Best Picture

WINNER

The Silence of the Lambs: Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ronald M. Bozman

NOMINEES

Beauty and the Beast: Don Hahn

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Bugsy: Mark Johnson, Barry Levinson, Warren Beatty

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JFK: A. Kitman Ho, Oliver Stone

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The Prince of Tides: Barbra Streisand, Andrew S. Karsch

Best Actor in a Leading Role

WINNER

The Silence of the Lambs: Anthony Hopkins

NOMINEES

Bugsy: Warren Beatty

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Cape Fear: Robert De Niro

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The Prince of Tides: Nick Nolte

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The Fisher King: Robin Williams

Best Actress in a Leading Role

WINNER

The Silence of the Lambs: Jodie Foster

NOMINEES

Thelma & Louise: Geena Davis

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Rambling Rose: Laura Dern

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For the Boys: Bette Midler

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Thelma & Louise: Susan Sarandon

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

WINNER

City Slickers: Jack Palance

NOMINEES

JFK: Tommy Lee Jones

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Bugsy: Harvey Keitel

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Bugsy: Ben Kingsley

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Barton Fink: Michael Lerner

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

WINNER

The Fisher King: Mercedes Ruehl

NOMINEES

Rambling Rose: Diane Ladd

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Cape Fear: Juliette Lewis

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The Prince of Tides: Kate Nelligan

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Fried Green Tomatoes: Jessica Tandy

Best Director

WINNER

The Silence of the Lambs: Jonathan Demme

NOMINEES

Bugsy: Barry Levinson

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Thelma & Louise: Ridley Scott

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Boyz n the Hood: John Singleton

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JFK: Oliver Stone

Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

WINNER

Thelma & Louise: Callie Khouri

NOMINEES

Boyz n the Hood: John Singleton

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Bugsy: James Toback

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The Fisher King: Richard LaGravenese

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Grand Canyon: Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan

Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published

WINNER

The Silence of the Lambs: Ted Tally

NOMINEES

Fried Green Tomatoes: Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski

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JFK: Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar

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The Prince of Tides: Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston

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Europa Europa: Agnieszka Holland

Best Cinematography

WINNER

JFK: Robert Richardson

NOMINEES

Bugsy: Allen Daviau

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The Prince of Tides: Stephen Goldblatt

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Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Adam Greenberg

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Thelma & Louise: Adrian Biddle

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

WINNER

Bugsy: Dennis Gassner, Nancy Haigh

NOMINEES

Barton Fink: Dennis Gassner, Nancy Haigh

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The Fisher King: Mel Bourne, Cindy Carr

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Hook: Norman Garwood, Garrett Lewis

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The Prince of Tides: Paul Sylbert, Caryl Heller

Best Costume Design

WINNER

Bugsy: Albert Wolsky

NOMINEES

The Addams Family: Ruth Myers

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Barton Fink: Richard Hornung

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Hook: Anthony Powell

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Madame Bovary: Corinne Jorry

Best Sound

WINNER

Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Lee Orloff

NOMINEES

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

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

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

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The Silence of the Lambs: Tom Fleischman, Christopher Newman

Best Film Editing

WINNER

JFK: Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia

NOMINEES

The Commitments: Gerry Hambling

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The Silence of the Lambs: Craig McKay

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

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Thelma & Louise: Thom Noble

Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

WINNER

Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Gary Rydstrom, Gloria S. Borders

NOMINEES

Backdraft: Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: George Watters II, F. Hudson Miller

Best Effects, Visual Effects

WINNER

Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr., Robert Skotak

NOMINEES

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

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Hook: Eric Brevig, Harley Jessup, Mark Sullivan, Michael Lantieri

Best Makeup

WINNER

Terminator 2: Judgment Day: Stan Winston, Jeff Dawn

NOMINEES

Hook: Christina Smith, Monty Westmore, Greg Cannom

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Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country: Michael Mills, Ed French, Richard Snell

Best Music, Original Song

WINNER

Beauty and the Beast: Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman (lyrics)
For the song "Beauty and the Beast".
Howard Ashman's nomination and award were posthumous. His partner Bill Lauch accepted the award on his behalf.

NOMINEES

Beauty and the Beast: Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman (lyrics)
For the song "Belle".
Howard Ashman's nomination was posthumous.

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Beauty and the Beast: Alan Menken (music), Howard Ashman (lyrics)
For the song "Be Our Guest".
Howard Ashman's nomination was posthumous.

