1989: 4 Academy Awards: Best Movie, Actress (Tandy), Adapted Screenplay, Makeup. 9 Nominations 1989: Golden Globes: Best Motion Picture - Comedy/Musical, Actor and Actress 1989: National Board of Review: Best Film 1990: Berlin Film Festival: Silver Bear - Best Joint Performance 1990: BAFTA Awards: Best Actress (Tandy). 4 Nominations, Inlcuding Best Film 1989: David di Donatello Awards: Best Foreign Actress (Jessica Tandy) 1989: New York Film Critics Circle: 3 Nominations
Based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning play by Alfred Uhry, Driving Miss Daisy affectionately covers the twenty-five year relationship between a wealthy, strong-willed Southern matron (Jessica Tandy) and her equally indomitable Black chauffeur Hoke (Morgan Freeman). Both employer and employee are outsiders, Hoke because of the color of his skin, Miss Daisy because she is Jewish in a WASP-dominated society. At the same time, Hoke cannot fathom Miss Daisy's cloistered inability to grasp the social changes which sweep the South in the 1960s. Nor can Miss Daisy understand why Hoke's "people" are so indignant. It is only when Hoke is retired and Miss Daisy is confined to a home for the elderly that the two fully realize that they've been friends and kindred spirits all along.
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