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Best Picture of the Year
 BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY - Ho & Ixtlan, Universal. Produced by A. Kitman Ho & Oliver Stone
DEAD POETS SOCIETY - Touchstone/Silver Screen Partners IV, Buena Vista. Produced by Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt & Tony Thomas
 DRIVING MISS DAISY (Won 4 Awards) - Zanuck Co., Warner Bros. Produced by Richard D. Zanuck & Lili Fini Zanuck
FIELD OF DREAMS - Gordon Co., Universal. Produced by Lawrence Gordon & Charles Gordon
MY LEFT FOOT - Ferndale/Granada, Miramax. Produced by Noel Pearson
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Kenneth Branagh in HENRY V
Tom Cruise in BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
Daniel Day-Lewis in MY LEFT FOOT
Morgan Freeman in DRIVING MISS DAISY
Robin Williams in DEAD POETS SOCIETY
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Isabelle Adjani in CAMILLE CLAUDEL
Pauline Collins in SHIRLEY VALENTINE
Jessica Lange in MUSIC BOX
Michelle Pfeiffer in THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS
Jessica Tandy in DRIVING MISS DAISY
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
Danny Aiello in DO THE RIGHT THING
Dan Aykroyd in DRIVING MISS DAISY
Marlon Brando in A DRY WHITE SEASON
Martin Landau in CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
Denzel Washington in GLORY
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Brenda Fricker in MY LEFT FOOT
Anjelica Huston in ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY
Lena Olin in ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY
Julia Roberts in STEEL MAGNOLIAS
Dianne Wiest in PARENTHOOD
Achievement in Direction
Woody Allen for CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
Kenneth Branagh for HENRY V
Jim Sheridan for MY LEFT FOOT
Oliver Stone for BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
Peter Weir for DEAD POETS SOCIETY
Achievement in Writing: Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen
Woody Allen - CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS
Tom Schulman - DEAD POETS SOCIETY
Spike Lee - DO THE RIGHT THING
Steven Soderbergh - SEX, LIES, AND VIDEOTAPE
Nora Ephron - WHEN HARRY MET SALLY...
Achievement in Writing: Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Oliver Stone & Ron Kovic - BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
Alfred Uhry - DRIVING MISS DAISY
Roger L. Simon & Paul Mazursky - ENEMIES, A LOVE STORY
Phil Alden Robinson - FIELD OF DREAMS
Jim Sheridan & Shane Connaughton - MY LEFT FOOT
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
CAMILLE CLAUDEL (France - Isabelle Adjani & Christian Fechner, producers)
JÉSUS DE MONTRÉAL (Canada - Roger Frappier, Pierre Gendron & Monique Létourneau, producers)
CINEMA PARADISO (Italy - Mino Barbera, Franco Cristaldi & Giovanna Romagnoli, producers)
LO QUE LE PASÓ A SANTIAGO (WHAT HAPPENED TO SANTIAGO, Puerto Rico - Blanca Silvia Eró & Pedro Muñiz, producers)
DANSEN MED REGITZE (WALTZING REGITZE, Denmark - Lars Kolvig, producer)
Achievement in Art Direction
Leslie Dilley - Art Direction, Anne Kuljian - Set Decoration THE ABYSS
Dante Ferretti - Art Direction, Francesca Lo Schiavo - Set Decoration THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
Anton Furst - Art Direction, Peter Young - Set Decoration BATMAN
Bruno Rubeo - Art Direction, Crispian Sallis - Set Decoration DRIVING MISS DAISY
Norman Garwood - Art Direction, Garrett Lewis - Set Decoration GLORY
Achievement in Cinematography
Mikael Salomon - THE ABYSS
Haskell Wexler - BLAZE
Robert Richardson - BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
Michael Ballhaus - THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS
Freddie Francis - GLORY
Achievement in Costume Design
Gabriella Pescucci - THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
Elizabeth McBride - DRIVING MISS DAISY
Joe I. Tompkins - HARLEM NIGHTS
Phyllis Dalton - HENRY V
Theodor Pistek - VALMONT
Achievement in Documentary Features
Richard Kilberg & Yvonne Smith - Producers ADAM CLAYTON POWELL
Robert Epstein & Bill Couturie - Producers COMMON THREADS: STORIES FROM THE QUILT
Vince DiPersio & William Guttentag - Producers CRACK USA: COUNTY UNDER SIEGE
Al Reinert & Betsy Broyles Breir - Producers FOR ALL MANKIND
Judith Leonard & William C. (Bill) Jersey - Producers SUPER CHIEF: THE LIFE AND LEGACY OF EARL WARREN
Achievement in Documentary Short Subjects
David Petersen - Producer FINE FOOD, FINE PASTRIES, OPEN 6 TO 9
