64th Academy Awards

64th Academy Awards
Date	Monday, March 30, 1992
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Los Angeles, California
Host	Billy Crystal
Producer	Gilbert Cates
Director	Jeff Margolis
Highlights
Best Picture	The Silence of the Lambs
Most awards	The Silence of the Lambs (5)
Most nominations	Bugsy (10)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
Duration	3 hours, 33 minutes
Viewership	44.44 million
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The 64th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was the third consecutive to be hosted by Billy Crystal. When Jack Palance won Best Supporting Actor for his performance as Curly in City Slickers (which also starred Crystal), Palance's acceptance speech began with the joke "I crap bigger than him (Crystal)" -- a reference to a similar line in the film. Palance also used some of his speech time to prove his virility by performing one-handed push-ups. In mock retaliation for Palance's comment, Crystal peppered the remainder of the telecast with jokes about Palance performing spectacular feats. As a result, Crystal won an Emmy for hosting the show, although he later (in the documentary Get Bruce) credited Bruce Vilanch for providing him many of the Palance jokes.

The Silence of the Lambs won the five major awards out of seven nominations, becoming only the third film to accomplish the feat of winning the "Top Five", after It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).

This year's ceremony made Academy Award History as Beauty and the Beast was nominated for Best Picture, the first time an Animated Feature Film was bestowed with such an honor. The Picture garnered a total of six nominations in four different categories, eventually collecting two awards for its Music (Best Original Score and Original Song, for "Beauty and the Beast").

The Silence of the Lambs was the last Best Picture winner to take home only major Oscars (no tech or music awards) until A Beautiful Mind.

The Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award was presented to George Lucas by the crew of the space shuttle Atlantis during the STS-45 mission, which also included an actual Oscar statuette aboard the spacecraft.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface

Best Picture	Best Director
The Silence of the Lambs Beauty and the Beast Bugsy JFK The Prince of Tides	Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs John Singleton – Boyz n the Hood Barry Levinson – Bugsy Oliver Stone – JFK Ridley Scott – Thelma & Louise
Best Actor	Best Actress
Anthony Hopkins – The Silence of the Lambs Warren Beatty – Bugsy Robert De Niro – Cape Fear Robin Williams – The Fisher King Nick Nolte – The Prince of Tides	Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs Geena Davis – Thelma & Louise Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise Bette Midler – For the Boys Laura Dern – Rambling Rose
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Jack Palance – City Slickers Michael Lerner – Barton Fink Harvey Keitel – Bugsy Ben Kingsley – Bugsy Tommy Lee Jones – JFK	Mercedes Ruehl – The Fisher King Kate Nelligan – The Prince of Tides Diane Ladd – Rambling Rose Jessica Tandy – Fried Green Tomatoes Juliette Lewis – Cape Fear
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Thelma & Louise – Callie Khouri Boyz n the Hood – John Singleton Bugsy – James Toback The Fisher King – Richard LaGravenese Grand Canyon – Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan	The Silence of the Lambs – Ted Tally Europa Europa – Agnieszka Holland Fried Green Tomatoes – Fannie Flagg and Connie Sobieski JFK – Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar The Prince of Tides – Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston
Best Foreign Language Film
Mediterraneo (Italy) Children of Nature (Iceland) The Elementary School (Czechoslovakia) The Ox (Sweden) Raise the Red Lantern (Hong Kong)
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
In the Shadow of the Stars – Allie Light and Irving Saraf Death on the Job – Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House – Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond The Restless Conscience – Hava Kohav Beller Wild by Law – Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey	Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment – Debra Chasnoff A Little Vicious – Immy Humes The Mark of the Maker – David McGowan Birdnesters of Thailand – Eric Valli and Alain Majani Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers – Bill Couturié and Bernard Edelman
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
Session Man – Seth Winston and Rob Fried Birch Street Gym – Stephen Kessler and Thomas R. Conroy Last Breeze of Summer – David M. Massey	Manipulation – Daniel Greaves Blackfly – Christopher Hinton Strings – Wendy Tilby
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Beauty and the Beast – Alan Menken Bugsy – Ennio Morricone The Fisher King – - George Fenton The Prince of Tides – - James Newton Howard JFK – - John Williams	"Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast – Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman "Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast – Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman "Belle" from Beauty and the Beast – Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman "When You’re Alone" from Hook – Music by John Williams; Lyric by Leslie Bricusse "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves – Music by Michael Kamen; Lyric by Bryan Adams and Robert John Lange
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Gary Rydstrom and Gloria S. Borders Backdraft – Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country – George Watters II and F. Hudson Miller	Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers and Lee Orloff Backdraft – Gary Summers, Randy Thom, Gary Rydstrom and Glenn Williams JFK – Michael Minkler, Gregg Landaker and Tod A. Maitland Beauty and the Beast – Terry Porter, Mel Metcalfe, David J. Hudson and Doc Kane The Silence of the Lambs – Tom Fleischman and Christopher Newman
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Bugsy – Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh Barton Fink – Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh The Fisher King – Art Direction: Mel Bourne; Set Decoration: Cindy Carr Hook – Art Direction: Norman Garwood; Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis The Prince of Tides – Art Direction: Paul Sylbert; Set Decoration: Caryl Heller	JFK – Robert Richardson Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Adam Greenberg Thelma & Louise – Adrian Biddle Bugsy – Allen Daviau The Prince of Tides – Stephen Goldblatt
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Stan Winston and Jeff Dawn Hook – Christina Smith, Monty Westmore and Greg Cannom Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country – Michael Mills, Edward French and Richard Snell	Bugsy – Albert Wolsky Hook – Anthony Powell Madame Bovary – Corinne Jorry Barton Fink – Richard Hornung The Addams Family – Ruth Myers
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
JFK – Pietro Scalia and Joe Hutshing Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt and Richard A. Harris The Silence of the Lambs – Craig McKay The Commitments – Gerry Hambling Thelma & Louise – Thom Noble	Terminator 2: Judgment Day – Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr. and Robert Skotak Hook – Eric Brevig, Harley Jessup, Mark Sullivan and Michael Lantieri Backdraft – Mikael Salomon, Allen Hall, Clay Pinney and Scott Farrar

