Miss USA 1990
For the first time, each judge's score was displayed to every audience, adding transparency to the process.
A major format change in 1990 transformed the Miss USA competition for the next decade: the delegates would face an extra round of elimination on finals night: the top six judges' questions.
Instead of reducing the top twelve to the usual final five, the judges would pick an intermediate top six. Those six finalists would answer questions from the judges and the field was reduced to a final three, who would face the traditional final question, adding unpredictability to the competition after five Texan Miss USA winners from GuyRex Associates, which would lose its Miss Texas USA franchise the next year.
The pageant was hosted by Dick Clark for the second of five times, with color commentary by Leeza Gibbons and Laura Harring, Miss USA 1985.
This was the first time the pageant was held in Wichita, where it would be staged for the next three years.
Results
Placements
Final Results | Contestant |
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Miss USA 1990 | |
1st Runner-Up | |
2nd Runner-Up |
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Top 6 |
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Top 12 |
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Special awards
Award | Contestant |
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Miss Congeniality |
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Miss Photogenic |
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Judges
- Eileen Fulton
- Kerry Gordy
- Rebecca Brandewyne
- Robin Cousins
- Barbara Peterson
- Dan Isaacson
- Dr. Irene Kassorla
- Jackie Joyner Kersee
- Randy Stone
- Judi Sheppard Missett
- Gordon Cooper