Driving Miss Daisy: 1989 Best Picture

“Driving Miss Daisy” picked up 4 Oscars out of its 9 nominations, most notably, Best Picture and Best Actress (Jessica Tandy). The other Best Picture nominees were: “Field of Dreams”, “Born on the Fourth of July”, “My Left Foot” and “Dead Poets Society”.

Oliver Stone won Best Director for “Born on the Fourth of July”. Daniel Day-Lewis won Best Actor for his portrayal of Christy Brown in “My Left Foot” and Brenda Fricker won Best Supporting Actress as Mrs. Bridget Brown.

At the box office, “Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade” was No. 1. “Batman”, “Back to the Future Part II”, “Look Who’s Talking”, Lethal Weapons 2″, “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”, Ghostbusters II” and “The Little Mermaid” also cleaned up. Jeopardy! has had several clues on the sea witch. Here’s one where you have to know her name: Pat Carroll gave voice to this deep sea witch in ‘The Little Mermaid”

More 1989 films: “Glory”, “The Abyss”, “The Adventures of Baron Munchausen”, “The Fabulous Baker Boys”, “Crimes and Misdemeanors, “Pet Sematary”, “Henry V”, “Bill & Ted’s Excellent Adventure”, “Do the Right Thing”, “Parenthood”, “Tango & Cash”, “sex, lies, and videotape”, and “When Harry Met Sally”.

Jeopardy! clues on “Driving Miss Daisy”
OSCAR $800: At the age of 80 she won her first Oscar–for Best Actress in “Driving Miss Daisy”
BEATLES SONGS $200: Originally, this title woman was called Miss Daisy Hawkins, but that didn’t sound lonely enough
ACTS $100: 72-year-old Daisy Werthan gets a chauffeur after she wrecks her car in Act I of this play
MORGAN FREEMAN $200: (Morgan Freeman gives the clue.) I received my second Oscar nomination for this 1989 film set in the mid-20th century South
BRUCE ALMIGHTY $2000: He directed Jessica Tandy’s Oscar-winning performance in “Driving Miss Daisy”
OSCAR-WINNING ROLES $400: Miss Daisy Werthan
THEIR SOLE OSCAR NOMINATION $800: As a son, Dan Aykroyd, 1989
MOVIE PEOPLE $2000: Alfred Uhry is the only person to win an Oscar for an adaptation of his own Pulitzer Prize-winning play–this one
MORGAN FREEMAN FILM ROLES $400: Chauffeur Hoke Colburn (1989)

FINAL JEOPARDY! (4-5-2023) MOVIES OF THE ’80s: Based on an off-Broadway play with just 3 characters, it won the Best Picture Oscar & the actors in all 3 roles were nominated

