Jessica Tandy winning Best Actress for Driving Miss Daisy

[@alisdairmckenzie]

Morgan was so happy for her. What a beautiful duet they made in that heartfelt movie. Lovely

[@Ann595888]

I agree. Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman in DMD is one of my all time favorite pairings in movies. Incredible chemistry. 💖

[@shihlin1]

The last five minutes of the movie get me every time. This is the kind of movie almost no one makes anymore, people connecting in spite of their differences. When that last scene plays, I cry uncontrollably like a school girl everytime

[@emilyh.8704]

What gets me every time is when she is so lost in every way yet when hoak comes to her she reaches for his hand and tells him.." your my best friend" omg I lose it every time! 😢

[@LPJack02]

RIP Jessica Tandy (June 7, 1909 - September 11, 1994), aged 85 And RIP Gregory Peck (April 5, 1916 - June 12, 2003), aged 87 You both will be remembered as legends.

[@prall0915]

I was so happy when she won! She was really good in Fried Green Tomatoes. She was up for Best Supporting Actresses for that film.

[@ATLcentury334]

“But you is rich Miss Daisy”. This is definitely one of our favorites. Her house here in Atlanta is so beautiful.

[@fob1xxl]

One of my favorite films ever ! The story of their friendship is beautiful. Oscar performances by all.

[@hectorguzman4475]

I saw this movie Driving Miss Daisy for the first time! I love it!! 😍😍Amazing actress!!! I’m glad she deserved the awards ❤️🎭🏆 very beautiful movie. Rip Jessica Tandy

[@RobertPagano226]

Love this way of presenting the Oscar to the actor, no more 5 presenters

[@RobertPagano226]

@mikeytrahant943 Thank you Mikey, help me start a petition

[@martinpascoe7678]

totally agreed, the 5 actor thing is overkill

[@RobertPagano226]

@martinpascoe7678 TY Martin!!

[@ALE280290]

I loved Driving Miss Daisy and this is the most deserved award won by this amazing movie. R.I.P. Jessica

[@cynthiabarela5971]

Ive watched DMD about a million times...I ADORE Jessica Tandys acting.

[@Cindrbell]

Don't forget Hume.

[@josefinagarza241]

Haven't watched,saw her in a movie batteries not included....kid friendly too cute

[@miroslavtomic7038]

When a Hollywood legend wins an Oscar many years and decades after her prime...

[@kegginstructure]

Given the strength of her performance, I think she returned to her (acting) prime at least for a while.

[@jasonlindsey9946]

Long overdue. Another fine one from old Hollywood!

[@kegginstructure]

I cried for quite a while after seeing this movie. My mother had gone into a nursing home a couple of years earlier and seeing Miss Daisy in that setting at the end of the movie just opened the floodgates. I have nothing but respect for her acting skills because she did what an actor is supposed to do... move the members of the viewing audience.

[@e.conboy4286]

Same emotions here. After losing my dear father it was impossible for mother to continue. He was the central focus of her life and eventually it was necessary to move her into a carefully selected caring facility and sell the house. I don’t think she even realized the transition as when I took her out for visits, she would let me know when she thought it was time to “Go home”. At first those words hurt me to the core but I was advised by an experienced nurse that she had transitioned and made that place ‘home’. Thank God for that.

[@EricAKATheBelgianGuy]

I always love the kiss that Hume Cronyn plants on her cheek as she gets ready to stand up. :)

[@marjoriegrant8100]

How great to see both her and Hume.

[@acricucci9760]

I didn't know whether her husband Hume Cronyn was still alive at that point but was happy to see him next to her. He was a very gifted actor.

[@emilyh.8704]

Im watching this incredible gifted woman amazing performance Driving Miss Daisy for the no telling how many times I've watched it and I shall never get tired of doing so..she so earned this award and i just wish Morgan Freeman had won one too..such a great movie! Rest easy Ms. Tandy..you are so missed..🙏🕊️❤️🙏

[@ThatGuy-tg7cv]

I think the scene where she is sitting looking out at the Gulf of Mexico and reflecting on childhood memories earned her the Oscar.

