pfeiffer, The Fabulous Baker Boys
	Jessica Lange, Music Box
	Pauline Collins, Shirley Valentine

BEST ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE
	Tom Cruise, Born on the Fourth of July
	Robin Williams, Dead Poet's Society
	Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy
	Kenneth Branagh, Henry V
	Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
	Lena Olin, Enemies, A Love Story
	Anjelica Huston, Enemies, A Love Story
	Brenda Fricker, My Left Foot
	Dianne Wiest, Parenthood
	Julia Roberts, Steel Magnolias

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
	Marlon Brando, A Dry White Season
	Martin Landau, Crimes and Misdemeanors
	Danny Aiello, Do the Right Thing
	Dan Aykroyd, Driving Miss Daisy
	Denzel Washington, Glory

BEST DIRECTOR
	Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July
	Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors
	Peter Weir, Dead Poet's Society
	Kenneth Branagh, Henry V
	Jim Sheridan, My Left Foot

BEST WRITING (SCREENPLAY WRITTEN DIRECTLY FOR THE SCREEN)
	Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors
	Tom Schulman, Dead Poet's Society
	Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing
	Steven Soderbergh, sex, lies and videotape
	Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally...

BEST WRITING (SCREENPLAY BASED ON MATERIAL FROM ANOTHER MEDIUM)
	Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July
	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

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
	Mikael Salomon, The Abyss
	Haskell Wexler, Blaze
	Robert Richardson, Born on the Fourth of July
	Michael Ballhaus, The Fabulous Baker Boys
	Freddie Francis, Glory

BEST FILM EDITING
	Noëlle Boisson, The Bear
	David Brenner and Joe Hutshing, Born on the Fourth of July
	Mark Warner, Driving Miss Daisy
	William Steinkamp, The Fabulous Baker Boys
	Steven Rosenblum, Glory

BEST ART DIRECTION/SET DIRECTION
	Leslie Dilley, art direction; Anne Kuljian, set decoration, The Abyss
	Dante Ferretti, art direction; Francesca Lo Schiavo, set decoration, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
	Anton Furst, art direction; Peter Young, set decoration, Batman
	Bruno Rubeo, art direction; Crispian Sallis, set decoration, Driving Miss Daisy
	Norman Garwood, art direction; Garrett Lewis, set decoration, Glory

BEST COSTUME DESIGN
	Gabriella Pescucci, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
	Elizabeth McBride, Driving Miss Daisy
	Joe I. Tompkins, Harlem Nights
	Phyllis Dalton, Henry V
	Theodor Pistek, Valmont

BEST SOUND
	Don Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton and Lee Orloff, The Abyss
	Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith A. Wester, Black Rain
	Michael Minkler, Gregory H. Watkins, Wylie Stateman and Tod A. Maitland, Born on the Fourth of July
	Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg C. Rudloff, Elliot Tyson and Russell Williams II, Glory
	Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy and Tony Dawe, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS
	John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman and Dennis Skotak, The Abyss
	Richard Conway and Kent Houston, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
	Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell and Steve Gawley, Back to the Future Part II

BEST MAKEUP
	Maggie Weston and Fabrizio Sforza, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
	Dick Smith, Ken Diaz and Greg Nelson, Dad
	Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber and Kevin Haney, Driving Miss Daisy

BEST SOUND (ORIGINAL SONG)
	“After All,” Chances Are, Tom Snow, music; Dean Pitchford, lyrics
	“Kiss the Girl,” The Little Mermaid, Alan Menken, music; Howard Ashman, lyrics
	“Under the Sea,” The Little Mermaid, Alan Menken, music; Howard Ashman, lyrics
	“I Love to See You Smile,” Parenthood, Randy Newman, music and lyrics
	“The Girl Who Used to Be Me,” Shirley Valentine, Marvin Hamlisch, music; Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics

BEST MUSIC (ORIGINAL SCORE)
	John Williams, Born on the Fourth of July
	David Grusin, The Fabulous Baker Boys
	James Horner, Field of Dreams
	John Williams, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
	Alan Menken, The Little Mermaid

BEST SHORT FILMS (ANIMATED)
	Balance (Christoph Lauenstein and Wolfgang Lauenstein, producers; Lauenstein Production)
	The Cow (Alexander Petrov, producer; The “Pilot” Co-op Animated Film Studio with VPTO Videofilm)
	The Hill Farm (Mark Baker, producer; National Film and Television School)

BEST SHORT FILMS (LIVE ACTION)
	Amazon Diary (Robert Nixon, producer; Determined Productions, Inc.)
	The Childeater (Jonathan Tammuz, producer; Stephen-Tammuz Productions, Ltd.)
	Work Experience (James Hendrie, producer; North Inch Production Ltd.)

BEST DOCUMENTARY (SHORT SUBJECTS)
	Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 (David Petersen, producer; David Petersen Productions)
	The Johnstown Flood (Charles Guggenheim, producer; Guggenheim Productions)
	Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future (Ray Errol Fox, producer; Ray Errol Fox Production)

BEST DOCUMENTARY (FEATURES)
	Adam Clayton Powell (Richard Killberg and Yvonne Smith, producers; RKB Productions)
	Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (Robert Epstein and Bill Couturie, producers; Telling Pictures and the Couturie Company Production)
	Crack USA: County Under Siege (Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag, producers; Half-Court Productions, Ltd.)
	For All Mankind (Al Reinert and Betsy Broyles Breier, producers; Apollo Associates/FAM Productions Inc.)
	Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (Judith Leonard and Bill Jersey, producers; Quest Production)

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
	Camille Claudel, France
	Cinema Paradiso, Italy
	Jesus of Montreal, Canada
	Waltzing Regitze, Denmark
	What Happened to Santiago, Puerto Rico

Other Awards

The Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award was given to Howard W. Koch. Honorary Awards were given to Akira Kurosawa "for accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world." In addition, the Academy's 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."

Scientific Awards

Robert D. Auguste (Camera)
J. L. Fisher, Incorporated (Camera Cranes)
J. L. Fisher (Camera Cranes)
Erich Fitz (Camera Cranes)
Istec, Incorporated (Camera)
JSK Engineering (Sound)
James Ketcham (Sound)
J. Noxon Leavitt (Camera)
Klaus Resch (Camera Cranes)
FGV Schmidle & Fitz (Camera Cranes)
Wilcam Photo Research, Incorporated (Camera)
Geoffrey H. Williamson (Camera)
Dr. Leo Catozzo (Editorial and Preproduction)
Magna-Tech Electronic Company, Inc. (Sound)