Which actress won the Best Actress Oscar for the 1989 film 'Driving Miss Daisy'?
"Driving Miss Daisy The story defines Daisy and her point of view through a network of relationships and emotions by focusing on her home life, synagogue, friends, family, fears, and concerns over a twenty five-year period. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" was a critical and commercial success upon its release and at the 62nd Academy Awards received nine nominations, and won four; Best Picture, Best Actress (for Tandy), Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1948, Mrs. Daisy Werthan, or Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy), a seventy-two-year-old wealthy, Jewish, widowed, retired school teacher, lives alone in Atlanta, Georgia, except for an"
"Jessica Tandy Jessica Tandy (born Jessie Alice Tandy; 7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English stage and film actress best known for her Academy Award winning performance in the film ""Driving Miss Daisy"". Tandy appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV. Born in London to Jessie Helen Horspool and commercial traveller Harry Tandy, she was only 18 when she made her professional debut on the London stage in 1927. During the 1930s, she appeared in a large number of plays in London's West End, playing roles such as"
"age, she continued working. She died at home on 11 September 1994, in Easton, Connecticut, at age 85. The cause of death remains private. <nowiki>*</nowiki>Re-issued on DVD as ""The Christmas Story Lady"" Jessica Tandy Jessica Tandy (born Jessie Alice Tandy; 7 June 1909 – 11 September 1994) was an English stage and film actress best known for her Academy Award winning performance in the film ""Driving Miss Daisy"". Tandy appeared in over 100 stage productions and had more than 60 roles in film and TV. Born in London to Jessie Helen Horspool and commercial traveller Harry Tandy, she was only"
"at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 3, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Richard Dysart and Diane Ladd. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" won four awards including Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Tandy, the oldest person at the time to win a competitive acting Oscar. Other winners included ""Glory"" with three awards, ""Born on the Fourth of July"", ""The Little Mermaid"", and ""My Left Foot"" with two, and ""The Abyss"", ""Balance"", ""Batman"", ""Cinema Paradiso"", """", ""Dead Poets Society"", ""Henry V"", ""Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade"", ""The Johnstown Flood"", and ""Work Experience"""
"to win, Pfeiffer ultimately lost the award to Tandy, who won for her performance in ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), a result that upset both surprised critics and the general public. Critics believe Tandy won because Academy Award voters felt sentimental towards her age, aided by the fact that her film had been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Picture while ""The Fabulous Baker Boys"" was not. Katey Rich of ""Vanity Fair"" insists that the award rightfully belonged to Pfeiffer, ranking the spectacle among ""10 Times the Golden Globes Got It Right and the Oscars Didn't"". Pfeiffer became one of"
"1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards The 24th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 1990, honored the best filmmaking of 1989. 1. Drugstore Cowboy<br> 2. ""Enemies, a Love Story""<br> 3. ""Casualties of War"" 1. Gus Van Sant – ""Drugstore Cowboy""<br> 2. Paul Mazursky – ""Enemies, a Love Story""<br> 3. Spike Lee – ""Do the Right Thing"" 1. Daniel Day-Lewis – ""My Left Foot""<br> 2. Morgan Freeman – ""Driving Miss Daisy""<br> 3. Tom Cruise – ""Born on the Fourth of July"" 1. Michelle Pfeiffer – ""The Fabulous Baker Boys""<br> 2. Jessica Tandy – ""Driving Miss Daisy""<br>"
"production of ""Foxfire"" in 1983 and its television adaptation four years later, winning both a Tony Award and an Emmy Award for her portrayal of Annie Nations. During these years, she appeared in films such as ""Cocoon"" (1985), also with Cronyn. She became the oldest actress to receive the Academy Award for Best Actress for her role in ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), for which she also won a BAFTA and a Golden Globe, and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for ""Fried Green Tomatoes"" (1991). At the height of her success, she was named as one"
"couldn't find a building worthy of him, so we built one."" The ceremony was attended by Zanuck's widow, Lili Fini Zanuck, his sons, Harrison and Dean, and four of his nine grandchildren, Jack, Darryl, Kyler, and Luke Zanuck. Richard D. Zanuck Richard Darryl Zanuck (December 13, 1934 – July 13, 2012) was an American film producer. His 1989 film ""Driving Miss Daisy"" won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Zanuck was also instrumental in launching the careers of directors Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg, who described Zanuck as a ""director's producer"" and ""one of the most honorable and loyal men"
