49th Golden Globe Awards

49th Golden Globe Awards
49th Golden Globe Awards
Date	January 18, 1992
Site	The Beverly Hills Hilton Hotel, Beverly Hill, Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted by	Jacqueline Bisset; Pierce Brosnan
Highlights
Best Film: Drama	Bugsy
Best Film: Musical or Comedy	Beauty and the Beast
Best Drama Series	Northern Exposure
Best Musical or Comedy Series	Brooklyn Bridge
Most awards	(3) Beauty and the Beast
Most nominations	(8) Bugsy
Television coverage
Network	TBS
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The 49th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1991, were held on January 18, 1992 at the Beverly Hilton.^[1]^[2] The nominations were announced on December 27, 1991.^[3]^[4]

Winners and nominees

A 1992 photo. — Nick Nolte, Best Actor Motion Picture – Drama winner

Jodie Foster, Best Actress Motion Picture – Drama winner

Robin Williams, Best Actor Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy winner

Jack Palance, Best Supporting Actor winner

Mercedes Ruehl, Best Supporting Actress winner

Agnieszka Holland, Best Foreign Language Film winner

Scott Bakula, Best Actor – Drama Series winner

Angela Lansbury, Best Actress – Drama Series winner

Burt Reynolds, Best Actor – Comedy or Musical Series winner

Candice Bergen, Best Actress – Comedy or Musical Series winner

Beau Bridges, Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Movie winner

Judy Davis, Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Movie winner

Film

Best Motion Picture
Drama	Musical or Comedy
Bugsy JFK The Prince of Tides The Silence of the Lambs Thelma & Louise	*Beauty and the Beast* City Slickers The Commitments The Fisher King Fried Green Tomatoes
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama
Actor	Actress
*Nick Nolte – The Prince of Tides* as Tom Wingo** Warren Beatty – Bugsy as Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel Kevin Costner – JFK as Jim Garrison Robert De Niro – Cape Fear as Max Cady Anthony Hopkins – The Silence of the Lambs as Hannibal Lecter	Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs as Clarice Starling Annette Bening – Bugsy as Virginia Hill Geena Davis – Thelma & Louise as Thelma Dickinson Laura Dern – Rambling Rose as Rose Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise as Louise Sawyer
Best Performance in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy
Actor	Actress
Robin Williams – The Fisher King as Parry Jeff Bridges – The Fisher King as Jack Lucas Billy Crystal – City Slickers as Mitch Robbins Dustin Hoffman – Hook as Captain Hook Kevin Kline – Soapdish as Jeffrey Anderson	Bette Midler – For the Boys as Dixie Leonard Ellen Barkin – Switch as Amanda Brooks Kathy Bates – Fried Green Tomatoes as Evelyn Couch Anjelica Huston – The Addams Family as Morticia Addams Michelle Pfeiffer – Frankie and Johnny as Frankie
Best Supporting Performance in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical or Comedy
Supporting Actor	Supporting Actress
Jack Palance – City Slickers as Curly Washburn Ned Beatty – Hear My Song as Josef "Jo" Locke John Goodman – Barton Fink as Charlie Meadows Harvey Keitel – Bugsy as Mickey Cohen Ben Kingsley – Bugsy as Meyer Lansky	Mercedes Ruehl – The Fisher King as Anne Napolitano Nicole Kidman – Billy Bathgate as Drew Preston Diane Ladd – Rambling Rose as Mrs. Hillyer Juliette Lewis – Cape Fear as Danielle "Danny" Bowden Jessica Tandy – Fried Green Tomatoes as Ninny Threadgoode
Best Director	Best Screenplay
Oliver Stone – JFK Barry Levinson – Bugsy Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs Terry Gilliam – The Fisher King Barbra Streisand – The Prince of Tides	Thelma & Louise – Callie Khouri Bugsy – James Toback Grand Canyon – Lawrence Kasdan and Meg Kasdan JFK – Zachary Sklar and Oliver Stone The Silence of the Lambs – Ted Tally
Best Original Score	Best Original Song
Beauty and the Beast – Alan Menken At Play in the Fields of the Lord – Zbigniew Preisner Bugsy – Ennio Morricone Dead Again – Patrick Doyle For the Boys – Dave Grusin Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves – Michael Kamen	"Beauty and the Beast" performed by Peabo Bryson and Céline Dion – Beauty and the Beast "Be Our Guest" performed by Angela Lansbury and Jerry Orbach – Beauty and the Beast "Dreams to Dream" – An American Tail: Fievel Goes West "(Everything I Do) I Do It for You" – Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves "Tears in Heaven" performed by Eric Clapton – Rush
Best Foreign Language Film
Europa, Europa, Germany The Double Life of Véronique (La double vie de Véronique), France High Heels (Tacones lejanos), Spain Lost in Siberia (Zateryannyy v Sibiri), USSR Madame Bovary, France Nikita, France

