Friday, December 27, 2013

1995 CinSpec Awards


Winners indicated (*). I still have a lot of films to see, such as Dead Man, Richard III, Fallen Angels, Crumb, Murder in the First, Total Eclipse, Restoration, Dolores Clairborne, Higher Learning, The Bridges of Madison County, Carrington, The Basketball Diaries, Four Rooms, How to Make an American Quilt, La Ceremonie, The Quick and the Dead, Mallrats, Crimson Tide, Empire Records, Devil in a Blue Dress, Circle of Friends, Home for the Holidays, Dead Presidents, Now and Then, The American President, Kids, and Species.

Sense and Sensibility

BEST PICTURE:
Before Sunrise
Casino
Heat
Sense and Sensibility*
Se7en

BEST DIRECTOR:
David Fincher, Se7en*
Mathieu Kassovitz, La Haine
Ang Lee, Sense and Sensibility
Michael Mann, Heat
Martin Scorsese, Casino

Dead Man Walking

BEST ACTOR:
Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas
Robert De Niro, Casino
Morgan Freeman, Se7en
Sean Penn, Dead Man Walking*
Brad Pitt, Se7en

BEST ACTRESS:
Nicole Kidman, To Die For*
Jennifer Jason Leigh, Georgia
Julianne Moore, Safe
Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking
Elisabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas

Leaving Las Vegas

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
Hugh Grant, Sense and Sensibility
Joe Pesci, Casino
Alan Rickman, Sense and Sensibility
Tim Roth, Rob Roy
Kevin Spacey, Se7en*

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Joan Allen, Nixon
Gwyneth Paltrow, Se7en
Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite
Sharon Stone, Casino
Kate Winslet, Sense and Sensibility*

La Haine

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
Casino
Dead Man Walking
Leaving Las Vegas
Sense and Sensibility*
To Die For

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:
Before Sunrise*
Heat
Se7en
Toy Story
The Usual Suspects

Se7en

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Casino
Heat
La Haine
A Little Princess
Se7en*

BEST FILM EDITING:
Apollo 13
Casino*
Heat
La Haine
Se7en

Toy Story

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:
Apollo 13
Braveheart*
Cutthroat Island
Sense and Sensibility
Toy Story

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:
"Colors of the Wind", Pocahontas
"Dead Man Walkin'", Dead Man Walking
"GoldenEye", GoldenEye
"I Will Remember You", The Brothers McMullen
"You've Got a Friend in Me", Toy Story*

Additional Categories

Casino

BEST ART DIRECTION:
Casino
The City of Lost Children
A Little Princess*
Sense and Sensibility
Twelve Monkeys

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:
Casino*
Clueless
The Horseman on the Roof
A Little Princess
Sense and Sensibility

Heat

BEST MAKEUP:
Batman Forever
Braveheart*
The City of Lost Children

BEST SOUND (MIXING AND EDITING):
Apollo 13
Die Hard: With a Vengeance
Heat*
Se7en
Toy Story

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:
Apollo 13
Babe*
The City of Lost Children

Updated: 6/26/15

16 comments:

  1. GREAT wins here. I especially love the Spacey win! He's my winner too. Such a brilliant performance! I also love that you nominate Farina. You really need to see Kids. It's hard to get ahold of (I literally had it at my #1 on Netflix for three years before it got sent to me) but it is worth waiting for.

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    1. Thanks man. I've got way too many titles left to see from this year!

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  2. Awesome to see so much love for Casino! Kidman's work in To Die For remains my favorite performance of hers and I adore Winslet in Sense and Sensibility.

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    1. It's my favorite Scorsese film! :) Glad you love those performances too.

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  3. I thought Thompson won Best Adapted Screenplay for Sense & Sensibility? I'm pretty sure she did and rightly so. I so love that film.

    I LOVE Heat too, one of my top 5 fave from Michael Mann!

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    1. Yeah, she won, and deservedly so. S&S is my runner-up in that category.

      Yay! I forgot you love Heat too.

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  4. Great post. I saw Dead Man Walking many years ago, but I vividly remember being impressed -- and deeply disturbed -- by Penn's performance. He is terrifyingly convincing as a sociopath. :-)

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    1. Thanks. I know, right? He's sooo great in that role.

