Bruce Beresford from the play by Beth Henley, did a segment of the film "Aria" (1987), and did the comedy thriller "Her Alibi" (1989) with Tom Selleck. Beresford directed "Driving Miss Daisy" (1989) with Morgan Freeman and Jessica Tandy, from a play by Alfred Uhry. It won the Academy Award for Best Picture, although Beresford was not nominated as director. The film was a commercial and critical success. Asked if he minded not even being nominated for the Best Director Oscar for "Driving Miss Daisy", Beresford said: "No, not at all. I didn't think it was that well directed. It was very
Hans Zimmer on Mars. So, why don't we just invent our own world music for a world that doesn't really exist?". Zimmer's score for "Rain Man" was nominated for an Academy Award in 1989, and the film won four Academy Awards including Best Picture. A year after "Rain Man", Zimmer was asked to compose the score for Bruce Beresford's "Driving Miss Daisy" which, like "Rain Man", won an Academy Award for Best Picture. "Driving Miss Daisy"'s instrumentation consisted entirely of synthesizers and samplers, played by Zimmer. According to an interview with "Sound on Sound" magazine in 2002, the piano sounds heard within