Best Picture & Directing
Best Picture
Winner
Unforgiven
Clint Eastwood, producer — a revisionist Western examining violence and moral ambiguity
Acting
Best Actor in a Leading Role
Winner
Al Pacino
Scent of a Woman — his eighth nomination; iconic "Hoo-ah!" performance
Best Actress in a Leading Role
Winner
Emma Thompson
Howards End — her first Oscar; as Margaret Schlegel in the Merchant Ivory classic
Best Actor in a Supporting Role
Winner
Gene Hackman
Unforgiven — as the brutal Sheriff Little Bill Daggett
Writing
Best Original Screenplay
Husbands and Wives— Woody Allen
Passion Fish— John Sayles
Unforgiven— David Webb Peoples
Best Adapted Screenplay
A Few Good Men— Aaron Sorkin
Scent of a Woman— Bo Goldman
Craft & Technical
Best Foreign Language Film
Daens— Belgium
A Place in the World— Argentina
Schtonk!— Germany
Best Documentary Feature
Winner
The Panama Deception
Barbara Trent, David Kasper — examination of the U.S. invasion of Panama
Changing Our Minds: The Story of Dr. Evelyn Hooker— David Haugland
Music for the Movies: Bernard Herrmann— Margaret Smilow, Roma Baran
Best Original Score
Basic Instinct— Jerry Goldsmith
Chaplin— John Barry
Howards End— Richard Robbins
Best Original Song
Winner
"A Whole New World"
Aladdin — Alan Menken, Tim Rice
"Friend Like Me"— Aladdin, Alan Menken, Howard Ashman
"Beautiful Maria of My Soul"— The Mambo Kings
Best Cinematography
Howards End— Tony Pierce-Roberts
Unforgiven— Jack N. Green
Best Film Editing
Basic Instinct— Frank J. Urioste
The Crying Game— Kant Pan
Best Art Direction
Bram Stoker's Dracula— Thomas Sanders; Garrett Lewis
Chaplin— Stuart Craig; Chris Butler
Best Costume Design
Howards End— Jenny Beavan, John Bright
Chaplin— Ellen Mirojnick
Best Makeup
Winner
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Greg Cannom, Michèle Burke, Matthew W. Mungle
Batman Returns— Ve Neill, Ronnie Specter, Stan Winston
Hoffa— Ve Neill, Greg Cannom, John Blake
Best Visual Effects
Winner
Death Becomes Her
Ken Ralston, Doug Chiang, Doug Smythe, Tom Woodruff Jr.
Batman Returns— Michael Fink et al.
Alien 3— Richard Edlund et al.
Best Sound Mixing
Winner
The Last of the Mohicans
Chris Jenkins, Doug Hemphill, Mark Smith, Simon Kaye
Aladdin— Terry Porter et al.
A Few Good Men— Kevin O'Connell et al.
Best Sound Editing
Aladdin— Mark Mangini
Under Siege— John Leveque, Bruce Stambler