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Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves: Michael Kamen (music), Bryan Adams (lyrics), Robert John Lange (lyrics)
For the song "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You".

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Hook: John Williams (music), Leslie Bricusse (lyrics)
For the song "When You're Alone".

Best Music, Original Score

WINNER

Beauty and the Beast: Alan Menken

NOMINEES

Bugsy: Ennio Morricone

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The Fisher King: George Fenton

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JFK: John Williams

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The Prince of Tides: James Newton Howard

Best Short Film, Animated

WINNER

Manipulation: Daniel Greaves

NOMINEES

Blackfly: Christopher Hinton

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Strings: Wendy Tilby

Best Short Film, Live Action

WINNER

Session Man: Seth Winston, Robert N. Fried

NOMINEES

Birch Street Gym: Stephen Kessler, T.R. Conroy

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Last Breeze of Summer: David Massey

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

WINNER

Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment: Debra Chasnoff

NOMINEES

Birdnesters of Thailand: Eric Valli, Alain Majani d'Inguimbert

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A Little Vicious: Immy Humes

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The Mark of the Maker: David McGowan

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Memorial: Letters from American Soldiers: Bill Couturié, Bernard Edelman

Best Documentary, Features

WINNER

In the Shadow of the Stars: Allie Light, Irving Saraf

NOMINEES

Death on the Job: Vince DiPersio, Bill Guttentag

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Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House: Alan Raymond, Susan Raymond

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The Restless Conscience: Resistance to Hitler Within Germany 1933-1945: Hava Kohav Beller

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Wild by Law: Lawrence R. Hott, Diane Garey

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER

Mediterraneo
Italy.

NOMINEES

Raise the Red Lantern
Hong Kong.

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Children of Nature
Iceland.

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The Elementary School
Czechoslovakia.

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Oxen
Sweden.

WINNER

Satyajit Ray
For his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures and for his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world. - Satyajit Ray was not present at the awards ceremony. His acceptance speech was pre-recorded in Calcutta.

WINNERS

Richard J. Stumpf, Joseph Westheimer
For outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences.

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

WINNER

George Lucas
The crew of the orbiting space shuttle Atlantis (STS-45 participated in the presentation of the Thalberg Award to George Lucas. An Oscar statuette was aboard the shuttle to commemorate the event.

WINNER

Not awarded.

WINNERS

Iain Neil, Albert K. Saiki (Panavision, Inc.)
For the optical design (Neil), the mechanical design (Saiki) and the concept and development (Panavision) of the Primo Zoom Lens for 35m cinematography.

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Georg Thoma, Heinz Feierlein (Engineering department of Sachtler AG)
For the design (Thoma) and the development (Feierlein/Sachtler) for a range of fluid tripod heads.

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Harry J. Baker
For the design and development of the first full fluid-action tripod head with adjustable degrees of viscous drag.

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Guido Cartoni
For his pioneer work in developing the technology to achieve selectable and repeatable viscous drag modules in fluid tripod heads.

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Ray Feeney, Richard Keeney, Richard J. Lundell
For the software development and adaptation of the Solitaire Film Recorder that provides a flexible, cost-effective film recording system.

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Faz Fazakas, Brian Henson, Dave Housman, Peter Miller, John Stephenson
For the development of the Henson Performance Control System.

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Mario Celso
For his pioneering work in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for carbon arc and xenon power supplies and igniters in motion picture projection.

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Randy Cartwright, David Coons, Lem Davis, Thomas Hahn, Jim Houston, Mark Kimball, Dylan Kohler, Peter Nye, Michael Shantzis, David F. Wolf (Walt Disney Feature Animation Department)
For the design and development of the "CAPS" production system for film animation.

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George Worrall
For the design, development and manufacture of the Worrall geared camera head for motion picture production.

WINNERS

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.

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Jim Doyle
For the design and development of the Dry Fogger, which uses liquid nitrogen to produce a safe, dense, low-hanging dry fog.

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Dick Cavdek, Steve Hamerski (Otto Nemenz Int'l. Inc.)
For the opto-mechanical design and development of the Canon/Nemenz Camera Zoom Lens.

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Ken Robings (Clairmont Camera)
For the opto-mechanical design and development of the Canon/Nemenz Camera Zoom Lens.

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(Century Precision Optics)
For the opto-mechanical design and development of the Canon Century Precision Optics Zoom Lens.

WINNER

Ray Harryhausen