Academy Awards 1991 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

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Best Picture

• Awakenings
• Dances with Wolves
• Ghost
• Goodfellas
• The Godfather: Part III

Best Director

• Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner)
• Goodfellas (Martin Scorsese)
• Reversal of Fortune (Barbet Schroeder)
• The Godfather: Part III (Francis Ford Coppola)
• The Grifters (Stephen Frears)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Awakenings (Robert De Niro)
• Cyrano de Bergerac (Gérard Depardieu)
• Dances with Wolves (Kevin Costner)
• Reversal of Fortune (Jeremy Irons)
• The Field (Richard Harris)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Misery (Kathy Bates)
• Mr. & Mrs. Bridge (Joanne Woodward)
• Postcards from the Edge (Meryl Streep)
• Pretty Woman (Julia Roberts)
• The Grifters (Anjelica Huston)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Dances with Wolves (Graham Greene)
• Dick Tracy (Al Pacino)
• Goodfellas (Joe Pesci)
• Longtime Companion (Bruce Davison)
• The Godfather: Part III (Andy Garcia)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Dances with Wolves (Mary McDonnell)
• Ghost (Whoopi Goldberg)
• Goodfellas (Lorraine Bracco)
• The Grifters (Annette Bening)
• Wild at Heart (Diane Ladd)

Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen

• Alice
• Avalon
• Ghost
• Green Card
• Metropolitan

Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium

• Awakenings
• Dances with Wolves
• Goodfellas
• Reversal of Fortune
• The Grifters

Best Foreign Language Film

• Cyrano de Bergerac (France)
• Journey of Hope (Switzerland)
• Ju Dou (China)
• Open Doors (Italy)
• The Nasty Girl (Germany)

Best Documentary Feature

• American Dream
• Berkeley in the Sixties
• Building Bombs
• Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
• Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey

Best Documentary Short

• Burning Down Tomorrow
• Chimps: So Like Us
• Days of Waiting
• Journey Into Life: The World of the Unborn
• Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember

Best Live Action Short Film

• 12:01 PM
• Bronx Cheers
• Dear Rosie
• Senzeni Na?
• The Lunch Date

Best Animated Short Film

• A Grand Day Out
• Creature Comforts
• Grasshoppers

Best Original Score

• Avalon
• Dances with Wolves
• Ghost
• Havana
• Home Alone

Best Original Song

• Dick Tracy ("Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)")
• Home Alone ("Somewhere in My Memory")
• Postcards from the Edge ("I'm Checkin' Out")
• The Godfather: Part III ("Promise Me You'll Remember")
• Young Guns II ("Blaze of Glory")

Best Sound Effects Editing

• Flatliners
• The Hunt for Red October
• Total Recall

Best Sound

• Dances with Wolves
• Days of Thunder
• Dick Tracy
• The Hunt for Red October
• Total Recall

Best Art Direction

• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Dances with Wolves
• Dick Tracy
• Hamlet
• The Godfather: Part III

Best Cinematography

• Avalon
• Dances with Wolves
• Dick Tracy
• Henry & June
• The Godfather: Part III

Best Makeup

• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Dick Tracy
• Edward Scissorhands

Best Costume Design

• Avalon
• Cyrano de Bergerac
• Dances with Wolves
• Dick Tracy
• Hamlet

Best Film Editing

• Dances with Wolves
• Ghost
• Goodfellas
• The Godfather: Part III
• The Hunt for Red October