Editing Driving Miss Daisy

{{Short description|1989 drama film by Bruce Beresford}}
{{About||the play|Driving Miss Daisy (play)|the 2014 film of a theater production|Driving Miss Daisy (2014 film)}}
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{{Infobox film
| name           = Driving Miss Daisy
| image          = Driving Miss Daisy .jpg
| caption        = Theatrical release poster by Dave Christensen<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.impawards.com/1989/driving_miss_daisy.html|title = Driving Miss Daisy Movie Poster}}</ref>
| director       = [[Bruce Beresford]]
| producer       = {{ubl|[[Richard D. Zanuck]]|[[Lili Fini Zanuck]]}}
| screenplay     = Alfred Uhry
| based_on       = {{based on|''[[Driving Miss Daisy (play)|Driving Miss Daisy]]''<br />1987 play|[[Alfred Uhry]]}}
| starring       = {{Plainlist|
* [[Morgan Freeman]]
* [[Jessica Tandy]]
* [[Dan Aykroyd]]
* [[Patti LuPone]]
* [[Esther Rolle]]}}
| music          = [[Hans Zimmer]]
| cinematography = [[Peter James (cinematographer)|Peter James]]
| editing        = [[Mark Warner (film editor)|Mark Warner]]
| studio         = [[The Zanuck Company]]
| distributor    = {{Plainlist|
* [[Warner Bros. Pictures|Warner Bros.]]<ref name="NYTimes">{{cite web |last=Fabrikant |first=Geraldine |title=How Major Studios Missed a Hit |work=[[The New York Times]] |date=March 6, 1990 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/06/business/how-major-studios-missed-a-hit.html |access-date=November 7, 2011 |archive-date=December 1, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20101201035423/http://www.nytimes.com/1990/03/06/business/how-major-studios-missed-a-hit.html |url-status=live }}</ref> (United States, Canada, United Kingdom and Ireland)
* [[Allied Filmmakers]]<ref name="afi">{{cite web|title=Driving Miss Daisy (1989)|website=[[AFI Catalog of Feature Films]]|access-date=2 December 2022|url=https://catalog.afi.com/Film/57977-DRIVING-MISSDAISY?sid=8eaf6390-2c07-4e1d-b8ff-84c1395285de&sr=13.294245&cp=1&pos=0}}</ref><br />Majestic Films International<ref name="afi"/> (International)
}}
| released       = {{Film date|1989|12|15}}
| runtime        = 99 minutes<ref>{{Cite web|date=February 7, 1990|title=''Driving Miss Daisy'' (U) |url=https://www.bbfc.co.uk/release/driving-miss-daisy-q29sbgvjdglvbjpwwc0znda0mtc|access-date=April 9, 2025|website=[[British Board of Film Classification]]}}</ref>
| country        = United States
| language       = English
| budget         = $7.5&nbsp;million<ref name="NYTimes" />
| gross          = $145.8&nbsp;million<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo">{{cite web |url=http://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=drivingmissdaisy.htm |title=Driving Miss Daisy |website=[[Box Office Mojo]] |access-date=January 31, 2008 |archive-date=May 15, 2019 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190515040347/https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=drivingmissdaisy.htm |url-status=live }}</ref>
}}
''''' Driving Miss Daisy''''' is a 1989 American [[comedy drama]] film directed by [[Bruce Beresford]] and written by [[Alfred Uhry]], based on [[Driving Miss Daisy (play)|Uhry's 1987 play]]. The film stars [[Jessica Tandy]], [[Morgan Freeman]], and [[Dan Aykroyd]]. Freeman reprised his role from the original [[Off-Broadway]] production.

The story defines Daisy and her point of view through a network of relationships and emotions by focusing on her home life, synagogue, friends, family, fears, and concerns over a twenty-five-year period.

