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"
Miss Germany mobilized against the "meat-inspects". Public interest diminished. Influential organisers became not active before the end of the 1970s. The international franchises held by "Opal" became vacant. In 1979, "Miss Germany" was elected live in the German television for the first time. It was not until 1982 that the first rival contest was held again after a long interval. Since 1985, at least two organisations run rival pageants: Notes: Daisy d’Ora was a pseudonym. The real name of the 1931 winner was "Daisy, Baronesse von Freyberg". – In 1935, Elisabeth Pitz from Saarbrücken participated in the Miss Europe Pageant in Paris