65th Academy Awards

The nominees for the 65th Academy Awards were announced on February 17, 1993, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Robert Rehme, president of the Academy, and actress Mercedes Ruehl.[8] Howards End and Unforgiven led all nominees with nine nominations each.[9]

The winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 29, 1993. Best Director winner Clint Eastwood became the seventh person nominated for lead acting and directing for the same film.[10] Best Actor winner Al Pacino was the sixth performer to receive nominations in the lead and supporting categories in the same year.[11] He also became the first person to win in the lead acting category after achieving the aforementioned feat.[12] By virtue of his second straight win in both music categories, Alan Menken became the third person to win two Oscars in two consecutive years.[13]

Awards

Clint Eastwood, Best Director & Picture winner

Al Pacino, Best Actor winner

Emma Thompson, Best Actress winner

Gene Hackman, Best Supporting Actor winner

Marisa Tomei, Best Supporting Actress winner

Neil Jordan, Best Original Screenplay winner

Régis Wargnier, Best Foreign Language Film winner

Alan Menken, Best Original Score winner and Best Original Song co-winner

Tim Rice, Best Original Song co-winner

Tom Woodruff Jr., Best Visual Effects co-winner

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface, and indicated with a double dagger ().[14]

Best Picture Unforgiven – Clint Eastwood, producer The Crying Game – Stephen Woolley, producer A Few Good Men – David Brown, Rob Reiner and Andrew Scheinman, producers Howards End – Ismail Merchant, producer Scent of a Woman – Martin Brest, producer	Best Director Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven Neil Jordan – The Crying Game James Ivory – Howards End Robert Altman – The Player Martin Brest – Scent of a Woman
Best Actor Al Pacino – Scent of a Woman as Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade Robert Downey Jr. – Chaplin as Charlie Chaplin Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven as William "Will" Munny Stephen Rea – The Crying Game as Fergus Denzel Washington – Malcolm X as Malcolm X	Best Actress Emma Thompson – Howards End as Margaret Schlegel Catherine Deneuve – Indochine as Éliane Devries Mary McDonnell – Passion Fish as May-Alice Culhane Michelle Pfeiffer – Love Field as Lurene Hallett Susan Sarandon – Lorenzo's Oil as Michaela Odone
Best Supporting Actor Gene Hackman – Unforgiven as Little Bill Daggett Jaye Davidson – The Crying Game as Dil Jack Nicholson – A Few Good Men as Colonel Nathan R. Jessup Al Pacino – Glengarry Glen Ross as Ricky Roma David Paymer – Mr. Saturday Night as Stan Young	Best Supporting Actress Marisa Tomei – My Cousin Vinny as Mona Lisa Vito Judy Davis – Husbands and Wives as Sally Wainwright Joan Plowright – Enchanted April as Mrs. Fisher Vanessa Redgrave – Howards End as Ruth Wilcox Miranda Richardson – Damage as Ingrid Fleming
Best Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen The Crying Game – Neil Jordan Husbands and Wives – Woody Allen Lorenzo's Oil – George Miller and Nick Enright Passion Fish – John Sayles Unforgiven – David Webb Peoples	Best Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published Howards End – Ruth Prawer Jhabvala based on the novel by E.M. Forster Enchanted April – Peter Barnes based on the novel by Elizabeth von Arnim The Player – Michael Tolkin based on his novel A River Runs Through It – Richard Friedenberg based upon the story by Norman Maclean Scent of a Woman – Bo Goldman based on the previous film Profumo di donna by Ruggero Maccari and Dino Risi and the novel Il Buio E Il Miele by Giovanni Arpino
Best Foreign Language Film Indochine (France) in French – Régis Wargnier, director Close to Eden (Russia) in Russian – Nikita Mikhalkov, director Daens (Belgium) in Dutch – Stijn Coninx, director Schtonk! (Germany) in German – Helmut Dietl, director	Best Documentary Feature The Panama Deception – Barbara Trent and David Kasper Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker – David Haugland Fires of Kuwait – Sally Dundas Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II – Bill Miles and Nina Rosenblum Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann – Margaret Smilow and Roma Baran
Best Documentary Short Subject Educating Peter – Thomas C. Goodwin (posthumous award) and Gerardine Wurzburg At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai – Geoffrey O'Connor Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the 'Little Review' – Wendy L. Weinberg The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein – Richard Elson and Sally Bochner When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories – Dorothy Fadiman	Best Live Action Short Film Omnibus – Sam Karmann Contact – Jonathan Darby and Jana Sue Memel Cruise Control – Matt Palmieri The Lady in Waiting – Christian M. Taylor Swan Song – Kenneth Branagh and David Parfitt
Best Animated Short Film Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase – Joan C. Gratz Adam – Peter Lord Reci, reci, reci – Michaela Pavlátová The Sandman – Paul Berry Screen Play – Barry Purves	Best Original Score Aladdin – Alan Menken Basic Instinct – Jerry Goldsmith Chaplin – John Barry Howards End – Richard Robbins A River Runs Through It – Mark Isham
Best Original Song "A Whole New World" from Aladdin – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Tim Rice "Friend Like Me" from Aladdin – Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Howard Ashman (posthumous nomination) "I Have Nothing" from The Bodyguard – Music by David Foster; Lyrics by Linda Thompson "Run to You" from The Bodyguard – Music by Jud Friedman; Lyrics by Allan Rich "Beautiful Maria of My Soul" from The Mambo Kings – Music by Robert Kraft; Lyrics by Arne Glimcher	Best Sound Effects Editing Bram Stoker's Dracula – David E. Stone and Tom McCarthy Aladdin – Mark Mangini Under Siege – John Leveque and Bruce Stambler
Best Sound The Last of the Mohicans – Chris Jenkins, Doug Hemphill, Mark Smith and Simon Kaye Aladdin – Terry Porter, Mel Metcalfe, David J. Hudson and Doc Kane A Few Good Men – Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline and Robert Eber Under Siege – Donald O. Mitchell, Frank A. Montaño, Rick Hart and Scott D. Smith Unforgiven – Les Fresholtz, Vern Poore, Dick Alexander and Rob Young	Best Art Direction Howards End – Art Direction: Luciana Arrighi; Set Decoration: Ian Whittaker Bram Stoker's Dracula – Art Direction: Thomas E. Sanders; Set Decoration: Garrett Lewis Chaplin – Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Chris A. Butler Toys – Art Direction: Ferdinando Scarfiotti; Set Decoration: Linda DeScenna Unforgiven – Art Direction: Henry Bumstead; Set Decoration: Janice Blackie-Goodine
Best Cinematography A River Runs Through It – Philippe Rousselot Hoffa – Stephen H. Burum Howards End – Tony Pierce-Roberts The Lover – Robert Fraisse Unforgiven – Jack N. Green	Best Makeup Bram Stoker's Dracula – Greg Cannom, Michèle Burke and Matthew W. Mungle Batman Returns – Ve Neill, Ronnie Specter and Stan Winston Hoffa – Ve Neill, Greg Cannom and John Blake
Best Costume Design Bram Stoker's Dracula – Eiko Ishioka Enchanted April – Sheena Napier Howards End – Jenny Beavan and John Bright Malcolm X – Ruth E. Carter Toys – Albert Wolsky	Best Film Editing Unforgiven – Joel Cox Basic Instinct – Frank J. Urioste The Crying Game – Kant Pan A Few Good Men – Robert Leighton The Player – Geraldine Peroni
Best Visual Effects Death Becomes Her – Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Douglas Smythe and Tom Woodruff Jr. Alien³ – Richard Edlund, Alec Gillis, Tom Woodruff Jr. and George Gibbs Batman Returns – Michael L. Fink, Craig Barron, John Bruno and Dennis Skotak

