62nd Academy Awards

62nd Academy Awards
Date	Monday, March 26, 1990
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Los Angeles, California
Host	Billy Crystal
Producer	Gil Cates
Director	Jeff Margolis
Highlights
Best Picture	Driving Miss Daisy
Most awards	Driving Miss Daisy (4)
Most nominations	Driving Miss Daisy (9)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
Duration	3 hours, 37 minutes
Viewership	40.4 million
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The 62nd Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The venue, half the size of the one used the previous year, prompted Gil Cates (the producer of the telecast) and Karl Malden (the president of the Academy) to put a memo to "our friends in the industry" in the March 13th edition of the Daily Variety saying "Please understand: the tickets are gone" and pointing out that "next year we'll be back in comparatively spacious quarters, and then we'll try to find room for every Academy member who wants to attend, and maybe even some of the aunts, archibishops, and visitors from Abu Dhabi who are your houseguests that weekend."

The event, billed as Around the World in 3½ Hours - The 62d Academy Awards Presentation, featured live segments from five other cities around the globe:

• Buenos Aires, Argentina
• London, United Kingdom
• Moscow, Soviet Union (featuring Jack Lemmon and Natalya Negoda announcing the Oscar nominees for best foreign film)
• Sydney, Australia
• Tokyo, Japan

This was the first telecast hosted by Billy Crystal; he would host the show seven more times over the next fifteen years. Crystal opened the ceremony with a song about the nominees for best picture, something he would do for every ceremony he hosted.

Driving Miss Daisy won four awards including Best Picture; the 80-year-old Jessica Tandy became the oldest woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress. An Honorary Academy Award went to Akira Kurosawa for "accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world." Howard W. Koch received the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award. Also notable about this is that it is only the 3rd film to win Best Picture without a Best Director nomination, as well as the first one to do this since the 30s.

Awards

Films with multiple nominations:

Nine - Driving Miss Daisy

Eight - Born on the Fourth of July

Five - Glory, My Left Foot

Four - The Abyss,The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Dead Poets Society, The Fabulous Baker Boys

Three - Crimes and Misdemeanors, Enemies: A Love Story, Field of Dreams, Henry V, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, The Little Mermaid

Two - Black Rain, Camille Claudel, Do the Right Thing, Parenthood, Shirley Valentine

Films with multiple wins:

Four - Driving Miss Daisy

Three - Glory

Two - Born on the Fourth of July, The Little Mermaid, My Left Foot

Winners are listed first and highlighted in boldface.

Best Picture	Best Director
Driving Miss Daisy Born on the Fourth of July Dead Poets Society Field of Dreams My Left Foot	Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July Woody Allen – Crimes and Misdemeanors Kenneth Branagh – Henry V Jim Sheridan – My Left Foot Peter Weir – Dead Poets Society
Best Actor	Best Actress
Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot Kenneth Branagh – Henry V Tom Cruise – Born on the Fourth of July Morgan Freeman – Driving Miss Daisy Robin Williams – Dead Poets Society	Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy Isabelle Adjani – Camille Claudel Pauline Collins – Shirley Valentine Jessica Lange – Music Box Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Denzel Washington – Glory Danny Aiello – Do the Right Thing Dan Aykroyd – Driving Miss Daisy Marlon Brando – A Dry White Season Martin Landau – Crimes and Misdemeanors	Brenda Fricker – My Left Foot Anjelica Huston – Enemies: A Love Story Lena Olin – Enemies: A Love Story Julia Roberts – Steel Magnolias Dianne Wiest – Parenthood
Best Original Screenplay	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	Driving Miss Daisy – Alfred Uhry Born on the Fourth of July – Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic Enemies: A Love Story – Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky Field of Dreams – Phil Alden Robinson My Left Foot – Jim Sheridan and Shane Connaughton
Best Foreign Language Film
Cinema Paradiso (Italy) Camille Claudel (France) Jesus of Montreal (Canada) Memories of a Marriage (Denmark) What Happened to Santiago (Puerto Rico)
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt – Robert Epstein and Bill Couturié Adam Clayton Powell – Richard Killberg and Yvonne Smith Crack USA: County Under Siege – Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag For All Mankind – Al Reinert and Betsy Broyles Breier Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren – Judith Leonard and Bill Jersey	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 Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
Work Experience – James Hendrie Amazon Diary – Robert Nixon The Childeater – Jonathan Tammuz	Balance – Christoph Lauenstein and Wolfgang Lauenstein The Cow – Aleksandr Petrov The Hill Farm – Mark Baker
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
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	"Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid – Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman "After All" from Chances Are – Music by Tom Snow; Lyric by Dean Pitchford "I Love To See You Smile" from Parenthood – Music and Lyric by Randy Newman "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" from Shirley Valentine – Music by Marvin Hamlisch; Lyric by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid – Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – Richard Hymns and Ben Burtt Black Rain – Milton Burrow and William Manger Lethal Weapon 2 – Robert Henderson and Alan Robert Murray	Glory – Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg Rudloff, Elliot Tyson and Russell Williams The Abyss – Don J. Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton and Lee Orloff Black Rain – Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith A. Wester Born on the Fourth of July – Michael Minkler, Gregory H. Watkins, Wylie Stateman and Tod A. Maitland Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade – Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy and Tony Dawe
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Batman – Art Direction: Anton Furst; Set Decoration: Peter Young The Abyss – Art Direction: Leslie Dilley; Set Decoration: Anne Kuljian The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo Driving Miss Daisy – Art Direction: Bruno Rubeo; Set Decoration: Crispian Sallis Glory – Art Direction: Norman Garwood; Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis	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 Makeup	Best Costume Design
Driving Miss Daisy – Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber and Kevin Haney Dad – Dick Smith, Ken Diaz and Greg Nelson The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Maggie Weston and Fabrizio Sforza	Henry V – Phyllis Dalton The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Gabriella Pescucci Driving Miss Daisy – Elizabeth McBride Harlem Nights – Joe Tompkins Valmont – Theodor Pistek
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
Born on the Fourth of July – David Brenner and Joe Hutshing The Bear – Noelle Boisson Driving Miss Daisy – Mark Warner The Fabulous Baker Boys – William Steinkamp Glory – Steven Rosenblum	The Abyss – Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, John Bruno and Dennis Skotak The Adventures of Baron Munchausen – Richard Conway and Kent Houston Back to the Future Part II – Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell and Steve Gawley

