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
The Saint (1997 film) film of "The Saint" started with the powerhouse above-the-line team of Robert Evans as producer, Steven Zaillian as writer and Sydney Pollack as director. Ralph Fiennes—hot from "Schindler's List" and "Quiz Show"—was offered $1 million for the lead, but eventually passed. In a 1994 interview for "Premiere" magazine, Fiennes said the screenplay—racing fast cars, breaking into Swiss banks—was nothing he hadn't seen before. Robert Evans left the project—although, contractually, his name remains on the final film's credits—and David Brown ("Jaws", "Driving Miss Daisy") took over. A new story was commissioned from Jonathan Hensleigh ("Die Hard with a Vengeance"), which cast