[@Alderon2007]

I'm sorry I was was born so late in her life to miss what wonderful talent. Such a gorgeous performance in Driving Miss Daisy.

[@streetsofgold378]

I had heard about this movie but never watched it until today. I loved Morgan Freeman's role. Ms. Daisy was mean and surly but in the end her heart was softened by Hope was that his name?

[@timothyostrowski3812]

@@streetsofgold378 Hoke 💙

[@mauricejamal]

The wonderful thing about film is that you don’t have to miss her talent, although she isn’t with us. Great talent always lives on and inspires us all. FRIED GREEN TOMATOES is a masterpiece and she is amazing in it. And so different than Driving Miss Daisy. And often overlooked because people think it’s a sci-Fi film is COCOON. All these films deal with how you live your life being the most important thing. And in each she is a totally different person (Cocoon is also wonderful because her husband is in it). Most people don’t realize that she was gravely ill when she made all these films. She wasn’t supposed to be working. But she felt she has something else to say. And these ended up being her biggest films and most beloved. And in her 80s. Watch those other two films so you can laugh and cry and have the best time.

[@code-52]

It was glorious, seeing her rise to the top in her golden years.

[@daviddriver2692]

This was a true gem and she deserved to win,was a lil disappointment that when accepting award she failed to thank Morgan Freeman who without his contributions the film wouldn't have been the gem it turned out to be

[@steveweinstein3222]

She thanked the rest of the cast.

[@mikezimmerman2786]

Morgan Freeman made the movie as good as it was.

[@a_leaf]

She wasn't cast for this role because she was seen as promoting equality. Staying true to her character she represents that type of old entitled thinking where her mind and brain do not go to the depths of awareness required to understand the greatness of others in supporting your success or even creating your success... she only knows the constructs of racism that have given her so much privilege and this award speech was the crowning moment for that privilege of course she's not going to think Morgan Freeman because in her mind she deserves this award and the unsung heroes have to go unsung and unseen.

[@thebillryan]

@@a_leaf She was 80 years of age. People tend to be forgetful at that age. Even during big occasions like the Oscars. She even forgot to mention her husband. Give the grievance shtick a rest. You'll feel all the better for it.

[@Cindrbell]

Hume and Morgan.... Seeing her win. 🥰

[@janerohr8055]

No One else could have played that part of hoke so brilliant but Morgan Freeman and Jessica tangie brilliant people

[@scottkrause477]

Such a deserved accolade! Though Michelle Pfeifer was worthy, too!

[@aubrie_morgan]

No comparison

[@christophermarzian6608]

She was the original Blanche Du"bois in A Streetcar Named Desire.

[@rhondatraywick3724]

Classy lady! Well deserved!!!

[@michaelmuldowney8]

34 years after she was stiffed out of recreating her Broadway role in A STREETCAR NAMED DESIRE - she gets belated recognition.

[@johnpickford4222]

@michaelmuldowney8: She was not stiffed and Vivien Leigh was chosen after playing the role on the London stage and making her second Hollywood film 12 years after her first, GONE WITH THE WIND. It came down to box office and Miss Leigh had that and talent. Four years later after doing MacBETH on stage with Olivier, with 4 Best Oscars between them, they couldn’t get backing for a film version. That, unfortunately is shoe business which explains why Lucille Ball (and a $2 million contribution to the budget, got the film role of MAME and not Angels Lansbury. Talk about getting stiffed, screwed and f**ked over!!

[@davidbowden796]

​@@johnpickford4222 Your comments about Vivian Leigh and "box office draw" were very interesting. The movie you also mentioned with Lucille Ball should have been retitled "Lame" since it was only worth watching for scenes with Bea Arthur!

[@davidbowden796]

​@@johnpickford4222 Correction, that should be "LAME"!!

