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
Breaker Morant (film) by the Brits. After the success of "Breaker Morant", Beresford was offered dozens of Hollywood scripts including "Tender Mercies", which he later directed. The 1983 film earned him his only Academy Award nomination for Best Director to date, even though 1989's "Driving Miss Daisy", which he directed, won Best Picture. Beresford said that "Breaker Morant" was not that successful commercially: Critically, it was important, which is a key factor, and it has kept being shown over the years. Whenever I am in Los Angeles, it's always on TV. I get phone calls from people who say, 'I saw your movie,