1995 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1995 (Poll Closed)

• Apollo 13  16.39%  (10 votes)  
   
• Babe  3.28%  (2 votes)  
   
• Before Sunrise  3.28%  (2 votes)  
   
• Clueless  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Get Shorty  1.64%  (1 votes)  
   
• Richard III  1.64%  (1 votes)  
   
• Sense and Sensibility  21.31%  (13 votes)  
   
• Seven  18.03%  (11 votes)  
   
• ★ Toy Story  24.59%  (15 votes)  
   
• The Usual Suspects  9.84%  (6 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 61

 

Best Actor of 1995 (Poll Closed)

• ✔ Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)  40.68%  (24 votes)  
   
• Tom Hanks (Apollo 13)  1.69%  (1 votes)  
   
• Ian McKellen (Richard III)  22.03%  (13 votes)  
   
• ★ Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking)  32.2%  (19 votes)  
   
• John Travolta (Get Shorty)  3.39%  (2 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 59

 

Best Actress of 1995 (Poll Closed)

• ★ Nicole Kidman (To Die For)  53.03%  (35 votes)  
   
• Julianne Moore (Safe)  10.61%  (7 votes)  
   
• Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas)  16.67%  (11 votes)  
   
• Alicia Silverstone (Clueless)  7.58%  (5 votes)  
   
• Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility)  12.11%  (8 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 66

 

Best Director of 1995 (Poll Closed)

• David Fincher (Seven)  32.2%  (19 votes)  
   
• Amy Heckerling (Clueless)  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• ★ Ron Howard (Apollo 13)  50.85%  (30 votes)  
   
• Ang Lee (Sense and Sensibility)  15.25%  (9 votes)  
   
• Chris Noonan (Babe)  1.69%  (1 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 59

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1995 (Poll Closed)

• ★ Don Cheadle (Devil in a Blue Dress)  25.4%  (16 votes)  
   
• James Cromwell (Babe)  6.35%  (4 votes)  
   
• Dennis Farina (Get Shorty)  6.35%  (4 votes)  
   
• Brad Pitt (Twelve Monkeys and Seven)  7.94%  (5 votes)  
   
• ✔ Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects, Seven, Swimming with Sharks and Outbreak)  53.96%  (34 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 63

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1995 (Poll Closed)

• Illeana Douglas (To Die For)  9.09%  (6 votes)  
   
• Janeane Garofalo (Bye, Bye Love)  3.03%  (2 votes)  
   
• Kathleen Quinlan (Apollo 13)  3.03%  (2 votes)  
   
• ✔ Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite)  21.21%  (14 votes)  
   
• ★ Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility)  63.64%  (42 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 66

 

Special Award

Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Clueless and the television miniseries Pride and Prejudice) (author of the year)

Joss Whedon and Andrew Stanton and Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow, from an original story by John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton & Joe Ranft (Toy Story) (original screenplay)

"You've Got a Friend in Me"(Toy Story) music and lyrics by Randy Newman (original song)

George Miller & Chris Noonan, from the novel The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith (Babe) (adapted screenplay)

Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan and John Cox (Babe) (visual effects)

Julie Newmar (To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar) (best cameo because, you know, Julie Newmar!)

Crimson Tide (worst movie title for an Auburn Tigers fan)

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My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

My top ten is a compromise between a purely consensus list:

... and my personal top ten:

The toughest compromises are the ones you make with yourself.

1994 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1994

Bullets Over Broadway

Chungking Express

Ed Wood

✔ Forrest Gump

Four Weddings and a Funeral

The Lion King

Little Women

★ Pulp Fiction

The Shawshank Redemption

The Three Colours Trilogy

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Best Actor of 1994

Johnny Depp (Ed Wood)

★ Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption)

Hugh Grant (Four Weddings and a Funeral)

✔ Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)

John Travolta (Pulp Fiction)

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Best Actress of 1994

Toni Collette (Muriel's Wedding)

★ Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies)

Linda Fiorentino (The Last Seduction)

Jennifer Jason Leigh (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle and The Hudsucker Proxy)

Natalie Portman (Léon: The Professional)

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Best Director of 1994

Tim Burton (Ed Wood)

Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption)

Krzysztof Kieslowski (The Three Colours Trilogy)

★ Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)

✔ Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1994

Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral)

★ Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction)

✔ Martin Landau (Ed Wood)

Chazz Palminteri (Bullets Over Broadway)

Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1994

Kirsten Dunst (Interview with the Vampire and Little Women)

Kristen Scott-Thomas (Four Weddings and a Funeral)

Jennifer Tilly (Bullets Over Broadway)

Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction)

★ ✔ Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway)

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Special Award

Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) (original screenplay)

Frank Darabont, from the novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption) (adapted screenplay)

Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption) (score)

Sally Menke (Pulp Fiction) (film editing)

Hoop Dreams (documentary feature)

Speed (next time, take Uber)

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber) (best couple)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔.

Now this was a great year for movies.

