63rd Academy Awards Ceremony
(1991)
215 minutes
Drama / Family / News
Monday, March 25, 1991 at Shrine Auditorium, Los Angeles, California
Hosted by Billy Crystal
BEST PICTURE
Dances with Wolves
Awakenings
Ghost
The Godfather Part III
Goodfellas
BEST DIRECTOR
Kevin Costner – Dances with Wolves
Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather Part III
Stephen Frears – The Grifters
Barbet Schroeder – Reversal of Fortune
Martin Scorsese – Goodfellas
BEST ACTOR
Jeremy Irons – Reversal of Fortune
Kevin Costner – Dances with Wolves
Robert De Niro – Awakenings
Gérard Depardieu – Cyrano de Bergerac
Richard Harris – The Field
BEST ACTRESS
Kathy Bates – Misery
Anjelica Huston – The Grifters
Julia Roberts – Pretty Woman
Meryl Streep – Postcards from the Edge
Joanne Woodward – Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Joe Pesci – Goodfellas
Bruce Davison – Longtime Companion
Andy García – The Godfather Part III
Graham Greene – Dances with Wolves
Al Pacino – Dick Tracy
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Whoopi Goldberg – Ghost
Annette Bening – The Grifters
Lorraine Bracco – Goodfellas
Diane Ladd – Wild at Heart
Mary McDonnell – Dances with Wolves
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Ghost – Bruce Joel Rubin
Alice – Woody Allen
Avalon – Barry Levinson
Green Card – Peter Weir
Metropolitan – Whit Stillman
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
Dances with Wolves – Michael Blake
Awakenings – Steven Zaillian
Goodfellas – Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
The Grifters – Donald E. Westlake
Reversal of Fortune – Nicholas Kazan
BEST FILM EDITING
Dances with Wolves – Neil Travis
Ghost – Walter Murch
The Godfather Part III – Barry Malkin, Lisa Fruchtman and Walter Murch
Goodfellas – Thelma Schoonmaker
The Hunt for Red October – Dennis Virkler and John Wright
BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE
American Dream – Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn
Berkeley in the Sixties – Mark Kitchell
Building Bombs – Mark Mori and Susan Robinson
Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade – Judith Montell
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey – Robert Hillmann and Eugene Corr
BEST DOCUMENTARY SHORT
Days of Waiting – Steven Okazaki
Burning Down Tomorrow – Kit Thomas
Chimps: So Like Us – Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon
Journey into Life – Derek Bromhall
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember – Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders
BEST LIVE ACTION SHORT
The Lunch Date – Adam Davidson
Bronx Cheers – Raymond De Felitta and Matthew Gross
Dear Rosie – Peter Cattaneo and Barnaby Thompson
Senzeni Na? (What Have We Done?) – Bernard Joffa and Anthony E. Nicholas
12:01 PM – Hillary Ripps and Jonathan Heap
BEST ANIMATED SHORT
Creature Comforts – Nick Park
A Grand Day Out – Nick Park
Grasshoppers (Cavallette) – Bruno Bozzetto
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Dances with Wolves – John Barry
Avalon – Randy Newman
Ghost – Maurice Jarre
Havana – David Grusin
Home Alone – John Williams
BEST ORIGINAL SONG
"Sooner or Later" from Dick Tracy – Music and Lyric by Stephen Sondheim
"Blaze of Glory " from Young Guns II – Music and Lyric by Jon Bon Jovi
"I'm Checkin' Out" from Postcards from the Edge – Music and Lyric by Shel Silverstein
"Promise Me You'll Remember" from The Godfather Part III – Music by Carmine Coppola; Lyric by John Bettis
"Somewhere in My Memory " from Home Alone – Music by John Williams; Lyric by Leslie Bricusse
BEST SOUND EDITING
The Hunt for Red October – Cecelia Hall and George Watters II
Flatliners – Charles L. Campbell and Richard Franklin
Total Recall – Stephen H. Flick
BEST SOUND MIXING
Dances With Wolves – Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Gregory H. Watkins and Russell Williams II
Days Of Thunder – Charles M. Wilborn, Donald O. Mitchell , Rick Kline and Kevin O'Connell
Dick Tracy – Thomas Causey, Chris Jenkins, David E. Campbell and Doug Hemphill
