Mar 30, 1992
The 64th Annual Academy Awards were presented on March 30, 1992 in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles.
"The Silence of the Lambs" swept the major categories taking Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director and Screnplay.
"Terminator 2: Judgment Day" won four technical Oscars, while "Beauty and the Beast" won two Oscars for its music.
| Best Picture | |
| The Silence Of The Lambs | |
| Edward Saxon; Kenneth Utt; Ron Bozman | |
| Other Nominees: Beauty and the Beast; Bugsy; JFK; The Prince of Tides | |
| Best Actor | |
| Anthony Hopkins (The Silence Of The Lambs) | |
| Other Nominees: Warren Beatty (Bugsy); Robert De Niro (Cape Fear); Nick Nolte (The Prince of Tides); Robin Williams (The Fisher King) | |
| Best Actress | |
| Jodie Foster (The Silence Of The Lambs) | |
| Other Nominees: Geena Davis (Thelma and Lousie); Laura Dern (Rambling Rose); Bette Midler (For the Boys); Susan Sarandon (Thelma and Lousie) | |
| Best Director | |
| Jonathan Demme (The Silence Of The Lambs) | |
| Other Nominees: Barry Levinson (Bugsy); Ridley Scott (Thelma and Louise); John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood); Oliver Stone (JFK) | |
| Best Supporting Actor | |
| Jack Palance (City Slickers) | |
| Other Nominees: Tommy Lee Jones (JFK); Harvey Keitel (Bugsy); Ben Kingsley (Bugsy); Michael Lerner (Barton Fink) | |
| Best Supporting Actress | |
| Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King) | |
| Other Nominees: Diane Ladd (Rambling Rose); Juliette Lewis (Cape Fear); Kate Nelligan (The Prince of Tides); Jessica Tandy (Fried Green Tomatoes) | |
| Writing | |
| The Silence Of The Lambs | |
| Ted Tally | |
| Other Nominees: Europa Europa; Fried Green Tomatoes; JFK; The Prince Of Tides | |
| Writing | |
| Thelma & Louise | |
| Callie Khouri | |
| Other Nominees: Boyz N The Hood; Bugsy; The Fisher King; Grand Canyon | |
| Art Direction | |
| Bugsy | |
| Dennis Gassner; Nancy Haigh | |
| Other Nominees: Barton Fink; The Fisher King; Hook; The Prince of Tides | |
| Cinematography | |
| JFK | |
| Robert Richardson | |
| Other Nominees: Bugsy; The Prince of Tides; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; Thelma & Louise | |
| Film Editing | |
| JFK | |
| Joe Hutshing; Pietro Scalia | |
| Other Nominees: The Commitments; The Silence of the Lambs; Terminator 2: Judgment Day; Thelma & Louise | |
| Documentary Feature | |
| In the Shadow of the Stars | |
| Allie Light; Irving Saraf | |
| Other Nominees: Death on the Job; Doing Time: Life Inside The Big House; The Restless Conscience; Wild By Law | |
| Documentary Short | |
| Deadly Deception: General Electric Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment | |
| Debra Chasnoff | |
| Other Nominees: Birdnesters of Thailand; A Little Vicious; The Mark of the Maker; Memorial: Letters From American Soldiers | |
| Foreign Language Film | |
| Mediterraneo | |
| Italy | |
| Other Nominees: Children of Nature (Iceland); The Elementary School (Czechoslovakia); The Ox (Sweden); Raise the Red Lantern (Hong Kong) | |
| Short Subject Animated | |
| Manipulation | |
| Daniel Greaves | |
| Other Nominees: Blackfly; Strings | |
| Short Subject Live Action | |
| Session Man | |
| Seth Winston & Rob Fried | |
| Other Nominees: Birch Street Gym; Last Breeze Of Summer | |
| Costume Design | |
| Bugsy | |
| Albert Wolsky | |
| Other Nominees: The Addams Family; Barton Fink; Hook; Madame Bovary | |
| Makeup | |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | |
| Stan Winston; Jeff Dawn | |
| Other Nominees: Hook; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | |
| Sound Editing | |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | |
| Gary Rydstrom; Gloria S Borders | |
| Other Nominees: Backdraft; Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country | |
| Sound Mixing | |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | |
| Tom Johnson; Gary Rydstrom; Gary Summers; Lee Orloff | |
| Other Nominees: Backdraft; Beauty And The Beast; JFK; The Silence Of The Lambs | |
| Visual Effects | |
| Terminator 2: Judgment Day | |
| Dennis Muren; Stan Winston; Gene Warren Jr; Robert Skotak | |
| Other Nominees: Backdraft; Hook | |
| Original Score | |
| Beauty and the Beast | |
| Alan Menken | |
| Other Nominees: Bugsy; The Fisher King; JFK; The Prince of Tides | |
| Original Song | |
| Beauty and the Beast | |
| Alan Menken; Howard Ashman | |
| Other Nominees: Be Our Guest (Beauty And the Beast); Belle (Beauty and the Beast); I Do It For You (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves); When You're Alone (Hook) | |
| Special Award | |
| Satyajit Ray (Recognition of his rare mastery of motion pictures) | |
| Irving G Thalberg Memorial Award | |
| George Lucas | |