Driving Miss Daisy (play) for a 1989 film of the same name starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd. All three actors were nominated for Academy Awards, with Tandy winning the Academy Award for Best Actress. The film received nine nominations total, and won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Uhry also won an Academy Award for his screenplay. Driving Miss Daisy (play) Driving Miss Daisy is a play by American playwright Alfred Uhry, about the relationship of an elderly white Southern Jewish woman, Daisy Werthan, and her African-American chauffeur, Hoke Coleburn, from 1948 to 1973. The play was the first in Uhry's
Jessica Barboza and was crowned "Miss Earth-Water" (2nd runner-up). Barboza competed in 2010 as Miss Distrito Capital in her country's national beauty pageant, Miss Venezuela, obtaining the title of "Miss International Venezuela" on October 28, 2010. She represented Venezuela in the 2011 Miss International pageant in Chengdu, China in November 6, 2011. During the Miss International 2011 final, Jessica Barboza was announced as the 1st Runner-Up. Jessica Barboza Jessica Cristina Barboza Schmidt (born August 14, 1987) is a Venezuelan model and beauty pageant titleholder who won the titles of Miss Earth Venezuela 2009 and Miss International Venezuela 2010. Barboza won in 2009