The 1991 Academy Awards®
Host: Billy Crystal
Date: March 30, 1992  

Best Picture
Beauty and the Beast
Bugsy
JFK
The Prince of Tides
The Silence of the Lambs--winner

Best Director
Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs--winner
Barry Levinson, Bugsy
Ridley Scott, Thelma & Louise
John Singleton, Boyz N the Hood
Oliver Stone, JFK

Best Actor
Warren Beatty, Bugsy
Robert De Niro, Cape Fear
Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs--winner
Nick Nolte, The Prince of Tides
Robin Williams, The Fisher King

Best Actress
Geena Davis, Thelma & Louise
Laura Dern, Rambling Rose
Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs--winner
Bette Midler, For the Boys
Susan Sarandon, Thelma & Louise

Best Supporting Actor
Harvey Keitel, Bugsy
Ben Kingsley, Bugsy
Tommy Lee Jones, JFK
Michael Lerner, Barton Fink
Jack Palance, City Slickers--winner

Best Supporting Actress
Diane Ladd, Rambling Rose
Juliette Lewis, Cape Fear
Kate Nelligan, The Prince of Tides
Mercedes Ruehl, The Fisher King--winner
Jessica Tandy, Fried Green Tomatoes

Best Foreign Language Film
Börn natturunnar (Iceland)
Das hong deng long gao gao gua (Hong Kong)
Mediterraneo (Italy)--winner
Obecna skola (Czechoslovakia)
Oxen (Sweden)

Best Original Screenplay
Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton)
Bugsy (James Toback)
The Fisher King (Richard LaGravenese)
Grand Canyon (Lawrence Kasdan, Meg Kasdan)
Thelma & Louise (Callie Khouri)--winner

Best Adapted Screenplay
Fried Green Tomatoes (Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski)
Hitlerjunge Salomon (Agnieszka Holland)
JFK (Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar)
The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy, Becky Johnston)
The Silence of the Lambs (Ted Tally)--winner

Best Original Score
Beauty and the Beast (Alan Menken)--winner
Bugsy (Ennio Morricone)
The Fisher King (George Fenton)
JFK (John Williams)
The Prince of Tides (James Newton Howard)

Best Cinematography
Bugsy (Allen Daviau)
JFK (Robert Richardson)--winner
The Prince of Tides (Stephen Goldblatt)
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Adam Greenberg)
Thelma & Louise (Adrin Biddle)

Other Categories:

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Bugsy (Dennis Gassner, Nancy Haigh)

Best Costume Design
Bugsy (Albert Wolsky)

Best Makeup
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Stan Winston, Jeff Dawn)

Best Film Editing
JFK (Joe Hutshing, Pietro Scalia)

Best Visual Effects
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren, Jr., Robert Skotak)

Best Sound
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Lee Orloff)

Best Sound Effects Editing
Terminator 2: Judgment Day (Gary Rydstrom, Gloria S. Borders)

Best Original Song
Beauty and the Beast, for the song "Beauty and the Beast", music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Howard Ashman

Best Animated Short Film
Manipulation (Daniel Greaves)

Best Live Action Short Film
Session Man (Seth Winston, Robert N. Fried)

Best Documentary, Short Subject
Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment (Debra Chasnoff)

Best Documentary, Feature
In the Shadow of the Stars (Allie Light, Irving Saraf)

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