''Driving Miss Daisy'' was a critical and commercial success upon its release and at the [[62nd Academy Awards]] received nine nominations, and won four: [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]], [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]] (for Tandy), [[Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling|Best Makeup]], and [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]].<ref name="Oscars1990">{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1990 |title=The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners |access-date=August 1, 2011 |work=oscars.org |archive-date=April 2, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150402002952/http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1990 |url-status=live }}</ref> {{As of|2025}}, it is the most recent [[Motion Picture Association film rating system|PG-rated]] film to have won Best Picture.<!-- We're not saying this is the last PG-rated film to win best picture, but it might be in the future. -->

==Plot==
In 1948, Daisy Werthan, or Miss Daisy, a 72-year-old wealthy, [[Jewish American|Jewish]], widowed, retired schoolteacher, lives alone in [[Atlanta|Atlanta, Georgia]], except for a black housekeeper, Idella, who comes in daily. When Miss Daisy accidentally drives her [[Chrysler Windsor#1946–1948|1946 Chrysler Windsor]] into her neighbor's yard, her 40-year-old son, Boolie, buys her a [[Hudson Commodore#Third generation|Hudson Commodore]] and hires 60-year-old Hoke Colburn, a black chauffeur, as Miss Daisy can no longer drive due to her being a high insurance risk. Boolie tells Hoke that Miss Daisy may not appreciate his efforts, but she cannot fire him, because Boolie is his employer. At first, Miss Daisy refuses to let anyone drive her, but Hoke's patience pays off, and she reluctantly accepts the first two trips; one to the [[Piggly Wiggly]] supermarket, the other to her [[The Temple (Atlanta)|synagogue]]. Then she tries to get Boolie to fire Hoke after discovering a can of salmon missing from her pantry. However, Hoke, unprompted, admits to eating the salmon, and offers a replacement.

As Miss Daisy and Hoke spend time together, she comes to  appreciate his many skills.  She teaches him to read for the first time using her teaching skills and resources. After Idella dies in the spring of 1963, rather than hire a new housekeeper, Miss Daisy decides to care for her own house and have Hoke do the cooking and the driving. Meanwhile, Hoke buys the cars in which he drives Miss Daisy, after they are traded in for newer models, and he negotiates a higher salary with Boolie.

The film explores [[racism in the United States|racism against African Americans]] and [[antisemitism in the United States|antisemitism]] in the South. After her synagogue [[Hebrew Benevolent Congregation Temple bombing|is bombed]], Miss Daisy realizes that she is also a victim of prejudice. American society is undergoing radical changes, and Miss Daisy attends a dinner at which Dr. [[Martin Luther King Jr.]] gives a speech. Boolie declines when she invites him to the dinner, suggesting that Miss Daisy invite Hoke. She waits until the last moment, asking Hoke to be her guest during the car ride to the event. She attends the dinner alone while  Hoke, who is insulted by the manner of the invitation, listens to the speech on the car radio.

One morning in 1971, Hoke arrives at the house to find Miss Daisy agitated and showing signs of [[dementia]]: she believes that she is a young teacher again. Hoke calms her down. In that conversation, she calls Hoke her "best friend". Boolie arranges for Miss Daisy to enter a retirement home.

In 1973, Hoke, now 85 and rapidly losing his eyesight, retires. Boolie, now 65, drives Hoke to the retirement home to visit Miss Daisy, now 97.<ref>{{cite book| title=Driving Miss Daisy| first=Alfred| last=Uhry| date=January 1, 1998| publisher=Dramatists Play Service, Inc.|isbn = 0822203359}}</ref> The two catch up, and Hoke gently feeds her Thanksgiving pie. The final scene is an image of the black Cadillac driving on a road.

==Cast==
{{cast listing|
* [[Morgan Freeman]] as Hoke Colburn
* [[Jessica Tandy]] as Daisy Werthan
* [[Dan Aykroyd]] as Boolie Werthan
* [[Patti LuPone]] as Florine Werthan
* [[Esther Rolle]] as Idella
* [[Jo Ann Havrilla|Joann Havrilla]] as Miss McClatchey
* [[William Hall Jr.]] as Oscar
* Muriel Moore as Miriam
* Sylvia Kaler as Beulah
* [[Crystal R. Fox]] as Katey Bell
}}

==Reception==
===Box office===
''Driving Miss Daisy'' was given a limited release on December 15, 1989, earning $73,745 in three theaters. The film was given a wide release on January 26, 1990, earning $5,705,721 over its opening weekend in 895 theaters, becoming the number one film in the United States. It remained at number 1 the following week but was knocked off the top spot in its third weekend of wide release by ''[[Hard to Kill]]''. It returned to number one the next weekend and remained there for a fourth week.  The film ultimately grossed $106,593,296 in North America, and $39,200,000 in other territories, for a worldwide total of $145,793,296.<ref name="BoxOfficeMojo" /> The film was released in the [[United Kingdom]] on February 23, 1990.<ref>{{cite web| url=http://www.25thframe.co.uk/detail-page/?rimage=driving_miss_daisy| title=Weekend box office 23 February 1990 - 25 February 1990| publisher=www.25thframe.co.uk| access-date=July 5, 2020| archive-date=July 6, 2020| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200706020751/http://www.25thframe.co.uk/detail-page/?rimage=driving_miss_daisy| url-status=live}}</ref>

