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 Lessons redheadedly adorable to the end." Peter Bradshaw of "The Guardian" rated the film three out of five stars and commented, "The movie looks like a lot of other things: "Driving Miss Daisy", "Harold and Maude", "Billy Elliot", "Acorn Antiques". It doesn't quite develop its own identity. And it's somehow inevitable that Dame Evie's hilarious swearing and opinionating fade away as sentimentality takes over. But it's a great turn from Julie Walters, and a likable film." The film earned $239,962 in the US and $990,633 in other markets for a total worldwide box office of $1,230,595. At the 28th Moscow International