Academy Awards

annual awards for cinematic achievements

Since 1929 99 editions in the catalogue Official site

1989 edition

• Academy Award for Best Sound

  🏆 Dick Alexander

  🏆 Les Fresholtz

  🏆 Vern Poore

  🏆 Willie D. Burton

  For the film: Bird

  Also nominated: Al Overton Jr. · Andy Nelson · Brian Saunders · Danny Michael · Die Hard · Don Bassman · Don Digirolamo · Elliot Tyson · Gorillas in the Mist · John Boyd · Kevin F. Cleary · Mississippi Burning · Peter Handford · Richard Overton · Rick Kline · Robert J. Litt · Robert Knudson · Tony Dawe · Who Framed Roger Rabbit

• Academy Award for Best Visual Effects

  🏆 Edward Jones

  🏆 George Gibbs

  🏆 Ken Ralston

  🏆 Richard Williams

  For the film: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

  Also nominated: Al Di Sarro · Brent Boates · Christopher Leith Evans · Dennis Muren · Die Hard · Michael J. McAlister · Phil Tippett · Richard Edlund · Thaine Morris · Willow

• Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling

  🏆 Robert Short

  🏆 Steve La Porte

  🏆 Ve Neill

  For the film: Beetlejuice

  Also nominated: Bari Dreiband-Burman · Coming to America · Rick Baker · Scrooged · Thomas R. Burman

• Academy Award for Best Animated Short Film

  🏆 John Lasseter

  🏆 William Reeves

  For the film: Tin Toy

  Also nominated: Bill Kroyer · Brian Jennings · Cordell Barker · Technological Threat · The Cat Came Back

• Academy Award for Best Documentary (Short Subject)

  🏆 Bill Guttentag

  🏆 Malcolm Clarke

  🏆 You Don't Have to Die

  Also nominated: Ann Tegnell · Daniel Marks · Family Gathering · Gang Cops · Karen Goodman · Lise Yasui · Meg Partridge · Nancy Hale · Portrait of Imogen · The Children's Storefront · Thomas B. Fleming

• Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film

  🏆 Dean Parisot

  🏆 Steven Wright

  For the film: The Appointments of Dennis Jennings

  Also nominated: Abbee Goldstein · Cadillac Dreams · Gary Moss · George deGolian · Gullah Tales · Matia Karrell

• Academy Award for Best Production Design

  🏆 Gérard James

  🏆 Stuart Craig

  For the film: Dangerous Liaisons

  Also nominated: Albert Brenner · Beaches · Armin Ganz · Dean Tavoularis · Elliot Scott · Garrett Lewis · Ida Random · Linda DeScenna · Peter Howitt · Rain Man · Tucker: The Man and His Dream · Who Framed Roger Rabbit

• Academy Award for Best Sound Editing

  🏆 Charles L. Campbell

  🏆 Louis Edemann

  For the film: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

  Also nominated: Ben Burtt · Die Hard · Richard Hymns · Richard Shorr · Stephen Hunter Flick · Willow

• Academy Award for Best Cinematography

  🏆 Peter Biziou

  For the film: Mississippi Burning

  Also nominated: Conrad Hall · Dean Cundey · John Seale · Rain Man · Sven Nykvist · Tequila Sunrise · The Unbearable Lightness of Being · Who Framed Roger Rabbit

• Academy Award for Best Costume Design

  🏆 James Acheson

  For the film: Dangerous Liaisons

  Also nominated: Coming to America · Deborah Nadoolman Landis · Jane Robinson · Milena Canonero · Patricia Norris · Sunset · Tucker: The Man and His Dream · A Handful of Dust

• Academy Award for Best Director

  🏆 Barry Levinson

  For the film: Rain Man

  Also nominated: Alan Parker · The Last Temptation of Christ · Charles Crichton · Martin Scorsese · Mike Nichols · Mississippi Burning · A Fish Called Wanda · Working Girl

• Academy Award for Best Film Editing

  🏆 Arthur Schmidt

  For the film: Who Framed Roger Rabbit

  Also nominated: Die Hard · Frank J. Urioste · Gerry Hambling · Gorillas in the Mist · John F. Link · Mississippi Burning · Rain Man · Stuart Baird · Stu Linder

• Academy Award for Best Original Score

  🏆 Dave Grusin

  For the film: The Milagro Beanfield War

  Also nominated: George Fenton · Gorillas in the Mist · Gorillas in the Mist · Hans Zimmer · John Williams · Dangerous Liaisons · Maurice Jarre · Rain Man · The Accidental Tourist

• Academy Award for Best Picture

  🏆 Mark Johnson

  For the film: Rain Man

  Also nominated: Charles Okun · Douglas Wick · Frederick M. Zollo · Hank Moonjean · Lawrence Kasdan · Dangerous Liaisons · Michael Grillo · Mississippi Burning · Norma Heyman · Robert F. Colesberry · The Accidental Tourist · Working Girl

• Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

  🏆 Kevin Kline

  For the film: A Fish Called Wanda

  Also nominated: Alec Guinness · Dean Stockwell · Little Dorrit · Married to the Mob · Martin Landau · River Phoenix · Running on Empty · Tucker: The Man and His Dream

• Academy Award for Technical Achievement

  🏆 Bill Bernstein

  🏆 Bob Badami

• Academy Scientific and Technical Award

  🏆 Bruce W. Keller

• Special Achievement Academy Award

  🏆 Richard Williams

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