48th Golden Globe Awards

48th
Golden Globe Awards

January 19, 1991

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Picture - Drama:
Dances With Wolves

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Picture - Musical or Comedy:
Green Card

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TV Series - Drama:
Twin Peaks

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TV Series - Musical or Comedy:
Cheers

The 48th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1990, were held on January 19, 1991.

Winners

Film

Best Actor - Drama

Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune

• Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves
• Richard Harris - The Field
• Al Pacino - The Godfather Part III
• Robin Williams - Awakenings

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy

Gérard Depardieu - Green Card

• Macaulay Culkin - Home Alone
• Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands
• Richard Gere - Pretty Woman
• Patrick Swayze - Ghost

Best Actress - Drama

Kathy Bates - Misery

• Anjelica Huston - The Grifters
• Michelle Pfeiffer - The Russia House
• Susan Sarandon - White Palace
• Joanne Woodward - Mr. & Mrs. Bridge

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy

Julia Roberts - Pretty Woman

• Mia Farrow - Alice
• Andie MacDowell - Green Card
• Demi Moore - Ghost
• Meryl Streep - Postcards from the Edge

Best Director

Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves

• Bernardo Bertolucci - The Sheltering Sky
• Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather Part III
• Barbet Schroeder - Reversal of Fortune
• Martin Scorsese - GoodFellas

Best Film - Drama

Dances with Wolves

• Avalon
• The Godfather Part III
• GoodFellas
• Reversal of Fortune

Best Film - Musical or Comedy

Green Card

• Dick Tracy
• Ghost
• Home Alone
• Pretty Woman

Best Foreign Language Film

Cyrano de Bergerac, France

• Dreams, Japan
• The Nasty Girl (Das Schreckliche Mädchen), West Germany
• Requiem for Dominic (Requiem für Dominik), Austria
• Taxi Blues (Taksi-Blyuz), USSR

Best Music, Original Score

"The Sheltering Sky" - Ryuichi Sakamoto and Richard Horowitz

• "Avalon" - Randy Newman
• "Dances with Wolves" - John Barry
• "The Godfather Part III" - Carmine Coppola
• "Havana" - Dave Grusin

Best Original Song

"Blaze of Glory" performed by Jon Bon Jovi - Young Guns II

• "Sooner or Later (I Always Get My Man)" performed by Madonna - Dick Tracy
• "What Can You Lose?" performed by Madonna and Mandy Patinkin - Dick Tracy
• "Promise Me You'll Remember" performed by Harry Connick, Jr. - The Godfather Part III
• "I'm Checkin' Out" performed by Meryl Streep and Blue Rodeo - Postcards from the Edge

Best Screenplay

Dances with Wolves - Michael Blake

• Avalon - Barry Levinson
• The Godfather Part III - Francis Ford Coppola and Mario Puzo
• Goodfellas - Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorsese
• Reversal of Fortune - Nicholas Kazan

Best Supporting Actor

Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion

• Armand Assante - Q & A
• Hector Elizondo - Pretty Woman
• Andy García - The Godfather Part III
• Al Pacino - Dick Tracy
• Joe Pesci - Goodfellas

Best Supporting Actress

Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost

• Lorraine Bracco - Goodfellas
• Diane Ladd - Wild at Heart
• Shirley MacLaine - Postcards from the Edge
• Mary McDonnell - Dances with Wolves
• Winona Ryder - Mermaids

Television

Best Actor - Drama Series

Kyle MacLachlan - Twin Peaks

• Scott Bakula - Quantum Leap
• Peter Falk - Columbo
• James Earl Jones - Gabriel's Fire
• Carroll O'Connor - In the Heat of the Night

Best Actor - Musical or Comedy Series

Ted Danson - Cheers

• John Goodman - Roseanne
• Richard Mulligan - Empty Nest
• Burt Reynolds - Evening Shade
• Fred Savage - The Wonder Years

Best Actor - Miniseries or television film

James Garner - Decoration Day

• Steven Bauer - Drug Wars: The Camarena Story
• Michael Caine - Jekyll & Hyde
• Tom Hulce - Murder in Mississippi
• Burt Lancaster - The Phantom of the Opera
• Rick Schroder - The Stranger Within

Best Actress - Drama Series

Sharon Gless - The Trials of Rosie O'Neill
Patricia Wettig - thirtysomething

• Dana Delany - China Beach
• Susan Dey - L.A. Law
• Jill Eikenberry - L.A. Law
• Angela Lansbury - Murder, She Wrote

Best Actress - Musical or Comedy Series

Kirstie Alley - Cheers

• Candice Bergen - Murphy Brown
• Carol Burnett - Carol & Company
• Roseanne - Roseanne
• Katey Sagal - Married... with Children

Best Actress - Miniseries or television film

Barbara Hershey - A Killing in a Small Town

• Suzanne Pleshette - Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean
• Annette O'Toole - The Kennedys of Massachusetts
• Lesley Ann Warren - Family of Spies
• Stephanie Zimbalist - Caroline?

Best Series - Drama

Twin Peaks

• China Beach
• In the Heat of the Night
• L.A. Law
• thirtysomething

Best Series - Musical or Comedy

Cheers

• Designing Women
• The Golden Girls
• Married... with Children
• Murphy Brown

Best Miniseries or television film

Decoration Day

• Caroline?
• Family of Spies
• The Kennedys of Massachusetts
• The Phantom of the Opera

Best Supporting Actor - Series, Miniseries or television film

Charles Durning - The Kennedys of Massachusetts

• Barry Miller - Equal Justice
• Jimmy Smits - L.A. Law
• Dean Stockwell - Quantum Leap
• Blair Underwood - L.A. Law

Best Supporting Actress - Series, Miniseries or television film

Piper Laurie - Twin Peaks

• Sherilyn Fenn - Twin Peaks
• Faith Ford - Murphy Brown
• Marg Helgenberger - China Beach
• Park Overall - Empty Nest

See also

• 48th Golden Globe Awards nominees
• 63rd Academy Awards
• 11th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 42nd Primetime Emmy Awards
• 43rd Primetime Emmy Awards
• 44th British Academy Film Awards
• 45th Tony Awards
• 1990 in film
• 1990 in American television

References

• IMDb - 1991 Golden Globe Awards