Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Driving Miss Daisy
Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, producers — the director was not nominated for Best Director
Acting
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Winner
Daniel Day-Lewis
My Left Foot — his first Oscar; stayed in character throughout filming
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Winner
Jessica Tandy
Driving Miss Daisy — oldest Best Actress winner ever at age 80
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Denzel Washington
Glory — his first Oscar; as Pvt. Silas Trip, a former slave fighting in the Civil War
Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Winner
Brenda Fricker
My Left Foot — as Christy Brown's devoted mother Bridget
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Crimes and Misdemeanors— Woody Allen
Do the Right Thing— Spike Lee
When Harry Met Sally...— Nora Ephron
Best Adapted Screenplay
Born on the Fourth of July— Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic
My Left Foot— Jim Sheridan, Shane Connaughton
Craft & Technical
Best Foreign Language Film
Winner
Cinema Paradiso
Italy — directed by Giuseppe Tornatore; a love letter to cinema
Camille Claudel— France
Jesus of Montreal— Canada
Wanjiru— Kenya
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
Robert Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman — about the AIDS Memorial Quilt
For All Mankind— Al Reinert
Adam Clayton Powell— Richard Kilberg
Best Original Score
Born on the Fourth of July— John Williams
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade— John Williams
Field of Dreams— James Horner
Best Original Song
Winner
"Under the Sea"
The Little Mermaid — Alan Menken, Howard Ashman
"Kiss the Girl"— The Little Mermaid
"The Girl Who Used to Be Me"— Shirley Valentine
Best Cinematography
The Fabulous Baker Boys— Michael Ballhaus
Born on the Fourth of July— Robert Richardson
Best Film Editing
The Bear— Noëlle Boisson
Driving Miss Daisy— Mark Warner
Best Art Direction
The Abyss— Leslie Dilley; Anne Kuljian
Driving Miss Daisy— Bruno Rubeo; Crispian Sallis
Best Costume Design
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen— Gabriella Pescucci
Driving Miss Daisy— Elizabeth McBride
Best Makeup
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen— Maggie Weston, Fabrizio Sforza
Dad— Dick Smith, Ken Diaz, Greg Nelson
Best Visual Effects
Batman— Derek Meddings et al.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade— Michael J. McAlister et al.
Best Sound Mixing
Winner
Glory
Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg C. Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, Russell Williams II
The Abyss— Lee Orloff et al.
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade— Ben Burtt et al.
Best Sound Editing
Lethal Weapon 2— Robert Henderson, Alan Robert Murray
Black Rain— Cecelia Hall, George Watters II