Category Winner Best Movie Miss Daisy Driver Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck Best Actor Daniel Day-Lewis My Left Leg Best Actress Jessica Tandy Miss Daisy Driver Best Actress Denzel Washington 54th Corps Best Actress Brenda Fricker my left leg Best Director Oliver Stone Born July 4 Best Original Screenplay Society of Dead Poets Tom Schulman Best Adapted Screenplay Miss Daisy Driver Alfred Uhry Best Photography The 54th Corps Freddie Francis Best Cut Born July 4 David Brenner, Joe Hutshing Best Visual Design Batman Anton Furst, Peter Young Best Costume Designer V. Henrik Phyllis Dalton Best Makeup / Mask Miss Daisy's Driver Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber, Kevin Haney Best Original Soundtrack The Little Mermaid Alan Menken Best Original Insert The Little Mermaid “Under the Sea” Best Sound The 54 corps Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg Rudloff, Elliot Tyson, Russell Williams I I Best Soundtrack Indiana Jones and the Last Crusader Ben Burtt, Richard Hymns Best Picture Effects The Secret of Depth Hoyt Yeatman, Dennis Muren, John Bruno, Dennis Skotak Best Foreign Language Film Cinema Paradiso Italy Best Documentary Common Threads: Stories from the Quilt Rob Epstein, Bill Couturié Best Short Documentary The Johnstown Flood Charles Guggenheim Best Animated Short Film Balance Christoph Lauenstein, Wolfgang Lauenstein Best Short Work Work Experience James Hendrie