1990: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. White Hunter, Black Heart (dir: Clint Eastwood)

2. Edward Scissorhands (dir: Tim Burton)

3. Goodfellas (dir: Martin Scorsese)

4. Miller’s Crossing (dir: Joel Coen)

5. My Neighbor Totoro (dir: Hayao Miyazaki; US Release Date)

6. Blue Steel (dir: Kathryn Bigelow)

7. Trust (dir: Hal Hartly)

8. Gremlins 2: The New Batch (dir: Joe Dante)

9. To Sleep with Anger (dir: Charles Burnett)

10. Total Recall (dir: Paul Verhoeven)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Chameleon Street (dir: Wendell B. Harris, Jr.), Chocolat (dir: Claire Denis; US Release Date), The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover (dir: Peter Greenaway), Darkman (dir: Sam Raimi), Dick Tracy (dir: Warren Beatty), A Grand Day Out (dir: Nick Park; US Release Date); Henry & June (dir: Philip Kaufman), How to Get Ahead in Advertising (dir: Bruce Robinson; US Release Date), King of New York (dir: Abel Ferrera), Metropolitan (dir: Whit Stillman), Miami Blues (dir: George Armitage), Misery (dir: Rob Reiner), Mo’ Better Blues (dir: Spike Lee), Monsieur Hire (dir: Patrice Leconte; US Release Date), Story of Women (dir: Claude Chabrol; US Release Date), Tongues Untied (dir: Marlon Riggs; US Release Date) and Wild at Heart (dir: David Lynch)

Best Film of the Year: White Hunter, Black Heart
Director: Clint Eastwood Producer: Clint Eastwood
US Distributor: Warner Brothers

Best Director:
Tim Burton, Edward Scissorhands
2. Martin Scorsese, Goodfellas
3. Joel Coen, Miller’s Crossing
4. Clint Eastwood, White Hunter, Black Heart
5. Kathryn Bigelow, Blue Steel

Best Actor:
Clint Eastwood, White Hunter, Black Heart
2. Nicolas Cage, Wild at Heart
3. Johnny Depp, Edward Scissorhands
4. Richard E. Grant, How to Get Ahead in Advertising
5. Denzel Washington, Mo’ Better Blues

Best Actress:
Jamie Lee Curtis, Blue Steel
2. Sandrine Bonnaire, Monsieur Hire
3. Maria de Medeiros, Henry & June
4. Isabelle Huppert, Story of Women
5. Kathy Bates, Misery

Best Supporting Actor:
Laurence Fishburne, King of New York
2. Joe Pesci, Goodfellas
3. Danny Glover, To Sleep with Anger
4. Chris Eigeman, Metropolitan
5. John Turturro, Miller's Crossing

Best Supporting Actress:
Dianne Wiest, Edward Scissorhands 
2. Annette Bening, The Grifters
3. Jennifer Jason Leigh, Miami Blues
4. Elizabeth Peña, Jacob’s Ladder
5. Sharon Stone, Total Recall

Best Original Screenplay:
Miller’s Crossing – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2. To Sleep with Anger – Charles Burnett
3. Trust — Hal Hartley
4. Jacob's Ladder — Bruce Joel Rubin 
5. Chameleon Street — Wendell B. Harris Jr.

Best Adapted Screenplay:
White Hunter, Black Heart — Peter Viertel, James Bridges, and Burt Kennedy
2. Goodfellas – Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese
3. Gremlins 2: The New Batch — Charlie Haas
4. Henry & June – Philip Kaufman and Rose Kaufman
5. Miami Blues — George Armitage

Best Cinematography:
Henry & June – Philippe Rousselot
2. Dick Tracy – Vittorio Storaro
3. Darkman — Bill Pope
4. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover — Sacha Vierny
5. Miller's Crossing — Barry Sonnenfeld

Best Original Score:
Edward Scissorhands – Danny Elfman
2. The Handmaid’s Tale – Ryuichi Sakamoto
3. Misery — Marc Shaiman
4. Mo’ Better Blues – Bill Lee
5. The Sheltering Sky – Ryuichi Sakamoto 

Best Film Editing:
Goodfellas – Thelma Schoonmaker and James Kwei
2. Darkman — Bud S. Smith and David Stiven
3. Jacob's Ladder — Tom Rolf
4. Total Recall – Carlos Puente and Frank J. Urioste
5. Edward Scissorhands – Colleen Halsey and Richard Halsey

Best Production Design:
Dick Tracy – Richard Sylbert and Rick Simpson
2. Edward Scissorhands — Bo Welch and Cheryl Carasik
3. The Cook, the Thief, His Wife & Her Lover — Jan Roelfs and Ben van Os
4. Total Recall – William Sandell and Robert Gould
5. Miller's Crossing – Dennis Gassner and Nancy Haigh

Best Costume Design:
Edward Scissorhands — Colleen Atwood
2. Dick Tracy — Milena Canonero
3. Where the Heart Is — Linda Matheson
4. Henry & June — Yvonne Sassinot de Nesle
5. Cyrano de Bergerac — Franca Squarciapino

Best Visual Effects
Total Recall
2. Ghost
3. Edward Scissorhands

Best Sound
Mo’ Better Blues
2. Days of Thunder
3. Total Recall

Best Makeup
Dick Tracy
2. Darkman
3. Edward Scissorhands

Best Documentary Feature:
Marlon Riggs, Tongues Untied

Best Animated Feature: 
Hayao Miyazaki, My Neighbor Totoro

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Miller’s Crossing

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Whit Stillman, Metropolitan 

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Joel Coen; in alphabetical order): Steve Buscemi, Gabriel Byrne (pictured), Albert Finney (pictured), J.E. Freeman, Marcia Gay Harden, Al Mancini, Jon Polito, Mike Starr, and John Turturro

Best First Feature: Whit Stillman, Metropolitan

RECAP

W I N S :

Edward Scissorhands — 4,
White Hunter, Black Heart — 3, Dick Tracy — 2, Goodfellas — 2, Miller’s Crossing — 2, Blue Steel — 1, Henry & June — 1, The King of New York — 1, Metropolitan — 1, Mo’ Better Blues — 1, My Neighbor Totoro — 1, Tongues Untied – 1, Total Recall — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Edward Scissorhands — 10,
Miller’s Crossing — 7, Goodfellas — 5, Total Recall — 5, Dick Tracy — 4, Henry & June — 4, White Hunter, Black Heart — 4, Blue Steel — 3, Darkman — 3, Jacob’s Ladder — 3, Mo’ Better Blues — 3, To Sleep with Anger — 3, The Cook, The Thief, His Wife and Her Lover — 2, Gremlins 2 — 2, Miami Blues — 2, Misery — 2, My Neighbor Totoro — 2, Trust — 2, Wild at Heart — 2

the year-end project:
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Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s