64th Academy Awards
Name ( s ) Role Performed
Bill Conti Musical arranger Orchestral
Billy Crystal Performer Opening number : Beauty and the Beast ( to the tune of the theme song from The Patty Duke Show ) , The Silence of the Lambs ( to the tune of The Shadow of Your Smile from The Sandpiper ) , Bugsy ( to the tune of Toot Toot Tootsie Goo ' Bye from The Jazz Singer ) , JFK ( to the tune of Three Coins in the Fountain from Three Coins in the Fountain ) , and The Prince of Tides ( to the tune of Do n't Rain on My Parade from Funny Girl )
Paige O'Hara Richard White Performers Belle from Beauty and the Beast
Jerry Orbach Performer Be Our Guest from Beauty and the Beast
Bryan Adams Performer ( Everything I Do ) I Do It for You from Robin Hood : Prince of Thieves
Amber Scott Performer When You 're Alone from Hook
Peabo Bryson Celine Dion Angela Lansbury Performers Beauty and the Beast from Beauty and the Beast
Presenters and performers -- Performers ( in order of appearance )
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.