The 63rd Academy Awards (1990): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
12 7 7 6 5 5 4 4 3 3 3	Dances With Wolves Dick Tracy The Godfather, Part III Good Fellas Cyrano de Bergerac Ghost Avalon The Grifters Awakenings The Hunt for Red October Reversal of Fortune	7 3 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	Dances With Wolves Dick Tracy Ghost American Dream Creature Comforts Cyrano de Bergerac Days of Waiting Good Fellas The Hunt for Red October Journey of Hope Lunch Date Misery Reversal of Fortune
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

• Awakenings - Walter F. Parkes, Lawrence Lasker
• Dances With Wolves - Jim Wilson, Kevin Costner
• Ghost - Lisa Weinstein
• The Godfather, Part III - Francis Ford Coppola
• Good Fellas - Irwin Winkler

DIRECTING

• Dances With Wolves - Kevin Costner
• The Godfather, Part III - Francis Ford Coppola
• Good Fellas - Martin Scorsese
• The Grifters - Stephen Frears
• Reversal of Fortune - Barbet Schroeder

ACTOR (Actor in a Leading Role)

• Kevin Costner - Dances With Wolves
• Robert De Niro - Awakenings
• Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac
• Richard Harris - The Field
• Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune

ACTRESS (Actress in a Leading Role)

• Kathy Bates - Misery
• Anjelica Huston - The Grifters
• Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman
• Meryl Streep - Postcards from the Edge
• Joanne Woodward - Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion
• Andy Garcia - The Godfather, Part III
• Graham Greene - Dances With Wolves
• Al Pacino - Dick Tracy
• Joe Pesci - Good Fellas

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Annette Bening - The Grifters
• Lorraine Bracco - Good Fellas
• Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
• Diane Ladd - Wild at Heart
• Mary McDonnell - Dances With Wolves

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

• Alice - Woody Allen
• Avalon - Barry Levinson
• Ghost - Bruce Joel Rubin
• Green Card - Peter Weir
• Metropolitan - Whit Stillman

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

• Awakenings - Steven Zaillian
• Dances With Wolves - Michael Blake
• Good Fellas - Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
• The Grifters - Donald E. Westlake
• Reversal of Fortune - Nicholas Kazan

ORIGINAL SONG

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

ORIGINAL SCORE

• Avalon - Randy Newman
• Dances With Wolves - John Barry
• Ghost - Maurice Jarre
• Havana - David Grusin
• Home Alone - John Williams

FILM EDITING

• Dances With Wolves - Neil Travis
• Ghost - Walter Murch
• The Godfather, Part III - Barry Malkin, Lisa Fruchtman, Walter Murch
• Good Fellas - Thelma Schoonmaker
• The Hunt for Red October - Dennis Virkler, John Wright

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Avalon - Allen Daviau
• Dances With Wolves - Dean Semler
• Dick Tracy - Vittorio Storaro
• The Godfather, Part III - Gordon Willis
• Henry & June - Philippe Rousselot

ART DIRECTION

• Cyrano de Bergerac - Art Direction: Ezio Frigerio; Set Decoration: Jacques Rouxel
• Dances With Wolves - Art Direction: Jeffrey Beecroft; Set Decoration: Lisa Dean
• Dick Tracy - Art Direction: Richard Sylbert; Set Decoration: Rick Simpson
• The Godfather, Part III - Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
• Hamlet - Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo

COSTUME DESIGN

• Avalon - Gloria Gresham
• Cyrano de Bergerac - Franca Squarciapino
• Dances With Wolves - Elsa Zamparelli
• Dick Tracy - Milena Canonero
• Hamlet - Maurizio Millenotti

MAKEUP

• Cyrano de Bergerac - Michle Burke, Jean-Pierre Eychenne
• Dick Tracy - John Caglione Jr., Doug Drexler
• Edward Scissorhands - Ve Neill, Stan Winston

SOUND

• Dances With Wolves - Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Greg Watkins, Russell Williams II
• Days of Thunder - Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell, Charles Wilborn
• Dick Tracy - Chris Jenkins, David E. Campbell, D. M. Hemphill, Thomas Causey
• The Hunt for Red October - Don Bassman, Richard Overton, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Bryce Goodman
• Total Recall - Michael J. Kohut, Carlos de Larios, Aaron Rochin, Nelson Stoll

SOUND EFFECTS EDITING

• Flatliners - Charles L. Campbell, Richard Franklin
• The Hunt for Red October - Cecelia Hall, George Watters II
• Total Recall - Stephen H. Flick

VISUAL EFFECTS (Special Achievement Award)

• Total Recall - Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, Alex Funke

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Cyrano de Bergerac - France
• Journey of Hope - Switzerland
• Ju Dou - People's Republic of China
• The Nasty Girl - Germany
• Open Doors - Italy

