1991

Best Picture

JFK
-The Silence of the Lambs
-Raise the Red Lantern
-Terminator 2
-Bugsy

Best Director

"Well that's the real question, isn't it? Why? The how and the who is just scenery for the public. Oswald, Ruby, Cuba, the Mafia. Keeps 'em guessing like some kind of parlor game, prevents 'em from asking the most important question, why? Why was Kennedy killed? Who benefited? Who has the power to cover it up? Who?"
Oliver Stone for JFK
-Jonathan Demme for The Silence of the Lambs
-Zhang Yimou for Raise the Red Lantern
-Martin Scorsese for Cape Fear
-Barry Levinson for Bugsy

Best Actor

"Yeah. Well, I-I don't know, I mean, I mean for me, I could love someone even if I, you know, wasn't paid for it. I love you, and... you don't pay me."
River Phoenix as Mike Waters in My Own Private Idaho
-Warren Beatty as Benjamin Siegel in Bugsy
-Robert De Niro as Max Cady in Cape Fear
-Val Kilmer as Jim Morrison in The Doors
-Kevin Costner as Jim Garrison in JFK

Best Actress

"Let me be a concubine. Isn't that the fate of a woman?"
Gong Li as Songlian in Raise the Red Lantern
-Laura Dern as Rose in Rambling Rose
-Jodie Foster as Clarice Starling in The Silence of the Lambs
-Susan Surandon as Louise in Thelma & Louise
-Annette Bening as Virginia Hill in Bugsy

Best Supporting Actor

"Amputate a man's leg and he can still feel it tickling. Tell me, mum, when your little girl is on the slab, where will it tickle you?"
Anthony Hopkins as Dr. Hannibal Lector in The Silence Of The Lambs
-Patrick Swayze as Bodi in Point Break
-Tommy Lee Jones as Clay Shaw in JFK
-Harvey Keitel as Mickey Cohen in Bugsy
-Samuel L. Jackson as Gator Purify in Jungle Fever

Best Supporting Actress

"Oh you poor thing, don't you cry. Nobody's perfect. Who's the father dear?"
Diane Ladd as Mother in Rambling Rose
-Jessica Tandy as Ninny Threadgoode in Fried Green Tomatoes
-Juliette Lewis as Danielle Bowden in Cape Fear
-Geena Davis as Thelma in Thelma & Louise
-Nicole Kidman as Drew Preston in Billy Bathgate

Best Screenplay

"It rubs the lotion on its skin or else it gets the hose again."
The Silence of the Lambs
-JFK
-Barton Fink
-What About Bob?
-Bugsy
-Boyz n the Hood