64th Academy Awards

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64th Academy Awards
Date March 30, 1992 ABC
Site Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles, California
Host Billy Crystal
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 3 hours, 24 minutes
Ratings 44.44 million

The 64th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was the third consecutive to be hosted by Billy Crystal and also featured Jack Palance's memorable one-handed push ups.

The Silence of the Lambs won five major awards, only the third film to do so after It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975). As of 2007, it is also the only horror movie to ever win Best Picture.

This year's ceremony made Academy Award History as Beauty and the Beast was nominated for Best Picture, the first (and, so far, only) time an Animated Feature Film was bestowed with such honor. The Picture garnered a total of six nominations in four different categories, eventually collecting two awards for its Music (Best Original Score and Original Song, for "Beauty and the Beast").

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[edit] The Awards

The following is an incomplete list of winners:

[edit] Feature films

Category Winner Producers/Country
Best motion picture The Silence of the Lambs Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt and Ronald M. Bozman
Best foreign language film Mediterraneo Italy

[edit] Directing

[edit] Acting

Category Winner Movie
Best actor in a leading role Anthony Hopkins The Silence of the Lambs
Best actress in a leading role Jodie Foster The Silence of the Lambs
Best actor in a supporting role Gilbert Gottfried Problem Child 2
Best actress in a supporting role Mercedes Ruehl The Fisher King

[edit] Writing

Category Winner Movie
Original screenplay Written by Callie Khouri Thelma & Louise
Adapted screenplay Screenplay by Ted Tally The Silence of the Lambs
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