The 1989 Academy Awards were presented March 26, 1990 at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion, Los Angeles.
| Best Picture | Born on the Fourth of July, A. Kitman Ho and Oliver Stone, producers (Universal) |
| Dead Poets Society, Steven Haft, Paul Junger Witt and Tony Thomas, producers (Buena Vista) |
| Driving Miss Daisy, Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck, producers (Warner Bros.) |
| Field of Dreams, Lawrence Gordon and Charles Gordon, producers (Universal) |
| My Left Foot, Noel Pearson, producers (Miramax) |
|  Driving Miss Daisy Archive Photos |
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| Actor in a Leading Role | Kenneth Branagh, Henry V |
| Tom Cruise, Born on the Fourth of July |
| Daniel Day-Lewis, My Left Foot |
| Morgan Freeman, Driving Miss Daisy |
| Robin Williams, Dead Poets Society |
| Actress in a Leading Role | Isabelle Adjani, Camille Claudel |
| Pauline Collins, Shirley Valentine |
| Jessica Lange, Music Box |
| Michelle Pfeiffer, The Fabulous Baker Boys |
| Jessica Tandy, Driving Miss Daisy |
| Actor in a Supporting Role | Danny Aiello, Do the Right Thing |
| Dan Aykroyd, Driving Miss Daisy |
| Marlon Brando, A Dry White Season |
| Martin Landau, Crimes and Misdemeanors |
| Denzel Washington, Glory |
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 Denzel Washington, Glory Archive Photos |
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| Actress in a Supporting Role | Brenda Fricker, My Left Foot |
| Anjelica Huston, Enemies, A Love Story |
| Lena Olin, Enemies, A Love Story |
| Julia Roberts, Steel Magnolias |
| Dianne Wiest, Parenthood |
| Directing | Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors |
| Kenneth Branagh, Henry V |
| Jim Sheridan, My Left Foot |
| Oliver Stone, Born on the Fourth of July |
| Peter Weir, Dead Poets Society |
| Writing | | Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen | Woody Allen, Crimes and Misdemeanors | | Nora Ephron, When Harry Met Sally… | | Spike Lee, Do the Right Thing | | Tom Schulman, Dead Poets Society | | Steven Soderbergh, sex, lies and videotape | | Screenplay Based on Material From Another Medium | Phil Alden Robinson, Field of Dreams | | Jim Sheridan and Shane Connaughton, My Left Foot | | Roger L. Simon and Paul Mazursky, Enemies, A Love Story | | Oliver Stone and Ron Kovic, Born on the Fourth of July | | Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy |
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| Cinematography | Michael Ballhaus, The Fabulous Baker Boys |
| Freddie Francis, Glory |
| Robert Richardson, Born on the Fourth of July |
| Mikael Salomon, The Abyss |
| Haskell Wexler, Blaze |
| Art Direction | Leslie Dilley, art direction; Anne Kuljian, set decoration, The Abyss |
| Dante Ferretti, art direction; Francesca Lo Schiavo, set decoration, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen |
| Anton Furst, art direction; Peter Young, set decoration, Batman |
| Norman Garwood, art direction; Garrett Lewis, set decoration, Glory |
| Bruno Rubeo, art direction; Crispian Sallis, set decoration, Driving Miss Daisy |
| Sound | Don Bassman, Kevin F. Cleary, Richard Overton and Lee Orloff, The Abyss |
| Ben Burtt, Gary Summers, Shawn Murphy and Tony Dawe, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
| Michael Minkler, Gregory H. Watkins, Wylie Stateman and Tod A. Maitland, Born on the Fourth of July |
| Donald O. Mitchell, Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell and Keith A. Wester, Black Rain |
| Donald O. Mitchell, Gregg C. Rudloff, Elliot Tyson and Russell Williams II, Glory |
