1999 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1999 (Poll Closed)

• ƒ All About My Mother  12.31%  (8 votes)  
   
• ✔ American Beauty  27.69%  (18 votes)  
   
• Being John Malkovich  10.77%  (7 votes)  
   
• Magnolia  7.69%  (5 votes)  
   
• The Matrix  18.46%  (12 votes)  
   
• Office Space  1.54%  (1 votes)  
   
• ★ The Sixth Sense  12.31%  (8 votes)  
   
• South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut  1.54%  (1 votes)  
   
• Three Kings  3.08%  (2 votes)  
   
• Toy Story 2  4.61%  (3 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 65

 

Best Actor of 1999 (Poll Closed)

• Jim Broadbent (Topsy-Turvy)  6.67%  (4 votes)  
   
• Russell Crowe (The Insider)  28.33%  (17 votes)  
   
• Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story)  13.33%  (8 votes)  
   
• ★ Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense)  25%  (15 votes)  
   
• ✔ Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)  26.67%  (16 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 60

 

Best Actress of 1999 (Poll Closed)

• Drew Barrymore (Never Been Kissed)  1.52%  (1 votes)  
   
• Annette Bening (American Beauty)  33.33%  (22 votes)  
   
• Julia Roberts (Notting Hill)  1.52%  (1 votes)  
   
• ✔ Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry)  46.97%  (31 votes)  
   
• ★ Reese Witherspoon (Election)  16.66%  (11 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 66

 

Best Director of 1999 (Poll Closed)

• Pedro Almodóvar (All About My Mother)  27.78%  (15 votes)  
   
• Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia)  12.96%  (7 votes)  
   
• ✔ Sam Mendes (American Beauty)  31.48%  (17 votes)  
   
• M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense)  12.96%  (7 votes)  
   
• ★ The Wachowskis (The Matrix)  14.81%  (8 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 54

 

Best Supporting Actor of 1999 (Poll Closed)

• Tom Cruise (Magnolia)  49.25%  (33 votes)  
   
• ★ Laurence Fishburne (The Matrix)  8.96%  (6 votes)  
   
• Jude Law (The Talented Mr. Ripley)  13.43%  (9 votes)  
   
• Brad Pitt (Fight Club)  19.4%  (13 votes)  
   
• Sam Rockwell (Galaxy Quest)  8.96%  (6 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 67

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1999 (Poll Closed)

• Alyson Hannigan (American Pie)  4.55%  (3 votes)  
   
• ✔ Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted)  24.24%  (16 votes)  
   
• Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich)  31.82%  (21 votes)  
   
• Samantha Morton (Sweet and Lowdown)  13.64%  (9 votes)  
   
• ★ Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix)  25.75%  (17 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 66

 

Special Award (Poll Closed)

• M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) (original screenplay)  28.57%  (10 votes)  
   
• Patricia Rozema, based on the novel by Jane Austen, early journals and letters (Mansfield Park) (adapted screenplay)  2.86%  (1 votes)  
   
• Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (original song score)  31.43%  (11 votes)  
   
• John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courley and Jon Thum (The Matrix) (visual effects)  28.57%  (10 votes)  
   
• Dan Hedaya (Dick) (best Nixon)  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Gary Cole as "Bill Lumbergh" (Office Space) (God help us, we've all had that boss at one time or another)  8.57%  (3 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 35

 

My choices are noted with a ★. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ.

It's a Hollywood tradition to nominate child actors in the supporting category no matter how much time they spend on the screen or how essential to the story they are. But we here at the Monkey don't give a damn about Hollywood tradition. Haley Joel Osment is the co-lead in The Sixth Sense with Bruce Willis, thus the lead actor nomination.

1998 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1998 (Poll Closed)

• ★ The Big Lebowski  17.07%  (14 votes)  
   
• Central Station  3.66%  (3 votes)  
   
• ƒ Life is Beautiful  1.22%  (1 votes)  
   
• Out of Sight  4.88%  (4 votes)  
   
• Pleasantville  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• Rushmore  4.88%  (4 votes)  
   
• Saving Private Ryan  28.05%  (23 votes)  
   
• ✔ Shakespeare in Love  6.1%  (5 votes)  
   
• The Thin Red Line  10.98%  (9 votes)  
   
• The Truman Show  23.16%  (19 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 82

 

Best Actor of 1998 (Poll Closed)

• ✔ Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful)  4.35%  (5 votes)  
   
• ★ Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski)  38.26%  (44 votes)  
   
• Jim Carrey (The Truman Show)  26.09%  (30 votes)  
   
