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61st Academy Awards

The 61st Academy Awards ceremony, organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1988, and took place on Wednesday, March 29, 1989, at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles, beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.[1] During the ceremony, AMPAS presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Allan Carr and directed by Jeff Margolis.[1] Ten days earlier, in a ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills, California, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Angie Dickinson.[2]

61st Academy Awards
Official poster
DateMarch 29, 1989
SiteShrine Auditorium
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Produced byAllan Carr
Directed byJeff Margolis
Highlights
Best PictureRain Man
Most awardsRain Man (4)
Most nominationsRain Man (8)
TV in the United States
NetworkABC
Duration3 hours, 19 minutes
Ratings42.68 million
29.81% (Nielsen ratings)

Rain Man won four awards, including the Best Picture. Other winners included Who Framed Roger Rabbit with four awards, Dangerous Liaisons with three, and The Accused, The Accidental Tourist, A Fish Called Wanda, The Appointments of Dennis Jennings, Beetlejuice, Bird, Hôtel Terminus: The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie, The Milagro Beanfield War, Mississippi Burning, Pelle the Conqueror, Tin Toy, Working Girl, and You Don't Have to Die with one. The telecast garnered over 42 million viewers in the United States, making the most viewed ceremony up to that point until it was surpassed by the 70th Academy Awards in 1998, which garnered a viewership of over 57 million.[3][4]

Winners and nominees Edit

The nominees for the 61st Academy Awards were announced on February 15, 1989, at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills, California, by Richard Kahn, president of the Academy, and actress Anne Archer.[5] Rain Man led all nominees, with eight nominations; Dangerous Liaisons and Mississippi Burning tied for second with seven each.[6]

The winners were announced at the award ceremony on March 29, 1989.[7] Best Actress winner Jodie Foster became the eighth 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 in 1961. Best Actor winner Dustin Hoffman was the fifth person to win the aforementioned category twice.[8] Sigourney Weaver became the fifth performer to receive two acting nominations in the same year[9] but did not win in either category.[10] John Lasseter and William Reeves won Best Animated Short Film for Tin Toy, which was Pixar's first Oscar ever and was the first CGI film to win an Oscar.[11]

Awards Edit

 
Barry Levinson, Best Director winner
 
Dustin Hoffman, Best Actor winner
 
Jodie Foster, Best Actress winner
 
Kevin Kline, Best Supporting Actor winner
 
Geena Davis, Best Supporting Actress winner
 
Christopher Hampton, Best Adapted Screenplay winner
 
John Lasseter, Best Animated Short Film co-winner
 
William Reeves, Best Animated Short Film co-winner
 
Dave Grusin, Best Original Score winner
 
Carly Simon, Best Original Song winner
 
Richard Williams, Best Visual Effects co-winner

Winners are listed first, highlighted in boldface and indicated with double dagger (‡).[12]

Academy Honorary Awards Edit

Special Achievement Award Edit

Films with multiple nominations and wins Edit

Presenters and performers Edit

The following individuals, listed in order of appearance, presented awards or performed musical numbers:[16]