"Richard D. Zanuck Richard Darryl Zanuck (December 13, 1934 – July 13, 2012) was an American film producer. His 1989 film ""Driving Miss Daisy"" won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Zanuck was also instrumental in launching the careers of directors Tim Burton and Steven Spielberg, who described Zanuck as a ""director's producer"" and ""one of the most honorable and loyal men of our profession."" Richard Darryl Zanuck was born in Los Angeles, to actress Virginia Fox and Darryl F. Zanuck, then head of production for 20th Century-Fox. While studying at Stanford University, he began his career in the film"
"of the Academy Awards, a record that would remain until Jessica Tandy won an Oscar for ""Driving Miss Daisy"" in 1989. Burns, who became a centenarian in 1996, continued to work until just weeks before his death of cardiac arrest on March 19, 1996, at his home in Beverly Hills. In 1929 Burns and Allen made their debut radio performance broadcast in London on the BBC. In the United States, they had failed at a 1930 NBC audition. After a solo appearance by Gracie on Eddie Cantor's radio show, they were heard together on Rudy Vallee's ""The Fleischmann's Yeast Hour"""
"Writers Guild of America Awards 1989 The 1989 Writers Guild of America Awards were given on 18 March 1990. They were co-presented by the Writers Guild of America, East and the Writers Guild of America, west ""' ""Driving Miss Daisy"" - Alfred Uhry ""' ""Crimes and Misdemeanors"" - Woody Allen Ryan's Hope (Claire Labine, Matthew Labine, Eleanor Mancusi, William Burritt, Louise Shaffer, Paul Balido) All My Children (Agnes Nixon, Margaret DePriest, Lorraine Broderick, Victor Miller, Peggy Sloane, Megan McTavish, Gillian Spencer, Mary K. Wells, Susan Kirshenbaum, Elizabeth Page, Karen Lewis, Elizabeth Wallace, Kathleen Klein) As the World Turns (Douglas Marland,"
"Golden Pond"", and the second film in the Oliver Stone/Michael Douglas ""Wall Street"" film franchise, """". She was pushing for Oscar recognition for Douglas in his role as the money hungry, risk averse character Gordon Gekko. Chasen successfully directed the Oscar campaign for the 1989 film ""Driving Miss Daisy"", which won the Academy Award for Best Picture the following year. In addition to being named the Senior Vice President for Publicity at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer in 1993, Chasen owned the PR firm Chasen & Co., in which she focused on artists who composed film music, such as Trevor Horn, Mark Isham, Hans"
"with one. The telecast garnered more than 40 million viewers in the United States. The nominees for the 62nd Academy Awards were announced on February 14, 1990, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC) at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Karl Malden, president of the Academy, and the actress Geena Davis. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" received the most nominations with nine total; ""Born on the Fourth of July"" came in second with eight. Winners were announced during the awards ceremony on March 26, 1990. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" became the third film to win Best Picture without a Best"
"February 15, 1989, at 5:38 a.m. PST (13:38 UTC), at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Richard Kahn, president of the Academy, and the actress Anne Archer. ""Rain Man"" led all nominees, with eight nominations; ""Dangerous Liaisons"" and ""Mississippi Burning"" tied for second with seven each. The winners were announced at the award ceremony on March 29, 1989. Best Actress winner Jodie Foster became the third person in history to win the aforementioned category for a film with a single nomination. The last person to achieve this feat was Sophia Loren when she won for ""Two Women"""
"Driving Miss Daisy (2014 film) Driving Miss Daisy is a filmed performance of the 2013 Australian theatrical production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Alfred Uhry starring Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines which was produced as a 2014 film by Broadway Near You (United States) in association with Umbrella Entertainment (Australia). Miss Daisy Werthan (Angela Lansbury) is a widowed, 72-year-old Jewish woman living in mid-century Atlanta who is deemed too old to drive by her son Boolie (Boyd Gaines). He then hires Hoke, an African-American man (James Earl Jones) to serve as her"
"debut, for a motion picture. Thereafter, the pair were credited as producers or executive producers of more than a dozen films, including the courtroom drama ""The Verdict"" (1982), directed by Sidney Lumet and starring Paul Newman; the science-fiction ""Cocoon"" (1985), directed by Ron Howard; and the comedy-drama ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), directed by Bruce Beresford and starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" won four Academy Awards, including the Best Picture award. Without Zanuck, Brown went on to produce films including the drama ""Angela's Ashes"" (1999) and the romance ""Chocolat"" (2000). He and partner Zanuck were jointly awarded"
