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.