Alternate Oscars: 1990

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Close-Up

Dances with Wolves

Goodfellas

Ju Dou*

Misery

BEST DIRECTOR:

Kevin Costner, Dances with Wolves

Abbas Kiarostami, Close-Up

Rob Reiner, Misery

Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas

Zhang Yimou, Ju Dou*

BEST ACTOR:

Alec Baldwin, Miami Blues*

James Caan, Misery

Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune

Ray Liotta, Goodfellas

Tim Roth, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

BEST ACTRESS:

Kathy Bates, Misery

Cher, Mermaids

Laura Dern, Wild at Heart

Gong Li, Ju Dou*

Julia Roberts, Pretty Woman

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Brad Dourif, The Exorcist III

Robin Harris, House Party

Gary Oldman, State of Grace*

Joe Pesci, Goodfellas

Fred Ward, Tremors

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Bonnie Bedelia, Presumed Innocent

Annette Bening, The Grifters*

Whoopi Goldberg, Ghost

Carina Lau, Days of Being Wild

Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miami Blues

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Dances with Wolves

Goodfellas*

The Grifters

Ju Dou

Misery

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Ghost

Joe Versus the Volcano*

Life is Sweet

Metropolitan

Miller's Crossing

BEST ART DIRECTION:

Dances with Wolves

Dick Tracy*

Edward Scissorhands

Joe Versus the Volcano

Miller's Crossing

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Close-Up

Dances with Wolves

Dick Tracy

Dreams*

Goodfellas

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Cry-Baby

Dances with Wolves

Dick Tracy*

Edward Scissorhands

Wild at Heart

BEST FILM EDITING:

Close-Up

Dances with Wolves

Goodfellas*

La Femme Nikita

Misery

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Dances with Wolves*

Edward Scissorhands

Home Alone

The Hunt for Red October

The Rescuers Down Under

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"Blaze of Glory" from Young Guns II

"I’m Checkin’ Out" from Postcards from the Edge

"Promise Me You'll Remember" from The Godfather Part III

"Somewhere in My Memory" from Home Alone*

"Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" from Dick Tracy

BEST MAKEUP:

Darkman

Dick Tracy*

Edward Scissorhands

The Exorcist III

The Witches

BEST SOUND:

Days of Thunder

Dick Tracy

Die Hard 2

The Hunt for Red October*

La Femme Nikita

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

Back to the Future Part III

Gremlins 2: The New Batch

Total Recall

Tremors*

The Witches

BEST STUNTS:

Darkman

Days of Thunder

Die Hard 2*

La Femme Nikita

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles

BEST CASTING:

Days of Being Wild*

Goodfellas

Home Alone

Mermaids

Misery

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

Close-Up

Days of Being Wild

Dreams

Ju Dou*

Life is Sweet