62nd Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 62nd
caption = "Driving Miss Daisy"
date = Monday, March 26, 1990
site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles, California
host = Billy Crystal
producer = Gil Cates
director = Jeff Margolis
duration = 3 hours, 37 minutes
network = ABC
ratings = 40.49 million
last = 61st
next = 63rdThe 62nd Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was not only hosted in Hollywood, California; it was also co-hosted in five cities around the globe:

-Buenos Aires, Argentina
-London, United Kingdom
-Moscow, Soviet Union
-Sydney, Australia
-Tokyo, Japan

This was the first telecast hosted by Billy Crystal and debuted his famous nominee songs. He would go on to host the show seven more times over the next fifteen years. Since then, Crystal has opened every ceremony he has hosted with a song about the nominees for best picture concluding with the age of the Oscar (the 62nd ceremony means that the Oscar is 62 years old)."Driving Miss Daisy" won four awards including Best Picture.

Winners & Nominees

Best Picture

"Driving Miss Daisy"
*"Born on the Fourth of July"
*"Dead Poets Society"
*"Field of Dreams"
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Best Actor in a Leading Role

" - Daniel Day-Lewis"
*"Born on the Fourth of July - Tom Cruise"
*"Dead Poets Society - Robin Williams"
*"Driving Miss Daisy - Morgan Freeman"
*"Henry V - Kenneth Branagh"

Best Actress in a Leading Role

"Driving Miss Daisy - Jessica Tandy"
*"Camille Claudel - Isabelle Adjani"
*"The Fabulous Baker Boys - Michelle Pfeiffer"
*"Music Box - Jessica Lange"
*"Shirley Valentine - Pauline Collins"

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

"Glory - Denzel Washington"
*"Crimes and Misdemeanors - Martin Landau"
*"Do the Right Thing - Danny Aiello"
*"Driving Miss Daisy - Dan Aykroyd"
*"A Dry White Season - Marlon Brando"

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

" - Brenda Fricker"
*" - Anjelica Huston"
*" - Lena Olin"
*"Parenthood - Dianne Wiest"
*"Steel Magnolias - Julia Roberts"

Best Director

"Born on the Fourth of July - Oliver Stone"
*"Crimes and Misdemeanors - Woody Allen"
*"Dead Poets Society - Peter Weir"
*"Henry V - Kenneth Branagh"
*" - Jim Sheridan"

Best Original 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"

Best Adapted Screenplay

"Driving Miss Daisy - Alfred Uhry"
*"Born on the Fourth of July - Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic"
*" - Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky"
*"Field of Dreams - Phil Alden Robinson"
*" - Jim Sheridan and Shane Connaughton"

Best Cinematography

"Glory - Freddie Francis"

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

"Batman - Anton Furst and Peter Young"

Best Costume Design

"Henry V - Phyllis Dalton"

Best Sound

"Glory - Donald O. Mitchell , Gregg Rudloff , Elliot Tyson and Russell Williams II"

Best Film Editing

"Born on the Fourth of July - David Brenner and Joe Hutshing"

Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

"Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade - Richard Hymns and Ben Burtt"

Best Effects, Visual Effects

"The Abyss - Dennis Muren , Hoyt Yeatman , John Bruno and Dennis Skotak"

Best Makeup

"Driving Miss Daisy - Manlio Rocchetti , Lynn Barber and Kevin Haney"

Best Music, Original Song

"The Little Mermaid - Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for the song Under the Sea"

Best Music, Original Score

"The Little Mermaid - Alan Menken"

Best Short Film, Animated

"Balance"

Best Short Film, Live Action

"Work Experience"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

"The Johnstown Flood"

Best Documentary, Features

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Best Foreign Language Film

"Nuovo cinema Paradiso - Italy"

Other facts

*Jessica Tandy became the oldest Best Actress winner at 80 years old.