Driving Miss Daisy: Best Picture · Oliver Stone: directing
Oscars 1990: winning films and award nominations
Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture at the 1990 Oscars. The directing award went to Oliver Stone for Born on the Fourth of July, while Jessica Tandy received leading actress recognition for Driving Miss Daisy.
- 51Films
- 23Categories
- 103Nomination entries
- 15Winners
- March 26, 1990Ceremony date
Winning films and category recognition at Oscars 1990
Driving Miss Daisy won Best Picture at the 1990 Oscars. Daniel Day-Lewis won for My Left Foot, while Jessica Tandy received leading actress recognition for Driving Miss Daisy.
Nominated films and award entries at Oscars 1990
Born on the Fourth of July and Dead Poets Society competed for Best Picture alongside Driving Miss Daisy at the 1990 Oscars. Explore their other category entries as well: a film can have several nominations and win in a different category.
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Wins are included in nomination counts.
Explore Oscars 1990 nominations and winners by category
Glory received Cinematography recognition at the 1990 Oscars, while Henry V won Costume Design. Explore the other category shortlists and their credited winners within the same ceremony year.
Best Picture
5 nominations
Winner Driving Miss Daisy Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck Directing
5 nominations
Winner Born on the Fourth of July Oliver Stone Actor in a Leading Role
5 nominations
Winner My Left Foot Daniel Day Lewis Actress in a Leading Role
5 nominations Winner Driving Miss Daisy Jessica Tandy Actor in a Supporting Role
5 nominations
Winner Glory Denzel Washington Actress in a Supporting Role
5 nominations Winner My Left Foot Brenda Fricker Cinematography
5 nominations Winner Glory Freddie Francis Costume Design
5 nominations
Winner Henry V Phyllis Dalton Documentary (Feature)
5 nominations
Winner Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt Robert Epstein, Bill Couturié Documentary (Short Subject)
3 nominations
Winner The Johnstown Flood Charles Guggenheim Film Editing
5 nominations Winner Born on the Fourth of July David Brenner, Joe Hutshing Foreign Language Film
5 nominations
Winner Cinema Paradiso Italy Makeup
3 nominations Winner Driving Miss Daisy Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber, Kevin Haney Music (Original Score)
5 nominations
Winner The Little Mermaid Alan Menken Music (Original Song)
5 nominations Winner Under The Sea The Little Mermaid Alan Menken, Howard Ashman Art Direction
5 nominations
Winner Batman Anton Furst, Peter Young Short Film (Animated)
3 nominations
Winner Balance Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein Short Film (Live Action)
3 nominations Winner Work Experience James Hendrie Sound
5 nominations Winner Glory Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg C. Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, Russell Williams II - Black Rain Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Keith A. Wester
- Born on the Fourth of July Michael Minkler, Gregory H. Watkins, Wylie Stateman, Tod A. Maitland
- Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy, Tony Dawe
- The Abyss Don Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton, Lee Orloff
Visual Effects
3 nominations Winner The Abyss John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman, Dennis Skotak Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium)
5 nominations Winner Driving Miss Daisy Alfred Uhry Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
5 nominations
Winner Dead Poets Society Tom Schulman Sound Effects Editing
3 nominations
Winner Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns About these results
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- Ceremony date
- March 26, 1990
- Last verified
- October 29, 2026
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Oscars 1990: Winners and Nominees
Daniel Day-Lewis won for My Left Foot, and Jessica Tandy for Driving Miss Daisy. Acting recognition at the 1990 Oscars sits alongside craft awards, including Cinematography for Glory.
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