"1989. Winners are in bold text Panic! at the Disco – ""I Write Sins Not Tragedies"" James Blunt – ""You're Beautiful"" Kelly Clarkson – ""Because of You"" The All-American Rejects – ""Move Along"" Avenged Sevenfold – ""Bat Country"" Pink – ""Stupid Girls"" AFI – ""Miss Murder"" Beyoncé (featuring Slim Thug and Bun B) – ""Check on It"" Chamillionaire (featuring Krayzie Bone) – ""Ridin'"" The Black Eyed Peas – ""My Humps"" The Pussycat Dolls (featuring Snoop Dogg) – ""Buttons"" Gnarls Barkley – ""Crazy"" (Director: Robert Hales) Shakira (featuring Wyclef Jean) – ""Hips Don't Lie"" (Choreographer: Shakira) Missy Elliott – ""We Run"
"2016 at the Roundabout Theatre Company and directed by Alex Timbers. This production won three Lucille Lortel Awards including Outstanding Revival. ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1987) is the first in what is known as his ""Atlanta Trilogy"" of plays, all set during the first half of the 20th century. Produced Off-Broadway at Playwrights Horizons, the play earned him the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. It deals with the relationship between an elderly Jewish woman and her black chauffeur. He adapted it into the screenplay for a 1989 film starring Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, an adaptation which was awarded the Academy"
"""*batteries not included"" (1987) and """" (1988) and the Emmy Award winning television film ""Foxfire"" (1987, recreating her Tony winning Broadway role). However, it was her colourful performance in ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), as an aging, stubborn Southern-Jewish matron, that earned her an Oscar. She received a Best Supporting Actress nomination for her work in the grassroots hit ""Fried Green Tomatoes"" (1991), and co-starred in ""The Story Lady"" (1991 telefilm, with daughter Tandy Cronyn), ""Used People"" (1992, as Shirley MacLaine's mother), television film ""To Dance with the White Dog"" (1993, with Cronyn), ""Nobody's Fool"" (1994), and ""Camilla"" (also 1994, with"
"Actress for a film with singular nomination, a feat that wouldn't occur again until twenty-seven years later, in 1989, when Jodie Foster won Best Actress for her role in ""The Accused"", the film's only nomination. Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface The most memorable event of the night was when Stan Berman, a New York City cabdriver, awarded Bob Hope a homemade Oscar after he had slipped through security and made his way to the stage. Both Jackie Gleason (in ""The Hustler"") and Judy Garland (in ""Judgment At Nuremberg"") were heavily favored to win the awards for best"
"later purchased Embassy Pictures in 1982 (with Horn as CEO). He teamed up with Yorkin, separately, to produce the 1982 dystopian science fiction thriller ""Blade Runner"", directed by Ridley Scott and starring Harrison Ford. Perenchio and Lear sold Embassy to The Coca-Cola Company in 1985, for $485 million in Coca-Cola stock. After the sale of Embassy Communications, Perenchio went on to produce ""Driving Miss Daisy"" with the Zanuck Company in 1989. The film featured Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman, and won four Academy Awards including Best Adapted Screenplay, Best Actress and Best Picture. In 2002, Perenchio produced ""Frida"" with his"
"""Equus"" (1975) and ""On Golden Pond"" (1979), both later made into Oscar-nominated movies with other actresses, as well as for Lorraine Hansberry's ""The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window"" (1972), the musical ""Angel"" (1978) which was based on Thomas Wolfe's ""Look Homeward, Angel"", and the 2002 revival of Paul Osborne's ""Morning's at Seven"". Her best-known Off-Broadway role was her feisty portrayal of the title character in 1988's Pulitzer prize-winning drama ""Driving Miss Daisy"" which was originated by Dana Ivey at Playwrights Horizons in New York. Sternhagen took over the role after the show moved to the John Houseman Theatre and played"
"Ronni Chasen Ronni Sue Chasen (October 17, 1946 – November 16, 2010) was an American publicist, who once represented such actors as Michael Douglas, as well as musicians such as Hans Zimmer and Mark Isham, among others. Chasen directed the Academy Award campaigns for more than 100 films during her career, including ""Driving Miss Daisy"" in 1989 and ""The Hurt Locker"" in 2009. Chasen was shot and killed on 16 November 2010, while driving home from the premiere of the film ""Burlesque"". Police concluded that unemployed felon Harold Martin Smith killed her during a random robbery. Chasen was born Veronica"
"""Driving Miss Daisy"" soundly beat its competition during that weekend opening in first place with $9,834,744. The film's revenue dropped by 37% in its second week of release, earning $1,682,720. For that particular weekend, the film remained in 8th place screening in 809 theaters not challenging a top five position. The film ""Driving Miss Daisy"", remained in first place grossing $6,107,836 in box office revenue. The film went on to top out domestically at $26,828,365 in total ticket sales through a 17-week theatrical run. For 1989 as a whole, the film would cumulatively rank at a box office performance position"
