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Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published) - Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski
The 64th Academy Awards ceremony, presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), honored the best films of 1991 in the United States and took place on March 30, 1992, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles beginning at 6:00 p.m. PST / 9:00 p.m. EST.
The Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay is the Academy Award for the best screenplay adapted from previously established material. The most frequently adapted media are novels, but other adapted narrative formats include stage plays, musicals, short stories, TV series, and other films and film characters.
SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award) To LOREN CARPENTER, ROB COOK, ED CATMULL, TOM PORTER, PAT HANRAHAN, TONY APODACA and DARWYN PEACHEY for the development of ‘RenderMan’ software which produces images used in motion pictures from 3D computer descriptions of shape and appearance.
Writing, Original Screenplay: awarded to the writer of a script not based on previously published material. Top Academy Award Screenwriting Nominees and Winners:
The Silence of the Lambs (1991) became the third film in Academy history to win the "Big Five" Academy Awards for producing, directing, acting, and screenwriting following It Happened One Night (1934) and One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975).
Writing (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published) - Peter Barnes
