The Supporting Actress Oscar competition in 1992 was particularly strong, with four of the five nominees excellent British thespians, such as Miranda Richardson, Judy Davis (“Husbands and Wives”), Joan Plowright (“Enchanted April”), and Vanessa Redgrave (“Howards End”). The winner, however, was Marisa Tomei for the comedy “My Cousin Vinny,” arguably the weakest nominee.

Dave was nominated for Original Screenplay by Gary Ross, but the winner was Jan Campion for “The Piano,” which was also nominated for Best Picture.

In one of Oscar's biggest snubs, Frears failed to receive Best Director nomination from his colleagues at the Academy's Directors Branch. Frears' s “place” was taken either my Brit Charles Crichton (“A Fish Called Wanda”) and/or Scorsese (“The Last Temptation of Christ”), since neither “Fish” nor “Christ” landed a spot among the Best Picture nominees, which in 1988 included: “The Accidental Tourist,” Mississippi Burning,” “Rain Man,” which swept most of the Oscars, and the comedy “Working Girl.”

“Dick Tracy” was nominations for seven Oscars, winning three, for Art-Direction-Set Decoration (by Richard Sylbert and Rick Simpson) and
for Song, “Sooner or Later: (I Always Get my Man), music and lyrics by Stephen Sondheim, and Makeup by John Caglione, Jr. and Doug Drexler.