1990 Film Year: Oscar Winners & Nominees
The AwardWentTo archive contains 105 Academy Award records for the 1990 film year, covering 52 films and including 23 wins.
Years follow the source film eligibility/dataset year, which may differ from the ceremony calendar year. Counts describe film-linked archive records, including historical and special-award context where supplied.
Best Picture result
- ★ Dances With WolvesJim Wilson and Kevin Costner, Producers
5 Best Picture award records for this film year. See the full result · Best Picture history
Acting category results
Leading winning films
Ranked by winning records in this film-year selection.
- Dances With Wolves
7 wins from 12 award records
- Dick Tracy
3 wins from 7 award records
- Ghost
2 wins from 5 award records
- Good Fellas
1 win from 6 award records
- Cyrano de Bergerac
1 win from 5 award records
- Reversal of Fortune
1 win from 3 award records
Category winners
Select a category to explore its history, or jump to this year's full records.
- ★ Reversal of Fortune — Claus Von Bulow
- ★ Good Fellas — Tommy DeVito
- ★ Misery — Annie Wilkes
- ★ Ghost — Oda Mae Brown
- ★ Dick Tracy — Sooner Or Later (I Always Get My Man)
- ★ Ghost
Nominations and award records by category
Showing 105 of 105 archive records. Gold stars mark winning records.
Best Picture
- ★ Dances With Wolves IMDB — Jim Wilson and Kevin Costner, Producers
- Awakenings IMDB — Walter F. Parkes and Lawrence Lasker, Producers
- Ghost IMDB — Lisa Weinstein, Producer
- The Godfather, Part III IMDB — Francis Ford Coppola, Producer
- Good Fellas IMDB — Irwin Winkler, Producer
Best Actor
- ★ Reversal of Fortune IMDB — Jeremy IronsClaus Von Bulow
- Dances With Wolves IMDB — Kevin CostnerLieutenant Dunbar
- Awakenings IMDB — Robert De NiroLeonard Lowe
- Cyrano de Bergerac IMDB — Gerard DepardieuCyrano de Bergerac
- The Field IMDB — Richard HarrisBull McCabe
Best Supporting Actor
- ★ Good Fellas IMDB — Joe PesciTommy DeVito
- Longtime Companion IMDB — Bruce DavisonDavid
- The Godfather, Part III IMDB — Andy GarciaVincent Mancini
- Dances With Wolves IMDB — Graham GreeneKicking Bird
- Dick Tracy IMDB — Al PacinoBig Boy Caprice
Best Actress
- ★ Misery IMDB — Kathy BatesAnnie Wilkes
- The Grifters IMDB — Anjelica HustonLilly Dillon
- Pretty Woman IMDB — Julia RobertsVivian Ward
- Postcards from the Edge IMDB — Meryl StreepSuzanne Vale
- Mr. & Mrs. Bridge IMDB — Joanne WoodwardIndia Bridge
Best Supporting Actress
- ★ Ghost IMDB — Whoopi GoldbergOda Mae Brown
- The Grifters IMDB — Annette BeningMyra Langtry
- Good Fellas IMDB — Lorraine BraccoKaren Hill
- Wild at Heart IMDB — Diane LaddMarietta Fortune
- Dances With Wolves IMDB — Mary McDonnellStands With A Fist
Art Direction
- ★ Dick Tracy IMDB — Art Direction: Richard Sylbert; Set Decoration: Rick Simpson
- Cyrano de Bergerac IMDB — Art Direction: Ezio Frigerio; Set Decoration: Jacques Rouxel
- Dances With Wolves IMDB — Art Direction: Jeffrey Beecroft; Set Decoration: Lisa Dean
- The Godfather, Part III IMDB — Art Direction: Dean Tavoularis; Set Decoration: Gary Fettis
- Hamlet IMDB — Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
Cinematography
Costume Design
Best Director
Documentary Feature
- ★ American Dream IMDB — Barbara Kopple and Arthur Cohn, Producers
- Berkeley in the Sixties IMDB — Mark Kitchell, Producer
- Building Bombs IMDB — Mark Mori and Susan Robinson, Producers
- Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade IMDB — Judith Montell, Producer
- Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey IMDB — Robert Hillmann and Eugene Corr, Producers
Documentary Short Subject
- ★ Days of Waiting IMDB — Steven Okazaki, Producer
- Burning Down Tomorrow IMDB — Kit Thomas, Producer
- Chimps: So Like Us IMDB — Karen Goodman and Kirk Simon, Producers
- Journey into Life: The World of the Unborn IMDB — Derek Bromhall, Producer
- Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember IMDB — Freida Lee Mock and Terry Sanders, Producers
Film Editing
- ★ Dances With Wolves IMDB — Neil Travis
- Ghost IMDB — Walter Murch
- The Godfather, Part III IMDB — Barry Malkin, Lisa Fruchtman, Walter Murch
