that the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences opted to award Tandy due to the actress' age and the fact that her film, Driving Miss Daisy (1989), had been nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, while Pfeiffer's film was not. Several critics at the time deemed Pfeiffer's loss a surprising upset. Pfeiffer also lost the BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role to Tandy. Grusin's soundtrack won the Grammy Award for Best Album or Original Instrumental Background Score Written for a Motion Picture or Television, while his arrangement of "My Funny Valentine" (sung by Pfeiffer) won the Grammy Award for Best Arrangement, Instrumental and Vocals. The film was also nominated for the Golden Globe and BAFTA Awards for Best Original Film Score, while winning the BAFTA Award for Best Sound. Kloves's screenplay was nominated for a Writers Guild of America Award. Ballhaus won the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography. Beau won the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor. Legacy According to Robert Cettl, author of Sensational Movie Monologues, critics appreciated The Fabulous Baker Boys at the time of its release as an example of dedicated "small picture" filmmaking which they felt Hollywood had abandoned in favor of blockbuster films with high budgets. In 2007, The Guardian cited The Fabulous Baker Boys among the "1000 films to see before you die". In 2008, Entertainment Weekly named The Fabulous Baker Boys the 12th sexiest film of all-time. In 2021, Time Out ranked The Fabulous Baker Boys the sixth-best romance film of all time. The American Film Institute nominated the film for inclusion on its 100 Years...100 Passions and 100 Years...100 Songs (for "Makin' Whoopee") lists in 2002 and 2004, respectively. The film is credited with establishing Pfeiffer as a bankable actress and leading lady in Hollywood. Ranking it the best performance of her career, GoldDerby deemed The Fabulous Baker Boys as "the movie that really put [Pfeiffer] over the top", describing her character as "some of the best work ever put on screen by an actress". Erin Shelly of the Arizona Daily Sun believes the film "cemented Michelle Pfeiffer's reputation as a movie star." While naming The Fabulous Baker Boys the 24th best romance film of all-time, The Guardian's Jane Graham said the film "made her the biggest