[@michaelmuldowney8]

@@johnpickford4222Many commentators still maintain she was deprived of the opportunity to preserve her Tony Award winning performance on film, especially as she was the only one of the principal Broadway cast who was denied this opportunity.

[@ElaineDavis-t6d]

She was wonderful

[@larryshaver3568]

i recognized Hume Cronyn , he was in a tv movie based on a Neil Simon play[Broadway Bound]

[@constancemoore6040]

This was classy back then.. loved watching them.. now! I don't watch it anymore!

[@YanaTokar-v1j]

Thank you from all my heart !!!!! you beautiful ❤

[@deddyson]

Jessica was incredible as Ms Daisy. Well deserved winning

[@shihlin1]

Very much was made that year about the final Oscar balloting whether voters might be swayed by Michelle Pfeiffer in "Fabulous Baker Boys" vs Jessica Tandy in Daisy. Critics LOVED Pfeiffer in "Baker Boys" whereas Jessica Tandy finished runner-up in most industry awards. I watched both films back-to-back recently and I have to say Academy voters made the right choice. This was not a sentimental vote for Jessica Tandy, her performance was stronger. Michelle got to sing and vamp, but didn't have the meat and bones performance by Tandy. Hollywood insiders thought Pfeiffer would eventually win an Oscar when in fact it didn't happen.

[@ulphil08]

Michelle Pfieffer was absolutely robbed of this award. Her performance in The Fabulous Baker Boys was second to none. This was nothing more than patronizing someone who's career was long over and didn't get recognized in the past so Hollywood said let's give an award before she dies.

[@acricucci9760]

I suspect many, many more people than me would disagree. Michelle was lovely; she could sing and use her beauty to charm men, but she did not have the strength of Jessica Tandy to inhabit the character, which is what real acting is. Jessica won many awards in her life--4 Tony Awards + Golden Globe + Emmy + BAFTA, one of the most gifted actresses of her time.

[@tonitalas1757]

Phenomenal actress! Loved 😍 the movie!

[@5andup]

1. Jessica Tandy - deservedly won 2. Michelle Pfeiffer - will surely win if Driving Miss Daisy was not released in 1989. It is an understated performance, 1989's critics choice for Best Leading Actress 3. Jessica Lange - committed in the role of a lawyer who has to defend his father, a war criminal 4. Pauline Collins - powerful both in the film and the original play 5. Isabelle Adjani - dramatically inert film with an always engaging performance from Adjani

[@shihlin1]

This category came down to Tandy vs. Pfeiffer. I still hope Michelle Pfeiffer wins the Oscar, but she hasn't been in movies past 20 years.

[@813FL80s]

Jessica Lange's look of joy when he said Jessica.... for a split second she thought it was her.

[@fortifarse]

Not sure what clip you watched...

[@seankoontz4235]

@Jimmy Yanes It was the Mark Ruffalo/Mark Rylance of that year

[@shihlin1]

Lange had no chance and she knew it. Pfeiffer deserved it more than her for "Fabulous Baker Boys".

[@felipenunez3931]

Que dices Lange debió ganar por Caja de música , se lo robaron igual que en Francés Farmer

[@nancydavis4618]

Jessica was terrific

[@marceloecalves]

Interesting that she never mentioned Morgan Freeman in her speech. The other actor whom she shared practically all scenes with…

[@robfmas]

Every one of the major actors/characters in the film did a wonderful job. Superb acting in my view

[@lindazwart7048]

She forgot to mention her husband too, but hey, she’s in front of all Hollywood and she was , what, 80? It’s understandable! I’m 62 and I can’t remember what color my underwear are.

[@acricucci9760]

@@lindazwart7048 She was 81, still the oldest actress to ever receive a Best Actress Oscar.

[@Muskogee]

Morgan should have won also.

[@DippyHippie]

Mr. Freeman was asked to speak @ her funeral! It wasn’t intentional that she left him out of her thank you’s! She just had a temporary loss of memory! She was 80!😂

[@RJSAMCRO]

Loved how Hoke up and helped Ms. Daisy to the stage.

