Dances with Wolves: 1990 Best Picture

The 63rd Academy Awards was one of those times that one picture scooped up far more Oscars than any other, and that one picture was “Dances with Wolves”, winning Best Picture and Best Director (Kevin Costner), and 5 other awards. But it did not win in any of the acting categories.

Jeremy Irons won Best Actor for his portrayal of Claus Von Bulow in “Reversal of Fortune”. Kathy Bates won Best Actress as Annie Wilkes in “Misery”. Joe Pesci picked up the Best Supporting Actor Oscar for being a wiseguy in “Goodfellas”, and Whoopi Goldberg got the Best Supporting Actress Oscar as a reluctant medium in “Ghost”.

Other winners included “Dick Tracy”, “American Dream”, “Creature Comforts”, “Cyrano de Bergerac”, “Days of Waiting”, “The Hunt for Red October”, “Journey of Hope”, “The Lunch Date” and “Total Recall”.

“Ghost” was the top box office hit of the year. “Home Alone” and “Pretty Woman” came in ahead of “Dances with Wolves”. “Back to the Future Part III”, “Die Hard 2”, “Presumed Innocent”, “Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles” and “Kindergarten Cop” didn’t do too shabby either.

The sequels kept on comin’ with “The Godfather III”, “Rocky V”, “Predator 2”, “Gremlins 2: The New Batch” and The Exorcist III, and several others.

Even more 1990 films: “Edward Scissorhands”, “The Freshman”, “La Femme Nikita”, “Jacob’s Ladder”, “Flatliners”, “The Bonfire of the Vanities.”

Jeopardy! clues on “Dances with Wolves”
MOVIE VERBS $400: Kevin Costner on the range: “____ With Wolves”
’90s BEST PICTURE PLOT POINTS $1600: Union officer goes native, seeks/kills buffalo
ACTORS’ DIRECTORIAL DEBUTS $400: “Dances With Wolves” (1990)
6-WORD BEST PICTURE PLOTS $1200: Suicidal soldier sees Sioux, sights stampede
SHALL WE “DANCE”? $800: Characters in this 1990 Oscar winner included Wind In His Hair, Kicking Bird & Lt. John Dunbar
ANIMAL-TITLED MOVIES $400: Kevin Costner played Civil War vet Lt. John Dunbar in this film
CLASSIC FILMS IN OTHER WORDS $200: 1992: “Jigs Accompanied by Lupine Creatures”
CELEBRITY ASTROLOGY $100: He was born under Capricorn, the sign of the goat, but he “Dances With Wolves”

More 1990 film clues:
MOVIE MAKEOVERS $200: Al Pacino helped design his character’s creepy look for this 1990 comic strip film
THE WALKING DEAD $600: Sam Wheat says, whoopi! Oda Mae Brown can hear me even though I’m the title character in this 1990 film
DANCE! $600: We’d love to show a clip of this “forbidden dance” from a 1990 film, but we want to keep our G rating
URBAN MOVIES $2000: 1990: Alec Baldwin’s post-prison plight: “_____ Blues”
A LITTLE CRAZY $800: Joe Pesci won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar as psychopathic Tommy DeVito in this 1990 film
DEPP PERCEPTION $600: (Jon of the Clue Crew reports from Tavern on the Green in New York.) Tavern on the Green’s topiary gardens were created by artisans from this 1990 Johnny Depp film
FOREIGN WORDS & PHRASES $800: Undercover cop Arnold Schwarzenegger taught it in a 1990 film
MOVIE TITLE NAMES $1200: Characters in this 1990 film included Mumbles, Shoulders, Flattop, The Rodent & The Brow
SHORT FICTION $2000: His short story “We Can Remember It for You Wholesale” was adapted into the 1990 film “Total Recall”
MOB HITS $1000: “But I’m funny how? Funny like a clown? I amuse you? I make you laugh?” says Tommy de Vito in this 1990 film
MY FEAR LADY $1600: As Annie Wilkes, Kathy Bates sets podiatry back about 1,000 years in this 1990 film
FRED THOMPSON, ACTING SENATOR $600: Thompson joined the Navy for this “colorful” 1990 submarine film
HARDBOILED SLANG $1600: John Cusack & Anjelica Huston were these title small-time hustlers in a 1990 film
GLENN CLOSE ENCOUNTERS $1600: Glenn played Mel Gibson’s mom in this 1990 film based on a play
THE 3rd FILM IN THE SERIES $600: In a 1990 film in this series, Marty travels to 1885 to save Doc Brown
KNIGHTS WHO SAY “NI” $1200: Maria de Medeiros played this French diarist in the 1990 film “Henry and June”
THE SILVER SCREEN $1200: (Hi, I’m Leonard Maltin) In this 1990 Martin Scorsese-directed film based on the book “Wiseguy”, Scorsese’s mother plays Joe Pesci’s mom
STUPID ANSWERS AT THE MOVIES $800: Robert De Niro played Stanley & Jane Fonda was Iris in this 1990 film
THE PURPLE TESTAMENT $400: The 1990 film “Graffiti Bridge” was the sequel to this 1984 hit film
NEWER WORDS & PHRASES $800: This verb meaning to die was further popularized by a 1990 Julia Roberts-Kiefer Sutherland film
COLOR FILMS $400: Gerard Depardieu made his English-language debut in this 1990 film
FILMS OF THE ’90s $1,500 (Daily Double): In this 1990 film Robin Williams played a doctor who was able to rouse a group of catatonic patients
BEASTLY MOVIE TITLES $200: This 1990 film is one of the few kids’ pictures about sewer-dwelling reptiles
THE SILVER SCREEN $900 (Daily Double): (Hi, I’m Kathy Kinney of “The Drew Carey Show”) I was featured in this 1990 film about which Leonard Maltin said, “Fear of spiders is taken to extremes”
THE CINEMA $300: In this 1990 Sean Connery film, Alec Baldwin was the first to play CIA man Jack Ryan on screen
SHE WAS IN THAT? $600: Laura San Giacomo of “Just Shoot Me” appeared as a hooker pal of Julia Roberts in this 1990 film
ARTSY FILMS $200: Tim Roth played the artist Van Gogh & Paul Rhys played his brother in this 1990 film
BIG MOVIES $1000: Sausage King Jimmy Dean played a former sheriff in this 1990 film named for his biggest hit record
MARTIAN CINEMA $800: An ancient machine that gives Mars an atmosphere is activated in this Schwarzenegger film of 1990
THE MOVIES $800: Al Pacino received an Oscar nomination for playing Big Boy Caprice in this 1990 film
SINGERS WHO ACT $800: Country music’s reigning redhead, she made her film debut in 1990, killing monsters in “Tremors”
FILM DIRECTORS $800: This playwright directed the 1990 film adaptation of his own play “Rosencrantz And Guildenstern Are Dead”
NONFICTION $500: “Reversal Of Fortune”, this attorney’s book about the von Bulow case, was the basis for a 1990 film
THE MOVIES $300: Robert Redford played a gambler in Batista’s Cuba in this 1990 film
FILMS OF THE ’90S $500: Title Kansas City couple played by Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward in a 1990 film
MOVIE TRIVIA $200: Annette Bening came on like gangbusters when she wore a gown from this gangster film to the 1990 Oscars
MOVIE SONGS $100: Cher sings “The Shoop Shoop Song” over this 1990 film’s closing credits
BOOKS & AUTHORS $600: Published by the Naval Institute Press in 1984, it became a best seller & a 1990 film
MOVIE TRIVIA $100: In this 1990 film, a couple dies of spider bites while watching “Wheel of Fortune”