Winners indicated (*). Films I still need to see include: The Butcher Boy, Reach the Rock, The Flowers of Shanghai, My Name Is Joe, Hurlyburly, The Idiots, Show Me Love, The Horse Whisperer, A Civil Action, Enemy of the State, The Red Violin, One True Thing, Children of Heaven, Buffalo '66, The Opposite of Sex, Lolita, Bulworth, The Spanish Prisoner, Waking Ned Devine, Living Out Loud, Wilde, Your Friends & Neighbors, Beloved, Still Crazy, The Theory of Flight, Very Bad Things, Without Limits, and Star Trek: Insurrection.
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| The Thin Red Line |
BEST PICTURE:
Festen
Funny Games
Great Expectations
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line*
BEST DIRECTOR:
Alfonso Cuaron, Great Expectations
Michael Haneke, Funny Games
Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line*
Steven Spielberg, Saving Private Ryan
Thomas Vinterberg, Festen
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| A Simple Plan |
BEST ACTOR:
Tom Hanks, Saving Private Ryan
Ian McKellen, Gods and Monsters
Nick Nolte, Affliction
Edward Norton, American History X*
Bill Paxton, A Simple Plan
BEST ACTRESS:
Cate Blanchett, Elizabeth*
Katrin Cartlidge, Claire Dolan
Fernanda Montenegro, Central Station
Gwyneth Paltrow, Sliding Doors
Ally Sheedy, High Art
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| Following |
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Thomas Bo Larsen, Festen
Alex Haw, Following
Philip Seymour Hoffman, Happiness*
Elias Koteas, The Thin Red Line
Billy Bob Thornton, A Simple Plan
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Joan Allen, Pleasantville
Anne Bancroft, Great Expectations
Neve Campbell, Wild Things
Judi Dench, Shakespeare in Love*
Marisa Tomei, Slums of Beverly Hills
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| Festen |
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Gods and Monsters
Out of Sight
A Simple Plan
The Thin Red Line*
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Festen*
Following
Pleasantville
Shakespeare in Love
The Truman Show
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| Great Expectations |
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Following
Great Expectations
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line*
Wild Things
BEST FILM EDITING:
Festen
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels
Out of Sight*
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
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| Funny Games |
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Great Expectations
The Parent Trap
Pleasantville
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line*
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Grow Old With You", The Wedding Singer
"He Got Game", He Got Game
"I Don't Wanna Miss a Thing", Armageddon*
"Reflection", Mulan
"When You Believe", The Prince of Egypt
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| Pleasantville |
BEST ART DIRECTION:
Dark City
Great Expectations*
Pleasantville
Rushmore
Shakespeare in Love
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Elizabeth
Ever After
Pleasantville
Shakespeare in Love
Velvet Goldmine*
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| Saving Private Ryan |
BEST MAKEUP:
Dark City*
Elizabeth
Velvet Goldmine
BEST SOUND (MIXING AND EDITING):
Armageddon
Dark City
The Mask of Zorro
Saving Private Ryan*
The Thin Red Line
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Armageddon
Dark City
What Dreams May Come*
Updated: 12/2/14
LOVE the Neve Campbell mention! Wild Things is my total guilty pleasure (it is my Best Picture winner this year). I need to see Festen apparently. I've never even heard of it.
ReplyDeleteMan, that's a brilliant choice! I just watched Wild Things last week, and I loved it! It's in my top 10 that year. Oh, and it was *this* close to screenplay, editing, and score nods. I suppose my guilty pleasure from this year is Great Expectations, which I rewatched this week. I didn't realize how divisive (but mostly negative) the reaction was to it.
DeleteFesten (AKA The Celebration) is great! It just missed in some of the acting categories.
Nice to see The Thin Red Line represented a few times here. It's perhaps my fave war film as it's quite deep and not overly violent. I wish Cate Blanchett had won for Elizabeth instead of Gwyneth :(
ReplyDeleteOh, it's my favorite war film. :) I wish it had won something, but the 7 Oscar nominations were impressive for a Malick film. Blanchett all the way!
DeleteAwesome to see Thin Red Line is your win for the score, it's such incredible music - they used one track perfectly in 12 Years a Slave trailer.
ReplyDeleteIt's one of my favorite scores. :) Yeah, the track they used in the 12 Years a Slave trailer worked really well.
DeleteOur top 4 categories are identical. S. Actor, I’d have to go with Koteas. Cinematography should’ve been TTRL, definitely. That film is as stunning as they get.
