Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
The Silence of the Lambs
Edward Saxon, Kenneth Utt, Ron Bozman, producers — the only horror film to win Best Picture
Acting
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Winner
Anthony Hopkins
The Silence of the Lambs — as Hannibal Lecter, for only 16 minutes of screen time
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Winner
Jodie Foster
The Silence of the Lambs — her second Oscar; as FBI trainee Clarice Starling
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Jack Palance
City Slickers — famous for doing one-armed push-ups on stage during acceptance speech
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Boyz n the Hood— John Singleton
The Fisher King— Richard LaGravenese
Naked Lunch— David Cronenberg
Best Adapted Screenplay
Europa Europa— Agnieszka Holland
JFK— Oliver Stone, Zachary Sklar
Craft & Technical
Best Foreign Language Film
Children of Nature— Iceland
The Elementary School— Czechoslovakia
Raise the Red Lantern— Hong Kong
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
In the Shadow of the Stars
Allie Light, Irving Saraf — portrait of San Francisco Opera chorus members
The Restless Conscience— Hava Kohav Beller
Wild by Law— Lawrence Hott, Diane Garey
Best Original Score
Bugsy— Ennio Morricone
The Fisher King— George Fenton
JFK— John Williams
Best Original Song
Winner
"Beauty and the Beast"
Beauty and the Beast — Alan Menken, Howard Ashman
"Belle"— Beauty and the Beast
"Be Our Guest"— Beauty and the Beast
Best Cinematography
Bugsy— Allen Daviau
Thelma & Louise— Adrian Biddle
Best Film Editing
The Silence of the Lambs— Craig McKay
Terminator 2: Judgment Day— Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris
Best Art Direction
The Fisher King— Mel Bourne; Cindy Carr
Hook— Norman Garwood; Garrett Lewis
Best Costume Design
Hook— Anthony Powell
The Addams Family— Ruth Myers
Best Makeup
Hook— Christina Smith, Montague Westmore, Greg Cannom
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country— Michael Mills, Edward French
Best Visual Effects
Winner
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren Jr., Robert Skotak
Backdraft— Mikael Salomon et al.
Hook— Eric Brevig et al.
Best Sound Mixing
Winner
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Tom Johnson, Gary Rydstrom, Gary Summers, Lee Orloff
Backdraft— Gary Summers et al.
The Silence of the Lambs— Tom Fleischman, Christopher Newman
Best Sound Editing
Backdraft— Gary Rydstrom, Richard Hymns
Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country— George Watters II, F. Hudson Miller