Rain Man and Dangerous Liaisons Win Writing Awards: 1989 Oscars

Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow win the Oscar for Writing (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen) for Rain Man, and Christopher Hampton wins the Oscar for Writing (Screenplay Based on Material from Another Medium) for Dangerous Liaisons at the 61st Academy Awards. Richard Dreyfuss, Amy Irving, Dennis Quaid and Michelle Pfeiffer present the awards.
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[@sspdirect02]

Dangerous Liaisons had the most electrifying ending to any film.

[@71crm]

Actually it was Barry Morrow was credited as Ronald Bass (and Ronald Bass is credited as Barry Morrow) Barry Morrow actually talks about this in the audio commentary he gave on the DVD of Rain Man, both he and Ron Bass had flipped coins to decide who was going to go first and Barry had won the coin toss so he went first but the Academy had assumed that they were going up as Ronald Bass and Barry Morrow. And the reason why Ronald Bass never got to say anything was that that year they were limited acceptance speeches to 30 seconds which meant that they both got 15 seconds each, but Barry had accidentally went over with his speech. Years later he meet someone and he introduced himself as Barry Morrow and that he won an Academy Award for writing Rain Man, and they automatically said “Oh that Ron Bass was such a jerk, he totally stole your speech time!” But of course that person didn’t remember which person’s face was up there!

[@jeffersonborges9932]

6:23 Glenn Close! Stunning as always! :D

[@RenanCMaia]

Michelle Pfeiffer so pretty!

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

Michelle Pfeiffer 😍😍😍😍

[@branagain]

Dennis Quaid actually played Barry Morrow in the TV movie “Bill”

[@jwelch5742]

Rain Man and Dangerous Liaisons has great screenplay.

[@Leonardoeditor37]

have

[@wishmaster7438]

I remember watching this award show on tv in 1989 and then went and saw the film Rainman at the local cinema. It was packed on a Sunday afternoon session.

[@crissiemaiztegui2879]

Michelle Pfeiffer, talented and beautiful! 😍

[@eddjoey]

Dennis Quaid looked incredible back in the 80's (and he still does) and Dangerous liaisons is one of the most deserving winners ever in the adapted screenplay category

[@MrS98VAC]

Glenn deserved the Oscar for DL so very much!

[@mickey240200]

I love Rain Man

[@adamzanzie]

God, I hate it when the orchestra doesn’t let both the winners speak. Ron Bass was barely allowed to get a few words out.

[@renan.csmaia]

Christopher Hampton also wrote the wonderful ATONEMENT (2007).

[@supermariofan03]

This list should have been: Dangerous Liasons Accidental Tourist Who Framed Roger Rabbit? The Unbearable Lightness of Being Die Hard

[@Jared_Wignall]

I enjoy Rain Man, but I think A Fish Called Wanda should’ve won.

[@sorenthefilmbrony]

I honestly would've tied Rain Man with Mississippi Burning for Original Screenplay.

[@laurajones1773]

As much as I love Rain Man, Big should've won Best Original Screenplay because it has a much better script. Also, Who Framed Roger Rabbit? should've been nominated and won Best Adapted Screenplay.

[@siddharthnaagar7028]

Rain man is overrated at best, Bill Duhram should had won by huge margin