64th Academy Awards

Infobox Academy Awards | name = 64th
poster =
caption = Silence of the Lambs
date = March 30, 1992 ABC
site = Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles, California
host = Billy Crystal
producer = Gilbert Cates
director = Jeff Margolis
duration = 3 hours, 32 minutes
network = ABC
ratings = 44.44 million
last = 63rd
next = 65thThe 64th Academy Awards were presented March 30, 1992 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles. The show was the third consecutive to be hosted by Billy Crystal and also featured Jack Palance's memorable one-handed push ups.

"The Silence of the Lambs" won five major awards, only the third film to do so after "It Happened One Night" (1934) and "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" (1975). As of 2007, it is also the only horror movie to ever win Best Picture.

This year's ceremony made Academy Award History as ""Beauty and the Beast"" was nominated for Best Picture, the first (and, so far, only) time an Animated Feature Film was bestowed with such honor. The Picture garnered a total of six nominations in four different categories, eventually collecting two awards for its Music (Best Original Score and Original Song, for "Beauty and the Beast").

Winners and nominees

Best Picture

"The Silence of the Lambs"
*"Beauty and the Beast"
*"Bugsy"
*"JFK"
*"The Prince of Tides"

Best Actor in a Leading Role

"The Silence of the Lambs - Anthony Hopkins"
*"Bugsy - Warren Beatty"
*"Cape Fear - Robert DeNiro"
*"The Fisher King - Robin Williams"
*"The Prince of Tides - Nick Nolte"

Best Actress in a Leading Role

"The Silence of the Lambs - Jodie Foster"
*"For the Boys - Bette Midler"
*"Rambling Rose - Laura Dern"
*"Thelma & Louise - Geena Davis"
*"Thelma & Louise - Susan Sarandon"

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

"City Slickers - Jack Palance"
*"Barton Fink - Michael Lerner"
*"Bugsy - Harvey Keitel"
*"Bugsy - Ben Kingsley"
*"JFK - Tommy Lee Jones"

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

"The Fisher King - Mercedes Ruehl"
*"Cape Fear - Juliette Lewis"
*"Fried Green Tomatoes - Jessica Tandy"
*"The Prince of Tides - Kate Nelligan"
*"Rambling Rose - Diane Ladd"

Best Director

"The Silence of the Lambs - Jonathan Demme"
*"Boyz N the Hood - John Singleton"
*"Bugsy - Barry Levinson"
*"JFK - Oliver Stone"
*"Thelma & Louise - Ridley Scott"

Best Original Screenplay

"Thelma & Louise - Callie Khouri"
*"Boyz N the Hood - John Singleton"
*"Bugsy - James Toback"
*"The Fisher King - Richard LaGravenese"
*"Grand Canyon - Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan"

Best Adapted Screenplay

"The Silence of the Lambs - Ted Tally"
*"Europa Europa - Agnieszka Holland"
*"Fried Green Tomatoes - Fannie Flagg and Connie Sobieski"
*"JFK - Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar"
*"The Prince of Tides - Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston"

Best Cinematography

"JFK - Robert Richardson"

Best Art Direction-Set Decoration

"Bugsy - Dennis Gassner and Nancy Haigh"

Best Costume Design

"Bugsy - Albert Wolsky"

Best Sound

" - Tom Johnson , Gary Rydstrom , Gary Summers and Lee Orloff"

Best Film Editing

"JFK - Pietro Scalia and Joe Hutshing"

Best Effects, Sound Effects Editing

" - Gary Rydstrom and Gloria S. Borders"

Best Effects, Visual Effects

" - Dennis Muren , Stan Winston , Gene Warren Jr. and Robert Skotak"

Best Makeup

" - Stan Winston and Jeff Dawn"

Best Music, Original Song

"Beauty and the Beast - Alan Menken and Howard Ashman for the song Beauty and the Beast"

Best Music, Original Score

"Beauty and the Beast - Alan Menken"

Best Short Film, Animated

"Manipulation"

Best Short Film, Live Action

"Session Man"

Best Documentary, Short Subjects

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Best Documentary, Features

"In the Shadow of the Stars"

Best Foreign Language Film

"Mediterraneo - Italy"