More 1989 film clues:
TAKE ME OUT TO THE BASEBALL MOVIE $400: There’s a lot of corn in this 1989 film– Kevin Costner puts a baseball diamond on his corn farm
HONORARY ACADEMY AWARDS $2000: 1989: To this Asian director who has “influenced filmmakers throughout the world”
ACTRESSES $800: She played Katherine in then-husband Kenneth Branagh’s 1989 film of “Henry V”
SAY UNCLE $800: John Candy played this loud & crude slacker relative of Macaulay Culkin in a 1989 film
SPIKE LEE $1200: Spike’s 1989 film “Do the Right Thing” was nominated for this film festival’s Palme d’Or Award
THE MUSICAL ’80s $1200: Bette Midler’s 1989 hit “Wind Beneath My Wings” was featured in this film co-starring Barbara Hershey
NOT NOMINATED FOR BEST PICTURE $1000: “Driving Miss Daisy” won for 1989, the year this Spike Lee film about urban racism was passed over
WAR MOVIES $1600: The U.S. Civil War’s first all-black military unit fights prejudice as well as the Confederates in this 1989 film
THE INDIE 5 $800: It was Gallagher, MacDowell & Spader in the Deep South in this atmospheric 1989 film
UP ON THE “BIG” SCREEN $1600: 1989 gave us 6 degrees of Kevin Bacon as a Hollywood wannabe in this film
MOVIE LOCATIONS $1600: In the 1989 film “Batman”, England’s Knebworth House, seen here, played this stately home
MOVIE LOCATIONS $2000: (Cheryl of the Clue Crew reports from Delos, Greece.) In this 1989 film, a frustrated Liverpool housewife finds love, leisure, and liberation here on the islands of Greece
NEW YORK ON FILM $400: Meg Ryan visited Katz’s Deli to film one of the most famous scenes of recent years, in this 1989 movie
H.H. $800: In 1989, she recreated her stage role as Carnell Scott in the film “Miss Firecracker”
CINEMA TRIVIA $1600: Local boys Ben Affleck & Matt Damon were Fenway Park extras in this 1989 Kevin Costner film
AL PACINO MOVIES $1600: As detective Frank Keller, Al goes overboard for Ellen Barkin in this 1989 film
STATELY FIRST NAMES $400: Sean Connery played this character’s dad, Henry, in a 1989 film
ARTSY FILMS $1,000 (Daily Double): In a 1989 film, Daniel Day-Lewis played Christy Brown, who could only paint with this title appendage
SHAKESPEAREAN ACTORS $600: 1989 was a good year for this actor: he starred in “Hamlet” onstage & “My Left Foot” on film
“BLACK” & “WHITE” FILMS $1000: Cops Michael Douglas & Andy Garcia tangle with the Japanese mafia in this 1989 film
“SEX” SELLS $600: Steven Soderbergh received an Oscar nomination for his first screenplay, for this 1989 film
PLAYING DUMB $200: (Hi, I’m Jane Wiedlin of the Go-Go’s) I played Joan of Arc in this 1989 film about 2 clueless time travelers
ORDINAL MOVIES $600: Tom Cruise comes home from Vietnam in a wheelchair & becomes an anti-war activist in this 1989 film
COUNTRY DIVAS $300: She ran the beauty parlor & gossip center in the 1989 film “Steel Magnolias”
MEG RYAN MOVIES $200: In this 1989 film Meg played Sally Albright
1989 FILMS $200: Production designer Anton Furst won an Oscar for this film’s atmospheric Gotham City
1989 FILMS $400: The third element in the title of this Andie MacDowell film is captured on Sony equipment
1989 FILMS $600: Before “Titanic”, James Cameron took us to the bottom of the ocean in this film
1989 FILMS $800: This 1989 film was based on an actual event: “Think about me as your priest. You can tell me anything. I’m listening.”
1989 FILMS $1000: This film was the 1989 version of the story told in 1989’s “Dangerous Liaisons”
TOM HANKS FILMS $500: Tom inherited a slobbering dog, his only witness in a murder case, in this 1989 film
DUBLINERS $600: Dublin-born Brenda Fricker won an Oscar for playing Daniel Day-Lewis’ mother in this 1989 film
’80s CINEMA $800: John Cusack was devoted to kickboxing & Ione Skye in this 1989 film
ROCK SINGERS $500: In 1989 he re-recorded 8 of his classic hits for the film biography “Great Balls Of Fire!”
TOUGH MOVIE TRIVIA $1000: In this 1989 film, Eddie Murphy was the adopted son of a 1930s nightclub owner played by Richard Pryor
THEY ALMOST STARRED IN… $500: Liam Neeson might have “seized the day” in this 1989 film but Robin Williams starred instead
“HARRY” MOVIES $400: In this 1989 film, the title pair’s relationship “Crystal”izes on a drive from Chicago to NYC
INTERNATIONAL ACTORS $400: This Belfast-born actor was just 28 when he directed & starred in the 1989 film “Henry V”
WINONA RYDER FILMS $500: Shannen Doherty was one of the title girls in this 1989 Winona film that also starred Christian Slater
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $800: In August 1989 he was in 3 films: “Honey, I Shrunk the Kids”, “Parenthood” & “Ghostbusters II”
ACTORS & THEIR ROLES $1000: In the 1989 film it was a sure thing he’d “Say Anything” to get Ione Skye
MOVIES $400: According to the title of an animated 1989 film, “All Dogs” do this
PEOPLE: People Magazine’s 1989 & 1998 Sexiest Men Alive, they played father & son in a blockbuster 1989 film