Presenters Edit

Name(s) Role
Charlie O'Donnell Announcer for the 61st annual Academy Awards
Richard Kahn (AMPAS president) Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremony
Tom Selleck Introducers of presenters Melanie Griffith and Don Johnson
Melanie Griffith
Don Johnson
Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actress
Jane Fonda Presenter of the film Rain Man on the Best Picture segment
Kim Novak
James Stewart
Presenters of the awards for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects Editing
Robert Downey Jr.
Cybill Shepherd
Presenters of the award for Best Makeup
Patrick Swayze Presenter of film tribute to 1950s movie musicals and the award for Best Original Score
Olivia Newton-John Introducer of presenters Donald Sutherland and Kiefer Sutherland
Donald Sutherland
Kiefer Sutherland
Presenters of the Academy Honorary Award to the National Film Board of Canada
Anjelica Huston Presenter of the film Mississippi Burning on the Best Picture segment
Willem Dafoe
Gene Hackman
Presenters of the award for Best Art Direction
Bo Derek
Dudley Moore
Presenters of the award for Best Costume Design
Billy Crystal Presenter of the movie tap dancers and Best Original Song performances montage
Sammy Davis Jr.
Gregory Hines
Presenters of the award for Best Original Song
Candice Bergen
Jacqueline Bisset
Jack Valenti
Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language Film
Barbara Hershey Presenter of the film The Accidental Tourist on the Best Picture segment
Michael Caine
Sean Connery
Roger Moore
Presenters of the award for Best Supporting Actor
Beau Bridges
Jeff Bridges
Lloyd Bridges
Presenters of the award Best Visual Effects
Walter Matthau Introducer of presenters Lucille Ball and Bob Hope
Lucille Ball
Bob Hope
Introducers of the performance of the "I Wanna Be an Oscar Winner" musical number
Geena Davis
Jeff Goldblum
Presenters of the award for Best Documentary Short Subject
Edward James Olmos
Max von Sydow
Presenters of the award for Best Documentary Feature
Anne Archer Presenter of the film Dangerous Liaisons on the Best Picture segment
Charles Fleischer
Robin Williams
Presenters of the Special Achievement Academy Award to Richard Williams
Demi Moore
Bruce Willis
Presenter of the award for Best Cinematography
Carrie Fisher
Martin Short
Presenters of the awards for Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short Film
Michael Douglas Presenter of the award for Best Actor
Ali MacGraw Presenter of the film Working Girl on the Best Picture segment
Farrah Fawcett
Ryan O'Neal
Presenters of the award for Best Film Editing
Angie Dickinson Presenter of the segment of the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement and the Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Richard Dreyfuss
Amy Irving
Presenters of the award Best Original Screenplay
Michelle Pfeiffer
Dennis Quaid
Presenters of the award for Best Adapted Screenplay
Goldie Hawn
Kurt Russell
Presenters of the award for Best Director
Tom Cruise
Dustin Hoffman
Presenters of the award for Best Actress
Cher Presenter of the award for Best Picture

Performers Edit

The ceremony Edit

 
Allan Carr served as producer for the 61st Academy Awards.
 
Amy Irving at the Governor's Ball after the Awards.

In an attempt to attract viewers to the telecast and increase interest in the festivities, the Academy hired film producer and veteran Oscar ceremony executive talent coordinator Allan Carr to produce the 1989 ceremony.[17][18] In interviews with various media outlets, he expressed that it was a dream come true to produce the Oscars.[19]

Notable changes were introduced in the production of the telecast. For the first time, presenters announced each winner with the phrase "And the Oscar goes to..." rather than "And the winner is...".[20] The green room where Oscar presenters, performers, and winners gathered backstage was transformed into a luxurious suite complete with furniture, pictures, refreshments, and other amenities called "Club Oscar".[21] Instead of hiring a host for the proceedings, Carr heavily relied on presenters often grouped in pairs that had some connection, either through family or the film industry (a theme he billed as "couples, companions, costars, and compadres");[22][23][24][25] not until 2019 would another ceremony lack a host.[26]

Several other people were involved in the production of the ceremony. Jeff Margolis served as director of the telecast.[27] Lyricist and composer Marvin Hamlisch was hired as musical supervisor of the festivities.[28] Comedian and writer Bruce Vilanch was hired as a writer for the broadcast, a role he filled until 2014.[29] Carr had also rounded up eighteen young stars, including Patrick Dempsey, Corey Feldman, Ricki Lake, and Blair Underwood, to perform in a musical number entitled "I Wanna Be an Oscar Winner".[30] Unlike in most Oscar ceremonies, however, Carr announced that none of the three songs nominated for Best Original Song would be performed live.[24]

The telecast was also remembered for being the final public appearance of actress and comedian Lucille Ball, where she and co-presenter Bob Hope were given a standing ovation.[31] On April 26, almost a month after the ceremony, she died from a dissecting aortic aneurysm at age 77.[32]

Opening number Edit

In an effort to showcase more glamour and showmanship in the ceremony, producer Carr hired playwright Steve Silver to co-produce an opening number inspired by Silver's long-running musical revue Beach Blanket Babylon.[33] The segment consisted of an elaborate stage show centered on actress Eileen Bowman dressed as Snow White from Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, who comes to Hollywood and is entranced by its glamour.[33] Like Beach Blanket Babylon, the opening act also featured dancers wearing giant, elaborate hats.[33] In a setting designed to resemble the Cocoanut Grove nightclub, Hollywood dignitaries such as actresses Alice Faye, Dorothy Lamour, Cyd Charisse, her husband Tony Martin, as well as Buddy Rogers and Vincent Price were prominently featured, while singer and television producer Merv Griffin sang a rendition of the song "I've Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts" (of which he had had a hit recording in 1949). Bowman and actor Rob Lowe then sang a reworked version of Creedence Clearwater Revival's "Proud Mary", with lyrics rewritten to refer to the film industry; it is this song for which the act is infamously remembered.[33]