===Critical response===
''Driving Miss Daisy'' was well received by critics, with particular praise for the screenplay and performances by Freeman, Tandy and Aykroyd. The [[review aggregator]] [[Rotten Tomatoes]] gives the film an 85% rating based on reviews from 104 critics, with an average score of 7.70/10. The website's critical consensus states: "While it's fueled in part by outdated stereotypes, ''Driving Miss Daisy'' takes audiences on a heartwarming journey with a pair of outstanding actors."<ref name="Rotten Tomatoes">{{cite web |url=http://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/driving_miss_daisy// |title=Driving Miss Daisy (1989) |website=[[Rotten Tomatoes]] |access-date=July 2, 2023 |archive-date=November 17, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201117204050/https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/driving_miss_daisy |url-status=live }}</ref> On [[Metacritic]], which assigns a rating out of 100 based on reviews from mainstream critics, the film has a score of 81 based on 17 reviews.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.metacritic.com/movie/driving-miss-daisy |title=Driving Miss Daisy Reviews |website=[[Metacritic]] |access-date=March 1, 2018 |archive-date=September 20, 2017 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170920153011/http://www.metacritic.com/movie/driving-miss-daisy |url-status=live }}</ref> [[CinemaScore]] similarly reported that audiences gave the film a rare "A+" grade.<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://www.thewrap.com/movies-you-loved-or-hated-films-got-or-f-cinemascores-photos-90331/20/| title=18 of the Most Loved or Hated Movies: Films That Got A+ or F CinemaScores (Photos)| date=June 16, 2015| journal=[[TheWrap]]| access-date=June 15, 2017| archive-date=July 1, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170701020624/http://www.thewrap.com/movies-you-loved-or-hated-films-got-or-f-cinemascores-photos-90331/20/| url-status=live}}</ref>

[[Gene Siskel]] of the ''[[Chicago Tribune]]'' declared ''Driving Miss Daisy'' one of the best films of 1989.<ref>{{cite web |last=Siskel |first=Gene |author-link=Gene Siskel |title='Roger & Me' Makes Point About The Common Man |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=January 12, 1990 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/01/12/roger-me-makes-point-about-the-common-man/ |access-date=April 8, 2016 |archive-date=April 7, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160407173138/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-01-12/entertainment/9001030981_1_star-water-tower-common-man |url-status=live }}</ref> [[Roger Ebert]] of the ''[[Chicago Sun-Times]]'' called it "a film of great love and patience" and wrote, "It is an immensely subtle film, in which hardly any of the most important information is carried in the dialogue and in which body language, tone of voice or the look in an eye can be the most important thing in a scene. After so many movies in which shallow and violent people deny their humanity and ours, what a lesson to see a film that looks into the heart."<ref>{{cite web |last=Ebert |first=Roger |author-link=Roger Ebert |title=Driving Miss Daisy |work=Chicago Sun-Times |date=January 12, 1990 |url=http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/driving-miss-daisy-1990 |access-date=April 8, 2016 |archive-date=April 8, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160408053845/http://www.rogerebert.com/reviews/driving-miss-daisy-1990 |url-status=live }}</ref>

[[Peter Travers]] of ''[[Rolling Stone]]'' also gave the film a positive review, calling Tandy's performance "glorious" and opining, "This is Tandy's finest two hours onscreen in a film career that goes back to 1932."<ref>{{cite magazine |last=Travers |first=Peter |author-link=Peter Travers |url=https://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/driving-miss-daisy-19900126 |title=Driving Miss Daisy |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |access-date=April 29, 2014 |archive-date=May 13, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140513064447/http://www.rollingstone.com/movies/reviews/driving-miss-daisy-19900126 |url-status=live }}</ref> The performances of Tandy and Freeman were also praised by [[Vincent Canby]] of ''[[The New York Times]]'', who observed, "The two actors manage to be highly theatrical without breaking out of the realistic frame of the film."<ref name="NYTimes Review">{{cite news |last=Canby |first=Vincent |author-link=Vincent Canby |title=Review/Film; 'Miss Daisy,' Chamber Piece From the Stage |work=The New York Times |date=December 13, 1989 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DEFDA153AF930A25751C1A96F948260 |access-date=April 8, 2016 |archive-date=March 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160305052739/http://www.nytimes.com/movie/review?res=950DEFDA153AF930A25751C1A96F948260 |url-status=live }}</ref>

