The Complete Oscar Quest: 65th Academy Awards (1992)

1992

Best Picture

• The Crying Game
• A Few Good Men
• Howards End
• Scent of a Woman
• Unforgiven

Best Director

• Robert Altman, The Player
• Martin Brest, Scent of a Woman
• Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
• James Ivory, Howards End
• Neil Jordan, The Crying Game

Best Actor

• Robert Downey, Jr., Chaplin
• Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
• Al Pacino, Scent of a Woman
• Stephen Rea, The Crying Game
• Denzel Washington, Malcolm X

Best Actress

• Catherine Deneuve, Indochine
• Mary McDonnell, Passion Fish
• Michelle Pfeiffer, Love Field
• Susan Sarandon, Lorenzo’s Oil
• Emma Thompson, Howards End

Best Supporting Actor

• Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game
• Gene Hackman, Unforgiven
• Jack Nicholson, A Few Good Men
• Al Pacino, Glengarry Glen Ross
• David Paymer, Mr. Saturday Night

Best Supporting Actress

• Judy Davis, Husbands and Wives
• Joan Plowright, Enchanted April
• Vanessa Redgrave, Howards End
• Miranda Richardson, Damage
• Marisa Tomei, My Cousin Vinny

Best Original Screenplay

• The Crying Game
• Husbands and Wives
• Lorenzo’s Oil
• Passion Fish
• Unforgiven

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Enchanted April
• Howards End
• The Player
• A River Runs Through It
• Scent of a Woman

Best Editing

• Basic Instinct
• The Crying GAme
• A Few Good Men
• The Player
• Unforgiven

Best Cinematography

• Hoffa
• Howards End
• The Lover
• A River Runs Through It
• Unforgiven

Best Original Score

• Aladdin
• Basic Instinct
• Chaplin
• Howards End
• A River Runs Through It

Best Original Song

• “Beautiful Maria of My Soul,” from The Mambo Kings
• “Friend Like Me,” from Aladdin
• “I Have Nothing,” from The Bodyguard
• “Run to You,” from The Bodyguard
• “A Whole New World,” from Aladdin

Best Art Direction

• Dracula
• Chaplin
• Howards End
• Toys
• Unforgiven

Best Costume Design

• Dracula
• Enchanted April
• Howards End
• Malcolm X
• Toys

Best Makeup

• Batman Returns
• Dracula
• Hoffa

Best Visual Effects

• Alien 3
• Batman Returns
• Death Becomes Her

Best Sound Editing

• Aladdin
• Dracula
• Under Siege

Best Sound Mixing

• Aladdin
• A Few Good Men
• The Last of the Mohicans
• Under Siege
• Unforgiven

Best Foreign Language Film

• Daens
• Close to Eden
• Indochine
• Schtonk!

Best Documentary

• Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker
• Fires of Kuwait
• Liberators: Fighting on Two Fronts in World War II
• Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann
• The Panama Deception

Best Documentary Short

• At the Edge of Conquest: The Journey of Chief Wai-Wai
• Beyond Imagining: Margaret Anderson and the “Little Review”
• The Colours of My Father: A Portrait of Sam Borenstein
• Educating Peter
• When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories

Best Live-Action Short

• Contact
• Cruise Control
• The Lady in Waiting
• Omnibus
• Swan Song

Best Animated Short

• Adam
• Mona Lisa Descending a Staircase
• Reci, reci, reci
• The Sandman
• Screen Play

Total List of Films Nominated:

1. Aladdin
2. Alien 3
3. Basic Instinct
4. Batman Begins
5. The Bodyguard
6. Chaplin
7. The Crying Game
8. Damage
9. Death Becomes Her
10. Dracula
11. Enchanted April
12. A Few Good Men
13. Glengarry Glen Ross
14. Hoffa
15. Howards End
16. Husbands and Wives
17. Indochine
18. The Last of the Mohicans
19. Lorenzo’s Oil
20. Love Field
21. The Lover
22. Malcolm X
23. The Mambo Kings
24. Mr. Saturday Night
25. My Cousin Vinny
26. Passion Fish
27. The Player
28. A River Runs Through It
29. Scent of a Woman
30. Toys
31. Under Siege
32. Unforgiven

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