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• American Dream - Barbara Kopple, Arthur Cohn
• Berkeley in the Sixties - Mark Kitchell
• Building Bombs - Mark Mori, Susan Robinson
• Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade - Judith Montell
• Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey - Robert Hillmann, Eugene Corr

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• Burning Down Tomorrow - Kit Thomas
• Chimps: So Like Us - Karen Goodman, Kirk Simon
• Days of Waiting - Steven Okazaki
• Journey into Life: The World of the Unborn - Derek Bromhall
• Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember - Freida Lee Mock, Terry Sanders

SHORT FILM (Animated)

• Creature Comforts - Nick Park
• A Grand Day Out - Nick Park
• Grasshoppers (Cavallette) - Bruno Bozzetto

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

• Bronx Cheers - Raymond De Felitta, Matthew Gross
• Dear Rosie - Peter Cattaneo, Barnaby Thompson
• The Lunch Date - Adam Davidson
• Senzeni Na? (What Have We Done?) - Bernard Joffa, Anthony E. Nicholas
• 12:01 PM - Hillary Ripps, Jonathan Heap

HONORARY AWARDS

• To Myrna Loy, in recognition of her extraordinary qualities both on screen and off, with appreciation for a lifetime's worth of indelible performances.
• To Sophia Loren, one of the genuine treasures of world cinema who, in a career rich with memorable performances, has added permanent luster to our art form.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

• David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck

GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD

• Stefan Kudelski

MEDAL OF COMMENDATION

• To Don Trumbull in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• To Geoffrey H. Williamson in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
• To Roderick T. Ryan in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

• To EASTMAN KODAK COMPANY for the development of T-Grain technology and the introduction of EXR color negative films which utilize this technology. [Film]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To the ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF ARNOLD & RICHTER for the continued design improvements of the Arriflex BL Camera System, culminating in the 35BL-4S model. [Camera]
• To the FUJI PHOTO FILM COMPANY, LIMITED, for the development and introduction of the F-Series of color negative films covering the range of film speeds from EI 64 to EI 500. [Film]
• To JOHN W. LANG, WALTER HRASTNIK and CHARLES J. WATSON of Bell and Howell Company for the development and manufacture of a modular continuous contact motion picture film printer. [Laboratory]
• To MANFRED G. MICHELSON of Technical Film Systems, Incorporated, for the design and development of the first sprocket-driven film transport system for color print film processors which permits transport speeds in excess of 600 feet per minute. [Laboratory]
• To BRUCE WILTON and CARLOS ICINKOFF of Mechanical Concepts, Incorporated, for the development of the Mechanical Concepts Optical Printer Platform. [Special Photographic]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To DR. FRED KOLB, JR. and PAUL PREO for the concept and development of a 35mm projection test film. [Film]
• To BENGT O. ORHALL, KENNETH LUND, BJORN SELIN and KJELL HOGBERG of AB Film-Teknik for the development and manufacture of the Mark IV film subtitling processor, which has increased the speed, simplified the operation and improved the quality of subtitling. [Laboratory]
• To IAIN NEIL for optical design; TAKUO MIYAGISHIMA for the mechanical design; and PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, for the concept and development of the Primo Series of spherical prime lenses for 35mm cinematography. [Lenses and Filters]
• To DEDO WEIGERT of Dedo Weigert Film GmbH for the development of the Dedolight, a miniature low-voltage tungsten-halogen lighting fixture. [Lighting]
• To PETER BALDWIN for the design; DR. PAUL KIANKHOOY and the LIGHTMAKER COMPANY for the development of the Lightmaker AC/DC HMI Ballast. [Lighting]
• To RICHARD MULA and PETE ROMANO of HydroImage, Incorporated, for the development of the SeaPar 1200 watt HMI Underwater Lamp. [Lighting]
• To WILLIAM L. BLOWERS of Belco Associates, Incorporated and THOMAS F. DENOVE for the development and manufacture of the Belco/Denove Cinemeter. This digital/analog exposure meter was specifically and uniquely designed for the cinematographer. [Photography]
• To CHRISTOPHER S. GILMAN and HARVEY HUBERT, JR. of the Diligent Dwarves Effects Lab for the development of the Actor Climate System, consisting of heat-transferring undergarments. [Stage Operations]
• To JIM GRAVES of J&G Enterprises for the development of the Cool Suit System, consisting of heat-transferring undergarments. [Stage Operations]
• To the ALL-UNION CINEMA AND PHOTO RESEARCH INSTITUTE (NIKFI) for continuously improving and providing 3-D presentations to Soviet motion picture audiences for the last 25 years. [Systems]