1. Driving Miss Daisy | Plot, Cast, Awards, & Facts - Britannica
Sep 30, 2024 · The movie won four Academy Awards, including that for best picture, as well as three Golden Globe Awards, including that for best comedy or ...
Driving Miss Daisy, American film (1989) that was adapted by Alfred Uhry from his play and that won four Academy Awards.
2. Full awards and nominations of Driving Miss Daisy - Filmaffinity
Full awards and nominations of Driving Miss Daisy · winner. Best Picture · winner. Best Leading Actress (Jessica Tandy) · nom. Best Leading Actor (Morgan Freeman).
Drama. Comedy Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, "Driving Miss Daisy" covers the 25 year relationship between a wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her equally indomitable Black chauffeur Hoke (Morgan Freeman) in Atlanta, Georgia. Both employer and employee are outsiders, Hoke because of the color of his skin, Miss Daisy because she is Jewish in a WASP-dominated society. At the same time, Hoke cannot ... [+]
3. Oscar: Best Picture–Worst Winners–Driving Miss Daisy (1989)
Apr 25, 2021 · Oscar Context: The film received nine nominations, winning four: Best Picture, Actress, Adapted Screenplay, and Makeup. Driving Miss Daisy had ...
Reviews of the worst winners of the Best Picture–chronologically.
4. Driving Miss Daisy 30 Years Later: When My Dad Won Best Picture
Feb 4, 2020 · He was shooting Driving Miss Daisy, which went on to win four Oscars (including best picture, best screenplay and best actress for Jessica Tandy) ...
Australian director Bruce ?Beresford’s daughter, then a rambunctious toddler and now a Hollywood Reporter staffer, interviews her father about the making of his film, which triumphed 30 years ago at the Oscars.
5. When the Oscars Chose Driving Miss Daisy Over Do the Right Thing
Jan 22, 2019 · Boundaries were being broken. Jessica Tandy, the British star of eventual best-picture winner Driving Miss Daisy, won best actress at 80 years ...
Revisiting the year the Oscars ignored Spike Lee’s masterpiece—a career-defining snub this year’s ceremony seems poised to re-litigate, thanks to BlacKkKlansman and Green Book.
6. Oscars 1990 ceremony revisited: Driving Miss Daisy - GoldDerby
Aug 25, 2022 · It won despite a directing snub for Bruce Beresford, becoming the first film since “Grand Hotel” in 1932 to win Best Picture without a directing ...
Welcome back to Oscars Playback, in which Gold Derby editors and Experts Christopher Rosen and Joyce Eng revisit Oscar ceremonies and winners of yesteryear. This week, in our first bonus episode, w…
7. AFI|Catalog - American Film Institute
Driving Miss Daisy (1989). PG | 99 mins | Comedy-drama | 13 December 1989 ...
In 1948 Atlanta, Georgia, septuagenarian Daisy Werthan loses control of her car as she backs it out of her garage. Coming to assess the damage, her son Boolie maintains that it was her fault, while Daisy argues the car malfunctioned. Later, Boolie, who runs the family business, Werthan Bag & Cotton Co., interviews Hoke Colburn to be his mother’s chauffeur. When he learns he will be driving Boolie’s mother, Hoke asks why Daisy is not doing her own hiring, and Boolie admits his mother is high-strung. Since Boolie will be paying his salary, he tells Hoke that Daisy can say whatever she wants but will never have the power to fire him. On his first day of work, Hoke meets Idella, Daisy’s African American maid, who says she does not envy his position. Meanwhile, Daisy tells Boolie she does not want a chauffeur hanging around the house, but Boolie instructs her to make the best of it. That afternoon, as Hoke talks to Idella in the kitchen, Daisy barges in and forbids him from conversing with
8. Driving Miss Daisy - nwhyte - LiveJournal
Mar 6, 2021 · Driving Miss Daisy won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1989, and three ... any Oscar winner since Tom Jones. I have seen 13 other films ...
Driving Miss Daisy won the Oscar for Best Picture of 1989, and three others: Best Actress (Jessica Tandy as Miss Daisy, at 81 the oldest ever winner), Best Makeup, and Best Adapted Screenplay. It lost in five categories, all to different films; that years Hugo winner, Indiana Jones and the…
9. Driving Miss Daisy (1989) - The Best Picture Project - Paul Miles Schneider
May 16, 2020 · Playwright Alfred Uhry won a Pulitzer Prize for his effort and later the Oscar for Adapted Screenplay. Uhry wanted to write about prejudice and ...
Ultimately, the two central performances give this film its magic. Freeman and Tandy say as much with a glance as they do with dialogue.
10. 1989 – Driving Miss Daisy - Academy Award Best Picture Winners
Apr 2, 2015 · First of all, the cast was perfect. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman played the two leads with Dan Aykroyd, Esther Rolle and Patti LuPone ...
11. Driving Miss Daisy Still Holds Up, But Morgan Freeman Regrets His Role
Feb 15, 2024 · Directed by Bruce Beresford, Driving Miss Daisy became a success with nine Academy Award nominations and everlasting achievements in Oscar ...
Even though Driving Miss Daisy was a wonderful film about the relationships made in life, Morgan Freeman doesn't like carrying the film's shadow.
12. Driving Miss Daisy | Warner Bros. Entertainment Wiki - Fandom
Awards and nominations · It is the only film based on an off Broadway production ever to win an Academy Award for Best Picture; · Jessica Tandy, at age 81, became ...
Driving Miss Daisy is a 1989 American comedy-drama film directed by Bruce Beresford and written by Alfred Uhry, based on Uhry's play of the same name. The film stars Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, and Dan Aykroyd. Freeman reprised his role from the Original Off-Broadway production. The story defines Daisy and her point of view through a network of relationships and emotions by focusing on her home life, synagogue, friends, family, fears, and concerns over a 25-year period. At the 62nd Academy Aw