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
Daisy Buchanan seductive instant intimacy of the careless rich" while Leigh Paatsch of News.com.au thought Farrow missed Daisy "by a country mile." Vincent Canby of "The New York Times", in an otherwise negative review of the film, wrote favorably of Farrow as Daisy, calling the actress' performance "just odd enough to be right as Daisy, a woman who cannot conceive of the cruelties she so casually commits". The author's own daughter, Scottie Fitzgerald Smith, after re-reading his book, when selling film rights, noted of Farrow in 1974: Mira Sorvino played Daisy in the 2000 film adaptation. In the 2013 film adaptation with