Oscars Rematch: 1989
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1. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,370 | Gross: $27.55M
Best Picture!
Winner: Do the Right Thing!
Nominees:
Born on the Fourth of July
Dead Poets Society
Glory
My Left Foot
2. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,370 | Gross: $27.55M
Best Director!
Winner: Spike Lee!
Nominees:
Oliver Stone - Born on the Fourth of July
Peter Weir - Dead Poets Society
Edward Zwick - Glory
Jim Sheridan - My Left Foot
3. My Left Foot (1989)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
Votes: 79,751 | Gross: $14.74M
Best Actor!
Winner: Daniel Day-Lewis!
Nominees:
Kenneth Branagh - Henry V
Tom Cruise - Born on the Fourth of July
Morgan Freeman - Driving Miss Daisy
Robin Williams - Dead Poets Society
4. Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Drama
An old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.
Director: Bruce Beresford | Stars: Morgan Freeman, Jessica Tandy, Dan Aykroyd, Patti LuPone
Votes: 117,514 | Gross: $106.59M
Best Actress!
Winner: Jessica Tandy!
Nominees:
Isabelle Adjani - Camille Claudel
Andie MacDowell - Sex, Lies and Videotapes
Michelle Pfeiffer - The Fabulous Baker Boys
Meg Ryan - When Harry Met Sally...
5. Glory (1989)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 144,378 | Gross: $26.83M
Best Supporting Actor!
Winner: Denzel Washington!
Nominees:
Danny Aiello - Do the Right Thing
Sean Connery - Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
Morgan Freeman - Glory
Hugh O'Connor - My Left Foot
6. My Left Foot (1989)
R | 103 min | Biography, Drama
Christy Brown, born with cerebral palsy, learns to paint and write with his only controllable limb - his left foot.
Director: Jim Sheridan | Stars: Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan
Votes: 79,751 | Gross: $14.74M
Best Supporting Actress!
Winner: Brenda Fricker!
Nominees:
Ruby Dee - Do the Right Thing
Carrie Fisher - When Harry Met Sally
Julia Roberts - Steel Magnolias
Dianne Wiest - Parenthood
7. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,370 | Gross: $27.55M
Best Original Screenplay!
Winner: Spike Lee!
Nominees:
Woody Allen - Crimes and Misdemeanors
Tom Schulman - Dead Poets Society
Steven Soderbergh - Sex, Lies and Videotape
Nora Ephron - When Harry Met Sally...
8. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
R | 145 min | Biography, Drama, War
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Tom Cruise, Bryan Larkin, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava
Votes: 115,893 | Gross: $70.00M
Best Adapted Screenplay!
Winner: Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic!
Nominees:
Alfred Uhry - Driving Miss Daisy
Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky - Enemies, A Love Story
Phil Alden Robinson - Field of Dreams
Jim Sheridan and Shane Connaughton - My Left Foot
9. Camille Claudel (1988)
R | 175 min | Biography, Drama, History
Camille Claude impresses already-famous sculptor Auguste Rodin. He hires her as an assistant, but soon Camille begins to sculpt for herself and she also becomes his mistress. But after a while, she would like to get out of his shadow.
Director: Bruno Nuytten | Stars: Isabelle Adjani, Gérard Depardieu, Madeleine Robinson, Laurent Grévill
Votes: 7,394 | Gross: $0.20M
Best Foreign Language Film!
Winner: Camille Claudel!
Nominees:
Jesus of Montreal
The Killer
Memories of a Marriage
What Happened to Santiago
10. Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt (1989)
79 min | Documentary, Biography, History
A collection of profiles of people dead from AIDS who are remembered in the AIDS Memorial Quilt.
Directors: Rob Epstein, Jeffrey Friedman | Stars: Sara Lewinstein, David Mandell, Suzi Mandell, Sallie Perryman
Votes: 1,080
Best Documentary Feature!
Winner: Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt!
Nominees:
Adam Clayton Powell
Crack USA: County Under Siege
For All Mankind
Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren
11. The Johnstown Flood (1989)
26 min | Documentary, Short
On May 30, 1889 the South Fork Dam, which maintained a pleasure lake for wealthy Pittsburgh industrialists and their families, failed due to very heavy rains and poor maintenance by the ... See full summary »
Director: Charles Guggenheim | Stars: Len Cariou, Elam Bender, Randy Bender, Clarita Berger
Votes: 139
Best Documentary Short!
Winner: The Johnstown Flood!
Nominees:
Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9
Yad Vashem: Preserving to Past to Ensure the Future
12. Work Experience (1989)
11 min | Short, Comedy
Terence is caught in a vicious circle. he cannot get a job because he has no experience, but he cannot gain experience without getting a job!
Director: James Hendrie | Stars: Lenny Henry, Susan Brown, Kathy Burke, Shelagh Fraser
Votes: 128
Best Live Action Short!
Winner: Work Experience!
