62nd Academy Awards

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62nd Academy Awards
Date	Monday, March 26, 1990
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles
Host	Billy Crystal
Producer	Gil Cates
Director	Jeff Margolis
Duration	3 hours, 37 minutes

The 62nd Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. This was the first telecast hosted by Billy Crystal and debuted his famous nominee songs. He would go on to host the show seven more times over the next fifteen years.

Driving Miss Daisy won four awards including Best Picture.

Contents 1 Winners 1.1 Feature Films 1.2 Acting 1.3 Screenplay & Direction

[edit] Winners

[edit] Feature Films

Category	Winner
Best motion picture	Driving Miss Daisy	Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck
Best foreign language film	Cinema Paradiso	Italy
Best documentary feature	Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt	Rob Epsiten

[edit] Acting

Category	Winner	Movie
Best actor in a leading role	Daniel Day-Lewis	My Left Foot
Best actress in a leading role	Jessica Tandy	Driving Miss Daisy
Best actor in a supporting role	Denzel Washington	Glory
Best actress in a supporting role	Brenda Fricker	My Left Foot

[edit] Screenplay & Direction

Category	Winner	Movie
Best Writing, Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Tom Schulman	Dead Poets Society
Best Writing, Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium	Alfred Uhry	Driving Miss Daisy
Best Director	Oliver Stone	Born on the Fourth of July