Critical reviews and public reaction Edit

The show was panned by most of the media publications. Los Angeles Times television critic Howard Rosenberg lamented, "the Academy Awards telecast on ABC was surprisingly devoid of magic. It was on the musty side, and compared with last month's Grammycast, absolutely moribund."[34] Film critic Janet Maslin chastised the opening number, saying it "deserves a permanent place in the annals of Oscar embarrassments". She also bemoaned that the "I Wanna Be an Oscar Winner" number "was confusingly shot and inspired no confidence in Hollywood's future".[35] Television editor Tony Scott of Variety complained, "The 61st Annual Academy Awards extravaganza—seen in 91 different countries including, for the first time, the Soviet Union—turned out to be a TV nyet" He also observed that the "Break-Out Superstars number" looked like they were "cavorting around a giant Oscar as if it were the golden calf".[36]

The telecast also received a mixed reception from professionals within the show business industry. Talent agent Michael Ovitz praised Carr saying that he had "brought show business back to the movie business". Actress Jennifer Jones thanked Carr in a written letter to the producer, which read "You delivered."[37] On the other hand, seventeen people, including actors Paul Newman, Gregory Peck, and Julie Andrews, and directors Billy Wilder and Joseph L. Mankiewicz, signed an open letter deriding the telecast as "an embarrassment to both the Academy and the entire motion picture industry".[38]

Just outside the auditorium, on Jefferson Boulevard, a group of San Francisco drag queens, calling themselves the Sisters of Perpetual Indignity, stood in Mae West wigs and gowns, saying that they had come “to show our support for Allan Carr” for producing the first “gay Oscars.”[39] There has been speculation that some of the blowback against the ceremony, which was the first produced by an openly gay person and which prominently featured a musical number based on a gay nightclub show, was homophobic in nature,[40] although others, such as Bruce Vilanch and David Geffen, have challenged that assessment.[41]

In addition, The Walt Disney Company filed suit against AMPAS for use of the likeness of Snow White.[42] The lawsuit demanded unspecified damages for "copyright infringement, unfair competition, and dilution of business reputation".[4] Academy President Richard Kahn immediately issued an apology to the studio, and the lawsuit was subsequently dropped.[43]

Bowman has claimed that she was made to sign a gag order the next day prohibiting her from speaking to the press about her performance for the next 13 years. She finally spoke about it publicly in a 2013 interview, in which she described the performance as looking "like a gay bar mitzvah".[44]

Ratings and aftermath Edit

Despite the criticism regarding the production of the ceremony, the American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 42.68 million people over its length, which was a 1% increase from the previous year's ceremony.[3][45] The show also drew higher Nielsen ratings compared to the previous ceremony, with 29.81% of households watching over a 50.41 share.[3] It was the highest-rated Oscar broadcast since the 56th ceremony, held in 1984.[4]

Nevertheless, AMPAS created an Awards Presentation Review Committee to evaluate and determine why the telecast earned such a negative reaction from the media and the entertainment industry.[4] The committee later determined that Carr's biggest mistake was allowing the questionable opening number to run for 12 minutes. Producer and former Directors Guild of America president Gilbert Cates, who headed the committee, said that Carr would have not received such harsh criticism if the number had been much shorter.[4] Cates was subsequently hired as producer of the succeeding year's telecast.[46]

According to various showbiz insiders and reporters, the criticism and backlash from the ceremony resulted in Carr never again producing a film or theatrical show. He died from complications resulting from liver cancer on June 29, 1999, at the age of 62.[33][4]

Box office performance of nominees Edit

At the time of the nominations announcement on February 15, the combined gross of the five Best Picture nominees at the US box office was $188 million, with an average of $37.7 million per film.[47] Rain Man was the highest earner among the Best Picture nominees, with $97 million in domestic box office receipts.[47] The film was followed by Working Girl ($42.1 million), The Accidental Tourist ($24.2 million), Mississippi Burning ($18.6 million), and finally Dangerous Liaisons ($6.69 million).[47]

Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year, 52 nominations went to 13 films. Only Big (3rd), Rain Man (5th), Working Girl (21st), The Accused (32nd), The Accidental Tourist (38th), Gorillas in the Mist (40th), Mississippi Burning (45th), and Tucker: The Man and His Dream (50th) were nominated for Best Picture, directing, acting, or screenwriting. The other top 50 box office hits that earned nominations were Who Framed Roger Rabbit (1st), Coming to America (2nd), Die Hard (7th), Beetlejuice (9th), and Willow (12th).

