1989 (62nd Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1989 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Driving Miss Daisy, Zanuck Company Production; Warner Bros. Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot, Ferndale/Granada Production; Miramax Films. (Ireland, UK)

Actress in a Leading Role

Jessica Tandy in Driving Miss Daisy, Zanuck Company Production; Warner Bros.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Denzel Washington in Glory, Tri-Star Pictures Production; Tri-Star.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Brenda Fricker in My Left Foot, Ferndale/Granada Production; Miramax Films. (Ireland, UK)

Directing

Born on the Fourth of July, A. Kitman Ho & Ixtlan Production; Universal. Oliver Stone.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Batman, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Art direction by Anton Furst; set decoration by Peter Young.

Cinematography

Glory, Tri-Star Pictures Production; Tri-Star. Freddie Francis.

Costume Design

Henry V, Renaissance Films Production in association with BBC; Samuel Goldwyn Company. (UK) Phyllis Dalton.

Documentary

(Feature)

Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt, Telling Pictures and The Couturie Company Production. Robert Epstein and Bill Couturie, Producers.

(Short Subject)

The Johnstown Flood, Guggenheim Productions. Charles Guggenheim, Producer.

Film Editing

Born on the Fourth of July, A. Kitman Ho & Ixtlan Production; Universal. David Brenner and Joe Hutshing.

Foreign Language Film

Cinema Paradiso, Cristaldifilm/Films Ariane Production. (Italy, France)

Makeup

Driving Miss Daisy, Zanuck Company Production; Warner Bros. Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber and Kevin Haney.

Music

(Original Score)

The Little Mermaid, Walt Disney Pictures Production in association with Silver Screen Partners IV; Buena Vista. Alan Menken.

(Original Song)

Under the Sea from The Little Mermaid, Walt Disney Pictures Production in association with Silver Screen Partners IV; Buena Vista. Music by Alan Menken; lyric by Howard Ashman.

Short Films

(Animated)

Balance, Lauenstein Production. (Germany, West Germany) Christoph Lauenstein and Wolfgang Lauenstein.

(Live Action)

Work Experience, North Inch Production Ltd. (UK) James Hendrie.

Sound

Glory, Tri-Star Pictures Production; Tri-Star. Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg C. Rudloff, Elliot Tyson and Russell Williams II.

Sound Effects Editing

Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade, Lucasfilm, Ltd. Production; Paramount. Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns.

Visual Effects

The Abyss, 20th Century Fox Film Production; 20th Century Fox. John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman and Dennis Skotak.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)

Driving Miss Daisy, Zanuck Company Production; Warner Bros. Alfred Uhry.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Dead Poets Society, Touchstone Pictures Production in association with Silver Screen Partners IV; Buena Vista. Tom Schulman.

Honorary Award

To Akira Kurosawa, for accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world. [ [Statuette]]

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences’ Board of Governors commends the contributions of the members of the Engineering Committees of the Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). By establishing industry standards, they have greatly contributed to making film a primary form of international communication. [ [Special Commendation]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Howard W. Koch

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Pierre Angenieux

Scientific or Technical Award

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To James Ketcham of JSK Engineering, for the excellence in engineering and the broad adaptability of the SDA521B Advance/Retard system for magnetic film sound dubbing.

To J. Noxon Leavitt, for the invention of, and Istec, Incorporated, for the continuing development of the Wescam Stabilized Camera System.

To Geoffrey H. Williamson of Wilcam Photo Research, Incorporated, for the design and development, and to Robert D. Auguste for the electronic design and development of the Wilcam W-7 200 frames-per-second VistaVision Rotating Mirror Reflex Camera.

To J. L. Fisher of J. L. Fisher, Incorporated, for the design and manufacture of a small, mobile motion picture camera platform known as the Fisher Model Ten Dolly.

To Klaus Resch for the design, Erich Fitz and FGV Schmidle & Fitz for the development of the Super Panther MS-180 Camera Dolly.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Dr. Leo Catozzo for the design and development of the CIR-Catozzo Self-Perforating Adhesive Tape Film Splicer.

To Magna-Tech Electronic Company for the introduction of the first remotely controlled Advance/Retard function for magnetic film sound dubbing.