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Driving Miss Daisy
1989
· Movie
· 99 min
B
MEANRANK
76/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #1289
- IMDb #1487
- Google retired #1269
- Rotten Tomatoes #1305
- Metacritic #830
- Letterboxd #2817
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- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #1573
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #1546
- Metacritic Critics #652
- Metacritic Audience #1586
- Criticker #1292
- Douban #433
- Kinopoisk #631
- AlloCiné #2177
- Trakt #1566
Every rating
54–90
out of 100
An aging, wealthy Jewish widow in the American South is forced to accept a chauffeur by her concerned son. Despite her initial resistance, a profound 25-year friendship develops between the stubborn woman and her patient, African-American driver, set against a backdrop of societal change and racial prejudice.
Details
- Director
- Bruce Beresford
- Writer
- Alfred Uhry
- Based on
- Driving Miss Daisy by Alfred Uhry
- Released
- 13 December 1989
- Country
- United States, United Kingdom
- Language
- English, Hebrew
- Runtime
- 99 min
- Rated
- PG
- Budget
- $7.5M
- Box office
- $145.8M
- Awards
- 21 wins, 15 nominations
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Cast
Full cast (24) →
Awards & nominations
See all 36 →10 major awards won · 21 wins from 36 nominations across 17 ceremonies
| Academy Awards 1989 | Best Picture | Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1989 | Best Actress | Jessica Tandy | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1989 | Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Alfred Uhry | Winner |
| Academy Awards 1989 | Best Makeup | Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber, and Kevin Haney | Winner |
| Berlin International Film Festival 1989 | Best Joint Performance | Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman | Winner |
| Golden Globe Awards 1989 | Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Morgan Freeman | Winner |
| Golden Globe Awards 1989 | Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Jessica Tandy | Winner |
| Golden Globe Awards 1989 | Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Winner |
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Academy Awards
9 nominations, 4 won
| Best Actress | Jessica Tandy | Winner |
| Best Makeup | Manlio Rocchetti, Lynn Barber, and Kevin Haney | Winner |
| Best Picture | Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck | Winner |
| Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Alfred Uhry | Winner |
| Best Actor | Morgan Freeman | Nominee |
| Best Art Direction | Art Direction: Bruno Rubeo ; Set Decoration: Crispian Sallis | Nominee |
| Best Costume Design | Elizabeth McBride | Nominee |
| Best Film Editing | Mark Warner | Nominee |
| Best Supporting Actor | Dan Aykroyd | Nominee |
Golden Globe Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Morgan Freeman | Winner |
| Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Jessica Tandy | Winner |
| Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy | Winner |
Berlin International Film Festival
2 nominations, 1 won
| Best Joint Performance | Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman | Winner |
| Golden Bear | Bruce Beresford | Nominee |
Producers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures | Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck | Winner |
Writers Guild of America Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium | Alfred Uhry | Winner |
Grammy Awards
1 nomination
| Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television | Driving Miss Daisy – Hans Zimmer | Nominee |
National Board of Review Awards
3 nominations, 3 won
| Best Actor | Morgan Freeman | Winner |
| Best Film | Winner | |
| Top Ten Films | Winner |
Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
2 nominations, 2 won
| Best Actor | Morgan Freeman | Winner |
| Best Actress | Jessica Tandy | Winner |
British Academy Film Awards
4 nominations, 1 won
| Best Actress in a Leading Role | Jessica Tandy | Winner |
| Best Adapted Screenplay | Alfred Uhry | Nominee |
| Best Direction | Bruce Beresford | Nominee |
| Best Film | Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, and Bruce Beresford | Nominee |
BMI Film & TV Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Film Music Award | Hans Zimmer | Winner |
Boston Society of Film Critics Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Actress | Jessica Tandy | Winner |
David di Donatello Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Foreign Actress | Jessica Tandy | Winner |
NAACP Image Awards
1 nomination, 1 won
| Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture | Morgan Freeman | Winner |
Nastro d'Argento
1 nomination, 1 won
| Best Female Dubbing | Micaela Giustiniani (for dubbing Jessica Tandy) | Winner |
American Comedy Awards
3 nominations
| Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Morgan Freeman | Nominee |
| Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role) | Jessica Tandy | Nominee |
| Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture | Dan Aykroyd | Nominee |
Political Film Society Awards
1 nomination
| Human Rights | Nominee |
Retirement Research Foundation, USA
1 nomination
| Wise Owl Award – Television and Theatrical Film Fiction | David Brown, Richard D. Zanuck, and Lili Fini Zanuck | Nominee |