On the other hand, the film has been criticized for its handling of the issue of racism. Candice Russell of the ''[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]]'' described Freeman's character as having a "toadying manner" which was "painful to see", and said that the film was ultimately "one scene after another of a pompous old lady issuing orders and a servant trying to comply by saying 'yassum.'"<ref>Russell, Candice (January 12, 1990). [https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1990-01-12-9001180850-story.html "'Daisy' Mostly One-Note Film"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200921052210/https://www.sun-sentinel.com/news/fl-xpm-1990-01-12-9001180850-story.html |date=September 21, 2020 }}, ''[[South Florida Sun-Sentinel]]'', Fort Lauderdale.</ref> The film's nomination for Best Picture at the Academy Awards over [[Spike Lee]]'s ''[[Do the Right Thing]]'' was controversial. Lee later reflected on the controversial decision by saying that ''Driving Miss Daisy'' was "not being taught in film schools all across the world like ''Do the Right Thing'' is."<ref>Stern, Marlow (January 15, 2015). [https://www.thedailybeast.com/spike-lee-blasts-selma-oscar-snubs-you-know-what-fck-em?ref=scroll "Spike Lee Blasts ‘Selma’ Oscar Snubs: ‘You Know What? F*ck ’Em’"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200730014140/https://www.thedailybeast.com/spike-lee-blasts-selma-oscar-snubs-you-know-what-fck-em?ref=scroll |date=July 30, 2020 }}, ''[[The Daily Beast]]''.</ref><ref>Collins, K. Austin (January 22, 2019). [https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/01/when-the-oscars-chose-driving-miss-daisy-over-do-the-right-thing "When the Oscars Chose ''Driving Miss Daisy'' Over ''Do the Right Thing''"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200809053250/https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2019/01/when-the-oscars-chose-driving-miss-daisy-over-do-the-right-thing |date=August 9, 2020 }}. ''[[Vanity Fair (magazine)|Vanity Fair]]''.</ref>

==Awards and nominations==
''Driving Miss Daisy'' received 9 [[Academy Awards|Academy Award]] nominations and also achieved the following distinctions in [[List of Academy Award records|Oscar history]]:
* It is the only film based on an [[off-Broadway]] production ever to win [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]].<ref name="ADA">{{cite press release |url=http://www3.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2003/03.09.02.a.html |title=Academy's Diamond Anniversary Screening Series to Feature "Driving Miss Daisy" |access-date=January 31, 2008 |date=September 2, 2003 |publisher=Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080220131158/http://www3.oscars.org/press/pressreleases/2003/03.09.02.a.html |archive-date=February 20, 2008}}</ref>
* [[Jessica Tandy]] (at age 80) became the [[List of oldest and youngest Academy Award winners and nominees|oldest winner]] in history to win [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]].<ref name="ADA" />
* It was the first Best Picture winner since ''[[Grand Hotel (1932 film)|Grand Hotel]]'' in [[5th Academy Awards|1932]] to not also receive a [[Academy Award for Best Director|Best Director]] nomination (this has occurred three times since, ''[[Argo (2012 film)|Argo]]'' in [[85th Academy Awards|2012]], ''[[Green Book (film)|Green Book]]'' in [[91st Academy Awards|2018]], and ''[[CODA (2021 film)|CODA]]'' in [[94th Academy Awards|2021]]; ''[[Wings (1927 film)|Wings]]'' the first to win Best Picture in [[1st Academy Awards|1927]] did not have a nomination for director [[William A. Wellman]]). In his opening monologue at the [[62nd Academy Awards|62nd awards ceremony]], host [[Billy Crystal]] made fun of this irony by calling it "the film that apparently directed itself".<ref name="Bestdir">{{cite web |url=http://www.filmsite.org/bestdirs1.html |title=Academy Awards Best Director |access-date=October 23, 2014 |website=filmsite.org |archive-date=September 1, 2009 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090901210327/http://www.filmsite.org/bestdirs1.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
* As of 2025, it is the latest Best Picture winner that was rated PG.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.filmsite.org/bestpicsmilestones7.html |title=Academy Awards: Best Picture Milestones; 1980s |website=Film Site.org |publisher=AMC Network Entertainment LLC |location=New York, NY |access-date=August 23, 2020 |archive-date=September 19, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200919063811/https://www.filmsite.org/bestpicsmilestones7.html |url-status=live }}</ref> All the winners since have been rated PG-13 or R.