| Music | | Song | “After All,” Chances Are, Tom Snow, music; Dean Pitchford, lyrics | | “The Girl Who Used to Be Me,” Shirley Valentine, Marvin Hamlisch, music; Alan and Marilyn Bergman, lyrics | | “I Love to See You Smile,” Parenthood, Randy Newman, music and lyrics | | “Kiss the Girl,” The Little Mermaid, Alan Menken, music; Howard Ashman, lyrics | | “Under the Sea,” The Little Mermaid, Alan Menken, music; Howard Ashman, lyrics | | Original Score | David Grusin, The Fabulous Baker Boys | | James Horner, Field of Dreams | | Alan Menken, The Little Mermaid | | John Williams, Born on the Fourth of July | | John Williams, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
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| Film Editing | Noëlle Boisson, The Bear |
| David Brenner and Joe Hutshing, Born on the Fourth of July |
| Steven Rosenblum, Glory |
| William Steinkamp, The Fabulous Baker Boys |
| Mark Warner, Driving Miss Daisy |
| Costume Design | Phyllis Dalton, Henry V |
| Elizabeth McBride, Driving Miss Daisy |
| Gabriella Pescucci, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen |
| Theodor Pistek, Valmont |
| Joe I. Tompkins, Harlem Nights |
| Makeup | Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber and Kevin Haney, Driving Miss Daisy |
| Dick Smith, Ken Diaz and Greg Nelson, Dad |
| Maggie Weston and Fabrizio Sforza, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen |
| Visual Effects | John Bruno, Dennis Muren, Hoyt Yeatman and Dennis Skotak, The Abyss |
| Richard Conway and Kent Houston, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen |
| Ken Ralston, Michael Lantieri, John Bell and Steve Gawley, Back to the Future Part II |
| Sound Effects Editing | Milton C. Burrow and William L. Manger, Black Rain |
| Ben Burtt and Richard Hymns, Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade |
| Robert Henderson and Alan Robert Murray, Lethal Weapon 2 |
| Short Films | | Animation | Balance (Christoph Lauenstein and Wolfgang Lauenstein, producers; Lauenstein Production) | | The Cow (Alexander Petrov, producer; The “Pilot” Co-op Animated Film Studio with VPTO Videofilm) | | The Hill Farm (Mark Baker, producer; National Film and Television School) | | Live Action | Amazon Diary (Robert Nixon, producer; Determined Productions, Inc.) | | The Childeater (Jonathan Tammuz, producer; Stephen-Tammuz Productions, Ltd.) | | Work Experience (James Hendrie, producer; North Inch Production Ltd.) |
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| Documentary | | Short Subject | Fine Food, Fine Pastries, Open 6 to 9 (David Petersen, producer; David Petersen Productions) | | The Johnstown Flood (Charles Guggenheim, producer; Guggenheim Productions) | | Yad Vashem: Preserving the Past to Ensure the Future (Ray Errol Fox, producer; Ray Errol Fox Production) | | Feature | Adam Clayton Powell (Richard Killberg and Yvonne Smith, producers; RKB Productions) | | Common Threads: Stories From the Quilt (Robert Epstein and Bill Couturie, producers; Telling Pictures and the Couturie Company Production) | | Crack USA: County Under Siege (Vince DiPersio and William Guttentag, producers; Half-Court Productions, Ltd.) | | For All Mankind (Al Reinert and Betsy Broyles Breier, producers; Apollo Associates/FAM Productions Inc.) | | Super Chief: The Life and Legacy of Earl Warren (Judith Leonard and Bill Jersey, producers; Quest Production) |
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| Foreign Language Film | Camille Claudel, France |
| Cinema Paradiso, Italy |
| Jesus of Montreal, Canada |
| Waltzing Regitze, Denmark |
| What Happened to Santiago, Puerto Rico |
| Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award | Howard W. Koch |
| Honorary Awards | To Akira Kurosawa for accomplishments that have inspired, delighted, enriched and entertained audiences and influenced filmmakers throughout the world |
| The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences' Board of Governors commends the contributions of the members of the engineering committees of The Society of Motion Picture and Television Engineers (SMPTE). By establishing industry standards, they have greatly contributed to making film a primary form of international communication. |