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  5. Awesome list! Casino is so undervalued. It was on a few days ago and I got trapped from the beginning. It moves so well.

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    1. Thanks man! I know, right? Sadly, I think The Wolf of Wall Street will go a similar route this awards season.

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    2. Yeah I agree. Too controversial for the older voters.

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    3. I wonder if the Academy might actually nominate Wolf for Best Picture after all. It's received PGA and WGA nods, and a DGA nod is possible.

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  6. Picture:
    Apollo 13-Winner
    Clueless
    Sense and Sensibility
    12 Monkeys
    A Walk in the Clouds
    This was between the tense Apollo 13 and the social observations of Sense and Sensibilty. Love them both and either could be my winner but Apollo 13 keeps you on the edge of your seat even though the outcome is already known, not an easy accomplishment.

    Director:
    Alfonso Arau-A Walk in the Clouds
    Terry Gilliam-12 Monkeys
    Amy Heckerling-Clueless
    Ron Howard-Apollo 13
    Ang Lee-Sense and Sensibility-Winner
    Gilliam makes the strange netherworld of 12 Monkeys vivid, Heckerling's reimagining of Jane Austen's Emma is sprightly and Arau lush sense of romanticism makes what could have been a bland love story much more involving. It was a choice though between Howard's great job of balancing the drama of the men trapped in the space capsule with the equally tension filled ground crew's dilemma and Ang Lee's deft touch and surprising understanding of Edwardian England mores and conflicts. It's that unique gift of his that made me decide in his favor.

    Actor:
    Nicolas Cage-Leaving Las Vegas
    Tom Hanks-Apollo 13-Winner
    Anthony Hopkins-Nixon
    Ian McKellan-Richard III
    Sean Penn-Dead Man Walking
    Cage is very moving even if his character is one note and Penn humanizes his death row felon but Hanks has to work though so many emotional levels his part seemed more difficult than the others and he plays it just right.

    Actress:
    Kathy Bates-Dolores Claiborne
    Minnie Driver-Circle of Friends
    Piper Laurie-The Grass Harp-Winner
    Elisabeth Shue-Leaving Las Vegas
    Alicia Silverstone-Clueless
    Great work by all, and I hated to leave Emma Thompson off-her Elinor is sensational, but Piper Laurie in the little seen Grass Harp delivers one of the most beautiful performances I've ever seen. It stayed with me for days after my first viewing of the film.

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    1. I still need to see some of these, but I love your Picture and Director lineups. Those Clueless noms are awesome! I like A Walk in the Clouds, but I couldn't find room for it. Also, I really need to give Sense and Sensibility another look.

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  7. Supporting Actor:
    Russell Crowe-Virtuosity
    Walter Matthau-The Grass Harp
    Brad Pitt-12 Monkeys
    Alan Rickman-Sense and Sensibility-Winner
    Kevin Spacey-Seven
    This was a snap despite the quality of the other work. Rickman, creator of one of the all time great villains, is completely believable in a total about face as the immensely kind Colonel Brandon. Many actors could play those roles but the ability to make it seem you were watching different people enacting them is a real gift.

    Supporting Actress:
    Joan Allen-Nixon
    Anglica Aragon-A Walk in the Clouds
    Judy Parfitt-Dolores Claiborne-Winner
    Elizabeth Spriggs-Sense and Sensibility
    Kate Winslet-Sense and Sensibility
    I love the layers that Joan Allen found behind the all but unknowable Pat Nixon and Kate's mercurial reading of the headstrong Marianne is pitch perfect. Aragon provides a quiet grounding focus to the big emotionalism of Clouds but my choice was between two lesser known but talented performers both giving performances that are what supporting work should be all about. Once Elizabeth Spriggs enters her picture she remains at the edges but consistently adds color to her role as the kind but dominating Mrs. Jennings. Likewise the great Judy Parfitt, playing a quite different character, is memorable in a part that a less forceful actress would have faded into the woodwork in. Never trying to gain the audience's sympathy as the prickly Vera and holding her own against Kathy Bates doing some of her own best work she's my winner.

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    1. Thrilled to see Pitt, Spacey, Allen and Winslet here. I strongly suspect Crowe will make my Supporting Actor lineup as well once I see Virtuosity. I really need to watch Dolores Clairborne, it seems.

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