1991 Academy Awards

Updated September 9, 2022 | Infoplease Staff

The 1991 Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.

Best Picture	Beauty and the Beast, Don Hahn, producer (Buena Vista)
	Bugsy, Barry Levinson and Warren Beatty, producers (TriStar)
	JFK, A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone, producers (Warner Bros.)
	The Prince of Tides, Barbra Streisand and Andrew Karsch, producers (Columbia)
	The Silence of the Lambs, Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt and Ron Bozman, producers (Orion)
Actor in a Leading Role	Warren Beatty, Bugsy
	Robert De Niro, Cape Fear
	Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
	Nick Nolte, The Prince of Tides
	Robin Williams, The Fisher King
	Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs Archive Photos
Actress in a Leading Role	Geena Davis, Thelma & Louise
	Laura Dern, Rambling Rose
	Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs
	Bette Midler, For the Boys
	Susan Sarandon, Thelma & Louise
Actor in a Supporting Role	Tommy Lee Jones, JFK
	Harvey Keitel, Bugsy
	Ben Kingsley, Bugsy
	Michael Lerner, Barton Fink
	Jack Palance, City Slickers
Actress in a Supporting Role	Diane Ladd, Rambling Rose
	Juliette Lewis, Cape Fear
	Kate Nelligan, The Prince of Tides
	Mercedes Ruehl, The Fisher King
	Jessica Tandy, Fried Green Tomatoes
Directing	Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs
	Barry Levinson, Bugsy
	Ridley Scott, Thelma & Louise
	John Singleton, Boyz N the Hood
	Oliver Stone, JFK
Writing	Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan, Grand Canyon Callie Khouri, Thelma & Louise Richard LaGravenese, The Fisher King John Singleton, Boyz N the Hood James Toback, Bugsy Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston, The Prince of Tides Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski, Fried Green Tomatoes Agnieszka Holland, Europa Europa Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar, JFK Ted Tally, The Silence of the Lambs
Cinematography	Adrian Biddle, Thelma & Louise
	Allen Daviau, Bugsy
	Stephen Goldblatt, The Prince of Tides
	Adam Greenberg, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
	Robert Richardson, JFK
Art Direction	Mel Bourne, art direction; Cindy Carr, set decoration, The Fisher King
	Norman Garwood, art direction; Garrett Lewis, set decoration, Hook
	Dennis Gassner, art direction; Nancy Haigh, set decoration, Barton Fink
	Dennis Gassner, art direction; Nancy Haigh, set decoration, Bugsy
	Paul Sylbert, art direction; Caryl Heller, set decoration, The Prince of Tides
Sound	Tom Fleischman and Christopher Newman, The Silence of the Lambs
	Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers and Lee Orloff, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
	Michael Minkler, Gregg Landaker and Tod A. Maitland, JFK
	Terry Porter, Mel Metcalfe, David J. Hudson and Doc Kane, Beauty and the Beast
	Gary Summers, Randy Thom, Gary Rydstrom and Glenn Williams, Backdraft
Music	Song “Beauty and the Beast,” Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, music; Howard Ashman, lyrics “Belle,” Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, music; Howard Ashman, lyrics “Be Our Guest,” Beauty and the Beast, Alan Menken, music; Howard Ashman, lyrics (Everything I Do) “I Do It for You,” Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, Michael Kamen, music; Bryan Adams and Robert John Lange, lyrics “When You're Alone,” Hook, John Williams, music; Leslie Bricusse, lyrics Original Score George Fenton, The Fisher King James Newton Howard, The Prince of Tides Alan Menken, Beauty and the Beast Ennio Morricone, Bugsy John Williams, JFK
Film Editing	Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt and Richard A. Harris, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
	Gerry Hambling, The Commitments
	Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia, JFK
	Craig McKay, The Silence of the Lambs
	Thom Noble, Thelma & Louise
Costume Design	Richard Hornung, Barton Fink
	Corinne Jorry, Madame Bovary
	Ruth Myers, The Addams Family
	Anthony Powell, Hook
	Albert Wolsky, Bugsy
Makeup	Michael Mills, Edward French and Richard Snell, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
	Christina Smith, Monty Westmore and Greg Cannom, Hook
	Stan Winston and Jeff Dawn, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Visual Effects	Eric Brevig, Harley Jessup, Mark Sullivan and Michael Lantieri, Hook
	Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren, Jr. and Robert Skotak, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
	Mikael Salomon, Allen Hall, Clay Pinney and Scott Farrar, Backdraft
Sound Effects Editing	Gary Rydstrom and Gloria S. Borders, Terminator 2: Judgment Day
	Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns, Backdraft
	George Watters II and F. Hudson Miller, Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
Short Films	Animation Blackfly (Christopher Hinton, producer; National Film Board of Canada) Manipulation (Daniel Greaves, producer; Tandem Films Production) Strings (Wendy Tilby, producer; National Film Board of Canada) Live Action Birch Street Gym (Stephen Kessler and Thomas R. Conroy, producers; Chanticleer Films) Last Breeze of Summer (David M. Massey, producer; American Film Institute) Session Man (Seth Winston and Rob Fried, producers; Chanticleer Films)
Documentary	Short Subject Birdnesters of Thailand (Shadow Hunters) (Antenne 2/National Geographic Society/M.D.I./Wind Horse Production) Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment (Debra Chasnoff, producer; Women's Educational Media, Inc. Production) A Little Vicious (Immy Humes, producer; Film and Video Workshop, Inc. Production) The Mark of the Maker (David McGowan, producer; McGowan Film and Video, Inc. Production) Memorial: Letters From American Soldiers (Bill Couturie and Bernard Edelman, producers; Couturie Company Production) Feature Death on the Job (Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag, producers; Half-Court Pictures, Ltd. Production) Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House (Alan Raymond and Susan Raymond, producers; Video Verité Production) In the Shadow of the Stars (Allie Light and Irving Saraf, producers; Light-Saraf Films Production) The Restless Conscience (Hava Kohav Beller, producer; Hava Kohav Beller Production) Wild by Law (Lawrence Hott and Diane Garey, producers; Florentine Films Production)
Foreign Language Film	Children of Nature, Iceland
	The Elementary School, Czechoslovakia
	Mediterraneo, Italy
	The Ox, Sweden
	Raise the Red Lantern, Hong Kong
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award	George Lucas
Honorary Awards	To Satyajit Ray, in recognition of his rare mastery of the art of motion pictures, and of his profound humanitarian outlook, which has had an indelible influence on filmmakers and audiences throughout the world
	To Pete Comandini, Richard T. Dayton, Donald Hagans and Richard T. Ryan of YCM Laboratories for the creation and development of a motion picture film restoration process using liquid gate and registration correction on a contact printer
	To Richard J. Stumpf and Joseph Westheimer for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences