49th Golden Globe Awards

49th Golden Globe Awards

January 18, 1992

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Best Picture - Drama:
Bugsy

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Best Picture - Musical or Comedy:
Beauty and the Beast

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Best TV Series - Drama:
Northern Exposure

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Best TV Series - Musical or Comedy:
Brooklyn Bridge

The 49th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1991, were held on January 18, 1992.

Winners

Film

Best Actor - Drama

Nick Nolte - The Prince of Tides

• Warren Beatty - Bugsy
• Kevin Costner - JFK
• Robert De Niro - Cape Fear
• Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Robin Williams - The Fisher King

• Jeff Bridges - The Fisher King
• Billy Crystal - City Slickers
• Dustin Hoffman - Hook
• Kevin Kline - Soapdish

Best Actress - Drama

Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs

• Annette Bening - Bugsy
• Geena Davis - Thelma & Louise
• Laura Dern - Rambling Rose
• Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Bette Midler - For the Boys

• Ellen Barkin - Switch
• Kathy Bates - Fried Green Tomatoes
• Anjelica Huston - The Addams Family
• Michelle Pfeiffer - Frankie and Johnny

Best Director

Oliver Stone - JFK

• Barry Levinson - Bugsy
• Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
• Terry Gilliam - The Fisher King
• Barbra Streisand - The Prince of Tides

Best Film - Drama

Bugsy

• JFK
• Thelma & Louise
• The Prince of Tides
• The Silence of the Lambs

Best Film - Musical or Comedy

Beauty and the Beast

• City Slickers
• Fried Green Tomatoes
• The Commitments
• The Fisher King

Best Foreign Language Film

Europa, Europa, Germany

• The Double Life of Véronique (La double vie de Véronique), France
• High Heels (Tacones lejanos), Spain
• Lost in Siberia (Zateryannyy v Sibiri), USSR
• Madame Bovary, France
• Nikita, France

Best Original Score

Beauty and the Beast - Alan Menken

• At Play in the Fields of the Lord - Zbigniew Preisner
• Bugsy - Ennio Morricone
• Dead Again - Patrick Doyle
• For the Boys - Dave Grusin
• Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves - Michael Kamen

Best Original Song

"Beauty and the Beast" performed by Peabo Bryson and Céline Dion - Beauty and the Beast

• "Be Our Guest" performed by Angela Lansbury and Jerry Orbach - Beauty and the Beast
• "Dreams to Dream" - An American Tail: Fievel Goes West
• "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" - Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves
• "Tears in Heaven" performed by Eric Clapton - Rush

Best Screenplay

Thelma & Louise - Callie Khouri

• Bugsy - James Toback
• Grand Canyon - Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan
• JFK - Zachary Sklar and Oliver Stone
• The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally

Best Supporting Actor

Jack Palance - City Slickers

• Ned Beatty - Hear My Song
• John Goodman - Barton Fink
• Harvey Keitel - Bugsy
• Ben Kingsley - Bugsy

Best Supporting Actress

Mercedes Ruehl - The Fisher King

• Nicole Kidman - Billy Bathgate
• Diane Ladd - Rambling Rose
• Juliette Lewis - Cape Fear
• Jessica Tandy - Fried Green Tomatoes

Television

Best Actor - Drama Series

Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap

• Mark Harmon - Reasonable Doubts
• James Earl Jones - Pros & Cons
• Rob Morrow - Northern Exposure
• Carroll O'Connor - In the Heat of the Night
• Sam Waterston - I'll Fly Away

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Series

Burt Reynolds - Evening Shade

• Ted Danson - Cheers
• Neil Patrick Harris - Doogie Howser, M.D.
• Craig T. Nelson - Coach
• Ed O'Neill - Married... with Children

Best Actor - Miniseries or TV Film

Beau Bridges - Without Warning: The James Brady Story

• Sam Elliott - Conagher
• Peter Falk - Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star
• Sam Neill - One Against the Wind
• Sidney Poitier - Separate But Equal

Best Actress - Drama Series

Angela Lansbury - Murder, She Wrote

• Susan Dey - L.A. Law
• Sharon Gless - The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
• Marlee Matlin - Reasonable Doubts
• Janine Turner - Northern Exposure

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Series

Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown

• Kirstie Alley - Cheers
• Jamie Lee Curtis - Anything But Love
• Roseanne Barr - Roseanne
• Katey Sagal - Married... with Children

Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Film

Judy Davis - One Against the Wind

• Glenn Close - Sarah, Plain and Tall
• Sally Kirkland - The Haunted
• Jessica Tandy - The Story Lady
• Lynn Whitfield - The Josephine Baker Story

Best Series - Drama

Northern Exposure

• Beverly Hills, 90210
• I'll Fly Away
• L.A. Law
• Law & Order

Best Series - Musical or Comedy

Brooklyn Bridge

• Cheers
• Evening Shade
• The Golden Girls
• Murphy Brown

Best Miniseries or TV Film

One Against the Wind

• In a Child's Name
• The Josephine Baker Story
• Sarah, Plain and Tall
• Separate But Equal

Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or TV Film

Louis Gossett, Jr. - The Josephine Baker Story

• Larry Drake - L.A. Law
• Michael Jeter - Evening Shade
• Richard Kiley - Separate But Equal
• Dean Stockwell - Quantum Leap

Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or TV Film

Amanda Donohoe - L.A. Law

• Sammi Davis - Homefront
• Faith Ford - Murphy Brown
• Estelle Getty - The Golden Girls
• Park Overall - Empty Nest
• Rhea Perlman - Cheers
• Jean Stapleton - Fire in the Dark

See also

• 49th Golden Globe Awards nominees
• 64th Academy Awards
• 12th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards
• 44th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 45th British Academy Film Awards
• 46th Tony Awards
• 1991 in film
• 1991 in American television