1993 (66th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1993 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Schindler’s List, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen and Branko Lustig, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Tom Hanks in Philadelphia, TriStar Pictures Production; TriStar.

Actress in a Leading Role

Holly Hunter in The Piano, Jan Chapman & CIBY 2000 Production; Miramax Films. (New Zealand, Australia, France)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Tommy Lee Jones in The Fugitive, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros.

Actress in a Supporting Role

Anna Paquin in The Piano, Jan Chapman & CIBY 2000 Production; Miramax Films. (New Zealand, Australia, France)

Directing

Schindler’s List, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. Steven Spielberg.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Schindler’s List, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. Art direction by Allan Starski; set decoration by Ewa Braun.

Cinematography

Schindler’s List, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. Janusz Kaminski.

Costume Design

The Age of Innocence, Cappa/De Fina Production; Columbia. Gabriella Pescucci.

Documentary

(Feature)

I Am a Promise: The Children of Stanton Elementary School, Verité Films Production. Susan Raymond and Alan Raymond.

(Short Subject)

Defending Our Lives, Cambridge Documentary Films Production. Margaret Lazarus and Renner Wunderlich.

Film Editing

Schindler’s List, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. Michael Kahn.

Foreign Language Film

Belle Epoque, Fernando Trueba P.C. (Madrid)/Lola Films (Barcelona)/Animatografo (Lisbon)/French Production (Paris) Production. (Spain, Portugal, France)

Makeup

Mrs. Doubtfire, 20th Century Fox Production; 20th Century Fox. Greg Cannom, Ve Neill and Yolanda Toussieng.

Music

(Original Score)

Schindler’s List, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. John Williams.

(Original Song)

Streets of Philadelphia from Philadelphia, TriStar Pictures Production; TriStar. Music and lyric by Bruce Springsteen.

Short Films

(Animated)

The Wrong Trousers, Aardman Animations Limited Production. (UK) Nick Park.

(Live Action)

Black Rider (Schwarzfahrer), Trans-Film GmbH Production. (Germany) Pepe Danquart.

Sound

Jurassic Park, Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy and Ron Judkins.

Sound Effects Editing

Jurassic Park, Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. Gary Rydstrom and Richard Hymns.

Visual Effects

Jurassic Park, Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

Schindler’s List, Universal Pictures/Amblin Entertainment Production; Universal. Steven Zaillian.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

The Piano, Jan Chapman & CIBY 2000 Production; Miramax Films. (New Zealand, Australia, France) Jane Campion.

Honorary Award

To Deborah Kerr in appreciation for a full career’s worth of elegant and beautifully crafted performances. [ [Statuette]]

Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

Paul Newman

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Petro Vlahos

Scientific and Technical Award

(Academy Award of Merit)

To Panavision for the Auto Panatar anamorphic photographic lens.

To Manfred G. Michelson of Technical Film Systems, Incorporated, for the design and development of the first sprocket-driven film transport system for color print film processors which permits speeds in excess of 600 feet per minute.

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Mark Leather, Les Dittert, Douglas Smythe and George Joblove for the concept and development of the Digital Motion Picture Retouching System for removing visible rigging and dirt/damage artifacts from original motion picture imagery.

To Fritz Gabriel Bauer for the design, development and manufacture of the Moviecam Compact Modular 35mm motion picture camera system.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Wally Mills for the concept; and Gary Stadler and Gustave Parada for the design of the Cinemills Lamp Protection System.

To Gary Nuzzi, David Johnsrud and William Blethen for the design and development of the Unilux H3000 Strobe Lighting System.

To Harry J. Baker for the design and development of the Ronford-Baker Metal Tripods for motion picture photography.

To Michael Dorrough for the design and development of the compound meter known as the Dorrough Audio Level Meter.

To David Degenkolb for the development of a Silver Recovery Ion Exchange System to eliminate hazardous waste (silver ion) in wash water and allow recycling of this water.