1990 Academy Award® Nominations: winners are underlined.


Best Picture:
Awakenings
Dances with Wolves
Ghost
The Godfather: Part III
Goodfellas
Best Director:
Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather: Part III
Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves
Stephen Frears, The Grifters
Barbet Schroeder, Reversal of Fortune
Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas


Best Actor:
Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves
Robert De Niro, Awakenings
Gérard Depardieu, Cyrano de Bergerac
Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune
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. & Mrs. Bridge

Best Supporting Actor:
Bruce Davison, Longtime Companion
Andy Garcia, The Godfather: Part III
Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves
Al Pacino, Dick Tracy
Joe Pesci, Goodfellas
Best Supporting Actress:
Annette Bening, The Grifters
Lorraine Bracco, Goodfellas
Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost
Diane Ladd, Wild at Heart
Mary McDonnell, Dances with Wolves

Best Original Screenplay:
Woody Allen, Alice
Barry Levinson, Avalon
Bruce Joel Rubin, Ghost
Whit Stillman, Metropolitan
Peter Weir, Green Card

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Michael Blake, Dances with Wolves
Nicholas Kazan, Reversal of Fortune
Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas
Donald E. Westlake, The Grifters
Steven Zaillian, Awakenings

Best Foreign Film:
Cyrano de Bergerac, France
Ju Dou, China
Porte aperte, Italy
Reise der Hoffnung, Switzerland
Das Schreckliche Mädchen, Germany
Visual Effects:
Total Recall (Special Achievement Award)
Runners up (not nominees):
Back to the Future Part III
Dick Tracy
Ghost

Sound Effects Editing:
Flatliners
The Hunt for Red October
Total Recall
Best Costumes:
Avalon
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dances with Wolves
Dick Tracy
Hamlet
Best Makeup:
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dick Tracy
Edward Scissorhands
Best Sound:
Dances with Wolves
Days of Thunder
Dick Tracy
The Hunt for Red October
Total Recall
Best Cinematography:
Avalon
Dances with Wolves
Dick Tracy
The Godfather: Part III
Henry & June

Film Editing:
Dances with Wolves
Ghost
The Godfather: Part III
Goodfellas
The Hunt for Red October
Best Original Score:
John Barry, Dances with Wolves
Dave Grusin, Havana
Maurice Jarre, Ghost
Randy Newman, Avalon
John Williams, Home Alone
Best Art Direction:
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dances with Wolves
Dick Tracy
The Godfather: Part III
Hamlet


Best Original Song:
Jon Bon Jovi, "Blaze of Glory" from Young Guns II
Carmine Coppola, John Bettis, "Promise Me You'll Remember" from The Godfather: Part III
Shel Silverstein, "I'm Checkin' Out" from Postcards from the Edge
Stephen Sondheim, "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from Dick Tracy
John Williams, Leslie Bricusse, "Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone

Best Documentary Feature:
American Dream
Berkeley in the '60s
Building Bombs
Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
Live Action Short Film:
Bronx Cheers
Dear Rosie
The Lunch Date
Senzeni Na?
12:01 PM


Documentary, Short Subject:
Burning Down Tomorrow
Chimps: So Like Us
Days of Waiting
Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
Animated Short Film:
Creature Comforts
A Grand Day Out
Grasshoppers


The Academy Award® ceremonies were held on Monday, March 25th, 1991


Winners:
(14 movies)

Dances with Wolves (7) - Picture, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Sound, Editing, Score
Dick Tracy (3) - Art Direction, Makeup, Original Song
Ghost (2) - Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay
Cyrano de Bergerac (1) - Costumes
Goodfellas (1) - Supporting Actor
The Hunt for Red October (1) - Sound Effects Editing
Misery (1) - Actress
Reversal of Fortune (1) - Actor
Total Recall (1) - Visual Effects (Special Achievement Award)
Reise der Hoffnung (1) - Foreign Film
American Dream (1) - Documentary Feature
Days of Waiting (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
The Lunch Date (1) - Live Action Short Film
Creature Comforts (1) - Animated Short Film

Nomination Totals:
(52 movies)

Commercial English language films:

Alice (1) - Original Screenplay
Avalon (4) - Original Screenplay, Cinematography, Costumes, Score
Awakenings (3) - Picture, Actor, Adapted Screenplay
Back to the Future Part III (1 Runner up) - Visual Effects
Dances with Wolves (12) - Picture, Actor, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costumes, Sound, Editing, Score
Days of Thunder (1) - Sound
Dick Tracy (7 + 1 Runner up) - Supporting Actor, Cinematography, Art Direction, Costumes, Sound, Makeup, Original Song, (Visual Effects)
Edward Scissorhands (1) - Makeup
The Field (1) - Actor
Flatliners (1) - Sound Effects Editing
Ghost (5 + 1 Runner up) - Picture, Supporting Actress, Original Screenplay, Editing, Score, (Visual Effects)
The Godfather: Part III (7) - Picture, Supporting Actor, Director, Cinematography, Art Direction, Editing, Original Song
Goodfellas (6) - Picture, Supporting Actor, Supporting Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay, Editing
Green Card (1) - Original Screenplay
The Grifters (4) - Actress, Supporting Actress, Director, Adapted Screenplay
Hamlet (2) - Art Direction, Costumes
Havana (1) - Score
Henry & June (1) - Cinematography
Home Alone (2) - Original Song, Score
The Hunt for Red October (3) - Sound, Editing, Sound Effects Editing
Longtime Companion (1) - Supporting Actor
Metropolitan (1) - Original Screenplay
Misery (1) - Actress
Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (1) - Actress
Postcards from the Edge (2) - Actress, Original Song
Pretty Woman (1) - Actress
Reversal of Fortune (3) - Actor, Director, Adapted Screenplay
Total Recall (2 + 1 Special Achievement Award) - Sound, Sound Effects Editing, (Visual Effects)
Wild at Heart (1) - Supporting Actress
Young Guns II (1) - Original Song

Foreign language films:

Cyrano de Bergerac (5) - Foreign Film, Actor, Art Direction, Costumes, Makeup
Ju Dou (1) - Foreign Film
Porte aperte (1) - Foreign Film
Reise der Hoffnung (1) - Foreign Film
Das Schreckliche Mädchen (1) - Foreign Film

Documentaries and short films:

American Dream (1) - Documentary Feature
Berkeley in the '60s (1) - Documentary Feature
Bronx Cheers (1) - Live Action Short Film
Building Bombs (1) - Documentary Feature
Burning Down Tomorrow (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Chimps: So Like Us (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Days of Waiting (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Creature Comforts (1) - Animated Short Film
Dear Rosie (1) - Live Action Short Film
Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade (1) - Documentary Feature
A Grand Day Out (1) - Animated Short Film
Grasshoppers (1) - Animated Short Film
Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
The Lunch Date (1) - Live Action Short Film
Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember (1) - Documentary, Short Subject
Senzeni Na? (1) - Live Action Short Film
12:01 PM (1) - Live Action Short Film
Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey (1) - Documentary Feature

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