Charles E. Guggenheim - Producer THE JOHNSTOWN FLOOD
Ray Errol Fox - Producer YAD VASHEM: PRESERVING THE PAST TO ENSURE THE FUTURE
Achievement in Film Editing
Noelle Boisson - THE BEAR
David Brenner & Joe Hutshing - BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
Mark Warner - DRIVING MISS DAISY
William Steinkamp - THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS
Steven Rosenblum - GLORY
Achievement in Makeup
Maggie Weston & Fabrizio Sforza - THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
Dick Smith, Ken Diaz & Greg Nelson - DAD
Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber & Kevin Haney - DRIVING MISS DAISY
Achievement in Music: Original Score
John Williams - BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
Dave Grusin - THE FABULOUS BAKER BOYS
James Horner - FIELD OF DREAMS
John Williams - INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
Alan Menken - THE LITTLE MERMAID
Achievement in Music: Original Song
Tom Snow - Music, Dean Pitchford - Lyric CHANCES ARE "After All"
Marvin Hamlisch - Music, Alan Bergman & Marilyn Bergman - Lyric SHIRLEY VALENTINE "The Girl Who Used to Be Me"
Randy Newman - Music & Lyric PARENTHOOD "I Love to See You Smile"
Alan Menken - Music, Howard Ashman - Lyric THE LITTLE MERMAID "Kiss the Girl"
Alan Menken - Music, Howard Ashman - Lyric THE LITTLE MERMAID "Under the Sea" 
Achievement in Animated Short Films
Christoph Lauenstein & Wolfgang Lauenstein - Producers BALANCE
Alexander Petrov - Producer THE COW
Mark Baker - Producer THE HILL FARM
Achievement in Live Action Short Films
Robert Nixon - Producer AMAZON DIARY
Jonathan Tammuz - Producer THE CHILDEATER
James Hendrie - Producer WORK EXPERIENCE
Achievement in Sound
Don Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton & Lee Orloff - THE ABYSS
Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell & Keith A. Wester - BLACK RAIN
Michael Minkler, Gregory H. Watkins, Wylie Stateman & Tod A. Maitland - BORN ON THE FOURTH OF JULY
Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg C. Rudloff, Elliot Tyson & Russell Williams, II - GLORY
Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy & Tony Dawe - INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
Achievement in Sound Effects Editing
Milton C. Burrow & William L. Manger - BLACK RAIN
Ben Burtt & Richard Hymns - INDIANA JONES AND THE LAST CRUSADE
Robert Henderson & Alan Robert Murray - LETHAL WEAPON 2
Achievement in Visual Effects
John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman & Dennis Skotak - THE ABYSS
Richard Conway & Kent Houston - THE ADVENTURES OF BARON MUNCHAUSEN
Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell & Steve Gawley - BACK TO THE FUTURE PART II
Scientific or Technical Awards
Special Commendation (Statuette)
Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE) - AMPAS commends the contributions of the members of the engineering committees of SMPTE. By establishing industry standards, they have greatly contributed to making film a primary form of international communication.
Scientific and Engineering Award (Plaque)
 James Ketcham - For the excellence in engineering and the broad adaptability of the SDA521B Advance/Retard system for magnetic film sound dubbing.
J. Noxon Leavitt & Istec Inc. - For the invention of and for the continuing development of the Wescam Stabilized Camera System.
Geoffrey H. Williamson & Robert D. Auguste - For the design and development of the Wilcam W-7 200 frames-per-second VistaVision Rotating Mirror Reflex Camera.
James L. Fisher - For the design and manufacture of a small, mobile motion picture camera platform known as the Fisher Model Ten Dolly.
Klaus Resch & Erich Fitz (FGV Schmidle & Fitz) - For the design and development of the Super Panther MS-180 Camera Dolly.
Technical Achievement Award (Certificate)
 Dr. Leo Catozzo - For the design and development of the CIR-Catozzo Self- Perforating Adhesive Tape Film Splicer.
Magna-Tech Electronic Company - For the introduction of the first remotely controlled Advance/Retard function for magnetic film sound dubbing.
Honorary and Other Awards
Akira Kurosawa - For accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world. Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No Award given for 1989.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
Howard W. Koch
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Pierre Angenieux
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FIRSTS
· Jessica Tandy, 80, oldest performer to win an Oscar®.
