62nd Academy Awards
| 62nd Academy Awards | ||||
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| Date | Monday, March 26, 1990 | |||
| Site | Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Los Angeles, California |
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| 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[1] | |||
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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."[2]
The event, billed as Around the World in 3½ Hours - The 62d Academy Awards Presentation,[3] 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)[3]
- Sydney, Australia
- Tokyo, Japan
This was the first telecast hosted by Billy Crystal;[1] 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.
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[edit] 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.[4]
[edit] Academy Honorary Award
[edit] Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
[edit] 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."[3]
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."[3]
[edit] 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.
[edit] 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)
[edit] 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")
[edit] References
Specific references:
- ^ a b "Time Capsule/March 30, 1990". Entertainment Weekly. April 5, 2002. http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,251034,00.html. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
- ^ Alan Light (September 28, 2006). "Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences". Daily Variety 3-13-90. Flickr. http://www.flickr.com/photos/alan-light/255269053/in/set-72157594230902459/. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
- ^ a b c d Maslin, Janet (March 28, 1990). "New Host and New Technology, But a Familiar Oscar Show". The New York Times. http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/28/movies/review-television-new-host-and-new-technology-but-a-familiar-oscar-show.html?pagewanted=all. Retrieved 2010-03-17.
- ^ "The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners". oscars.org. http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/62nd-winners.html. Retrieved 2011-10-17.
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.
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