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Welcome to the Oscars reading, in which Gold Derby editors and pundits Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng revisit the Oscar ceremonies and winners of yesteryear. This week, in our first bonus episode, we cover the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990, honoring films from 1989.
This ceremony, which marks billy crystalThe host’s debut – his first of nine – was topped by “Driving Miss Daisy”, whose four wins out of nine nominations included Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Tandy, who at 80 became the oldest acting winner at the time. He won despite a staging rebuff for Bruce Beresford, becoming the first film since “Grand Hotel” in 1932 to win Best Picture without an offer to direct. It is of course now more common since “Argo” (2012), “Green Book” (2018) and “CODA” (2021) have achieved this. Would Beresford have won if he had succeeded or would he have Pierre Olivier (“Born on July 4th”) have always prevailed?
“Driving Miss Daisy” doesn’t have, uh, the most revered spot in Oscar history and remains a controversial choice — a film about soft race relations — on Spike Leeis incendiary”do the right thing“, which was not even nominated for Best Picture, an omission that upset Kim Basinger so much so that she berated the academy during her presentation on the show. We debate whether “Do the Right Thing” would have been nominated in a field of 10.
Elsewhere we discuss whether Tom Cruise would have prevailed for “Born on the 4th of July” if it had been published in another year and try to understand if Jack Nicholson is lead or supporting in “Batman”.
Timestamp:
Intro and our favorite movies from 1989 (0:00)
Ceremonial Thoughts (30:54)
Best Picture (43:12)
Best Director (58:11)
Best Actor (1:03:07)
Best Actress (1:10:12)
Best Supporting Actor (1:13:11)
Best Supporting Actress (1:16:09)
Screenplay Award (1:18:30)
Music Awards and Other Categories (1:21:20)
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