{| class="wikitable plainrowheaders"
|-
! Award
! Category
! Nominee(s)
! Result
! Ref.
|-
| rowspan="9"| [[62nd Academy Awards|Academy Awards]]
| [[Academy Award for Best Picture|Best Picture]]
| [[Richard D. Zanuck]] and [[Lili Fini Zanuck]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="9"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.oscars.org/oscars/ceremonies/1990 |title=The 62nd Academy Awards (1990) Nominees and Winners |access-date=October 17, 2011 |publisher=[[Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences]] |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110706095721/http://www.oscars.org/awards/academyawards/legacy/ceremony/62nd-winners.html |archive-date=July 6, 2011}}</ref> <br> <ref>{{cite web |last=Kehr |first=Dave |author-link=Dave Kehr |title='Miss Daisy,' Jessica Tandy Win Top Oscars |work=[[Chicago Tribune]] |date=March 27, 1990 |url=https://www.chicagotribune.com/1990/03/27/miss-daisy-jessica-tandy-win-top-oscars/ |access-date=April 8, 2016 |archive-date=April 7, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140407090121/http://articles.chicagotribune.com/1990-03-27/news/9001250287_1_oldest-best-actress-winner-screenplay-daisy |url-status=live}}</ref>
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| [[Morgan Freeman]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| [[Jessica Tandy]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor|Best Supporting Actor]]
| [[Dan Aykroyd]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium]]
| [[Alfred Uhry]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Production Design|Best Art Direction]]
| Art Direction: [[Bruno Rubeo]]; <br> Set Decoration: [[Crispian Sallis]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Costume Design|Best Costume Design]]
| [[Elizabeth McBride]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Film Editing|Best Film Editing]]
| [[Mark Warner (film editor)|Mark Warner]]
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[Academy Award for Best Makeup and Hairstyling|Best Makeup]]
| [[Manlio Rocchetti]], [[Lynn Barber (make-up artist)|Lynn Barber]], and [[Kevin Haney]]
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[American Comedy Awards#1990 awards|American Comedy Awards]]
| Funniest Actor in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
| Morgan Freeman
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="3"| <ref>{{Cite news |date=1990-03-18|title=AMERICAN COMEDY AWARDS |language=en-US |newspaper=[[The Washington Post]] |url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/lifestyle/tv/1990/03/18/american-comedy-awards/90da5dfb-9c54-4434-a363-ec7d366826b9/ |access-date=2020-07-01|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> <br> <ref>{{Cite web |date=1990-03-11 |title=American Comedy Awards winners announced Saturday. |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1990/03/11/American-Comedy-Awards-winners-announced-Saturday-Funniest-female-performer/1552637131600/ |access-date=2020-07-01 |website=UPI, United Press International, Inc |language=en}}</ref>
|-
| Funniest Actress in a Motion Picture (Leading Role)
| Jessica Tandy
| {{nom}}
|-
| Funniest Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture
| Dan Aykroyd
| {{nom}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[40th Berlin International Film Festival|Berlin International Film Festival]]
| [[Golden Bear]]
| Bruce Beresford
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref name="Berlinale">{{cite web |url=http://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1990/03_preistr_ger_1990/03_Preistraeger_1990.html |title=Berlinale: 1990 Prize Winners |access-date=March 17, 2011 |website=berlinale.de |archive-date=November 23, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151123210606/https://www.berlinale.de/en/archiv/jahresarchive/1990/03_preistr_ger_1990/03_Preistraeger_1990.html |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| Best Joint Performance
| Jessica Tandy and Morgan Freeman
| {{won}}
|-
| [[BMI Film & TV Awards]]
| Film Music Award
| [[Hans Zimmer]]
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Awards 1989|Boston Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| [[Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Jessica Tandy
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.bostonfilmcritics.org/content/past-award-winners |title=Past Award Winners |access-date=2 July 2017 |publisher=[[Boston Society of Film Critics]] |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20141008041238/http://www.bostonfilmcritics.org/content/past-award-winners |archive-date=8 October 2014 |url-status=dead}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="4"| [[44th British Academy Film Awards|British Academy Film Awards]]
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| Richard D. Zanuck, Lili Fini Zanuck, and [[Bruce Beresford]]
| {{nom}}
| align="center" rowspan="4"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.bafta.org/awards/search?search=Driving+Miss+Daisy+ |title=Driving Miss Daisy |publisher=[[British Academy of Film and Television Arts]] |access-date=September 16, 2016}}</ref>
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Direction|Best Direction]]
| Bruce Beresford
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role|Best Actress in a Leading Role]]
| Jessica Tandy
| {{won}}
|-
| [[BAFTA Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Adapted Screenplay]]
| Alfred Uhry
| {{nom}}
|-
| [[David di Donatello|David di Donatello Awards]]
