1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
# 1989 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 15th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 16 December 1989 and given on 16 January 1990.

## Winners

* Best Picture:
   * Do the Right Thing
   * Runner-up: Drugstore Cowboy
* Best Director:
   * Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing
   * Runner-up: Oliver Stone – Born on the Fourth of July
* Best Actor:
   * Daniel Day-Lewis – My Left Foot
   * Runner-up: Morgan Freeman – Lean on Me, Johnny Handsome, Glory and Driving Miss Daisy
* Best Actress (tie):
   * Andie MacDowell – Sex, Lies, and Videotape
   * Michelle Pfeiffer – The Fabulous Baker Boys
* Best Supporting Actor:
   * Danny Aiello – Do the Right Thing
   * Runner-up: Martin Landau – Crimes and Misdemeanors
* Best Supporting Actress:
   * Brenda Fricker – My Left Foot
   * Runner-up: Anjelica Huston – Enemies, a Love Story
* Best Screenplay:
   * Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost – Drugstore Cowboy
   * Runner-up: Spike Lee - Do the Right Thing
* Best Cinematography:
   * Michael Ballhaus – The Fabulous Baker Boys
   * Runner-up: Robert Richardson – Born on the Fourth of July
* Best Music Score:
   * Bill Lee – Do the Right Thing
   * Runner-up: Elliot Goldenthal – Drugstore Cowboy
* Best Foreign Film (tie):
   * Distant Voices, Still Lives • UK
   * Story of Women (Une affaire de femmes) • France
* Best Non-Fiction Film:
   * Roger & Me
   * Runner-up: The Emperor's Naked Army Marches On (Yuki Yukite shingun)
* Best Animation:
   * The Little Mermaid
* Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
   * Gregg Araki – The Long Weekend (O' Despair)
* New Generation Award:
   * Laura San Giacomo – Sex, Lies, and Videotape
* Career Achievement Award:
   * Stanley Donen
* Special Citation:
   * The Margaret Herrick Library of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences
