61st Academy Awards
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- DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsDustin HoffmanTom CruiseValeria GolinoAfter a selfish L.A. yuppie learns his estranged father left a fortune to an autistic-savant brother in Ohio that he didn't know existed, he absconds with his brother and sets out across the country, hoping to gain a larger inheritance.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for Barry Levinson
Winner - Best Actor for Dustin Hoffman
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Stu Linder
Nominated - Best Original Score for Hans Zimmer
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for John Seale - DirectorLawrence KasdanStarsWilliam HurtKathleen TurnerGeena DavisAn emotionally distant writer of travel guides must carry on with his life after his son is killed and his marriage crumbles.Nominated - Best Picture
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Geena Davis
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan
Nominated - Best Original Score for John Williams - DirectorStephen FrearsStarsGlenn CloseJohn MalkovichMichelle PfeifferA scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Actress for Glenn Close
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Michelle Pfeiffer
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Christopher Hampton
Nominated - Best Original Score for George Fenton
Winner - Best Art Direction
Winner - Best Costume Design for James Acheson - DirectorAlan ParkerStarsGene HackmanWillem DafoeFrances McDormandTwo F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Alan Parker
Nominated - Best Actor for Gene Hackman
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Frances McDormand
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Gerry Hambling
Nominated - Best Sound
Winner - Best Cinematography for Peter Biziou - DirectorMike NicholsStarsMelanie GriffithHarrison FordSigourney WeaverWhen a secretary's idea is stolen by her boss, she seizes an opportunity to steal it back by pretending she has her boss' job.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Mike Nichols
Nominated - Best Actress for Melanie Griffith
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Joan Cusack
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Sigourney Weaver
Winner - Best Original Song for "Let the River Run" - DirectorCharles CrichtonJohn CleeseStarsJohn CleeseJamie Lee CurtisKevin KlineIn London, four very different people team up on a jewel heist, then try to double-cross one another for the loot, complicated by their efforts to fool a very proper barrister.Nominated - Best Director for Charles Crichton
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Kevin Kline
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for John Cleese and Charles Crichton - DirectorMartin ScorseseStarsWillem DafoeHarvey KeitelBarbara HersheyThe life of Jesus Christ, his journey through life as he faces the struggles all humans do, and his final temptation on the cross.Nominated - Best Director for Martin Scorsese
- DirectorPenny MarshallStarsTom HanksElizabeth PerkinsRobert LoggiaAfter wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.Nominated - Best Actor for Tom Hanks
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg - DirectorRamón MenéndezStarsEdward James OlmosEstelle HarrisMark PhelanThe story of Jaime Escalante, a high school teacher who successfully inspired his dropout-prone students to learn calculus.Nominated - Best Actor for Edward James Olmos
- DirectorBille AugustStarsPelle HvenegaardMax von SydowErik PaaskeWhen his wife dies, Lasse takes his 12-year-old son, Pelle, from their home in Sweden to Denmark in search of a better life.Nominated - Best Actor for Max von Sydow
Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Denmark) - DirectorJonathan KaplanStarsKelly McGillisJodie FosterBernie CoulsonAfter a young woman suffers a brutal gang rape in a bar one night, a prosecutor assists in bringing the perpetrators to justice, including the ones who encouraged and cheered on the attack.Winner - Best Actress for Jodie Foster
- DirectorFred SchepisiStarsMeryl StreepSam NeillDale ReevesA mother whose child was killed in a dingo attack in the Australian Outback fights to prove her innocence when she is accused of murder.Nominated - Best Actress for Meryl Streep
- DirectorMichael AptedStarsSigourney WeaverBryan BrownJulie HarrisThe story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.Nominated - Best Actress for Sigourney Weaver
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Anna Hamilton Phelan and Tab Murphy
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Stuart Baird
Nominated - Best Original Score for Maurice Jarre