· Driving Miss Daisy first film to win Best Picture without a Director nominee since Grand Hotel in 1931-32.
· Kenneth Branagh and Jim Sheridan nominated for Director for film debuts.
ROLE REVERSALS
· Robin Williams scooped up the lead and Peter Weir manned the helm of Dead Poets Society after Dustin Hoffman dropped out as star and director.
· Danny Aiello's role in Do the Right Thing was originally offered to Robert De Niro.
· Jessica Tandy beat Katharine Hepburn, Bette Davis and Angela Lansbury to the back seat of Driving Miss Daisy.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Do the Right Thing, Glory
Director: Bruce Beresford - Driving Miss Daisy, Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing
Actress: Isabelle Huppert - Story of Women
Documentary: Roger & Me
UNMENTIONABLES
· Kevin Costner followed Bull Durham with another baseball hit, Field of Dreams. The owners of the farm where the film was shot maintained the baseball field, and it became a Dyersville, IA, tourist attraction.
· Jack Nicholson received over-the-title billing for Batman and a reported 15% of the box office and all the spinoffs. By the end of the year, this amounted to an estimated $60 million -- and that's nothing to joke about.
· Spike Lee's Do the Right Thing premiered at Cannes and immediately caused controversy. The jury awarded the Palme d'Or to Steven Soderburgh's sex, lies and videotape. Lee commented, "They are always looking for a golden white boy."
· Martin Landau, who played a wealthy doctor who arranges for his mistress to be murdered in Crimes and Misdemeanors, rhapsodized his director, saying that doing a Woody Allen movie "is like working with Shakespeare."
· Kenneth Branagh shot his Henry V in seven weeks on a $7 million budget. He married Hal's romantic interest, Emma Thompson, after the film wrapped. Tired of being compared to Laurence Olivier, the young actor-director told People magazine, "the comparison is ludicrous to me -- so much puff. I find it extraordinary that people can compare a man who produced a lifetime's work with someone still under thirty."
· In The Fabulous Baker Boys, brothers Beau and Jeff Bridges appeared on-screen together for the first time as a 3rd-rate lounge lizard piano act. The film was stolen, however, by Michelle Pfeiffer who undulated on a piano while warbling a make-out version of the Eddie Cantor song "Makin' Whoopee."
· To prepare for his role in My Left Foot, Daniel Day-Lewis spent two months in a Dublin clinic for children with cerebral palsy and learned to paint as Christie Brown had -- with a brush between his toes. He even began signing autographs with his foot.
· Another screen heartthrob spent time in a wheelchair; Tom Cruise played Ron Kovic in Born on the Fourth of July. Kovic's 1977 screenplay, starring Al Pacino and directed by Daniel Petrie, was redlighted just 4 days before shooting was scheduled to begin. When the project was dusted off 10 years later, Kovic had reservations about Cruise -- who had become the poster boy for militarism in Top Gun -- being able to play an anti- Vietnam vet who'd been crippled in the war. However, Kovic and Cruise got on famously.
· While walking through Boston Common one day, producer Freddie Fields noticed a statue honoring the 54th Regiment of the Massachusetts Volunteer Infantry, a Civil War fighting unit made up of black men. The result was Glory.
· David Brown and Richard and Lili Zanuck shopped Driving Miss Daisy to various studios without success. However, one exec thought it had possibilities if they turned it into an Eddie Murphy/Bette Midler vehicle. "This is getting embarrassing," said Old Guard-Hollywood Zanuck. "We're being turned down by people I've never heard of."
· Daisy became a major sleeper, and Warner Bros. reimbursed Jessica Tandy for the $130,000 insurance premium they'd forced the 80-year-old actress to pay herself. They also threw in a $500,000 advance share of the profits, doing the same for co-stars Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd, director Bruce Beresford and screenwriter Alfred Uhry.
· Many Academy members were upset when the Awards show moved back to the Chandler, reducing the number of available seats from nearly 7,000 to 3,000.
· Choreographer Paula Abdul's dances for the Costume Oscar® presentation were unanimously criticized for their inappropriateness, particularly when "Hoke" breakdanced and a jitterbugging "Miss Daisy" was lifted in the air and opened her legs to the audience.
· When Documentary winner Robert Epstein thanked "Elizabeth Taylor for her support and her heroic efforts in fighting AIDS," it was the first time AIDS had been mentioned in an Oscar® broadcast.
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