1991

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Win indicated by an asterisk (*)

1991 (64th)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

 

Warren Beatty — Bugsy {”Bugsy Siegel”}
 

Robert De Niro — Cape Fear {”Max Cady”}
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Anthony Hopkins — The Silence of the Lambs {”Dr. Hannibal Lecter”}
 

Nick Nolte — The Prince of Tides {”Tom Wingo”}
 

Robin Williams — The Fisher King {”Parry”}

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

 

Tommy Lee Jones — JFK {”Clay Shaw”}
 

Harvey Keitel — Bugsy {”Mickey Cohen”}
 

Ben Kingsley — Bugsy {”Meyer Lansky”}
 

Michael Lerner — Barton Fink {”Jack Lipnick”}
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Jack Palance — City Slickers {”Curly”}

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

 

Geena Davis — Thelma & Louise {”Thelma”}
 

Laura Dern — Rambling Rose {”Rose”}
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Jodie Foster — The Silence of the Lambs {”Clarice Starling”}
 

Bette Midler — For the Boys {”Dixie Leonard”}
 

Susan Sarandon — Thelma & Louise {”Louise”}

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

 

Diane Ladd — Rambling Rose {”Mother”}
 

Juliette Lewis — Cape Fear {”Danielle Bowden”}
 

Kate Nelligan — The Prince of Tides {”Lila Wingo Newbury”}
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Mercedes Ruehl — The Fisher King {”Anne”}
 

Jessica Tandy — Fried Green Tomatoes {”Ninny Threadgoode”}

ART DIRECTION

 

Barton Fink — Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
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Bugsy — Art Direction: Dennis Gassner; Set Decoration: Nancy Haigh
 

The Fisher King — Art Direction: Mel Bourne; Set Decoration: Cindy Carr
 

Hook — Art Direction: Norman Garwood; Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis
 

The Prince of Tides — Art Direction: Paul Sylbert; Set Decoration: Caryl Heller

CINEMATOGRAPHY

 

Bugsy — Allen Daviau
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JFK — Robert Richardson
 

The Prince of Tides — Stephen Goldblatt
 

Terminator 2: Judgment Day — Adam Greenberg
 

Thelma & Louise — Adrian Biddle

COSTUME DESIGN

 

The Addams Family — Ruth Myers
 

Barton Fink — Richard Hornung
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Bugsy — Albert Wolsky
 

Hook — Anthony Powell
 

Madame Bovary — Corinne Jorry

DIRECTING

 

Boyz N the Hood — John Singleton
 

Bugsy — Barry Levinson
 

JFK — Oliver Stone
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The Silence of the Lambs — Jonathan Demme
 

Thelma & Louise — Ridley Scott

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

 

Death on the Job — Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag, Producers
 

Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House — Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond, Producers
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In the Shadow of the Stars — Allie Light and Irving Saraf, Producers
 

The Restless Conscience — Hava Kohav Beller, Producer
 

Wild by Law — Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, Producers

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

 

Birdnesters of Thailand (aka ‘Shadow Hunters’) — Eric Valli and Alain Majani, Producers
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Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment — Debra Chasnoff, Producer
 

A Little Vicious — Immy Humes, Producer
 

The Mark of the Maker — David McGowan, Producer
 

Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers — Bill Couturié and Bernard Edelman, Producers

FILM EDITING

 

The Commitments — Gerry Hambling
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JFK — Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia
 

The Silence of the Lambs — Craig McKay
 

Terminator 2: Judgment Day — Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris
 

Thelma & Louise — Thom Noble

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

 

Children of Nature — Iceland
 

The Elementary School — Czechoslovakia
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Mediterraneo — Italy
 

The Ox — Sweden
 

Raise the Red Lantern — Hong Kong

MAKEUP

 

Hook — Christina Smith, Monty Westmore, Greg Cannom
 

Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country — Michael Mills, Edward French, Richard Snell
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day — Stan Winston, Jeff Dawn

MUSIC (Original Score)

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Beauty and the Beast — Alan Menken
 

Bugsy — Ennio Morricone
 

The Fisher King — George Fenton
 

JFK — John Williams
 

The Prince of Tides — James Newton Howard

MUSIC (Original Song)

 

“Be Our Guest” from Beauty and the Beast — Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman
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“Beauty and the Beast” from Beauty and the Beast — Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman
 

“Belle” from Beauty and the Beast — Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Howard Ashman
 

“(Everything I Do) I Do It for You” from Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves — Music by Michael Kamen; Lyric by Bryan Adams and Robert John Lange
 

“When You’re Alone” from Hook — Music by John Williams; Lyric by Leslie Bricusse

BEST PICTURE

 

Beauty and the Beast — Don Hahn, Producer
 

Bugsy — Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson and Warren Beatty, Producers
 

JFK — A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone, Producers
 

The Prince of Tides — Barbra Streisand and Andrew Karsch, Producers
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The Silence of the Lambs — Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt and Ron Bozman, Producers