Nominated - Best Sound - DirectorChristine EdzardStarsDerek JacobiAlec GuinnessJoan GreenwoodArthur returns to London after working abroad for many years with his now deceased father. Almost at once he becomes involved in the problems of his mother's seamstress Amy and of her father residing in the Marshalsea debtors' prison.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Alec Guinness
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Christine Edzard - DirectorFrancis Ford CoppolaStarsJeff BridgesJoan AllenMartin LandauThe story of Preston Tucker, the maverick car designer and his ill-fated challenge to the auto industry with his revolutionary car concept.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Martin Landau
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Milena Canonero - DirectorSidney LumetStarsRiver PhoenixChristine LahtiJudd HirschThe eldest son of a fugitive family comes of age and wants to live his own life.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for River Phoenix
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Naomi Foner - DirectorJonathan DemmeStarsMichelle PfeifferAlec BaldwinPaul LazarA mobster's wife hates her lifestyle, but gets a chance to change it when her husband is killed - if the Long Island mob and the FBI let her.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Dean Stockwell
- DirectorRon SheltonStarsKevin CostnerSusan SarandonTim RobbinsA fan who has an affair with one minor-league baseball player each season meets an up-and-coming pitcher and the experienced catcher assigned to him.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Ron Shelton
- DirectorPhilip KaufmanStarsDaniel Day-LewisJuliette BinocheLena OlinCentral Europe, 1968: A Czech doctor with an active sex life meets a woman who wants monogamy, and then the Soviet invasion further disrupts their lives.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Jean-Claude Carrière and Philip Kaufman
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Sven Nykvist - DirectorIstván SzabóStarsKlaus Maria BrandauerErland JosephsonIldikó BánságiA man's story parallels Hitler's rise. Austrian Klaus Schneider, wounded in World War I, recovers in the care of Dr. Emil Bettleheim. Bettleheim discovers that Schneider possesses powers of empathy and of clairvoyance, such that could aid suicidal patients. After the war, with one friend as his manager and another as his lover, Schneider changes his name to Eric Jan Hanussen and goes to Berlin, as a hypnotist and clairvoyant performing in halls and theaters. He always speaks the truth, which brings him to the attention of powerful Nazis. He predicts their rise (good propaganda for them) and their violence (not so good). He's in pain and at risk. What is Hanussen's future?Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Hungary)
- DirectorGérard CorbiauStarsJosé van DamAnne RousselPhilippe VolterAging opera singer Joachim Dallayrac retires from the stage and retreats to the countryside to school two young singers, Sophie and Jean. Although the rigorous training takes its toll on both teacher and students, there is plenty of time for relationships to develop between the three. Based on their teacher's reputation, Sophie and Jean are invited to participate in a singing contest staged by Prince Scotti. Scotti's protege is set up to get revenge for Scotti's defeat at the hands of Dallayrac in a similar competition many years ago. The young students overcome Scotti's trickery to win the competition.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Belgium)
- DirectorMira NairStarsShafiq SyedAnjaanAmrit PatelYoung Krishna struggles to survive among the drug dealers, pimps, and prostitutes in the back alleys and gutters of India.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (India)
- DirectorPedro AlmodóvarStarsCarmen MauraAntonio BanderasJulieta SerranoA television actress encounters a variety of eccentric characters after embarking on a journey to discover why her lover abruptly left her.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Spain)
- DirectorRobert ZemeckisStarsBob HoskinsChristopher LloydJoanna CassidyWhen a cartoon rabbit is accused of murder, he enlists the help of a burnt out private investigator to prove his innocence.Winner - Best Film Editing for Arthur Schmidt
Nominated - Best Sound
Winner - Best Sound Effects Editing
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Dean Cundey
Winner - Best Visual Effects - DirectorJohn McTiernanStarsBruce WillisAlan RickmanBonnie BedeliaA New York City police officer tries to save his estranged wife and several others taken hostage by terrorists during a Christmas party at the Nakatomi Plaza in Los Angeles.Nominated - Best Film Editing for Frank Urioste and John Link
Nominated - Best Sound
Nominated - Best Sound Effects Editing
Nominated - Best Visual Effects