1992 (65th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1992 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Unforgiven, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood, Producer.

Actor in a Leading Role

Al Pacino in Scent of a Woman, Universal Release/City Light Films Production; Universal.

Actress in a Leading Role

Emma Thompson in Howards End, Merchant Ivory Productions; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, Japan, USA)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Gene Hackman in Unforgiven, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Marisa Tomei in My Cousin Vinny, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox.

Directing

Unforgiven, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Clint Eastwood.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Howards End, Merchant Ivory Productions; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, Japan, USA) Art direction by Luciana Arrighi; set decoration by Ian Whittaker.

Cinematography

A River Runs Through It, Columbia Pictures Production; Columbia. Philippe Rousselot.

Costume Design

Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Columbia Pictures Production; Columbia. Eiko Ishioka.

Documentary

(Feature)

The Panama Deception, Empowerment Project Production. (USA, UK) Barbara Trent and David Kasper, Producers.

(Short Subject)

Educating Peter, State of the Art, Inc. Production. Thomas C. Goodwin and Gerardine Wurzburg, Producers.

Film Editing

Unforgiven, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Joel Cox.

Foreign Language Film

Indochine, Paradis Films/La Generale d’Images/BAC Films/Orly Films/Cine Cinq Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (France)

Makeup

Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Columbia Pictures Production; Columbia. Greg Cannom, Michèle Burke and Matthew W. Mungle.

Music

(Original Score)

Aladdin, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Alan Menken.

(Original Song)

A Whole New World from Aladdin, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music by Alan Menken; lyric by Tim Rice.

Short Films

(Animated)

Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase, Joan C. Gratz Production. Joan C. Gratz.

(Live Action)

Omnibus, Lezennec tout court/Le C.R.R.A.V. Production. (France) Sam Karmann.

Sound

The Last of the Mohicans, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Chris Jenkins, Doug Hemphill, Mark Smith and Simon Kaye.

Sound Effects Editing

Bram Stoker’s Dracula, Columbia Pictures Production; Columbia. Tom C. McCarthy and David E. Stone.

Visual Effects

Death Becomes Her, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Doug Smythe and Tom Woodruff, Jr.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

Howards End, Merchant Ivory Productions; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, Japan, USA) Ruth Prawer Jhabvala.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

The Crying Game, Palace Pictures Production; Miramax Films. (UK, Japan, USA) Neil Jordan.

Honorary Award

To Federico Fellini, in recognition of his place as one of the screen’s master storytellers. [ [Statuette]]

To Petro Vlahos in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences. [ [Medal of Commendation]]

To THE International Alliance of Theatrical Stage Employees in recognition of the indispensable contributions of its members, who represent the full spectrum of artists, technicians and craftspeople, to the art of motion pictures on the occasion of the one-hundredth anniversary of the Alliance’s founding. [ [Special Plaque]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Audrey Hepburn

Elizabeth Taylor

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Erich Kastner

Scientific and Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Chadwell O’Connor of the O’Connor Engineering Laboratories for the concept and engineering of the fluid-damped camera head for motion picture photography.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Loren Carpenter, Rob Cook, Ed Catmull, Tom Porter, Pat Hanrahan, Tony Apodaca and Darwyn Peachey for the development of “RenderMan” software which produces images used in motion pictures from 3D computer descriptions of shape and appearance.

To Claus Wiedemann and Robert Orban for the design and Dolby Laboratories for the development of the Dolby Labs “Container”.

To Ken Bates for the design and development of the Bates Decelerator System for accurately and safely arresting the descent of stunt persons in high freefalls.

To Al Mayer for the camera design; Iain Neil and George Kraemer for the optical design; Hans Spirawski and Bill Eslick for the opto-mechanical design and Don Earl for technical support in developing the Panavision System 65 Studio Sync Sound Reflex Camera for 65mm motion picture photography.

To Douglas Trumbull for the concept; Geoffrey H. Williamson for the movement design; Robert D. Auguste for the electronic design and Edmund M. DiGiulio for the camera system design of the CP-65 Showscan Camera System for 65mm motion picture photography.

To Arnold and Richter, Otto Blaschek and the Engineering Department of Arri, Austria for the design and development of the Arriflex 765 Camera System for 65mm motion picture photography.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Ira Tiffen of the Tiffen Manufacturing Corporation for the production of the Ultra Contrast Filter Series for motion picture photography.

To Robert R. Burton of Audio Rents, Incorporated, for the development of the Model S-27 4-Band Splitter/Combiner.

To Iain Neil for the optical design and Kaz Fudano for the mechanical design of the Panavision Slant Focus Lens for motion picture photography.

To Tom Brigham for the original concept and pioneering work; and Douglas Smythe and the Computer Graphics Department of Industrial Light & Magic for development and the first implementation in feature motion pictures of the “MORF” system for digital metamorphosis of high resolution images.