Academy Honorary Award

• Federico Fellini — In recognition of his place as one of the screen's master storytellers.[15]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Awards

The award recognizes individuals whose humanitarian efforts have brought credit to the motion picture industry.[16]

• Audrey Hepburn[16] (posthumous award)^[B]
• Elizabeth Taylor[17]

The following individuals (in order of appearance) presented awards or performed musical numbers:[18]

Billy Crystal hosted the 65th Academy Awards.

After the success of the previous year's ceremony which won several Emmys and critical acclaim, the Academy rehired producer Gil Cates for the fourth consecutive year.[20] In February 1993, actor and comedian Billy Crystal was chosen by Cates as host also for the fourth straight time.[21] Cates justified the decision to hire him saying, "He is a major movie star with a talent for moving the evening's entertainment along."[22] According to an article by Army Archerd published in Variety, Crystal initially declined to host again citing his busy film schedule that included Mr. Saturday Night and City Slickers II: The Legend of Curly's Gold.[23] However, after Cates sent him a funeral wreath with a poem declaring "The show and I are dead without you" followed by a head of a fake dead horse similar to one featured in the film The Godfather, Crystal accepted the role as emcee.[24]

As with previous ceremonies he produced, Cates centered the show around a theme. Inspired by the Year of the Woman in which a record four women were elected to the United States Senate, Cates christened the 1993 show with the theme "Oscar Celebrates Women and the Movies".[25] In tandem with the theme, AMPAS gathered 67 female Oscar winners of every category for a photo that was later shown at the start of the telecast.[26] Actress and singer Liza Minnelli performed "Ladies' Day", a song written by Fred Ebb and John Kander specifically for the broadcast.[27] Oscar-winning documentarian Lynne Littman assembled a montage highlighting women in film.[28]

There was a minor controversy when Snow White (Disney character) was presenting an award for Best Animated Short Subject. She was voiced by Mary Kay Bergman, Adriana Caselotti, the original voice of Snow White was not aware of this. She was reportedly offended that Disney didn't ask her to voice Snow White during the ceremony.[29]

Several other people participated in the production of the ceremony. Bill Conti served as conductor and musical supervisor for the ceremony.[30] Choreographer Debbie Allen supervised the Best Song nominee performances and the "Ladies' Night" musical number.[31] Voice actress Randy Thomas served as announcer of the telecast becoming the first woman to do so.[32]

• 13th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 35th Grammy Awards
• 45th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 46th British Academy Film Awards
• 47th Tony Awards
• 50th Golden Globe Awards
• List of submissions to the 65th Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language Film

A^ : The Academy revoked the Best Foreign Language Film nomination of Uruguay's A Place in the World after an investigation that determined the film as an Argentine production and therefore violated the Academy's rules which require that there be "substantial filmmaking input from the country that submits the film."[44]

B^ : Hepburn died on January 20, 1993, shortly after AMPAS announced the honor.[45] Her son Sean accepted the award at the ceremony on her behalf.[46]

Official websites

• Academy Awards Official website
• The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences Official website
• Oscar's Channel at YouTube (run by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences)

Analysis

• 1992 Academy Awards Winners and History Filmsite
• Academy Awards, USA: 1993 Internet Movie Database

Other resources

• The 65th Annual Academy Awards on IMDb