See also Edit

References Edit

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  • The 61st Annual Academy Awards at IMDb

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The 61st Academy Awards ceremony organized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences AMPAS honored the best films of 1988 and took place on Wednesday March 29 1989 at the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles beginning at 6 00 p m PST 9 00 p m EST 1 During the ceremony AMPAS presented Academy Awards commonly referred to as Oscars in 23 categories The ceremony televised in the United States by ABC was produced by Allan Carr and directed by Jeff Margolis 1 Ten days earlier in a ceremony held at the Beverly Hills Hotel in Beverly Hills California the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Angie Dickinson 2 61st Academy AwardsOfficial posterDateMarch 29 1989SiteShrine AuditoriumLos Angeles California U S Produced byAllan CarrDirected byJeff MargolisHighlightsBest PictureRain ManMost awardsRain Man 4 Most nominationsRain Man 8 TV in the United StatesNetworkABCDuration3 hours 19 minutesRatings42 68 million29 81 Nielsen ratings 60th Academy Awards 62nd Rain Man won four awards including the Best Picture Other winners included Who Framed Roger Rabbit with four awards Dangerous Liaisons with three and The Accused The Accidental Tourist A Fish Called Wanda The Appointments of Dennis Jennings Beetlejuice Bird Hotel Terminus The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie The Milagro Beanfield War Mississippi Burning Pelle the Conqueror Tin Toy Working Girl and You Don t Have to Die with one The telecast garnered over 42 million viewers in the United States making the most viewed ceremony up to that point until it was surpassed by the 70th Academy Awards in 1998 which garnered a viewership of over 57 million 3 4 Contents 1 Winners and nominees 1 1 Awards 1 2 Academy Honorary Awards 1 3 Special Achievement Award 1 4 Films with multiple nominations and wins 2 Presenters and performers 2 1 Presenters 2 2 Performers 3 The ceremony 3 1 Opening number 3 2 Critical reviews and public reaction 3 3 Ratings and aftermath 3 3 1 Box office performance of nominees 4 See also 5 References 6 Bibliography 7 External links 7 1 Official websites 7 2 Analysis 7 3 Other resourcesWinners and nominees EditThe nominees for the 61st Academy Awards were announced on February 15 1989 at the Samuel Goldwyn Theater in Beverly Hills California by Richard Kahn president of the Academy and actress Anne Archer 5 Rain Man led all nominees with eight nominations Dangerous Liaisons and Mississippi Burning tied for second with seven each 6 The winners were announced at the award ceremony on March 29 1989 7 Best Actress winner Jodie Foster became the eighth 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 in 1961 Best Actor winner Dustin Hoffman was the fifth person to win the aforementioned category twice 8 Sigourney Weaver became the fifth performer to receive two acting nominations in the same year 9 but did not win in either category 10 John Lasseter and William Reeves won Best Animated Short Film for Tin Toy which was Pixar s first Oscar ever and was the first CGI film to win an Oscar 11 Awards Edit nbsp Barry Levinson Best Director winner nbsp Dustin Hoffman Best Actor winner nbsp Jodie Foster Best Actress winner nbsp Kevin Kline Best Supporting Actor winner nbsp Geena Davis Best Supporting Actress winner nbsp Christopher Hampton Best Adapted Screenplay winner nbsp John Lasseter Best Animated Short Film co winner nbsp William Reeves Best Animated Short Film co winner nbsp Dave Grusin Best Original Score winner nbsp Carly Simon Best Original Song winner nbsp Richard Williams Best Visual Effects co winner Winners are listed first highlighted in boldface and indicated with double dagger 12 Best Picture Rain Man Mark Johnson producer The Accidental Tourist Lawrence Kasdan Charles Okun and Michael Grillo producers Dangerous Liaisons Norma Heyman and Hank Moonjean producers Mississippi Burning Frederick Zollo and Robert F Colesberry producers Working Girl Douglas Wick producer Best Director Barry Levinson Rain Man Charles Crichton A Fish Called Wanda Martin Scorsese The Last Temptation of Christ Alan Parker Mississippi Burning Mike Nichols Working GirlBest Actor Dustin Hoffman Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt Gene Hackman Mississippi Burning as Agent Rupert Anderson Tom Hanks Big as Josh Baskin Edward James Olmos Stand and Deliver as Jaime Escalante Max von Sydow Pelle the Conqueror as Lassefar Best Actress Jodie Foster The Accused as Sarah Tobias Glenn