Academy Honorary Awards

• Satyajit Ray
• Pete Comandini, Richard T. Dayton, Donald Hagans and Richard T. Ryan
• Richard J. Stumpf and Joseph Westheimer

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

• George Lucas

In Memoriam

Presented by Steven Spielberg, for first time is showing this segment who pay tribute to the film personalities who died in 1991: Carol Dempster, Dean Jagger, Danny Thomas, Vilma Bánky, playwright Howard Ashman, Aldo Ray, Nikola Todev, Natalie Schafer, director David Lean, director Don Siegel, composer Carmine Coppola, director Richard Thorpe, Eva LeGallienne, Peggy Ashcroft, Jean Arthur, Lee Remick, James Franciscus, Colleen Dewhurst, director Frank Capra, Brad Davis, composer Alex North, Viviane Romance, director Irwin Allen, Fred MacMurray, Gene Tierney, Yves Montand, director Daniel Mann, Klaus Kinski, Ralph Bellamy and Eleanor Boardman.

Presenters

• Antonio Banderas and Sharon Stone (Presenters: Best Sound Effects Editing)
• Kathy Bates (Presenter: Best Actor)
• Belle and The Beast (Presenters: Best Animated Short Film)
• Annette Bening (Presenter: Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
• Ray Bradbury (Presenter: Gordon E. Sawyer Award)
• John Candy (Presenter: Performance of Amber Scott)
• Dana Carvey and Mike Myers (Presenters: Best Live Action Short Film)
• Kevin Costner (Presenter: Best Director)
• Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
• Laura Dern and Diane Ladd (Presenters: Best Visual Effects)
• Rebecca De Mornay and Christopher Lloyd (Presenters: Best Makeup)
• Michael Douglas (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Robert Duvall and Anjelica Huston (Presenters: Writing Awards)
• Richard Gere (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
• Whoopi Goldberg (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
• Tom Hanks (Presenter: Scientific & Technical Awards)
• Daryl Hannah and Edward James Olmos (Presenters: Best Sound)
• Audrey Hepburn (Presenter: Honorary Award to Satyajit Ray)
• Shirley MacLaine and Liza Minnelli (Presenters: Best Original Song)
• Demi Moore (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
• Paul Newman and Elizabeth Taylor (Presenters: Best Picture)
• Angela Lansbury (Presenter: Performances of Best Original Song Nominees from Beauty and the Beast)
• Spike Lee and John Singleton (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
• Joe Pesci (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
• Steven Spielberg (Presenter: Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
• Sylvester Stallone (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Patrick Swayze (Presenter: Debbie Allen Dance Sequence and Best Original Score)
• Jessica Tandy (Presenter: The Prince of Tides Film Clip)
• Jack Valenti (Presenter: Introduction of Audrey Hepburn)
• Denzel Washington (Presenter: JFK Film Clip)

Performers

• Bryan Adams ("(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
• Peabo Bryson, Celine Dion, and Angela Lansbury ("Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast)
• Paige O'Hara and Richard White ("Belle" from Beauty and the Beast)
• Jerry Orbach ("Be Our Guest" from Beauty and the Beast)
• Amber Scott ("When You're Alone" from Hook)

Multiple nominations and awards

These films had multiple nominations:

• 10 nominations: Bugsy
• 8 nominations: JFK
• 7 nominations: The Prince of Tides, The Silence of the Lambs
• 6 nominations: Beauty and the Beast, Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Thelma & Louise
• 5 nominations: The Fisher King, Hook
• 3 nominations: Backdraft, Barton Fink
• 2 nominations: Boyz n the Hood, Cape Fear, Fried Green Tomatoes, Rambling Rose, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country

The following films received multiple awards.

• 5 wins: The Silence of the Lambs
• 4 wins: Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• 2 wins: Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, JFK