( Source)Īlthough Morgan Freeman was nominated, he didn't win director Bruce Beresford wasn't nominated at all. Driving Miss Daisy won the Oscar for Best Picture Jessica Tandy won as Best Actress, becoming the oldest woman to win the award at an impressive 80 years old. It follows stubborn old Miss Daisy from 1948-1973, as she struggles to adjust to a new social order where blacks step out of their traditionally subservient role in the segregated South.Īcross the country, (white) moviegoers flocked to see Morgan Freeman, as Hoke, drive Jessica Tandy, as Miss Daisy, around Atlanta. Pictures in 1989-twenty-five years after the Civil Rights Act- Driving Miss Daisy looks at the life of an affluent Jewish Georgia widow and her relationship with her black chauffeur, Hoke. (Okay, so maybe that last one's not literature.) Add to that garden Miss Daisy Werthan, the most cantankerous and complicated of them all: an elderly Southern belle and the star of our film about race and friendship in mid-20th-century Atlanta.īased on the stage play of the same name and released by Warner Bros. You've got Daisy Miller, Daisy Buchanan, and Daisy Mae Yokum. Literature's been pushing up Daisies for 140 years. Stars: Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman, Dan Aykroyd
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