Academy Honorary Award

• Akira Kurosawa

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

• Howard W. Koch

Critical reception

While presenting an award, Kim Basinger chastised the Academy for not nominating Do The Right Thing for Best Picture, saying "Ironically, it might tell the biggest truth of all."

The New York Times called the awarding of the best original screenplay Oscar to Dead Poets Society (over screenplays by Spike Lee, Steven Soderbergh, and Woody Allen), "recalled Oscar voting at its most irrational."

In Memoriam

Presented by Walter Matthau, this segment honors the film personalities lost in 1989: Prem Nazir, Beatrice Lillie, composer Lionel Newman, John Cassavetes, screenwriter T. E. B. Clarke, George O'Hanlon, writer Marguerite Roberts, Harry Andrews, Maurice Evans, May Allison, Charles Vanel, Lucille Ball, director Sergio Leone, Jack Buetel, filmmaker Joris Ivens, Jim Backus, Mel Blanc, Laurence Oliver, Rebecca Shaeffer, Amanda Blake, composer Irving Berlin, Graham Chapman, Bette Davis, Onest Conley, Cornel Wilde, Anthony Quayle, Lynn Bari, Aileen Pringle, Silvana Mangano and Lee Van Cleef.

Presenters

• Paula Abdul and Dudley Moore (Presenters: Best Original Song)
• Norma Aleandro and Charlton Heston (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
• Dan Aykroyd and Chevy Chase (Presenters: Best Visual Effects)
• Kim Basinger (Presenter: Dead Poets Society Film Clip)
• Warren Beatty and Jack Nicholson (Presenters: Best Picture)
• Candice Bergen (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
• Kenneth Branagh and Elizabeth McGovern (Presenters: Best Makeup)
• Bryan Brown and Rachel Ward (Presenters: Best Sound)
• Beau Bridges and Jeff Bridges (Presenters: Field of Dreams Film Clip)
• Bugs Bunny (Presenter: Best Animated Short Film)
• John Candy and Rick Moranis (Presenters: Best Live Action Short Film)
• Glenn Close and Mel Gibson (Presenters: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
• Geena Davis (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
• Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese (Presenters: Best Director)
• Jane Fonda (Presenter: Writing Awards)
• Jodie Foster (Presenter: Best Actor)
• Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
• Danny Glover (Presenter: Born on the Fourth of July Film Clip)
• Daryl Hannah (Presenter: Performance of Geoffrey Holder)
• Tom Hanks and Melanie Griffith (Presenters: Best Cinematography)
• John Goodman (Presenter: Patti Austin Performance)
• Isabelle Huppert (Presenter: Technical Achievement Award to Pierre Angénieux)
• Anjelica Huston (Presenter: My Left Foot Film Clip)
• Kevin Kline (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
• Jessica Lange (Presenter: Driving Miss Daisy Film Clip)
• Jack Lemmon and Natalya Negoda (Presenters: Best Foreign Language Film)
• George Lucas and Steven Spielberg (Presenters: Honorary Award to Akira Kurosawa)
• Steve Martin (Presenter: Best Original Score)
• Walter Matthau (Presenter: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award)
• Gregory Peck (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Michelle Pfeiffer (Presenter: Performance of Diana Ross)
• Julia Roberts (Presenter: Performance of Randy Newman)
• Arnold Schwarzenegger (Presenter: Introduction of Kim Basinger)
• Tom Selleck (Presenter: Introduction of Isabelle Huppert)
• Jack Valenti (Presenter: Introduction of George Lucas and Steven Spielberg)
• Denzel Washington (Presenter: Performance of James Ingram and Melissa Manchester)

Performers

• Patti Austin ("The Girl Who Used to Be Me" from Shirley Valentine)
• Geoffrey Holder ("Kiss the Girl" and "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid)
• James Ingram and Melissa Manchester ("After All" from Chances Are)
• Randy Newman ("I Love to See You Smile" from Parenthood)
• Diana Ross ("Over the Rainbow")

References

Specific references:

General references:

• "The Official Academy Awards Database". awardsdatabase.oscars.org. Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. http://awardsdatabase.oscars.org/ampas_awards/BasicSearchInput.jsp. Retrieved September 9, 2009. 

• Oscars.org