62nd Academy Awards at The Beverly Hilton in Beverly Hills, California on March 3, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by hosts Richard Dysart and Diane Ladd. "Driving Miss Daisy" won four awards including Best Picture and Best Actress for Jessica Tandy, the oldest person at the time to win a competitive acting Oscar. Other winners included "Glory" with three awards, "Born on the Fourth of July", "The Little Mermaid", and "My Left Foot" with two, and "The Abyss", "Balance", "Batman", "Cinema Paradiso", "", "Dead Poets Society", "Henry V", "Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade", "The Johnstown Flood", and "Work Experience"
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