[@hotrock388]

His name is Morgan Freeman, and he is a gentleman!

[@psychedelicvibes32]

You know what they say better late than never! 👏🏼🏆

[@UnequivocallyME]

I loved Jessica Lange’s look when he said Jessica… She absolutely froze with anticipation. Glad she eventually won for BLUE SKY. Jessica Tandy was so amazing!

[@Paul-lm5gv]

1909-1994. She was stunning as a young woman!

[@leeeatmon5176]

Saw her in the movie Dragonwyck, 1946, what a great performance ....she plays a "crippled" maid who is verbally abused by her employer, played by vincent price, a drug addict.....and of course her most famous role, Lydia Brenner in the 1963 masterpiece, The Birds////////////// who can count how many times i have watched this movie......of course she has played many roles in movies beginning in the 40s. In those early years, she always played a blonde. What a lovely woman she must have been..........

[@exodia1892]

I don't know how many times we watch this movie back in middle school back then I wanted cartoons but when I grew up it was so good once I understand it hehe

[@VickySwindoll]

One of my all time favorite movies ❤

[@Johnmag1976]

Is that Mr Freeman helping Miss Tandy to the stage ?

[@shihlin1]

Critics had picked Pfeiffer to win the Oscar for her vampy performance in "Fabulous Baker Boys" over Jessica Tandy. Critics and industry insiders were wowed by Michelle's risqué vampy performance as they deemed it a bolder choice. But this was also somewhat a career achievement award for Jessica so Michelle had no chance. Crying shame about Beresford being left out for Best Director.

[@jusjellus]

The reason she calls Bruce Beresford "my forgotten director" is because the film wins best picture and best actress but he wasn't even nominated!

[@SARAWUTPETCHARATANA]

moment of tear.

[@lemilemi5385]

they should have known who won when Gregory peck presented

[@jamiepreston1490]

Yes, She definitely should have thanked Morgan Freeman. He made the movie be that good!

[@janethu9169]

Billy Crystal. Jessica Tendy. Dring Miss Daisy. Gregory Peck. Jeff Bridges. Michelle P., Cat Woman. ....

[@FrankIsAlwaysRight]

There are two thousand more people in the theater. I’ll wait for you to rattle the rest of them off.

[@EternalSabbath]

Jessica Tandy debió ganar por Tomates verdes fritos.

[@erikandrus4387]

I love “Shirley Valentine” Pauline Collins. ❤

[@LMays-cu2hp]

Looking very nice...

[@roizeldiez3500]

Who was the guy that they had a close up of after Ms Tandy won?

[@lindaopthof9504]

Her husband, another great actor, Hume Cronen

[@dacrimsoncurse]

Michelle Pfeiffer deserved this oscar Jessica only won because of career award and cause she hasn't won an oscar , not because her peformance was the best

[@JasonMovieGuy]

If that were the case, Driving Miss Daisy wouldn’t have won Best Picture. The movie is nothing without her and Freeman. Pfeiffer was excellent, but the performance is stuck in a downer for a movie. And nothing really resolves itself. Pfeiffer should have accepted the role as Clarice in Silence of the Lambs- which won Jodie Foster her second Oscar just two years later. Michelle would have easily played that part well and prevailed to the stage. Tandy deserved her Oscar and it was nice to see a lighter performance win.

[@SayonaraMedeiros-n3d]

Exactly!

[@trindadetm]

OMG: until today, i thought this character was performed by Jessica Lange playing an old woman, transformed by an extremely neat make up. Sorry for my injustice, Jessica Tandy. 😳😞#shame

[@kdohertygizbur]

@Dale Longwood hey hey..no need for that

[@alisdairmckenzie]

Lol...just as well it won for Best make up...seems they deserved it too...if you were so well fooled. Lol

[@trindadetm]

@@alisdairmckenzie LOL very accurate, Alisdair! Now, I see that the make-up award was completely intended to sustain my delusional fic theory. Thanks, academy! LOL 😅👏🏻😁🤣

[@biederland4926]

Michelle Pfeiffer should have won for The Fabulous Baker Boys. Jessica Tandy should have won three years later for Fried Green Tomatoes.

