1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

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Date December 16, 1989		Best Picture Do the Right Thing

The 15th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 16 December 1989 and given on 16 January 1990.

Winners

Best Picture:

Do the Right Thing

Runner-up: Drugstore Cowboy

Best Director:

Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing

Runner-up: Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July

Best Actor:

Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot

Runner-up: Morgan Freeman – Lean on Me, Johnny Handsome, Glory and Driving Miss Daisy

Best Actress (tie):

Andie MacDowell – Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys

Best Supporting Actor:

Danny Aiello – Do the Right Thing

Runner-up: Martin Landau – Crimes and Misdemeanors

Best Supporting Actress:

Brenda Fricker – My Left Foot

Runner-up: Anjelica Huston – Enemies, a Love Story

Best Screenplay:

Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost – Drugstore Cowboy

Runner-up: Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing

Best Cinematography:

Michael Ballhaus – The Fabulous Baker Boys

Runner-up: Robert Richardson – Born on the Fourth of July

Best Music Score:

Bill Lee – Do the Right Thing

Runner-up: Elliot Goldenthal – Drugstore Cowboy

Best Foreign Film (tie):

Distant Voices, Still Lives • UK

Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes) • France

Best Non-Fiction Film:

Roger & Me

Runner-up: The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Yuki Yukite shingun)

Best Animation:

The Little Mermaid

Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:

Gregg Araki – The Long Weekend (O' Despair)

New Generation Award:

Laura San Giacomo – Sex, Lies, and Videotape

Career Achievement Award:

Stanley Donen

Special Citation:

The Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences

References

1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Wikipedia

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