Winners indicated (*). I still need to see films like The Falcon and the Snowman, Cocoon, Murphy's Romance, Insignificance, Runaway Train, Agnes of God, Sweet Dreams, The Trip to Bountiful, Pee-Wee's Big Adventure, Lost in America, Return to Oz, Weird Science, Ladyhawke, Re-Animator, The Jewel of the Nile, Commando, Legend, Silverado, The Emerald Forest, and Mask.
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| After Hours |
BEST PICTURE:
After Hours*
Brazil
Come and See
No End
The Purple Rose of Cairo
BEST DIRECTOR:
Woody Allen, The Purple Rose of Cairo
Terry Gilliam, Brazil
Elem Klimov, Come and See
Akira Kurosawa, Ran
Martin Scorsese, After Hours*
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| Witness |
BEST ACTOR:
John Cusack, The Sure Thing
Harrison Ford, Witness*
William Hurt, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Raul Julia, Kiss of the Spider Woman
Aleksey Kravchenko, Come and See
BEST ACTRESS:
Juliette Binoche, Rendez-vous
Sandrine Bonnaire, Vagabond
Mia Farrow, The Purple Rose of Cairo
Whoopi Goldberg, The Color Purple
Grazyna Szapolowska, No End*
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| No End |
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Danny Glover, The Color Purple
John Heard, After Hours
Christopher Lloyd, Back to the Future*
Judd Nelson, The Breakfast Club
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Rendez-vous
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Rosanna Arquette, After Hours*
Anjelica Huston, Prizzi's Honor
Madeline Kahn, Clue
Olga Mironova, Come and See
Ally Sheedy, The Breakfast Club
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| The Purple Rose of Cairo |
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Clue
The Color Purple
Kiss of the Spider Woman*
Prizzi's Honor
Ran
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
After Hours
Back to the Future
The Breakfast Club
No End
The Purple Rose of Cairo*
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| Come and See |
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
After Hours
Brazil
Come and See*
No End
Ran
BEST FILM EDITING:
After Hours*
Back to the Future
Brazil
Come and See
The Goonies
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| Back to the Future |
BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Back to the Future*
Brazil
The Goonies
No End
Out of Africa
BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Don't You (Forget About Me)", The Breakfast Club*
"The Goonies 'R' Good Enough", The Goonies
"Miss Celie's Blues (Sister)", The Color Purple
"The Power of Love", Back to the Future
"St. Elmo's Fire (Man in Motion)", St. Elmo's Fire
Additional Categories
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| Brazil |
BEST ART DIRECTION:
Back to the Future
Brazil*
Clue
Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome
Ran
BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Back to the Future
Brazil
Clue
The Purple Rose of Cairo
Ran*
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| Ran |
BEST MAKEUP:
Brazil*
Come and See
Ran
BEST SOUND (MIXING AND EDITING):
Back to the Future
Brazil
Come and See
Rambo: First Blood Part II
Ran*
BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Back to the Future*
Brazil
Young Sherlock Holmes
Updated: 2/5/15
These are some amazing wins! And Szapolowska!!! She was brilliant. I still need to see After Hours and Come and See. Right now, The Purple Rose of Cairo takes top honors and my BP lineup also includes Ran, Brazil, Clue and No End. I love this year. It's my birth-year, and it also happens to be pretty awesome!
ReplyDeleteThanks! I didn't know you'd seen No End, so that's awesome! I love your lineup. Looking forward to seeing if After Hours or Come and See can slip in there.
DeleteNo End was my first Kieslowski!
DeleteGreat stuff. Mine was Blue (surprise, I know). :)
DeleteI love that year, Goonies, Breakfast Club and Back To The Future, three of my all-time favorites.
ReplyDeleteAfter Hours was enjoyable, and a Scorsese picture that sometimes gets overlooked.
Cool to see Christopher Lloyd on there :)
Come and See, Ran, & Clue I want to see in 2014.
LOVE those films. They're in my top 10 that year.
DeleteApart from Raging Bull, 80's Scorsese films tend to be overlooked in general. Not sure why, though.
Hope you like those films. Clue is a lot of fun and easily the most rewatchable.
Just curious, do you consider Tim Curry Lead or Supporting for Clue? I consider the film a true ensemble, kind of like L.A. Confidential, which is why I place everyone in Supporting. I also give Curry my win this year and consider his performance one of the greatest supporting male performances ever. But I could understand someone placing him in Lead.
DeleteI'm just sad he's not on either of your ballots :-(
He's my #6 in Lead, actually. I'm a big fan of his performance, and he'd be my winner in the other category. It's a close call between him and Cusack in Lead for the fifth spot, but I just love Cusack too much in The Sure Thing.
DeleteI really need to see The Sure Thing, although I've never really been impressed with Cusack in much of anything.
DeleteAnd LOL at my replying under this one...I thought I had hit my own comment to reply under :-P
It's probably my favorite Cusack performance, if that helps.
DeleteHaha, I thought the same thing. :/
I hadn't even heard of After Hours, is that Rosanna Arquette? I quite like Purple Rose of Cairo, perhaps one of my fave Woody Allen films.
ReplyDeleteYeah, that's her. After Hours isn't a popular Scorsese film, even if it won Best Director at Cannes and the Indie Spirit Award for Best Feature. It even got BAFTA and Golden Globe nods. I'm not sure why it's been forgotten.
DeleteYay! The Purple Rose of Cairo is brilliant!