Nominees:
Amazon Diary
The Childeater
13. Balance (1989)
7 min | Animation, Short, Drama
A group of fishermen on a precariously balanced platform fight over a trunk.
Directors: Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein
Votes: 5,666
Best Animated Short!
Winner: Balance!
Nominees:
The Cow
The Hill Farm
14. Born on the Fourth of July (1989)
R | 145 min | Biography, Drama, War
The biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country for which he fought.
Director: Oliver Stone | Stars: Tom Cruise, Bryan Larkin, Raymond J. Barry, Caroline Kava
Votes: 115,893 | Gross: $70.00M
Best Original Score!
Winner: Born on the Fourth of July!
Nominees:
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Field of Dreams
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
The Little Mermaid
15. The Little Mermaid (1989)
G | 83 min | Animation, Adventure, Family
A mermaid princess makes a Faustian bargain in an attempt to become human and win a prince's love.
Directors: Ron Clements, John Musker | Stars: Jodi Benson, Samuel E. Wright, Rene Auberjonois, Christopher Daniel Barnes
Votes: 290,873 | Gross: $111.54M
Best Original Song!
Winner: "Under the Sea", The Little Mermaid!
Nominees:
"After All" - Chances Are
"The Girl Who Used to Be Me" - Shirley Valentine
"I Love To See You Smile" - Parenthood
"Kiss the Girl" - The Little Mermaid
16. Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade (1989)
PG-13 | 127 min | Action, Adventure
In 1938, after his father goes missing while pursuing the Holy Grail, Indiana Jones finds himself up against the Nazis again to stop them from obtaining its powers.
Director: Steven Spielberg | Stars: Harrison Ford, Sean Connery, Alison Doody, Denholm Elliott
Votes: 810,707 | Gross: $197.17M
Best Sound Effects!
Winner: Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade!
Nominees:
Black Rain
Lethal Weapon 2
17. Glory (1989)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 144,378 | Gross: $26.83M
Best Sound!
Winner: Glory!
Nominees:
The Abyss
Black Rain
Born on the Fourth of July
Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade
18. Batman (1989)
PG-13 | 126 min | Action, Adventure
The Dark Knight of Gotham City begins his war on crime with his first major enemy being Jack Napier, a criminal who becomes the clownishly homicidal Joker.
Director: Tim Burton | Stars: Michael Keaton, Jack Nicholson, Kim Basinger, Robert Wuhl
Votes: 404,109 | Gross: $251.19M
Best Art Direction!
Winner: Batman!
Nominees:
The Abyss
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Driving Miss Daisy
Glory
19. Glory (1989)
R | 122 min | Biography, Drama, History
Robert Gould Shaw leads the U.S. Civil War's first all-black volunteer company, fighting prejudices from both his own Union Army, and the Confederates.
Director: Edward Zwick | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington, Cary Elwes, Morgan Freeman
Votes: 144,378 | Gross: $26.83M
Best Cinematography!
Winner: Glory!
Nominees:
The Abyss
Born on the Fourth of July
Blaze
The Fabulous Baker Boys
20. The Adventures of Baron Munchausen (1988)
PG | 126 min | Adventure, Comedy, Fantasy
An account of Baron Munchausen's supposed travels and fantastical experiences across late 18th-century Europe with his band of misfits.
Director: Terry Gilliam | Stars: John Neville, Eric Idle, Sarah Polley, Oliver Reed
Votes: 56,846 | Gross: $8.08M
Best Makeup!
Winner: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen!
Nominees:
Dad
Driving Miss Daisy
21. Henry V (1989)
PG-13 | 137 min | Biography, Drama, History
In the midst of the Hundred Years War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.
Director: Kenneth Branagh | Stars: Kenneth Branagh, Derek Jacobi, Simon Shepherd, James Larkin
Votes: 31,647 | Gross: $10.16M
Best Costume Design!
Winner: Henry V!
Nominees:
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Driving Miss Daisy
Harlem Nights
Valmont
22. Do the Right Thing (1989)
R | 120 min | Comedy, Drama
On the hottest day of the year on a street in the Bedford-Stuyvesant section of Brooklyn, everyone's hate and bigotry smolders and builds until it explodes into violence.
Director: Spike Lee | Stars: Danny Aiello, Ossie Davis, Ruby Dee, Richard Edson
Votes: 112,370 | Gross: $27.55M
Best Film Editing!
Winner: Do the Right Thing!
Nominees:
Born on the Fourth of July
Driving Miss Daisy
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Glory
23. The Abyss (1989)
PG-13 | 140 min | Adventure, Drama, Mystery
A civilian diving team is enlisted to search for a lost nuclear submarine and faces danger while encountering an alien aquatic species.
Director: James Cameron | Stars: Ed Harris, Mary Elizabeth Mastrantonio, Michael Biehn, Leo Burmester
Votes: 193,146 | Gross: $54.46M
Best Visual Effects!
Winner: The Abyss!
Nominees:
The Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Back to the Future Part II
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