The Nineties in America - Salem Press (2009)

Entertainment: Academy Awards

A title or name followed by an asterisk (*) indicates the presence of a full-length essay withinThe Nineties
in America.

1990
Best Picture:Dances with Wolves
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons,Reversal of Fortune
Best Actress: Kathy Bates,Miser y
Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci,GoodFellas
Best Supporting Actress: Whoopi Goldberg,Ghost
Best Director: Kevin Costner,Dances with Wolves
Best Original Screenplay: Bruce Joel Rubin,Ghost
Best Adapted Screenplay: Michael Blake,Dances
with Wolves
Best Cinematography: Dean Semler,Dances with
Wolves*

1991
Best Picture:The Silence of the Lambs
Best Actor: Anthony Hopkins,The Silence of the
Lambs
Best Actress: Jodie Foster,The Silence of the Lambs
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Palance,City Slickers
Best Supporting Actress: Mercedes Ruehl,The
Fisher King
Best Director: Jonathan Demme,The Silence of the
Lambs
Best Original Screenplay: Callie Khouri,Thelma
and Louise
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ted Tally,The Silence of
the Lambs
Best Cinematography: Robert Richardson,JFK

1992
Best Picture:Unforgiven
Best Actor: Al Pacino,Scent of a Woman
Best Actress: Emma Thompson,Howards End
Best Supporting Actor: Gene Hackman,
Unforgiven
Best Supporting Actress: Marisa Tomei,My Cousin
Vinny
Best Director: Clint Eastwood,Unforgiven*
Best Original Screenplay: Neil Jordan,The Cr ying
Game
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ruth Prawer Jhabvala,
Howards End
Best Cinematography: Philippe Rousselot,A River
Runs Through It

1993

Best Picture:Schindler’s List*

Best Actor: Tom Hanks*,Philadelphia*

Best Actress: Holly Hunter,The Piano

Best Supporting Actor: Tommy Lee Jones,The

Fugitive

Best Supporting Actress: Anna Paquin,The Piano

Best Director: Steven Spielberg,Schindler’s List*

Best Original Screenplay: Jane Campion,The Piano

Best Adapted Screenplay: Steven Zaillian,

Schindler’s List*

Best Cinematography: Janusz Kaminski,Schindler’s

List*

1994

Best Picture:Forrest Gump*

Best Actor: Tom Hanks*,Forrest Gump*

Best Actress: Jessica Lange,Blue Sky

Best Supporting Actor: Martin Landau,Ed Wood

Best Supporting Actress: Dianne Wiest,Bullets over

Broadway

Best Director: Robert Zemeckis,Forrest Gump*

Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino* and

Roger Avary,Pulp Fiction*

Best Adapted Screenplay: Eric Roth,Forrest Gump*

Best Cinematography: John Toll,Legends of the Fall

1995

Best Picture:Braveheart

Best Actor: Nicholas Cage,Leaving Las Vegas

Best Actress: Susan Sarandon,Dead Man Walking

Best Supporting Actor: Kevin Spacey,The Usual

Suspects

Best Supporting Actress: Mira Sorvino,Mighty

Aphrodite

Best Director: Mel Gibson,Braveheart

Best Original Screenplay: Christopher McQuarrie,

The Usual Suspects

Best Adapted Screenplay: Emma Thompson,Sense

and Sensibility

Best Cinematography: John Toll,Braveheart

1996

Best Picture:The English Patient

Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush,Shine