The following films received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
8	Bugsy
5	The Fisher King
5	The Silence of the Lambs
4	Beauty and the Beast
	JFK
	Thelma & Louise
3	City Slickers
	Fried Green Tomatoes
	The Prince of Tides
2	Cape Fear
	For the Boys
	Rambling Rose
	Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves

The following films received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
3	Beauty and the Beast
2	The Fisher King

Television

Best Television Series
Best Series – Drama	Best Series – Comedy or Musical
*Northern Exposure* Beverly Hills, 90210 I'll Fly Away L.A. Law Law & Order	Brooklyn Bridge Cheers Evening Shade The Golden Girls Murphy Brown
Best Lead Actor in a Television Series
Best Actor – Drama Series	Best Actor – Comedy or Musical Series
Scott Bakula – Quantum Leap Mark Harmon – Reasonable Doubts James Earl Jones – Pros & Cons Rob Morrow – Northern Exposure Carroll O'Connor – In the Heat of the Night Sam Waterston – I'll Fly Away	Burt Reynolds – Evening Shade Ted Danson – Cheers Neil Patrick Harris – Doogie Howser, M.D. Craig T. Nelson – Coach Ed O'Neill – Married... with Children
Best Lead Actress in a Television Series
Best Actress – Drama Series	Best Actress – Comedy or Musical Series
Angela Lansbury – Murder, She Wrote Susan Dey – L.A. Law Sharon Gless – The Trials of Rosie O'Neill Marlee Matlin – Reasonable Doubts Janine Turner – Northern Exposure	Candice Bergen – Murphy Brown Kirstie Alley – Cheers Jamie Lee Curtis – Anything But Love Roseanne Barr – Roseanne Katey Sagal – Married... with Children
Best Supporting Performance – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Best Supporting Actor – Series, Miniseries or Television Film	Best Supporting Actress – Series, Miniseries or Television Film
Louis Gossett Jr. – The Josephine Baker Story Larry Drake – L.A. Law Michael Jeter – Evening Shade Richard Kiley – Separate but Equal Dean Stockwell – Quantum Leap	Amanda Donohoe – L.A. Law Sammi Davis – Homefront Faith Ford – Murphy Brown Estelle Getty – The Golden Girls Park Overall – Empty Nest Rhea Perlman – Cheers Jean Stapleton – Fire in the Dark
Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Movie	Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Movie
Beau Bridges – Without Warning: The James Brady Story Sam Elliott – Conagher Peter Falk – Columbo and the Murder of a Rock Star Sam Neill – One Against the Wind Sidney Poitier – Separate but Equal	Judy Davis – One Against the Wind Glenn Close – Sarah, Plain and Tall Sally Kirkland – The Haunted Jessica Tandy – The Story Lady Lynn Whitfield – The Josephine Baker Story
Best Miniseries or Television Movie
*One Against the Wind* In a Child's Name The Josephine Baker Story Sarah, Plain and Tall Separate But Equal

The following programs received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Title
4	Cheers
4	L.A. Law
3	Evening Shade
	Murphy Brown
	One Against the Wind
	Separate but Equal
2	The Golden Girls
	I'll Fly Away
	The Josephine Baker Story
	Married... with Children
	Northern Exposure
	Quantum Leap
	Reasonable Doubts
	Sarah, Plain and Tall

The following films and programs received multiple wins:

Wins	Title
2	One Against the Wind

Ceremony

Presenters

Cecil B. DeMille Award

Robert Mitchum

Miss Golden Globe

Joely Fisher (daughter of Connie Fisher & Eddie Fisher)

Awards breakdown

The following networks received multiple nominations:

Nominations	Network
20	NBC
16	CBS
9	ABC
4	Fox
2	HBO

The following networks received multiple wins:

Wins	Network
2	CBS

References

^ Fox, David (20 January 1992). "And the Race Is On . . . : 'Bugsy,' 'Beauty,' 'JFK' Win Globes--Leave Top Oscar Wide Open". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
^ Weinraub, Bernard (20 January 1992). "Track Record Polishes Golden Globes' Gleam". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
^ Fox, David (28 December 1991). "'Bugsy' Hits the Jackpot : Film Leads Golden Globe Field With 8 Nominations". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 January 2018.
^ "'Bugsy' has 8 Globe nominations". Ellensburg Daily Record. 28 December 1991. Retrieved 14 January 2018 – via Google News Archive.

[1] Fox, David (20 January 1992). "And the Race Is On . . . : 'Bugsy,' 'Beauty,' 'JFK' Win Globes--Leave Top Oscar Wide Open". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 January 2018.

[2] Weinraub, Bernard (20 January 1992). "Track Record Polishes Golden Globes' Gleam". The New York Times. Retrieved 14 January 2018.

[3] Fox, David (28 December 1991). "'Bugsy' Hits the Jackpot : Film Leads Golden Globe Field With 8 Nominations". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved 14 January 2018.

[4] "'Bugsy' has 8 Globe nominations". Ellensburg Daily Record. 28 December 1991. Retrieved 14 January 2018 – via Google News Archive.

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