Close Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil Melanie Griffith Working Girl as Tess McGill Meryl Streep A Cry in the Dark as Lindy Chamberlain Sigourney Weaver Gorillas in the Mist as Dian FosseyBest Supporting Actor Kevin Kline A Fish Called Wanda as Otto West Alec Guinness Little Dorrit as William Dorrit Martin Landau Tucker The Man and His Dream as Abe Karatz River Phoenix Running on Empty as Danny Pope Dean Stockwell Married to the Mob as Tony The Tiger Russo Best Supporting Actress Geena Davis The Accidental Tourist as Muriel Pritchett Joan Cusack Working Girl as Cynthia Frances McDormand Mississippi Burning as Mrs Pell Michelle Pfeiffer Dangerous Liaisons as Madame Marie de Tourvel Sigourney Weaver Working Girl as Katharine ParkerBest Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen Rain Man Screenplay by Ronald Bass Barry Morrow Story by Barry Morrow Big Gary Ross and Anne Spielberg Bull Durham Ron Shelton A Fish Called Wanda Screenplay by John Cleese Story by John Cleese and Charles Crichton Running on Empty Naomi Foner Best Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium Dangerous Liaisons Christopher Hampton based on the play Les Liaisons Dangereuses by Christopher Hampton and the novel by Pierre Choderlos de Laclos The Accidental Tourist Frank Galati and Lawrence Kasdan based on the novel by Anne Tyler Gorillas in the Mist Screenplay by Anna Hamilton Phelan Story by Anna Hamilton Phelan and Tab Murphy based on articles by Harold T P Hayes and Alex Shoumatoff Little Dorrit Christine Edzard based on the novel by Charles Dickens The Unbearable Lightness of Being Jean Claude Carriere and Philip Kaufman based on the novel by Milan KunderaBest Foreign Language Film Pelle the Conqueror Denmark in Danish Bille August Hanussen Hungary in Hungarian Istvan Szabo The Music Teacher Belgium in French Gerard Corbiau Salaam Bombay India in Hindi Mira Nair Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown Spain in Spanish Pedro Almodovar Best Documentary Feature Hotel Terminus The Life and Times of Klaus Barbie Marcel Ophuls The Cry of Reason Beyers Naude An Afrikaner Speaks Out Robert Bilheimer and Ronald Mix Let s Get Lost Bruce Weber and Nan Bush Promises to Keep Ginny Durrin Who Killed Vincent Chin Renee Tajima and Christine ChoyBest Documentary Short Subject You Don t Have to Die William Guttentag and Malcolm Clarke The Children s Storefront Karen Goodman Family Gathering Lise Yasui and Ann Tegnell Gang Cops Thomas B Fleming and Daniel J Marks Portrait of Imogen Nancy Hale and Meg Partridge Best Live Action Short Film The Appointments of Dennis Jennings Dean Parisot and Steven Wright Cadillac Dreams Matia Karrell and Abbee Goldstein Gullah Tales George deGolian and Gary MossBest Animated Short Film Tin Toy John Lasseter and William Reeves The Cat Came Back Cordell Barker Technological Threat Bill Kroyer and Brian Jennings Best Original Score The Milagro Beanfield War Dave Grusin The Accidental Tourist John Williams Dangerous Liaisons George Fenton Gorillas in the Mist Maurice Jarre Rain Man Hans ZimmerBest Original Song Let the River Run from Working Girl Music and Lyrics by Carly Simon Calling You from Bagdad Cafe Music and Lyrics by Bob Telson Two Hearts from Buster Music by Lamont Dozier Lyrics by Phil Collins Best Sound Bird Les Fresholtz Dick Alexander Vern Poore and Willie D Burton Die Hard Don Bassman Kevin F Cleary Richard Overton and Al Overton Jr Gorillas in the Mist Andy Nelson Brian Saunders and Peter Handford Mississippi Burning Robert J Litt Elliot Tyson Rick Kline and Danny Michael Who Framed Roger Rabbit Robert Knudson John Boyd Don Digirolamo and Tony DaweBest Sound Effects Editing Who Framed Roger Rabbit Charles L Campbell and Louis Edemann Die Hard Stephen Hunter Flick and Richard Shorr Willow Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns Best Art Direction Dangerous Liaisons Art Direction Stuart Craig Set Decoration Gerard James Beaches Art Direction Albert Brenner Set Decoration Garrett Lewis Rain Man Art Direction Ida Random Set Decoration Linda DeScenna Tucker The Man and His Dream Art Direction Dean Tavoularis Set Decoration Armin Ganz Who Framed Roger Rabbit Art Direction Elliot Scott Set Decoration Peter HowittBest Makeup Beetlejuice Ve Neill Steve La Porte and Robert Short Coming to America Rick Baker Scrooged Thomas R Burman and Bari Dreiband Burman Best Costume Design Dangerous Liaisons James Acheson Coming to America Deborah Nadoolman Landis A Handful of Dust Jane Robinson Sunset Patricia Norris Tucker The Man and His Dream Milena CanoneroBest Cinematography Mississippi Burning Peter Biziou