"Driving Miss Daisy (play) Driving Miss Daisy is a play by American playwright Alfred Uhry, about the relationship of an elderly white Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn, from 1948 to 1973. The play was the first in Uhry's ""Atlanta Trilogy"", which deals with white Jewish residents of that city in the early 20th century. The play won the 1988 Pulitzer Prize for Drama. The time: 1948, the place: Atlanta, Georgia. A crash is heard, and Daisy Werthan, age 72, is in her living room, with her son Boolie, age 40. They are Jewish, with"
"part as her father's Daisy (and portrayed a ""southern attitude""), while Robert Redford also asked advice to match the author's intent, but her father, she noted, was more in the narrator, Nick. The film won two Academy Awards, for Best Costume Design (Theoni V. Aldredge) and Best Music (Nelson Riddle). It also won three BAFTA Awards for Best Art Direction (John Box), Best Cinematography (Douglas Slocombe), and Best Costume Design (Theoni V. Aldredge). (The male costumes were executed by Ralph Lauren, the female costumes by Barbara Matera.) It won a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress (Karen Black) and"
"(1985 and 1989), Dianne Wiest (1986 and 1994), Patricia Clarkson (2002 and 2003) and Amy Adams (2005 and 2012) each won the award two times. Winning the award at age 13 for ""Taxi Driver"" (1976), Jodie Foster is the youngest winner in this category. In 2009, Mo'Nique became the first African-American to win in this category for her performance in ""Precious"". National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actress is one of the annual awards given by the National Society of Film Critics. This awards was given"
"Davis, and Best Motion Picture of the Year. The movie walked away with one win for Best Supporting Actress Octavia Spencer, leaving Viola Davis to lose to Meryl Streep, a 20-time nominee and three-time winner. Octavia Spencer was the only African American to win an award that night, which for the Academy Awards is not a rare occasion. Writing years ago, the ""NY Times"" said: Due to the racial discrimination in the 19th and early 20th centuries, Hollywood tended to avoid using African-American actors/actress. In the 19th century, Blackface became a popular form of entertainment. Blackface let Hollywood use different"
"disappoint"". On August 4, 2015, ""Driving Miss Daisy"" was released on DVD in Region 1 by PBS Distribution, available for purchase exclusively through the official PBS website at ShopPBS.org. It was later made available for purchase via Amazon.com as of September 29, 2015. Driving Miss Daisy (2014 film) Driving Miss Daisy is a filmed performance of the 2013 Australian theatrical production of the Pulitzer Prize-winning play of the same name by Alfred Uhry starring Angela Lansbury, James Earl Jones and Boyd Gaines which was produced as a 2014 film by Broadway Near You (United States) in association with Umbrella Entertainment"
"Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy The Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Actress in a Comedy is one of the awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Broadcast Film Critics Association at their annual Critics' Choice Movie Awards. 2012: Jennifer Lawrence – ""Silver Linings Playbook"" as Tiffany Maxwell † 2013: Amy Adams – ""American Hustle"" as Sydney Prosser / Lady Edith Greensly ‡ ""'2014: Jenny Slate – ""Obvious Child"" as Donna Stern 2015: Amy Schumer – ""Trainwreck"" as Amy Townsend 2016: Meryl Streep – ""Florence Foster Jenkins"" as Florence Foster"
"Geena Davis Virginia Elizabeth ""Geena"" Davis (born January 21, 1956) is an American actress, film producer, writer, former model, and former archer. She is known for her roles in ""The Fly"" (1986), ""Beetlejuice"" (1988), ""The Accidental Tourist"" (1988), ""Thelma & Louise"" (1991), ""A League of Their Own"" (1992), ""The Long Kiss Goodnight"" (1996), and ""Stuart Little"" (1999). For her performance in ""The Accidental Tourist"", she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and for ""Thelma & Louise"", she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress along with her co-star Susan Sarandon. In 2005, Davis won the Golden"
"2, 1954, Leominster, Massachusetts), a former World Bank employee and Carnation Co. office manager, who helped him raise his sons from his second marriage, and would co-produce some of his most memorable films, including ""Cocoon"" (1985), ""Driving Miss Daisy"" (1989), and ""Reign of Fire"" (2002). When the Zanucks won the Best Picture Oscar in 1989 for ""Driving Miss Daisy"", Lili Fini Zanuck was only the second woman in history to have earned an Oscar for Best Picture. In 1998, she directed an episode of the HBO miniseries ""From the Earth to the Moon"", titled ""We Have Cleared the Tower"", and"
"Violet & Daisy Violet & Daisy is a 2011 American comedy crime drama film written, produced, and directed by Geoffrey S. Fletcher in his directorial debut after winning an Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay for the film Precious. The film stars Saoirse Ronan, Alexis Bledel, Marianne Jean-Baptiste, Danny Trejo, and James Gandolfini in one of his last acting roles before his death on June 19, 2013. Supporting roles are performed by John Ventimiglia, Danny Hoch, and Tatiana Maslany. ""Violet & Daisy"" follows two teenage assassins named Violet and Daisy who accept what they think will be a quick-and-easy job, until"