ReplyDeleteLOVE IT! Koteas is a great winner. I dig Kaminski's work on Saving Private Ryan, but it can't touch Toll's work on TTRL.
DeleteHello! I live in Brazil and I was very happy with his nomination to Fernanda Montenegro for Central Station ( Central do Brasil ). She is one of the greatest actresses in my country and we are very proud of his nomination at the Oscars. Loved also the winner in Actor. Edward Norton. He is the best of the year! I love your ballots!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I'm glad you like those choices. Both were very deserving of their Oscar nominations.
DeletePicture:
ReplyDeleteElizabeth
Gods & Monsters
I Went Down
Pleasantville
Saving Private Ryan-Winner
This was a tough choice. I love the dreamy somewhat dissociative world of Gods & Monsters, the unique take on the seemingly simple abduction premise of I Went Down and the carefully observered drama of Elizabeth. My choice came down between the social comment shrouded in quirkiness of Pleasantville and the grand scale of Saving Private Ryan. Pvt. Ryan grabs you by the throat from the get go and is completely involving throughout, that tipped me in its favor.
Director:
Bill Condon-Gods & Monsters
Shekhar Kapur-Elizabeth
Gary Ross-Pleasantville-Winner
Steven Soderbergh-Out of Sight
Steven Spielberg-Saving Private Ryan
Spielberg's steering of Pvt. Ryan is very strong and Soderbergh's lively direction turns what could have been just another caper film into something more, the film itself just missed my top 5, but Ross places the camera in just the right spot everytime to add the maximum impact to the strange fable he's telling.
Actor:
Tom Hanks-Saving Private Ryan
Ian McKellan-Gods & Monsters-Winner
Edward Norton-American History X
Clive Owen-Croupier
Tim Roth-The Legend of 1900
Legend of 1900 is an odd messy film but Roth anchors it with his solid work the same could be said for Owen in the intriguing Croupier. Hanks's uses his everyman persona to perfect effect in Pvt. Ryan and Norton is chilling in American History X. All are worthy but my choice was always McKellan. He just great and finds ever nuance in the character.
Actress:
Cate Blanchett-Elizabeth-Winner
Christina Ricci-The Opposite of Sex
Meryl Streep-One True Thing
Emma Thompson-Primary Colors
Reese Witherspoon-Pleasantville
This is one of my favorite Streep performances because it's not full of frills, as her work tends to be, and therefore more moving. Emma is the heart of her picture and while Travolta feels like he's doing an impersonation she seems a real person. Then there's the two actresses offering differing portraits of selfish women. One, Reese, changes and matures while the other, the happily unrepentant Christina, is at her best as a succubus in human form. Blanchett in the role that pushed her to the forefront is extraordinary, true she has the strongest character but she easily gives the best performance of the year. I still can't believe the whiny, vapid Paltrow beat her.
Love your winners. Saving Private Ryan has slipped a little for me, but it's still my #4 or 5. It's nice to see Pleasantville get so many noms as well. I haven't seen a few of these, though.
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ReplyDeleteEdward Burns-Saving Private Ryan
Jeff Daniels-Pleasantville
Ed Harris-The Truman Show
William H. Macy-Pleasantville-Winner
J. T. Walsh-Pleasantville
I wasn't crazy about The Truman Show, it was trying too hard, but Harris stood out as the puppet master. In a cast full of excellent supporting work Burns gives what is surely his best performance but the cast that was really loaded with superior work is that of Pleasantville. Daniels is touching and I would have loved to hand this to Walsh for his last performance before his too early death but Macy's work as the man grappling with a new world order and his place in it is the best of the bunch.
Supporting Actress:
Joan Allen-Pleasantville-Winner
Kathy Bates-Primary Colors
Lisa Kudrow-The Opposite of Sex
Laura Linney-The Truman Show
Lynn Redgrave-Gods & Monsters
I love Laura Linney and like Harris she was better than the film she was in but her part is a cipher, Kudrow emerged from the Friends shadow showing she was an actress of wide range and Kathy Bates was fearsome and wonderful in Colors. However this was between Lynn and Joan. Both were great in their parts and Lynn should have won the actual award amongst that year's nominees but her part doesn't give her as much to work with as Joan Allen's Betty. Joan handles Betty's slow realization of her changing world just about as well as could be done.
I haven't seen The Oppostie of Sex, but these are great lineups. I really wanted to include Burns and Linney, and the rest of these are terrific.
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