Oscar Nominations and Winners (1991)

Best Picture

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

Best Director

• Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)
• Barry Levinson (Bugsy)
• Ridley Scott (Thelma & Louise)
• John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood)
• Oliver Stone (JFK)

Best Actor in a Leading Role

• Warren Beatty (Bugsy)
• Robert DeNiro (Cape Fear)
• Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
• Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides)
• Robin Williams (The Fisher King)

Best Actor in a Supporting Role

• Tommy Lee Jones (JFK)
• Harvey Keitel (Bugsy)
• Ben Kingsley (Bugsy)
• Michael Lerner (Barton Fink)
• Jack Palance (City Slickers)

Best Actress in a Leading Role

• Geena Davis (Thelma & Louise)
• Laura Dern (Rambling Rose)
• Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
• Bette Midler (For the Boys)
• Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise)

Best Actress in a Supporting Role

• Diane Ladd (Rambling Rose)
• Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear)
• Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides)
• Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)
• Jessica Tandy (Fried Green Tomatoes)

Best Adapted Screenplay

• Europa Europa (Agnieszka Holland)
• Fried Green Tomatoes (Fannie Flagg and Carol Sobieski)
• JFK (Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar)
• The Prince of Tides (Pat Conroy and Becky Johnston)
• The Silence of the Lambs (Ted Tally)

Best Original Screenplay

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

Best Foreign Language Film

• Children of Nature (Iceland)
• The Elementary School (Czechoslovakia)
• Mediterraneo (Italy)
• The Ox (Sweden)
• Raise the Red Lantern (Hong Kong)

Art Direction

• Barton Fink
• Bugsy
• The Fisher King
• Hook
• The Prince of Tides

Cinematography

• Bugsy
• JFK
• The Prince of Tides
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Thelma & Louise

Costume Design

• The Addams Family
• Barton Fink
• Bugsy
• Hook
• Madame Bovary

Documentary Feature

• Death on the Job
• Doing Time: Life Inside the Big House
• In the Shadow of the Stars
• The Restless Conscience
• Wild by Law

Documentary Short Subject

• Birdnesters of Thailand (Shadow Hunters)
• Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment
• A Little Vicious
• The Mark of the Maker
• Memorial: Letters From American Soldiers

Film Editing

• The Commitments
• JFK
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day
• Thelma & Louise

Makeup

• Hook
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Original Score

• Beauty and the Beast (Alan Menken)
• Bugsy (Ennio Morricone)
• The Fisher King (George Fenton)
• JFK (John Williams)
• The Prince of Tides (James Newton Howard)

Original Song

• "Beauty and the Beast" (Beauty and the Beast) Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Howard Ashman.
• "Belle" (Beauty and the Beast) Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Howard Ashman.
• "Be Our Guest" (Beauty and the Beast) Music by Alan Menken. Lyrics by Howard Ashman.
• "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) Music by Michael Kamen. Lyrics by Bryan Adams and Robert John Lange.
• "When You're Alone" (Hook) Music by John Williams. Lyrics by Leslie Bricusse.

Animated Short Film

• Blackfly
• Manipulation
• Strings

Live Action Short Film

• Birch Street Gym
• Last Breeze of Summer
• Session Man

Sound

• Backdraft
• Beauty and the Beast
• JFK
• The Silence of the Lambs
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Sound Editing

• Backdraft
• Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Visual Effects

• Backdraft
• Hook
• Terminator 2: Judgment Day