Driving Miss Daisy Driving Miss Daisy The story defines Daisy and her point of view through a network of relationships and emotions by focusing on her home life, synagogue, friends, family, fears, and concerns over a twenty five-year period. "Driving Miss Daisy" was a critical and commercial success upon its release and at the 62nd Academy Awards received nine nominations, and won four; Best Picture, Best Actress (for Tandy), Best Makeup and Hairstyling, and Best Adapted Screenplay. In 1948, Mrs. Daisy Werthan, or Miss Daisy (Jessica Tandy), a seventy-two-year-old wealthy, Jewish, widowed, retired school teacher, lives alone in Atlanta, Georgia, except for an
Driving Lessons redheadedly adorable to the end." Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" rated the film three out of five stars and commented, "The movie looks like a lot of other things: "Driving Miss Daisy", "Harold and Maude", "Billy Elliot", "Acorn Antiques". It doesn't quite develop its own identity. And it's somehow inevitable that Dame Evie's hilarious swearing and opinionating fade away as sentimentality takes over. But it's a great turn from Julie Walters, and a likable film." The film earned $239,962 in the US and $990,633 in other markets for a total worldwide box office of $1,230,595. At the 28th Moscow International