Mobile, Alabama in popular culture of the Steven Seagal movie "Under Siege" (co-starring Tommy Lee Jones) was filmed on the , which is docked on Mobile Bay at Battleship Memorial Park and open to the public. In the movie "Driving Miss Daisy", Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy) has her driver Hoke Colburn (Morgan Freeman) drive her to her brother's birthday party in Mobile. Much of the feature films "Love Liza" (starring Philip Seymour Hoffman), and "Hometown Legend" (starring Terry O'Quinn), and the TV movie "Sacrifice" (starring Michael Madsen and Diane Farr) were shot in Mobile. Brian Bosworth's movie "Stone Cold" also featured scenes shot in Mobile.
5th Academy Awards Best Picture without a Best Director nomination until "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), and the third of seven to win without a screenwriting nomination. This was the first of three Oscars in which "two" films not nominated for Best Picture received more nominations than the winner ("Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" and "The Guardsman"). This happened again at the 25th and 79th Academy Awards. This year also introduced short films to the Oscars, with "Flowers and Trees" being the first color winner and first animated short winner. This was the first and, to date, only ceremony in which there was a