Rain Man John Seale Tequila Sunrise Conrad Hall The Unbearable Lightness of Being Sven Nykvist Who Framed Roger Rabbit Dean Cundey Best Film Editing Who Framed Roger Rabbit Arthur Schmidt Die Hard Frank J Urioste and John F Link Gorillas in the Mist Stuart Baird Mississippi Burning Gerry Hambling Rain Man Stu LinderBest Visual Effects Who Framed Roger Rabbit Ken Ralston Richard Williams Edward Jones and George Gibbs Die Hard Richard Edlund Al DiSarro Brent Boates and Thaine Morris Willow Dennis Muren Michael J McAlister Phil Tippett and Chris EvansAcademy Honorary Awards Edit National Film Board of Canada 13 Eastman Kodak Company 14 Special Achievement Award Edit Richard Williams for the animation direction of Who Framed Roger Rabbit 15 Films with multiple nominations and wins Edit The following 17 films received multiple nominations Nominations Film8 Rain Man7 Dangerous LiaisonsMississippi BurningWho Framed Roger Rabbit6 Working Girl5 Gorillas in the Mist4 The Accidental TouristDie Hard3 A Fish Called WandaTucker The Man and His Dream2 BigComing to AmericaLittle DorritPelle the ConquerorRunning on EmptyThe Unbearable Lightness of BeingWillow The following three films received multiple awards Awards Film4 Rain ManWho Framed Roger Rabbit3 Dangerous LiaisonsNote Who Framed Roger Rabbit received 3 competitive Academy Awards of Merit In addition the film received a Special Achievement Award Presenters and performers EditThe following individuals listed in order of appearance presented awards or performed musical numbers 16 Presenters Edit Name s RoleCharlie O Donnell Announcer for the 61st annual Academy AwardsRichard Kahn AMPAS president Gave opening remarks welcoming guests to the awards ceremonyTom Selleck Introducers of presenters Melanie Griffith and Don JohnsonMelanie Griffith Don Johnson Presenters of the award for Best Supporting ActressJane Fonda Presenter of the film Rain Man on the Best Picture segmentKim Novak James Stewart Presenters of the awards for Best Sound and Best Sound Effects EditingRobert Downey Jr Cybill Shepherd Presenters of the award for Best MakeupPatrick Swayze Presenter of film tribute to 1950s movie musicals and the award for Best Original ScoreOlivia Newton John Introducer of presenters Donald Sutherland and Kiefer SutherlandDonald Sutherland Kiefer Sutherland Presenters of the Academy Honorary Award to the National Film Board of CanadaAnjelica Huston Presenter of the film Mississippi Burning on the Best Picture segmentWillem Dafoe Gene Hackman Presenters of the award for Best Art DirectionBo Derek Dudley Moore Presenters of the award for Best Costume DesignBilly Crystal Presenter of the movie tap dancers and Best Original Song performances montageSammy Davis Jr Gregory Hines Presenters of the award for Best Original SongCandice Bergen Jacqueline BissetJack Valenti Presenters of the award for Best Foreign Language FilmBarbara Hershey Presenter of the film The Accidental Tourist on the Best Picture segmentMichael Caine Sean ConneryRoger Moore Presenters of the award for Best Supporting ActorBeau Bridges Jeff BridgesLloyd Bridges Presenters of the award Best Visual EffectsWalter Matthau Introducer of presenters Lucille Ball and Bob HopeLucille Ball Bob Hope Introducers of the performance of the I Wanna Be an Oscar Winner musical numberGeena Davis Jeff Goldblum Presenters of the award for Best Documentary Short SubjectEdward James Olmos Max von Sydow Presenters of the award for Best Documentary FeatureAnne Archer Presenter of the film Dangerous Liaisons on the Best Picture segmentCharles Fleischer Robin Williams Presenters of the Special Achievement Academy Award to Richard WilliamsDemi Moore Bruce Willis Presenter of the award for Best CinematographyCarrie Fisher Martin Short Presenters of the awards for Best Live Action Short Film and Best Animated Short FilmMichael Douglas Presenter of the award for Best ActorAli MacGraw Presenter of the film Working Girl on the Best Picture segmentFarrah Fawcett Ryan O Neal Presenters of the award for Best Film EditingAngie Dickinson Presenter of the segment of the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement and the Gordon E Sawyer AwardRichard Dreyfuss Amy Irving Presenters of the award Best Original ScreenplayMichelle Pfeiffer Dennis Quaid Presenters of the award for Best Adapted ScreenplayGoldie Hawn Kurt Russell Presenters of the award for Best DirectorTom Cruise Dustin Hoffman Presenters of the award for Best ActressCher Presenter of the award for Best PicturePerformers Edit Name s Role PerformedMarvin Hamlisch Musical arranger OrchestralArmy Archerd Eileen BowmanCoral BrowneCyd