[@mikedbigame3398]

Driving Miss Daisy winning the Oscar for best picture in 1990 is the most absurd outcome in the History of the Oscars. And it's worse when you look back and see what wasn't even nominated.

[@MrLoaded2012]

Absolutely. And Tandy's performance, while very good, shouldn't have won either. That said, there have been worse Best Picture choices recently but in 89/90 there were some inexcusable absences.

[@EvanBakerian]

I noticed that as soon as he said Jessica, Jessica Lange looked lol

[@cynthiadavid5282]

Morgan freeman a wonderful actor himself

[@jondstewart]

Miss Daisy was an entitled and covertly racist woman that eventually won over her chauffeur after some 20 years, but the actress playing her in real life was a totally sweet English lady. And the man playing her chauffeur has become probably the most loved actor in America.

[@erichall4548]

Jessica Lange is sooooo underated

[@milesjohnson5487]

She should have thanked Morgan Freeman by name.

[@jazzdub4958]

Sweet, but honestly should have given Morgan a special recognition for his contribution as Tandy wouldn't have put in the same performance without him. It's a pity.

[@leeshepherd8486]

In my opinion the best movie that was over made

[@levialston518]

Without Morgan freeman the outcome would have been completely different still let's give her moment

[@a_leaf]

She is still in character mode when receiving this Oscar, and just like Miss Daisy she would not have thanked Morgan Freeman either. I'm glad people like her are slowly being rooted out of society. Racism has no place in our society anymore, nor do its subtle edicts like not recognizing the guy who carried you throughout the whole film in your award speech. People who want to brush racism under the carpet may excuse her behavior as forgetful, but this is the 21st century we know better now and we call it out.

[@acapavlovic8524]

3:59

[@billykidd6971]

She never thanked Morgan Freeman who in turn, Got her that Oscar! What a shame!

[@paulsuchy6210]

She did thank the cast; maybe she didn't wish to single anyone out. If I were standing up there, I would probably forget my own name.

[@oscarfun100]

@@paulsuchy6210 Me too. And they say it is obviously a surreal moment, when you are on that stage, with that award in your hand. So I can understand when they forget to thank someone. Like Nicole Kidman said when she was up there and she thanked her daughter and her mother. But she forgot to thank her father. Who was right there. lol. So she regrets that, of course, but it's understandable.

[@Dulles-pi1it]

Batteries 😊not included

[@kathleendoorley4903]

She ma have forgotten. People have forgotten to thank their spouses.

[@jassminejames210]

what about a shout out for Morgan ?

[@davidpp330]

One of the weakest years of nominees’ performances. There was no way Jessica Tandy wouldn’t win. She had no competition!

[@SamiKrasniqi]

No Morgan ???…what !!!

[@milesjohnson5487]

That was messed up.

[@gmg9010]

Saw the film for the first time a couple weeks ago and I don’t see how she won ?

[@lgstar3363]

Michelle Pfeifer

[@davidfriscic3009]

Pauline Collins should have won

[@MrLoaded2012]

She's the forgotten one, but she won some awards that year and her performance was terrific.

[@MrS98VAC]

Michelle deserved it!

[@robertmiller5516]

Michelle should’ve won

[@DavidOspina-q1c]

Why does gregory peck present the award for best actress in a leading role?

[@sandy-mr5gj]

Wonderful movie, glad for jessica tandy, but morgan freeman got robbed of an oscar.