The Hunt for Red October – Richard Bryce Goodman, Richard Overton, Kevin F. Cleary and Don J. Bassman
Total Recall – Nelson Stoll, Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios and Aaron Rochin
BEST ART DIRECTION
Dick Tracy – Art Director: Richard Sylbert; Set Decoration: Rick Simpson
Cyrano de Bergerac – Art Director: Ezio Frigerio; Set Decoration: Jacques Rouxel
Dances with Wolves – Art Director: Jeffrey Beecroft; Set Decoration: Lisa Dean
The Godfather Part III – Art Director: Dean Tavoularis; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
Hamlet – Art Director: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Dances with Wolves – Dean Semler
Avalon – Allen Daviau
Dick Tracy – Vittorio Storaro
The Godfather Part III – Gordon Willis
Henry & June – Philippe Rousselot
BEST MAKEUP
Dick Tracy – John Caglione, Jr. and Doug Drexler
Cyrano de Bergerac – Michèle Burke and Jean-Pierre Eychenne
Edward Scissorhands – Ve Neill and Stan Winston
BEST COSTUME DESIGN
Cyrano de Bergerac – Franca Squarciapino
Avalon – Gloria Gresham
Dances with Wolves – Elsa Zamparelli
Dick Tracy – Milena Canonero
Hamlet – Maurizio Millenotti
BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Journey of Hope (Switzerland)
Cyrano de Bergerac (France)
Ju Dou (China)
The Nasty Girl (Germany)
Open Doors (Italy)
ACADEMY HONORARY AWARD
Sophia Loren
Myrna Loy
Roderick T. Ryan
Don Trumbull
Geoffrey H. Williamson
IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD
David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck
ACADEMY SPECIAL ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
Total Recall – Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern and Alex Funke
IN MEMORIAM
Presented by Michael Douglas, this segment honors the film personalities who died in 1990: Ian Charleson, Terry-Thomas, Gordon Jackson, Barbara Stanwyck, Madge Bellamy, Ava Gardner, Jim Henson, Gary Merrill, Capucine, Greta Garbo, Paulette Goddard, Charles Farrell, Susan Oliver, Sammy Davis Jr, Jill Ireland, Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood, Eddie Quillan, Irene Dunne, Hermes Pan, Delphine Seyrig, Joel McCrea, Mary Martin, Eve Arden, Robert Cummings, Joan Bennett and Martin Ritt.
PRESENTERS
Ann-Margret and Gregory Hines (Best Original Song)
Danny Aiello (Goodfellas Film Clip)
Debbie Allen (Dance Sequence)
Anne Archer (Best Makeup)
Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger (Best Original Score)
Annette Bening (Best Costume Design)
Jeff Bridges (The Godfather : Part III Film Clip)
Michael Caine (Early Film Montage)
Phoebe Cates and Ron Silver (Documentary Awards)
Chevy Chase and Martin Short (Best Live Action Short Film)
Glenn Close (Best Cinematography)
Tom Cruise (Best Director)
Geena Davis (Scientific & Technical Achievement Awards)
Daniel Day-Lewis (Best Actress)
Robert De Niro (Dances with Wolves Film Clip)
Michael Douglas (Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award)
Jodie Foster and Anthony Hopkins (Writing Awards)
Brenda Fricker (Best Supporting Actor)
Andy Garcia and Whoopi Goldberg (Best Sound Effects Editing)
Richard Gere and Susan Sarandon (Best Art Direction-Set Decoration)
Danny Glover and Kevin Kline (Best Film Editing)
Dustin Hoffman (Best Foreign Language Film)
Bob Hope (First Movie Montage)
Anjelica Huston (Honorary Award to Myrna Loy)
Jack Lemmon (Ghost Film Clip)
Gregory Peck (Honorary Award to Sophia Loren)
Joe Pesci (Children's Choir Performance)
Barbra Streisand (Best Picture)
Jessica Tandy (Best Actor)
Jack Valenti (Best Visual Effects)
Denzel Washington (Best Supporting Actress)
Dianne Wiest (Best Sound)
Debra Winger (Awakenings Film Clip)
Woody Woodpecker (Animated Short Film)
PERFORMERS
Bon Jovi ("Blaze of Glory " from Young Guns II)
Harry Connick Jr. ("Promise Me You'll Remember (Love Theme from The Godfather Part III)" from The Godfather : Part III)
Madonna ("Sooner or Later" from Dick Tracy )
Reba McEntire ("I'm Checkin' Out" from Postcards from the Edge)