CharisseDale EvansAlice FayeMerv GriffinDorothy LamourRob LoweTony MartinVincent PriceBuddy RogersRoy RogersLily Tomlin Performers I Only Have Eyes for You from Dames You Are My Lucky Star from Broadway Melody of 1936 I ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts Proud Mary Hooray for Hollywood from Hollywood HotelKeith Coogan Patrick DempseyCorey FeldmanJoely FisherTricia Leigh FisherSavion GloverCarrie HamiltonMelora HardinRicki LakeMatt LattanziChad LoweTracy NelsonPatrick O NealCorey ParkerD A PawleyTyrone Power Jr Holly RobinsonChristian SlaterBlair Underwood Performers I Wanna Be an Oscar Winner The ceremony Edit nbsp Allan Carr served as producer for the 61st Academy Awards nbsp Amy Irving at the Governor s Ball after the Awards In an attempt to attract viewers to the telecast and increase interest in the festivities the Academy hired film producer and veteran Oscar ceremony executive talent coordinator Allan Carr to produce the 1989 ceremony 17 18 In interviews with various media outlets he expressed that it was a dream come true to produce the Oscars 19 Notable changes were introduced in the production of the telecast For the first time presenters announced each winner with the phrase And the Oscar goes to rather than And the winner is 20 The green room where Oscar presenters performers and winners gathered backstage was transformed into a luxurious suite complete with furniture pictures refreshments and other amenities called Club Oscar 21 Instead of hiring a host for the proceedings Carr heavily relied on presenters often grouped in pairs that had some connection either through family or the film industry a theme he billed as couples companions costars and compadres 22 23 24 25 not until 2019 would another ceremony lack a host 26 Several other people were involved in the production of the ceremony Jeff Margolis served as director of the telecast 27 Lyricist and composer Marvin Hamlisch was hired as musical supervisor of the festivities 28 Comedian and writer Bruce Vilanch was hired as a writer for the broadcast a role he filled until 2014 29 Carr had also rounded up eighteen young stars including Patrick Dempsey Corey Feldman Ricki Lake and Blair Underwood to perform in a musical number entitled I Wanna Be an Oscar Winner 30 Unlike in most Oscar ceremonies however Carr announced that none of the three songs nominated for Best Original Song would be performed live 24 The telecast was also remembered for being the final public appearance of actress and comedian Lucille Ball where she and co presenter Bob Hope were given a standing ovation 31 On April 26 almost a month after the ceremony she died from a dissecting aortic aneurysm at age 77 32 Opening number Edit In an effort to showcase more glamour and showmanship in the ceremony producer Carr hired playwright Steve Silver to co produce an opening number inspired by Silver s long running musical revue Beach Blanket Babylon 33 The segment consisted of an elaborate stage show centered on actress Eileen Bowman dressed as Snow White from Disney s Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs who comes to Hollywood and is entranced by its glamour 33 Like Beach Blanket Babylon the opening act also featured dancers wearing giant elaborate hats 33 In a setting designed to resemble the Cocoanut Grove nightclub Hollywood dignitaries such as actresses Alice Faye Dorothy Lamour Cyd Charisse her husband Tony Martin as well as Buddy Rogers and Vincent Price were prominently featured while singer and television producer Merv Griffin sang a rendition of the song I ve Got a Lovely Bunch of Coconuts of which he had had a hit recording in 1949 Bowman and actor Rob Lowe then sang a reworked version of Creedence Clearwater Revival s Proud Mary with lyrics rewritten to refer to the film industry it is this song for which the act is infamously remembered 33 Critical reviews and public reaction Edit The show was panned by most of the media publications Los Angeles Times television critic Howard Rosenberg lamented the Academy Awards telecast on ABC was surprisingly devoid of magic It was on the musty side and compared with last month s Grammycast absolutely moribund 34 Film critic Janet Maslin chastised the opening number saying it deserves a permanent place in the annals of Oscar embarrassments She also bemoaned that the I Wanna Be an Oscar Winner number was confusingly shot and inspired no confidence in Hollywood s future 35 Television editor Tony Scott of Variety complained The 61st Annual Academy Awards extravaganza seen in 91 different countries including for the first time the Soviet Union turned out to be a TV