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64th Academy Awards

64th Academy Awards
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Official poster
Date March 30, 1992
Site Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Hosted by Billy Crystal
Produced by Gil Cates
Directed by Jeff Margolis
Highlights
Best Picture The Silence of the Lambs
Most awards The Silence of the Lambs (5)
Most nominations Bugsy (10)
TV in the United States
Network ABC
Duration 3 hours, 33 minutes
Ratings 44.44 million
29.84% (Nielsen ratings)

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. During the ceremony, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences presented Academy Awards (commonly referred to as Oscars) in 23 categories. The ceremony, televised in the United States by ABC, was produced by Gil Cates and directed by Jeff Margolis. Actor Billy Crystal hosted the show for the third consecutive year. Three weeks earlier, in a ceremony held at the Century Plaza Hotel in Los Angeles on March 7, the Academy Awards for Technical Achievement were presented by host Tom Hanks.

The Silence of the Lambs won five awards including Best Picture. Other winners included Terminator 2: Judgment Day with four awards, Beauty and the Beast, Bugsy, and JFK with two, and City Slickers, Deadly Deception: General Electric, Nuclear Weapons and Our Environment, The Fisher King, In the Shadow of the Stars, Manipulation, Mediterraneo, Session Man, and Thelma & Louise with one. The telecast garnered more than 44 million viewers in the United States.


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