The 1992 Academy Awards®
Host: Billy Crystal
Date: March 29, 1993  

Best Picture
The Crying Game
A Few Good Men
Howards End
Scent of a Woman
Unforgiven--winner

Best Director
Robert Altman, The Player
Martin Brest, Scent of a Woman
Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven--winner
James Ivory, Howards End
Neil Jordan, The Crying Game

Best Actor
Robert Downey, Jr., Chaplin
Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman--winner
Stephen Rea, The Crying Game
Denzel Washington, Malcolm X

Best Actress
Catherine Deneuve, Indochine
Mary McDonnell, Passion Fish
Michelle Pfeiffer, Love Field
Susan Sarandon, Lorenzo's Oil
Emma Thompson, Howards End--winner

Best Supporting Actor
Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game
Gene Hackman, Unforgiven--winner
Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men
Al Pacino, Glengarry Glen Ross
David Paymer, Mr. Saturday Night

Best Supporting Actress
Judy Davis, Husbands and Wives
Joan Plowright, Enchanted April
Miranda Richardson, Fatale
Vanessa Redgrave, Howards End
Marisa Tomei, My Cousin Vinny--winner

Best Foreign Language Film
Daens (Belgium)
Indochine (France)--winner
Lugar en el mundo (Uruguay, withdrawn: actually Argentina)
Schtonk! (Germany)
Urga (Russia)

Best Original Screenplay
The Crying Game (Neil Jordan)--winner
Husbands and Wives (Woody Allen)
Lorenzo's Oil (George Miller, Nick Enright)
Passion Fish (John Sayles)
Unforgiven (Devid Webb Peoples)

Best Adapted Screenplay
Enchanted April (Peter Barnes)
Howards End (Ruth Prawer Jhabvala)--winner
The Player (Michael Tolkin)
A River Runs Through It (Richard Friedenberg)
Scent of a Woman (Bo Goldman)

Best Original Score
Aladdin (Alan Menken)--winner
Basic Instinct (Jerry Goldsmith)
Chaplin (John Barry)
Howards End (Richard Robbins)
A River Runs Through It (Mark Isham)

Best Cinematography
L'Amant (Robert Fraisse)
Hoffa (Stephen H. Burum)
Howards End (Tony Pierce-Roberts)
A River Runs Through It (Philippe Rousselot)--winner
Unforgiven (Jack N. Green)

Other Categories:

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration
Howards End (Luciana Arrighi, Ian Whittaker)

Best Costume Design
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Eiko Ishioka)

Best Makeup
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Greg Cannom, Michèle Burke, Matthew W. Mungle)

Best Film Editing
Unforgiven (Joel Cox)

Best Visual Effects
Death Becomes Her (Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Doublas Smythe, Tom Woodruff, Jr.)

Best Sound
The Last of the Mohicans (Chris Jenkins, Doug Hemphill, Mark Smith, Simon Kaye)

Best Sound Effects Editing
Bram Stoker's Dracula (Tom C. McCarthy, David E. Stone)

Best Original Song
Aladdin, for the song "A Whole New World", music by Alan Menken, lyrics by Tim Rice

Best Animated Short Film
Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase (Joan C. Gratz)

Best Live Action Short Film
Omnibus (Sam Karmann)

Best Documentary, Short Subject
Educating Peter (Thomas C. Goodwin, Gerardine Wurzburg)

Best Documentary, Feature
The Panama Deception (Barbara Trent, David Kasper)

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