Picture:
ReplyDeleteAfter Hours
Back to the Future
The Purple Rose of Cairo
A Room with a View-Winner
Silverado
Runner-up-The Color Purple
This seemed to be the year of the time bend with three of my nominees dealing with altered time, although for After Hours it's more a concept than an actual time travel. The expansive Silverado is a wonderful throwback to the best of Ford's westerns but the study of class structure disguised as a romance in A Room with a View is my winner.
Director:
Woody Allen-The Purple Rose of Cairo
James Ivory-A Room with a View
Lawrence Kasdan-Silverado
Martin Scorsese-After Hours
Robert Zemeckis-Back to the Future-Winner
Runner-up-Steven Spielberg-The Color Purple
I'm not a big Scorsese fan and After Hours is an acquired taste but his more relaxed, quirky direction of it is one of his efforts I do enjoy. Ivory the master at this kind of picture paces Room perfectly capturing the languid pace of life while never dragging the story down. Kasdan never lets the vistas overwhelm the conflicts of his tale instead utilizing them to strengthen his storytelling. Allen's direction of Purple Rose is one of his best efforts blending the surreal elements with the real in a highly entertaining fashion and achieving a level of pathos while still finding humor in the film, he's my runner-up. Zemeckis supercharges Future with a great sense of zest and glee aided by his perfectly cast actors delivering something both populist and excellently made, not a simple achievement.
Actor:
Jeff Daniels-The Purple Rose of Cairo
Harrison Ford-Witness
Michael J. Fox-Back to the Future
Raul Julia-Kiss of the Spider Woman
Eric Stoltz-Mask-Winner
Runner-up-John Cusack-The Sure Thing, James Garner-Murphy's Romance, James Mason-The Shooting Party
While Julia and Daniels are very good in their films this was a three way race for me between Fox, Ford and Stoltz. I like Harrison Ford but he isn't always the most engaged actor, he connects to John Book though with a nicely layered performance and Marty McFly is a role that fits Fox like a glove, one of those perfect melding of actor and part. It's Stoltz, even buried under tons of prosthetics, who is able to bring out so much of who Rocky Dennis was through his eyes, inflections and body language. He holds the viewer's attention whenever he's on screen, not so easy up against Cher in perhaps her best screen work.
Actress:
Norma Aleandro-The Official Story
Helena Bonham Carter-A Room with a View
Mia Farrow-The Purple Rose of Cairo
Geraldine Page-The Trip to Bountiful
Miranda Richardson-Dance with a Stranger-Winner
Runners-up-Cher-Mask, Coral Browne-Dreamchild, Whoopi Goldberg-The Color Purple, Jessica Lange-Sweet Dreams
My list of favorite performances is vast but all five of these, plus Cher's which I was sad to leave off my main list, would be included on it. Farrow is a good actress but I don't always love her however this could very well be her best performance. Aleandro does such profound work in Official Story, I sometimes have trouble connecting with foreign language performances, usually my issue more than the work, but I was rapt throughout the film because of her. I adore HBC whether she is in her Victorian china doll phase as she is here or her quirky mode which is closer too who she truly seems to be. As the seemingly prim Lucy Honeychurch who has hidden depths she's wonderful at both showing and hinting at those hidden reserves. I hated to take Gerry Page's Oscar away, I love her and her work in Bountiful as I did most of her work but Miranda Richardson is riveting as the deeply troubled Ruth Ellis. After I had seen the film in the theatre I was sure she would be that year's winner she's so extraordinary, it's incredible that she was bypassed for a nomination.
I need to watch Silverado, and Dance with a Stranger sounds great. I've never even nominated Richardson, so I must watch that film.
DeleteIt's interesting that you like After Hours, as it's often overlooked. Scorsese made such a fun movie out of it.
Supporting Actor:
ReplyDeleteDenholm Elliott-A Room with a View
Kevin Costner-Silverado
Tim Curry-Clue
Christopher Lloyd-Back to the Future-Winner
Roddy McDowell-Fright Night
Runner-Up-Simon Callow-A Room with a View, Sean Penn-The Falcon and the Snowman
Four quirky actors & Costner in his loosest most charismatic performance radiating star quality. McDowell finds a role that utilizes his somewhat peculiar charm as hambone actor Peter Vincent and makes him both funny and unexpectedly brave. Elliott is a an eccentric delight as the life loving Mr. Emerson in Room and Curry alternating between spastic and droll in Clue is my runner-up but the full on zaniness of Lloyd as Back to the Future's Doc Brown can't be beat.
Supporting Actress:
Linda Hunt-Silverado
Madeline Kahn-Clue-Winner
Maggie Smith-A Room with a View
Lea Thompson-Back to the Future
Oprah Winfrey-The Color Purple
Runner-up-Sonja Braga-Kiss of the Spider Woman, Eileen Brennan-Clue, Anjelica Huston-Prizzi's Honor
Linda Hunt takes what could have been the stock "Miss Kitty" role and imbues it with texture and meaning as Maggie Smith does with the flibbertigibbet cousin Charlotte in Room. I wasn't crazy for The Color Purple but Oprah's strong work as the spirited Sofia was impressive as was Lea Thompson as the deceptively complex Lorraine creating not just the randy teen but totally different women in the story bookends. Oh but Madeline Kahn's tour de force Mrs. White, every line reading is a gem! She's a joy from her entrance and even though surrounded by wonderful actors each doing something interesting with their characters steals all her scenes, no matter how hard Tim Curry tries to upstage her. How was this woman never rewarded?
I love your winners, and it's nice to see Curry nominated. He'd be my Supporting winner, but he just misses my Best Actor lineup right now. I might decide to move him, though.
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