Academy Awards 1990 Nominations

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Best Picture	Best Director
Best Actor in a Leading Role	Best Actress in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Supporting Role	Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen	Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Documentary Feature
Best Documentary Short	Best Live Action Short Film
Best Animated Short Film	Best Original Score
Best Original Song	Best Sound Effects Editing
Best Sound	Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography	Best Makeup
Best Costume Design	Best Film Editing
Best Visual Effects

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Best Picture

• Born on the Fourth of July
• Dead Poets Society
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Field of Dreams
• My Left Foot

Best Director

• Born on the Fourth of July (Oliver Stone)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (Woody Allen)
• Dead Poets Society (Peter Weir)
• Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
• My Left Foot (Jim Sheridan)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Born on the Fourth of July (Tom Cruise)
• Dead Poets Society (Robin Williams)
• Driving Miss Daisy (Morgan Freeman)
• Henry V (Kenneth Branagh)
• My Left Foot (Daniel Day-Lewis)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Camille Claudel (Isabelle Adjani)
• Driving Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy)
• Music Box (Jessica Lange)
• Shirley Valentine (Pauline Collins)
• The Fabulous Baker Boys (Michelle Pfeiffer)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• A Dry White Season (Marlon Brando)
• Crimes and Misdemeanors (Martin Landau)
• Do the Right Thing (Danny Aiello)
• Driving Miss Daisy (Dan Aykroyd)
• Glory (Denzel Washington)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Enemies, A Love Story (Anjelica Huston)
• Enemies, A Love Story (Lena Olin)
• My Left Foot (Brenda Fricker)
• Parenthood (Dianne Wiest)
• Steel Magnolias (Julia Roberts)

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• Crimes and Misdemeanors
• Dead Poets Society
• Do the Right Thing
• Sex, Lies, and Videotape
• When Harry Met Sally...

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

• Born on the Fourth of July
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Enemies, A Love Story
• Field of Dreams
• My Left Foot

Best Foreign Language Film

• Camille Claudel (France)
• Cinema Paradiso (Italy)
• Jesus of Montreal (Canada)
• Lo que le pasó a Santiago (Puerto Rico)
• Memories of a Marriage (Denmark)

Best Documentary Feature

• Adam Clayton Powell
• Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt
• Crack USA: County Under Siege
• For All Mankind
• Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren

Best Documentary Short

• Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
• The Johnstown Flood
• Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future

Best Live Action Short Film

• Amazon Diary
• The Child Eater
• Work Experience

Best Animated Short Film

• Balance
• The Cow
• The Hill Farm

Best Original Score

• Born on the Fourth of July
• Field of Dreams
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• The Fabulous Baker Boys
• The Little Mermaid

Best Original Song

• Chances Are ("After All")
• Parenthood ("I Love to See You Smile")
• Shirley Valentine ("The Girl Who Used to Be Me")
• The Little Mermaid ("Under the Sea")
• The Little Mermaid ("Kiss the Girl")

Best Sound Effects Editing

• Black Rain
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• Lethal Weapon 2

Best Sound

• Black Rain
• Born on the Fourth of July
• Glory
• Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
• The Abyss

Best Art Direction

• Batman
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Glory
• The Abyss
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Best Cinematography

• Blaze
• Born on the Fourth of July
• Glory
• The Abyss
• The Fabulous Baker Boys

Best Makeup

• Dad
• Driving Miss Daisy
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen

Best Costume Design

• Driving Miss Daisy
• Harlem Nights
• Henry V
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
• Valmont

Best Film Editing

• Born on the Fourth of July
• Driving Miss Daisy
• Glory
• The Bear
• The Fabulous Baker Boys

Best Visual Effects

• Back to the Future Part II
• The Abyss
• The Adventures of Baron Munchausen