nyet He also observed that the Break Out Superstars number looked like they were cavorting around a giant Oscar as if it were the golden calf 36 The telecast also received a mixed reception from professionals within the show business industry Talent agent Michael Ovitz praised Carr saying that he had brought show business back to the movie business Actress Jennifer Jones thanked Carr in a written letter to the producer which read You delivered 37 On the other hand seventeen people including actors Paul Newman Gregory Peck and Julie Andrews and directors Billy Wilder and Joseph L Mankiewicz signed an open letter deriding the telecast as an embarrassment to both the Academy and the entire motion picture industry 38 Just outside the auditorium on Jefferson Boulevard a group of San Francisco drag queens calling themselves the Sisters of Perpetual Indignity stood in Mae West wigs and gowns saying that they had come to show our support for Allan Carr for producing the first gay Oscars 39 There has been speculation that some of the blowback against the ceremony which was the first produced by an openly gay person and which prominently featured a musical number based on a gay nightclub show was homophobic in nature 40 although others such as Bruce Vilanch and David Geffen have challenged that assessment 41 In addition The Walt Disney Company filed suit against AMPAS for use of the likeness of Snow White 42 The lawsuit demanded unspecified damages for copyright infringement unfair competition and dilution of business reputation 4 Academy President Richard Kahn immediately issued an apology to the studio and the lawsuit was subsequently dropped 43 Bowman has claimed that she was made to sign a gag order the next day prohibiting her from speaking to the press about her performance for the next 13 years She finally spoke about it publicly in a 2013 interview in which she described the performance as looking like a gay bar mitzvah 44 Ratings and aftermath Edit Despite the criticism regarding the production of the ceremony the American telecast on ABC drew in an average of 42 68 million people over its length which was a 1 increase from the previous year s ceremony 3 45 The show also drew higher Nielsen ratings compared to the previous ceremony with 29 81 of households watching over a 50 41 share 3 It was the highest rated Oscar broadcast since the 56th ceremony held in 1984 4 Nevertheless AMPAS created an Awards Presentation Review Committee to evaluate and determine why the telecast earned such a negative reaction from the media and the entertainment industry 4 The committee later determined that Carr s biggest mistake was allowing the questionable opening number to run for 12 minutes Producer and former Directors Guild of America president Gilbert Cates who headed the committee said that Carr would have not received such harsh criticism if the number had been much shorter 4 Cates was subsequently hired as producer of the succeeding year s telecast 46 According to various showbiz insiders and reporters the criticism and backlash from the ceremony resulted in Carr never again producing a film or theatrical show He died from complications resulting from liver cancer on June 29 1999 at the age of 62 33 4 Box office performance of nominees Edit At the time of the nominations announcement on February 15 the combined gross of the five Best Picture nominees at the US box office was 188 million with an average of 37 7 million per film 47 Rain Man was the highest earner among the Best Picture nominees with 97 million in domestic box office receipts 47 The film was followed by Working Girl 42 1 million The Accidental Tourist 24 2 million Mississippi Burning 18 6 million and finally Dangerous Liaisons 6 69 million 47 Of the top 50 grossing movies of the year 52 nominations went to 13 films Only Big 3rd Rain Man 5th Working Girl 21st The Accused 32nd The Accidental Tourist 38th Gorillas in the Mist 40th Mississippi Burning 45th and Tucker The Man and His Dream 50th were nominated for Best Picture directing acting or screenwriting The other top 50 box office hits that earned nominations were Who Framed Roger Rabbit 1st Coming to America 2nd Die Hard 7th Beetlejuice 9th and Willow 12th See also Edit nbsp Film portal nbsp United States portal9th Golden Raspberry Awards 31st Grammy Awards 41st Primetime Emmy Awards 42nd British Academy Film Awards 43rd Tony Awards 46th Golden Globe Awards List of submissions to the 61st Academy Awards for Best Foreign Language FilmReferences Edit a b Osborne 2008 p 296 Past Scientific amp Technical Awards 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