| [[David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress|Best Foreign Actress]]
| Jessica Tandy
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[47th Golden Globe Awards|Golden Globe Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="3"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.goldenglobes.com/film/driving-miss-daisy |title=Driving Miss Daisy |publisher=[[Golden Globe Foundation]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Actor in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Morgan Freeman
| {{won}}
|-
| [[Golden Globe Award for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy|Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Musical or Comedy]]
| Jessica Tandy
| {{won}}
|-
| [[33rd Annual Grammy Awards|Grammy Awards]]
| [[Grammy Award for Best Score Soundtrack for Visual Media|Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television]]
| ''Driving Miss Daisy'' – Hans Zimmer
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.grammy.com/awards/33rd-annual-grammy-awards |title=33rd Annual GRAMMY Awards |publisher=[[Grammy Awards]] |access-date=May 1, 2011}}</ref>
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[Kansas City Film Critics Circle|Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| Best Actor
| Morgan Freeman
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://kcfcc.org/kcfcc-award-winners-1980-89/ |title=KCFCC Award Winners – 1980-89 |publisher=[[Kansas City Film Critics Circle]] |date=December 14, 2013 |access-date=July 10, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| Best Actress
| Jessica Tandy
| {{won}}
|-
| [[1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards|Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards]]
| [[Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| rowspan="2"| Morgan Freeman
| {{Runner-up}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.lafca.net/Years/1989.php |title=The 15th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards |publisher=[[Los Angeles Film Critics Association]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref> 
|-
| [[NAACP Image Awards]]
| [[NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture|Outstanding Actor in a Motion Picture]]
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[Nastro d'Argento]]
| Best Female Dubbing
| Micaela Giustiniani {{small|(for dubbing Jessica Tandy)}}
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[National Board of Review Awards 1989|National Board of Review Awards]]
| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Film|Best Film]]
| {{won}}
| align="center" rowspan="3"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/1989/ |title=1989 Award Winners |publisher=[[National Board of Review]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
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| colspan="2"| [[National Board of Review: Top Ten Films|Top Ten Films]]
| {{won}}
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| [[National Board of Review Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| rowspan="2"| Morgan Freeman
| {{won}}
|-
| rowspan="2"| [[1989 National Society of Film Critics Awards|National Society of Film Critics Awards]]
| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| {{draw|2nd Place}}
| align="center" rowspan="2"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://nationalsocietyoffilmcritics.com/about-2/ |title=Past Awards |publisher=[[National Society of Film Critics]] |date=December 19, 2009 |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
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| [[National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Jessica Tandy
| {{draw|2nd Place}}
|-
| rowspan="3"| [[1989 New York Film Critics Circle Awards|New York Film Critics Circle Awards]]
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actor|Best Actor]]
| Morgan Freeman
| {{Runner-up}}
| align="center" rowspan="3"| <ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.nyfcc.com/awards/?awardyear=1989 |title=1989 New York Film Critics Circle Awards |publisher=[[New York Film Critics Circle]] |access-date=July 5, 2021}}</ref>
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Actress|Best Actress]]
| Jessica Tandy
| {{Runner-up}}
|-
| [[New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Director|Best Director]]
| Bruce Beresford
| {{Runner-up}}
|-
| Political Film Society Awards
| colspan="2"| [[Political Film Society Award for Human Rights|Human Rights]]
| {{nom}}
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|-
| [[1st Golden Laurel Awards|Producers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Producers Guild of America Award for Best Theatrical Motion Picture|Outstanding Producer of Theatrical Motion Pictures]]
| Richard D. Zanuck and Lili Fini Zanuck
| {{won}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| Retirement Research Foundation, USA
| Wise Owl Award – Television and Theatrical Film Fiction
| [[David Brown (producer)|David Brown]], Richard D. Zanuck, and Lili Fini Zanuck
| {{nom}}
| align="center"| 
|-
| [[42nd Writers Guild of America Awards|Writers Guild of America Awards]]
| [[Writers Guild of America Award for Best Adapted Screenplay|Best Screenplay – Based on Material from Another Medium]]
| Alfred Uhry
| {{won}}
| align="center"| <ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |title=Awards Winners |publisher=[[Writers Guild of America Awards]] |archive-url=https://archive.today/20121205095022/http://www.wga.org/awards/awardssub.aspx?id=1551 |archive-date=2012-12-05 |access-date=2010-06-06}}</ref>
|}

