1991 (64th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1991 (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

The Silence of the Lambs, Strong Heart/Demme Production; Orion. Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt and Ron Bozman, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Anthony Hopkins in The Silence of the Lambs, Strong Heart/Demme Production; Orion.

Actress in a Leading Role

Jodie Foster in The Silence of the Lambs, Strong Heart/Demme Production; Orion.

Actor in a Supporting Role

Jack Palance in City Slickers, Castle Rock Entertainment Production; Columbia.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Mercedes Ruehl in The Fisher King, TriStar Pictures Production; TriStar.

Directing

The Silence of the Lambs, Strong Heart/Demme Production; Orion. Jonathan Demme.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Bugsy, TriStar Pictures Production; TriStar. Art direction by Dennis Gassner; set decoration by Nancy Haigh.

Cinematography

JFK, Camelot Production; Warner Bros. (France, USA) Robert Richardson.

Costume Design

Bugsy, TriStar Pictures Production; TriStar. Albert Wolsky.

Documentary

(Feature)

In the Shadow of the Stars, Light-Saraf Films Production. Allie Light and Irving Saraf, Producers.

(Short Subject)

Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment, Women’s Educational Media, Inc. Production. Debra Chasnoff, Producer.

Film Editing

JFK, Camelot Production; Warner Bros. (France, USA) Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia.

Foreign Language Film

Mediterraneo, Pentafilm S.p.A./A.M.A. Film S.r.l. Production. (Italy)

Makeup

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Carolco Pictures Production; TriStar. Stan Winston and Jeff Dawn.

Music

(Original Score)

Beauty and the Beast, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Alan Menken.

(Original Song)

Beauty and the Beast from Beauty and the Beast, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music by Alan Menken; lyric by Howard Ashman.

Short Films

(Animated)

Manipulation, Tandem Films Production. (UK) Daniel Greaves.

(Live Action)

Session Man, Chanticleer Films. Seth Winston and Rob Fried.

Sound

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Carolco Pictures Production; TriStar. Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers and Lee Orloff.

Sound Effects Editing

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Carolco Pictures Production; TriStar. Gary Rydstrom and Gloria S. Borders.

Visual Effects

Terminator 2: Judgment Day, Carolco Pictures Production; TriStar. Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren, Jr. and Robert Skotak.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

The Silence of the Lambs, Strong Heart/Demme Production; Orion. Ted Tally.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

Thelma & Louise, Pathe Entertainment Production; Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. (USA, UK, France) Callie Khouri.

Honorary Award

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. [ [Statuette]]

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. [ [Special Plaque]]

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. [ [Medal of Commendation]]

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Ray Harryhausen

Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award

George Lucas

Scientific or Technical Award

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Iain Neil for the optical design; Albert Saiki for the mechanical design; and Panavision, Incorporated, for the concept and development of the Primo Zoom Lens for 35mm cinematography.

To Georg Thoma for the design; Heinz Feierlein and the Engineering Department of Sachtler AG for the development of a range of fluid tripod heads.

To Harry J. Baker for the design and development of the first full fluidaction tripod head with adjustable degrees of viscous drag.

To Guido Cartoni for his pioneering work in developing the technology to achieve selectable and repeatable viscous drag modules in fluid tripod heads.

To Ray Feeney, Richard Keeney and Richard J. Lundell for the software development and adaptation of the Solitaire Film Recorder that provides a flexible, cost-effective film recording system.

To Faz Fazakas, Brian Henson, Dave Housman, Peter Miller and John Stephenson for the development of the Henson Performance Control System.

To Mario Celso for his pioneering work in the design, development and manufacture of equipment for carbon arc and xenon power supplies and igniters used in motion picture projection.

To Randy Cartwright, David B. Coons, Lem Davis, Thomas Hahn, James Houston, Mark Kimball, Dylan W. Kohler, Peter Nye, Michael Shantzis, David F. Wolf and THE Walt Disney Feature Animation Department for the design and development of the ‘CAPS’ production system for feature film animation.

To George Worrall for the design, development and manufacture of the Worrall geared camera head for motion picture production.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Robert W. Stoker, Jr., for the design and development of a cobweb gun, for applying non-toxic cobweb effects on motion picture sets with both safety and ease of operation.

To James Doyle for the design and development of the Dry Fogger, which uses liquid nitrogen to produce a safe, dense, low-hanging fog effects.

To Dick Cavdek, Steve Hamerski and Otto Nemenz International, Incorporated, for the opto-mechanical design and development of the Canon/Nemenz Zoom Lens.

To Ken Robings and Clairmont Camera for the opto-mechanical design and development of the Canon/Clairmont Camera Zoom Lens.

To Century Precision Optics for the opto-mechanical design and development of the Canon/Century Precision Optics Zoom Lens.