1989 Academy Award® Nominations: winners are underlined.

Best Picture: Born on the Fourth of July Dead Poets Society Driving Miss Daisy Field of Dreams My Left Foot

Best Director: Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors Kenneth Branagh, Henry V Jim Sheridan, My Left Foot Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July Peter Weir, Dead Poets Society

Best Actor: Tom Cruise, Born on the Fourth of July Kenneth Branagh, Henry V Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy Robin Williams, Dead Poets Society

Best Actress: Isabelle Adjani, Camille Claudel Pauline Collins, Shirley Valentine Jessica Lange, Music Box Michelle Pfeiffer, The Fabulous Baker Boys Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy

Best Supporting Actor: Danny Aiello, Do the Right Thing Dan Aykroyd, Driving Miss Daisy Marlon Brando, A Dry White Season Martin Landau, Crimes and Misdemeanors Denzel Washington, Glory

Best Supporting Actress: Brenda Fricker, My Left Foot Anjelica Huston, Enemies: A Love Story Lena Olin, Enemies: A Love Story Julia Roberts, Steel Magnolias Dianne Wiest, Parenthood

Best Original Screenplay:
Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors
Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally...
Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing
Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society
Steven Soderbergh, Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Phil Alden Robinson, Field of Dreams
Jim Sheridan, Shane Connaughton, My Left Foot
Roger L. Simon, Paul Mazursky, Enemies: A Love Story
Oliver Stone, Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July
Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy

Best Foreign Film: Camille Claudel, France Dansen med Regitze, Denmark Jésus de Montréal, Canada Lo que le pasó a Santiago, Puerto Rico Nuovo cinema Paradiso, Italy

Sound Effects Editing: Black Rain Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Lethal Weapon 2

Visual Effects: The Abyss The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Back to the Future Part II

Best Makeup: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Dad Driving Miss Daisy

Best Sound: The Abyss Black Rain Born on the Fourth of July Glory Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Best Costumes: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Driving Miss Daisy Harlem Nights Henry V Valmont

Best Cinematography: The Abyss Blaze Born on the Fourth of July The Fabulous Baker Boys Glory

Film Editing: Born on the Fourth of July Driving Miss Daisy The Fabulous Baker Boys Glory L' Ours

Best Art Direction: The Abyss The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Batman Driving Miss Daisy Glory

Best Original Score:
Dave Grusin, The Fabulous Baker Boys
James Horner, Field of Dreams
Alan Menken, The Little Mermaid
John Williams, Born on the Fourth of July
John Williams, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade

Best Original Song:
Marvin Hamlisch, Alan Bergman, Marilyn Bergman, "The Girl Who Used to Be Me" from Shirley Valentine
Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, "Kiss the Girl" from The Little Mermaid
Alan Menken, Howard Ashman, "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid
Randy Newman, "I Love to See You Smile" from Parenthood
Tom Snow, Dean Pitchford, "After All" from Chances Are

Best Documentary Feature: Adam Clayton Powell Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt Crack USA: Country Under Siege For All Mankind Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

Live Action Short Film: Amazon Diary The Child Eater Work Experience

Documentary, Short Subject: Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 The Johnstown Flood Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future

Animated Short Film: Balance The Hill Farm Korova

The Academy Award® ceremonies were held on March 26th, 1990


Winners:
(15 movies)
Driving Miss Daisy (4) - Picture, Actress, Adapted Screenplay, Makeup
Glory (3) - Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Sound
Born on the Fourth of July (2) - Director, Editing
My Left Foot (2) - Actor, Supporting Actress
The Little Mermaid (2) - Original Song, Score
The Abyss (1) - Visual Effects
Batman (1) - Art Direction
Dead Poets Society (1) - Original Screenplay
Henry V (1) - Costumes
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1) - Sound Effects Editing
Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1) - Foreign Film
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1) - Documentary Feature
The Johnstown Flood (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Work Experience (1) - Live Action Short Film
Balance (1) - Animated Short Film

Nomination Totals:
(51 movies)
Commercial English language films:
The Abyss (4) - Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound, Visual Effects
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (4) - Art Direction, Costumes, Visual Effects, Makeup
Back to the Future Part II (1) - Visual Effects
Batman (1) - Art Direction
Black Rain (2) - Sound, Sound Effects Editing
Blaze (1) - Cinematography
Born on the Fourth of July (8) - Picture, Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound, Editing, Score
Chances Are (1) - Original Song
Crimes and Misdemeanors (3) - Supporting Actor, Director, Original Screenplay
Dad (1) - Makeup
Dead Poets Society (4) - Picture, Actor, Director, Original Screenplay
Do the Right Thing (2) - Supporting Actor, Original Screenplay
Driving Miss Daisy (9) - Picture, Actor, Actress, Supporting Actor, Adapted Screenplay, Art Direction, Costumes, Editing, Makeup
A Dry White Season (1) - Supporting Actor
Enemies: A Love Story (3) - Supporting Actress, Supporting Actress, Adapted Screenplay
The Fabulous Baker Boys (4) - Actress, Cinematography, Editing, Score
Field of Dreams (3) - Picture, Adapted Screenplay, Score
Glory (5) - Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Art Direction, Sound, Editing
Harlem Nights (1) - Costumes
Henry V (3) - Actor, Director, Costumes
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (3) - Sound, Sound Effects Editing, Score
Lethal Weapon 2 (1) - Sound Effects Editing
The Little Mermaid (3) - Score, Original Song, Original Song
Music Box (1) - Actress
My Left Foot (5) - Picture, Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay
Parenthood (2) - Supporting Actress, Original Song
Shirley Valentine (2) - Actress, Original Song
Steel Magnolias (1) - Supporting Actress
Sex, Lies, and Videotape (1) - Original Screenplay
Valmont (1) - Costumes
When Harry Met Sally... (1) - Original Screenplay

Foreign language films:
Camille Claudel (2) - Foreign Film, Actress
Dansen med Regitze (1) - Foreign Film
Jésus de Montréal (1) - Foreign Film
Lo que le pasó a Santiago (1) - Foreign Film
Nuovo cinema Paradiso (1) - Foreign Film
L' Ours (1) - Editing

Documentaries and short films:
Adam Clayton Powell (1) - Documentary Feature
Amazon Diary (1) - Live Action Short Film
Balance (1) - Animated Short Film
The Child Eater (1) - Live Action Short Film
Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1) - Documentary Feature
Crack USA: County Under Siege (1) - Documentary Feature
Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
For All Mankind (1) - Documentary Feature
The Hill Farm (1) - Animated Short Film
The Johnstown Flood (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Korova (1) - Animated Short Film
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (1) - Documentary Feature
Work Experience (1) - Live Action Short Film
Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future (1) - Documentary, Short Subject

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