1993 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1993 (Poll Closed)

• Farewell My Concubine  4.55%  (4 votes)  
   
• The Fugitive  1.14%  (1 votes)  
   
• Groundhog Day  14.77%  (13 votes)  
   
• In the Name of the Father  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Jurassic Park  1.14%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Nightmare Before Christmas  1.14%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Piano  10.23%  (9 votes)  
   
• The Remains of the Day  7.95%  (7 votes)  
   
• ★ ✔ Schindler's List  57.95%  (51 votes)  
   
• Tombstone  1.13%  (1 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 88

 

Best Actor of 1993 (Poll Closed)

• Daniel Day-Lewis (In the Name of the Father)  7.53%  (7 votes)  
   
• ✔ Tom Hanks (Philadelphia and Sleepless in Seattle)  18.28%  (17 votes)  
   
• Anthony Hopkins (The Remains of the Day and Shadowlands)  21.51%  (20 votes)  
   
• ★ Bill Murray (Groundhog Day)  33.33%  (31 votes)  
   
• Liam Neeson (Schindler's List)  19.35%  (18 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 93

 

Best Actress of 1993 (Poll Closed)

• Patricia Arquette (True Romance)  6.9%  (2 votes)  
   
• Angela Bassett (What's Love Got To Do With It?)  24.14%  (7 votes)  
   
• ★ Juliette Binoche (Three Colours: Blue)  27.59%  (8 votes)  
   
• ✔ Holly Hunter (The Piano)  20.69%  (6 votes)  
   
• Emma Thompson (The Remains of the Day, Much Ado About Nothing and In the Name of the Father)  20.68%  (6 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 29

 

Best Director of 1993 (Poll Closed)

• Jane Campion (The Piano)  10.26%  (8 votes)  
   
• James Ivory (The Remains of the Day)  6.41%  (5 votes)  
   
• Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day)  6.41%  (5 votes)  
   
• Jim Sheridan (In the Name of the Father)  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• ★ ✔ Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List and Jurassic Park)  76.92%  (60 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 78

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1993

★ Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List)

Mark Hamill (Batman: Mask of the Phantasm)

✔ Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive)

Val Kilmer (Tombstone)

Ben Kingsley (Schindler's List)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1993

Embeth Davidtz (Schindler’s List)

Gong Li (Farewell My Concubine)

✔ Anna Paquin (The Piano)

Rosie Perez (Fearless)

★ Winona Ryder (The Age of Innocence)

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Special Award

Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, from a story by Danny Rubin (Groundhog Day) (original screenplay)

Steven Zaillian, from the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) (adapted screenplay)

Janusz Kaminski (Schindler’s List) (cinematography)

Dennis Murren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri (Jurassic Park) (visual effects)

Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy and Ron Judkins (Jurassic Park) (sound)

Kevin Kline as "Dave Kovic" (Dave) (if only all our fake presidents could be Dave Kovic)

"You're killin' me, Smalls!" (The Sandlot) (just because I like the line)

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Steven Spielberg had a pretty good year.

On the other hand, the appeal of the highly-acclaimed British imports The Remains of the Day and In the Name of the Father completely eludes me. But you like them so I nominated them.

1992 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1992 (Poll Closed)

• Aladdin  1.35%  (1 votes)  
   
• The Crying Game  12.16%  (9 votes)  
   
• Enchanted April  8.11%  (6 votes)  
   
• Hard-Boiled  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Howards End  17.57%  (13 votes)  
   
• The Last of the Mohicans  2.7%  (2 votes)  
   
• Malcolm X  4.05%  (3 votes)  
   
• The Player  1.35%  (1 votes)  
   
• Reservoir Dogs  8.11%  (6 votes)  
   
• ★ ✔ Unforgiven  44.59%  (33 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 74

 

Best Actor of 1992 (Poll Closed)

• Robert Downey, Jr. (Chaplin)  10.71%  (9 votes)  
   
• Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)  8.33%  (7 votes)  
   
• Harvey Keitel (Bad Lieutenant and Reservoir Dogs)  13.1%  (11 votes)  
   
• Tim Robbins (The Player)  1.19%  (1 votes)  
   
• ★ Denzel Washington (Malcolm X)  66.67%  (56 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 84

 

Best Actress of 1992

Helena Bonham Carter (Howards End)

Geena Davis (A League of Their Own)

Josie Lawrence (Enchanted April)

Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct)

★ ✔ Emma Thompson (Howards End)

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Best Director of 1992 (Poll Closed)

• ★ ✔ Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)  56.98%  (49 votes)  
   
• Neil Jordan (The Crying Game)  17.44%  (15 votes)  
   
• Spike Lee (Malcolm X)  9.3%  (8 votes)  
   
• Michael Mann (The Last of the Mohicans)  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs)  16.28%  (14 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 86

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1992

Alec Baldwin (Glengarry Glen Ross)

Jaye Davidson (The Crying Game)

✔ Gene Hackman (Unforgiven)

Jack Nicholson (A Few Good Men)

★ Robin Williams (Aladdin)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1992

Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives)

Frances Fisher (Unforgiven)

Joan Plowright (Enchanted April)

★ Miranda Richardson (Enchanted April, Damage and The Crying Game)

✔ Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny)

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Special Award

Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) (original screenplay)

Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman (The Last of the Mohicans) (score)

Alec Baldwin (Glengarry Glen Ross) (best de-motivational speech)

"Porco Rosso" (Porco Rosso) (best flying pig)

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I promised myself I would never do this — a do-over, in this case, the supporting actress category in 1987. Really, not only should I have recognized Mary Stuart Masterson for her iconic performance in John Hughes's Some Kind of Wonderful, she should have won.

My only excuse is that I pre-blogged the entire 1980s in the week before my surgery back in April and I made a few mistakes. Some I caught before they went live; this one I missed. But if I don't change it, the cancer wins. And I'll be damned if I'll let the Big C win ...

Best Supporting Actress of 1987 (Poll Closed)

• ✔ Olympia Dukakis (Moonstruck)  32.56%  (14 votes)  
   
• Anjelica Huston (The Dead)  20.93%  (9 votes)  
   
• ★ Mary Stuart Masterson (Some Kind of Wonderful)  23.26%  (10 votes)  
   
• Anne Ramsey (Throw Momma from the Train)  11.63%  (5 votes)  
   
• Robin Wright (The Princess Bride)  11.62%  (5 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 43