Driving Miss Daisy the 62nd Academy Awards: "Driving Miss Daisy" also won three Golden Globe Awards (Best Picture, Best Actor Morgan Freeman, and Best Actress Jessica Tandy) in the Comedy/Musical categories. At the 1989 Writers Guild of America Awards, the film won in the Best Adapted Screenplay category. Rounding out its United States awards, the film won both Best Picture and Best Actor from the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. In the United Kingdom, "Driving Miss Daisy" was nominated for four British Academy Film Awards, with Tandy winning in the Best Actress category. Tandy and Freeman won the Silver Bear for
Driving Miss Daisy reviews, indicating "universal acclaim". CinemaScore similarly reported that audiences gave the film a rare "A+" grade. Gene Siskel of the "Chicago Tribune" declared "Driving Miss Daisy" one of the best films of 1989. Roger Ebert of the "Chicago Sun-Times" called it "a film of great love and patience" and wrote, "It is an immensely subtle film, in which hardly any of the most important information is carried in the dialogue and in which body language, tone of voice or the look in an eye can be the most important thing in a scene. After so many movies in which shallow