SHORT FILM (Animated)

 

Blackfly — Christopher Hinton
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Manipulation — Daniel Greaves
 

Strings — Wendy Tilby

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

 

Birch Street Gym — Stephen Kessler, Thomas R. Conroy
 

Last Breeze of Summer — David M. Massey
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Session Man — Seth Winston, Rob Fried

SOUND

 

Backdraft — Gary Summers, Randy Thom, Gary Rydstrom, Glenn Williams
 

Beauty and the Beast — Terry Porter, Mel Metcalfe, David J. Hudson, Doc Kane
 

JFK — Michael Minkler, Gregg Landaker, Tod A. Maitland
 

The Silence of the Lambs — Tom Fleischman, Christopher Newman
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day — Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Lee Orloff

SOUND EFFECTS EDITING

 

Backdraft — Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns
 

Star Trek VI The Undiscovered Country — George Watters II, F. Hudson Miller
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day — Gary Rydstrom, Gloria S. Borders

VISUAL EFFECTS

 

Backdraft — Mikael Salomon, Allen Hall, Clay Pinney, Scott Farrar
 

Hook — Eric Brevig, Harley Jessup, Mark Sullivan, Michael Lantieri
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Terminator 2: Judgment Day — Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren, Jr., Robert Skotak

WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

 

Europa Europa — Agnieszka Holland
 

Fried Green Tomatoes — Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
 

JFK — Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar
 

The Prince of Tides — Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston
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The Silence of the Lambs — Ted Tally

WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

 

Boyz N the Hood — John Singleton
 

Bugsy — James Toback
 

The Fisher King — Richard LaGravenese
 

Grand Canyon — Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan
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Thelma & Louise — Callie Khouri

HONORARY AWARD

* To Satyajit Ray, in recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

*

George Lucas

GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD

* Ray Harryhausen

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

* To IAIN NEIL for the optical design; ALBERT SAIKI for the mechanical design; and PANAVISION, INCORPORATED, for the concept and development of the Primo Zoom Lens for 35mm cinematography. [Lenses and Filters]
* To GEORG THOMA for the design; HEINZ FEIERLEIN and the ENGINEERING DEPARTMENT OF SACHTLER AG for the development of a range of fluid tripod heads. [Stage Operations]
* To HARRY J. BAKER for the design and development of the first full fluidaction tripod head with adjustable degrees of viscous drag. [Stage Operations]
* To GUIDO CARTONI for his pioneering work in developing the technology to achieve selectable and repeatable viscous drag modules in fluid tripod heads. [Stage Operations]
* To RAY FEENEY, RICHARD KEENEY and RICHARD J. LUNDELL for the software development and adaptation of the Solitaire Film Recorder that provides a flexible, cost-effective film recording system. [Systems]
* To FAZ FAZAKAS, BRIAN HENSON, DAVE HOUSMAN, PETER MILLER and JOHN STEPHENSON for the development of the Henson Performance Control System. [Systems]
* To MARIO CELSO for his pioneering work in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for carbon arc and xenon power supplies and igniters used in motion picture projection. [Lighting]
* To RANDY CARTWRIGHT, DAVID B. COONS, LEM DAVIS, THOMAS HAHN, JAMES HOUSTON, MARK KIMBALL, DYLAN W. KOHLER, PETER NYE, MICHAEL SHANTZIS, DAVID F. WOLF and the WALT DISNEY FEATURE ANIMATION DEPARTMENT for the design and development of the ‘CAPS’ production system for feature film animation. [Systems]
* To GEORGE WORRALL for the design, development and manufacture of the Worrall geared camera head for motion picture production. [Stage Operations]

SCIENTIFIC OR TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)

* To ROBERT W. STOKER, JR., for the design and development of a cobweb gun, for applying non-toxic cobweb effects on motion picture sets with both safety and ease of operation. [Stage Operations]
* To JAMES DOYLE for the design and development of the Dry Fogger, which uses liquid nitrogen to produce a safe, dense, low-hanging fog effects. [Stage Operations]
* To DICK CAVDEK, STEVE HAMERSKI and OTTO NEMENZ INTERNATIONAL, INCORPORATED for the opto-mechanical design and development of the Canon/Nemenz Zoom Lens. [Lenses and Filters]
* To KEN ROBINGS and CLAIRMONT CAMERA for the opto-mechanical design and development of the Canon/Clairmont Camera Zoom Lens. [Lenses and Filters]
* To CENTURY PRECISION OPTICS for the opto-mechanical design and development of the Canon/Century Precision Optics Zoom Lens. [Lenses and Filters]

AWARD OF COMMENDATION

* To Pete Comandini, Richard T. Dayton, Donald Hagans and Richard T. Ryan of YCM Laboratories for the creation and development of a motion picture film restoration process using liquid gate and registration correction on a contact printer.

MEDAL OF COMMENDATION

* To Richard J. Stumpf for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
* To Joseph Westheimer for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.