Driving Miss Daisy and violent people deny their humanity and ours, what a lesson to see a film that looks into the heart." Peter Travers of "Rolling Stone" also gave the film a positive review, calling Tandy's performance "glorious" and opining, "This is Tandy's finest two hours onscreen in a film career that goes back to 1932." The performances of Tandy and Freeman were also praised by Vincent Canby of "The New York Times", who observed, "The two actors manage to be highly theatrical without breaking out of the realistic frame of the film." "Driving Miss Daisy" also achieved the following distinctions at
Richard D. Zanuck 2, 1954, Leominster, Massachusetts), a former World Bank employee and Carnation Co. office manager, who helped him raise his sons from his second marriage, and would co-produce some of his most memorable films, including "Cocoon" (1985), "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989), and "Reign of Fire" (2002). When the Zanucks won the Best Picture Oscar in 1989 for "Driving Miss Daisy", Lili Fini Zanuck was only the second woman in history to have earned an Oscar for Best Picture. In 1998, she directed an episode of the HBO miniseries "From the Earth to the Moon", titled "We Have Cleared the Tower", and