- Good Fellas IMDB — Thelma Schoonmaker
- The Hunt for Red October IMDB — Dennis Virkler, John Wright
International Feature Film
- ★ Journey of Hope IMDB — Switzerland
- Cyrano de Bergerac IMDB — France
- Ju Dou IMDB — People's Republic of China
- The Nasty Girl IMDB — Germany
- Open Doors IMDB — Italy
Makeup and Hairstyling
- ★ Dick Tracy IMDB — John Caglione, Jr., Doug Drexler
- Cyrano de Bergerac IMDB — Michèle Burke, Jean-Pierre Eychenne
- Edward Scissorhands IMDB — Ve Neill, Stan Winston
Original Score
Original Song
- ★ Dick Tracy IMDB — Music and Lyric by Stephen SondheimSooner Or Later (I Always Get My Man)
- Young Guns II IMDB — Music and Lyric by Jon Bon JoviBlaze Of Glory
- Postcards from the Edge IMDB — Music and Lyric by Shel SilversteinI'm Checkin' Out
- The Godfather, Part III IMDB — Music by Carmine Coppola; Lyric by John BettisPromise Me You'll Remember
- Home Alone IMDB — Music by John Williams; Lyric by Leslie BricusseSomewhere In My Memory
Animated Short Film
Live Action Short Film
- ★ The Lunch Date IMDB — Adam Davidson
- Bronx Cheers IMDB — Raymond De Felitta, Matthew Gross
- Dear Rosie IMDB — Peter Cattaneo, Barnaby Thompson
- Senzeni Na? (What Have We Done?) IMDB — Bernard Joffa, Anthony E. Nicholas
- 12:01 PM IMDB — Hillary Ripps, Jonathan Heap
Sound Editing
- ★ The Hunt for Red October IMDB — Cecelia Hall, George Watters II
- Flatliners IMDB — Charles L. Campbell, Richard Franklin
- Total Recall IMDB — Stephen H. Flick
Sound Mixing
- ★ Dances With Wolves IMDB — Jeffrey Perkins, Bill W. Benton, Greg Watkins, Russell Williams II
- Days of Thunder IMDB — Donald O. Mitchell, Rick Kline, Kevin O'Connell, Charles Wilborn
- Dick Tracy IMDB — Chris Jenkins, David E. Campbell, D. M. Hemphill, Thomas Causey
- The Hunt for Red October IMDB — Don Bassman, Richard Overton, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Bryce Goodman
- Total Recall IMDB — Michael J. Kohut, Carlos de Larios, Aaron Rochin, Nelson Stoll
Special Achievement Award (Visual Effects)
- ★ Total Recall IMDB — Eric Brevig, Rob Bottin, Tim McGovern, Alex Funke
Adapted Screenplay
- ★ Dances With Wolves IMDB — Michael Blake
- Awakenings IMDB — Steven Zaillian
- Good Fellas IMDB — Nicholas Pileggi, Martin Scorsese
- The Grifters IMDB — Donald E. Westlake
- Reversal of Fortune IMDB — Nicholas Kazan
Original Screenplay
Nominated films and other recorded entries
52 films represented in the 1990 archive selection.
- 12:01 PM
- A Grand Day Out
- Alice
- American Dream
- Avalon
- Awakenings
- Berkeley in the Sixties
- Bronx Cheers
- Building Bombs
- Burning Down Tomorrow
- Chimps: So Like Us
- Creature Comforts
- Cyrano de Bergerac
- Dances With Wolves
- Days of Thunder
- Days of Waiting
- Dear Rosie
- Dick Tracy
- Edward Scissorhands
- Flatliners
- Forever Activists: Stories from the Veterans of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade
- Ghost
- Good Fellas
- Grasshoppers (Cavallette)
- Green Card
- Hamlet
- Havana
- Henry & June
- Home Alone
- Journey into Life: The World of the Unborn
- Journey of Hope
- Ju Dou
- Longtime Companion
- Metropolitan
- Misery
- Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
- Open Doors
- Postcards from the Edge
- Pretty Woman
- Reversal of Fortune
- Rose Kennedy: A Life to Remember
- Senzeni Na? (What Have We Done?)
- The Field
- The Godfather, Part III
- The Grifters
- The Hunt for Red October
- The Lunch Date
- The Nasty Girl
- Total Recall
- Waldo Salt: A Screenwriter's Journey
- Wild at Heart
- Young Guns II
About these award records
This independent archive groups film-linked award records by film, credited name, category and eligibility year. The film year can differ from the year the ceremony took place. Ceremony numbers are shown where supplied by the records.
Each distinct performance, song or award credit remains a separate record, even when it belongs to the same film. Shared credits stay together. A person's page covers the name shown, without combining aliases or shared credits into a complete career total.
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