The film is recognized by [[American Film Institute]] in these lists:
* [[AFI's 100 Years...100 Cheers|AFI 100 Years 100 Cheers]] – No.77

===Oscar "test of time" recount===
In 2015, ''[[The Hollywood Reporter]]'' polled hundreds of Academy members, asking them to re-vote on past close run decisions. Academy members indicated that, given a second chance, they would award the 1990 Oscar for Best Picture to ''[[My Left Foot]]'' instead.<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/recount-oscar-voters-today-would-773522| title=Recount! Oscar Voters Today Would Make 'Brokeback Mountain' Best Picture Over 'Crash'| newspaper=The Hollywood Reporter| language=en| access-date=January 3, 2020| archive-date=January 22, 2019| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20190122094645/https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/news/recount-oscar-voters-today-would-773522| url-status=live}}</ref>

==Soundtrack==
The film's score was composed by [[Hans Zimmer]], who won a [[Broadcast Music Incorporated|BMI Film Music Award]] and was nominated for a [[Grammy Award]] for Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television for his work. The score was performed entirely by Zimmer, done electronically using samplers and synthesizers, and did not feature a single live instrument. There is a scene, however, in which the "Song to the Moon" from the opera ''[[Rusalka (opera)|Rusalka]]'' by [[Antonín Dvořák]] is heard on a radio as sung by Slovak lyric soprano [[Gabriela Beňačková]].

Similarities have been noted between the main theme and the "plantation" folk song "[[Shortnin' Bread]]".<ref name="Film Score Monthly 2003">{{cite magazine| last1=Bettencourt| first1=Scott| title=THE YEAR IN FILM MUSIC: 1989| url=http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/articles/2003/25_Dec---Not_Even_Nominated_Part_Ten.asp| magazine=[[Film Score Monthly]]| access-date=June 29, 2014| archive-date=August 5, 2017| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170805144201/http://www.filmscoremonthly.com/articles/2003/25_Dec---Not_Even_Nominated_Part_Ten.asp| url-status=live}}</ref> The soundtrack was issued on [[Varèse Sarabande]].

==Home media==
The film was also successful on home video.<ref>{{cite news |last=Hunt |first=Dennis |title=VIDEO RENTALS: 'Born' Can't Pass High-Revving 'Daisy' |newspaper=[[Los Angeles Times]] |date=September 27, 1990 |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1990-09-27-ca-1644-story.html |access-date=June 10, 2012 |archive-date=March 28, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130328081614/http://articles.latimes.com/1990-09-27/entertainment/ca-1644_1_miss-daisy |url-status=live }}</ref> It was released on [[DVD]] in the [[United States]] on April 30, 1997, and the special edition was released on February 4, 2003. The movie was first released on Blu-ray disc in Germany, and was finally released on Blu-ray in the United States in a special edition digibook in January 2013 by Warner Bros.

In the UK, [[Warner Home Video]] released ''Driving Miss Daisy'' on VHS in 1989. ''Driving Miss Daisy'' was then released on DVD in 2005 by [[Universal Pictures Home Entertainment]] and then in 2008 by [[Pathé]] through [[20th Century Fox Home Entertainment]].

==References==
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