[@MarcosCorderoBALDO]

Noooooooo!!! , Daniel Day Lewis performance in My Left Foot was by far ,and I mean by far the Best performace by an actor that year, AMPAS nailed it ! ,getting into the ceremony the name that was expected to prevail was Tom Cruises Born on the 4th of July, but Lewis performance was just too good to be ignored ,as for Morgan Freeman, his performance was one of the best ,but it was never the frontrunner.

[@shihlin1]

Actually many in Hollywood predicted Cruise would win for Born on 4th July. Such a tight, tight category, but hell, Daniel Day Lewis painting with his foot, what a sight ! He's the only male actor with Three Oscars !

[@adagiobreeze8493]

How many of them Hormones are you taking honey

[@DirtyOldMountainGoat]

Was there really a question that year???????

[@OscarMPG1]

This should've gone to Michelle Pfeiffer. Tandy didn't deserve it. She only won because she was old.

[@tomstar3641]

Michelle Pfeiffer should have won

[@jaxmanx]

Overrated performance and movie. Michelle pfeiffer should've won best actress

[@weezerocks]

Michelle should have won!!!

[@robertmiller5516]

I don’t think she deserved to win and neither did the film

[@jamesfoodie2738]

I live in a world where Gregory Peck gave an Oscar to Jessica Tandy, with Morgan Freeman pushing her toward to the stage. You say there is no God, but you would be incorrect.

[@davemattia]

Corny - maudlin shout out to Sammy Davis by Mr. Unfunny.

[@alessandrosaavedra4069]

Sorry but michelle deserved that win

[@kdohertygizbur]

No way ...she was very good, but her range does not compare to Ms. Tandys

[@5andup]

If Driving Miss Daisy was not released in 1989, then Pfeiffer will definitely win.

[@ЛюбчоНиколов-м6е]

So let's face it...Jessica Tandy was a very nice woman and a good actress, but I don't think this was her best performance. Michelle Pfeiffer gave her best performance in "The fabulous Baker Boys",so that she deserved this award. Jessica Tandy deserved to win for another movie.

[@UmbrellaWatch]

The lady was old she had to win such a performance. Michelle can always win later

[@nahue2000]

Isabelle Adjani should hace won .She didnt win only because she s foreign

[@michaelmuldowney8]

Emmm - Jessica Tandy was BRITISH !!

[@nahue2000]

@@michaelmuldowney8 but she speaks in english...

[@shihlin1]

@@michaelmuldowney8 Uh, last I checked Tandy was American, but the lady who played Daisy on Broadway was British. Adjani had no chance, bottom of the list.

[@BOB1974_]

@@shihlin1 Check again. Jessica Tandy was born and raised in London. She didn't come to the US until she was a young adult and didn't become a US citizen until 1952 when she was in her early 40's.

[@eirikrdberg1161]

She was hot in the birds but not in miss daisy.

[@كوخعندالشاطيء]

She wins because she is a jew. Nothing is special in her acting or in the film. Each jew must take the oscar!!!

[@marcialee3414]

She's Christian, you i d i o t

[@nancysexton545]

distasteful!!!

[@tfer1977]

You are despicable and need to go crawl back into your hole. And, BTW, Ms.Tandy is not Jewish.

[@كوخعندالشاطيء]

@@nancysexton545 Thats you. I watched the film Freeman was the active item. She has nothing to do with the oscar excet jewdism. You like it or not. Not her only anything relates to the jews should definitly has an oscar.

[@CobraStrike-h3k]

Jessica Tandy had a body of work that was remarkable...but I really thought Jessica Lange in Music Box was transcendent.

[@julierichardson-l6d]

when morgan freeman did not win for driving miss daisy , i knew the oscars are fixed

[@DAN-lo7fz]

Do you know who he lost to and for what performance???? Stop being a crybaby. Daniel Day Lewis in My Left Foot was quite possibly the Best Acting Performance by an Actor in all of the 80s. Go cry racism somewhere else where the target deserves it…

[@andrewfrantz5502]

Isabelle Adjani hopefully next. Michelle Pfeiffer is due as well big time ⏲️.