List of 1990 Academy Award Winners & Nominees

List of 1990 Academy Award Winners & Nominees
The 1990 Academy Award Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold. The nominees are listed below the winners in their respective categories.

Best Picture	Best Director
Dances with Wolves Awakenings Ghost The Godfather Part III Goodfellas	Kevin Costner – Dances with Wolves Francis Ford Coppola – The Godfather Part III Stephen Frears – The Grifters Barbet Schroeder – Reversal of Fortune Martin Scorsese – Goodfellas
Best Actor	Best Actress
Jeremy Irons – Reversal of Fortune Kevin Costner – Dances with Wolves Robert De Niro – Awakenings Gérard Depardieu – Cyrano de Bergerac Richard Harris – The Field	Kathy Bates – Misery Anjelica Huston – The Grifters Julia Roberts – Pretty Woman Meryl Streep – Postcards from the Edge Joanne Woodward – Mr. and Mrs. Bridge
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Joe Pesci – Goodfellas Bruce Davison – Longtime Companion Andy García – The Godfather Part III Graham Greene – Dances with Wolves Al Pacino – Dick Tracy	Whoopi Goldberg – Ghost Annette Bening – The Grifters Lorraine Bracco – Goodfellas Diane Ladd – Wild at Heart Mary McDonnell – Dances with Wolves
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
Ghost – Bruce Joel Rubin Alice – Woody Allen Avalon – Barry Levinson Green Card – Peter Weir Metropolitan – Whit Stillman	Dances with Wolves – Michael Blake Awakenings – Steven Zaillian Goodfellas – Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese The Grifters – Donald E. Westlake Reversal of Fortune – Nicholas Kazan
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Film Editing
Journey of Hope (Switzerland) Cyrano de Bergerac (France) Ju Dou (China) The Nasty Girl (Germany) Open Doors (Italy)	Dances with Wolves – Neil Travis Ghost – Walter Murch The Godfather Part III – Barry Malkin, Lisa Fruchtman and Walter Murch Goodfellas – Thelma Schoonmaker The Hunt for Red October – Dennis Virkler and John Wright
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
American Dream – Barbara Koppleand Arthur Cohn Berkeley in the Sixties – Mark Kitchell Building Bombs – Mark Mori andSusan Robinson Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade – Judith Montell Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter’s Journey – Robert Hillmann and Eugene Corr	Days of Waiting – Steven Okazaki Burning Down Tomorrow – Kit Thomas Chimps: So Like Us – Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon Journey into Life – Derek Bromhall Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember – Freida Lee Mock andTerry Sanders
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
The Lunch Date – Adam Davidson Bronx Cheers – Raymond De Felittaand Matthew Gross Dear Rosie – Peter Cattaneo and Barnaby Thompson Senzeni Na? (What Have We Done?) – Bernard Joffa and Anthony E. Nicholas 12:01 PM – Hillary Ripps and Jonathan Heap	Creature Comforts – Nick Park A Grand Day Out – Nick Park Grasshoppers (Cavallette) – Bruno Bozzetto
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Dances with Wolves – John Barry Avalon – Randy Newman Ghost – Maurice Jarre Havana – David Grusin Home Alone – John Williams	*“Sooner or Later” from Dick Tracy* – Music and Lyric by Stephen Sondheim** “Blaze of Glory” from Young Guns II – Music and Lyric by Jon Bon Jovi “I’m Checkin’ Out” from Postcards from the Edge – Music and Lyric byShel Silverstein “Promise Me You’ll Remember” fromThe Godfather Part III – Music byCarmine Coppola; Lyric by John Bettis “Somewhere in My Memory” fromHome Alone – Music by John Williams; Lyric by Leslie Bricusse
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
The Hunt for Red October – Cecelia Hall and George Watters II Flatliners – Charles L. Campbell and Richard Franklin Total Recall – Stephen H. Flick	Dances With Wolves – Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Gregory H. Watkins and Russell Williams II Days Of Thunder – Charles M. Wilborn, Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline and Kevin O’Connell Dick Tracy – Thomas Causey, Chris Jenkins, David E. Campbell andDoug Hemphill The Hunt for Red October – Richard Bryce Goodman, Richard Overton,Kevin F. Cleary and Don J. Bassman Total Recall – Nelson Stoll, Michael J. Kohut, Carlos Delarios and Aaron Rochin
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Dick Tracy – Art Director: Richard Sylbert; Set Decoration: Rick Simpson Cyrano de Bergerac – Art Director:Ezio Frigerio; Set Decoration:Jacques Rouxel Dances with Wolves – Art Director:Jeffrey Beecroft; Set Decoration: Lisa Dean The Godfather Part III – Art Director:Dean Tavoularis; Set Decoration:Gary Fettis Hamlet – Art Director: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo	Dances with Wolves – Dean Semler Avalon – Allen Daviau Dick Tracy – Vittorio Storaro The Godfather Part III – Gordon Willis Henry & June – Philippe Rousselot
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
Dick Tracy – John Caglione, Jr. andDoug Drexler Cyrano de Bergerac – Michèle Burkeand Jean-Pierre Eychenne Edward Scissorhands – Ve Neill andStan Winston	Cyrano de Bergerac – Franca Squarciapino Avalon – Gloria Gresham Dances with Wolves – Elsa Zamparelli Dick Tracy – Milena Canonero Hamlet – Maurizio Millenotti

Academy Honorary Awards

Sophia Loren
Myrna Loy
Roderick T. Ryan, Don Trumbull and Geoffrey H. Williamson

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

David Brown and Richard D. Zanuck

Academy Special Achievement Award

Total Recall – Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern and Alex Funke

This marked the last time that there was no Visual Effects category, instead they gave a special achievement award.

In Memoriam

Presented by Michael Douglas, this segment honors the film personalities who died in 1990:

Ian Charleson, Terry-Thomas, Gordon Jackson, Barbara Stanwyck, Madge Bellamy, Ava Gardner, Jim Henson, Gary Merrill, Capucine, Greta Garbo, Paulette Goddard, Charles Farrell, Susan Oliver, Sammy Davis Jr, Jill Ireland, Rex Harrison, Margaret Lockwood, Eddie Quillan, Irene Dunne, Hermes Pan, Delphine Seyrig, Joel McCrea, Mary Martin, Eve Arden, Robert Cummings, Joan Bennett and Martin Ritt.

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