• George Clooney (Out of Sight)  1.74%  (2 votes)  
   
• Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters)  29.56%  (34 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 115

 

Best Actress of 1998 (Poll Closed)

• ★ Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth)  72.94%  (62 votes)  
   
• Cameron Diaz (There's Something About Mary)  7.06%  (6 votes)  
   
• Jane Horrocks (Little Voice)  7.06%  (6 votes)  
   
• Lindsay Lohan (The Parent Trap)  4.71%  (4 votes)  
   
• ✔ Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love and Sliding Doors)  8.23%  (7 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 85

 

Best Director of 1998

The Coen Brothers (The Big Lebowski)

John Madden (Shakespeare in Love)

★ Steven Soderbergh (Out of Sight)

✔ Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)

Peter Weir (The Truman Show)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1998 (Poll Closed)

• ★ John Goodman (The Big Lebowski)  45.83%  (44 votes)  
   
• Ed Harris (The Truman Show)  26.04%  (25 votes)  
   
• Bill Murray (Rushmore)  22.92%  (22 votes)  
   
• Ving Rhames (Out of Sight)  2.08%  (2 votes)  
   
• Geoffrey Rush (Shakespeare in Love)  3.13%  (3 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 96

 

Best Supporting Actress of 1998

★ Joan Allen (Pleasantville)

Kathy Bates (Primary Colors)

✔ Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love)

Lisa Kudrow (The Opposite of Sex)

Lynn Redgrave (Gods and Monsters)

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Special Award

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (The Big Lebowski) (original screenplay)

Scott Frank, from the novel by Elmore Leonard (Out of Sight) (adapted screenplay)

Janusz Kaminski (Saving Private Ryan) (cinematography)

Omaha Beach (Saving Private Ryan) (best action sequence)

Jane Horrocks (Little Voice) (outstanding vocal performance)

Sam Elliott (The Big Lebowski) (best moustache)

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Boy, that is a moustache, isn't it.

By the way, I may be one of the few people on Earth who admits to liking Shakespeare in Love these days even if it's not the best movie of the year. I rank it fourth behind The Big Lebowski, Out of Sight and Saving Private Ryan, in that order.

1997 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1997

Boogie Nights

Deconstructing Harry

The Full Monty

Good Will Hunting

Grosse Pointe Blank

Jackie Brown

★ L.A. Confidential

Princess Mononoke

The Sweet Hereafter

✔ Titanic

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Best Actor of 1997

★ Russell Crowe (L.A. Confidential)

Ian Holm (The Sweet Hereafter)

✔ Jack Nicholson (As Good as It Gets)

Guy Pearce (L.A. Confidential)

Will Smith (Men in Black)

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Best Actress of 1997

Cate Blanchett (Oscar and Lucinda)

Judi Dench (Mrs. Brown)

★ Pam Grier (Jackie Brown)

✔ Helen Hunt (As Good as It Gets)

Kate Winslet (Titanic)

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Best Director of 1997

Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights)

✔ James Cameron (Titanic)

Atom Egoyan (The Sweet Hereafter)

★ Curtis Hanson (L.A. Confidential)

Quentin Tarantino (Jackie Brown)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1997

Robert Forster (Jackie Brown)

Greg Kinnear (As Good as It Gets)

★ Burt Reynolds (Boogie Nights)

Kevin Spacey (L.A. Confidential)

✔ Robin Williams (Good Will Hunting)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1997

✔ Kim Basinger (L.A. Confidential)

Joan Cusack (In & Out and Grosse Pointe Blank)

Bridget Fonda (Jackie Brown)

★ Julianne Moore (Boogie Nights)

Sarah Polley (The Sweet Hereafter)

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Special Award

Paul Thomas Anderson (Boogie Nights) (original screenplay)

Brian Helgeland & Curtis Hanson, from the novel by James Ellroy (L.A. Confidential) (adapted screenplay)

Peter Lamont; Michael Ford (Titanic) (art direction / set decoration)

"Miss Misery" (Good Will Hunting) music and lyrics by Elliott Smith (song)

Kevin Kline and Tom Selleck (In & Out) (best couple)

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James Ellroy, author of the novel L.A. Confidential, is one of my favorite writers — wild, jittery, paranoid, cranked on Benzedrine and black coffee, writing twenty-three hours a day. Linear, he is not. That director Curtis Hanson and screenwriter Brian Helgeland were able to pull one of the best movies of the decade out of Ellroy's gloriously convoluted epic is one of the miracles of movie history and a testament to their commitment and craft.

1996 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1996

Bound

Breaking the Waves

✔ The English Patient

★ Fargo

Jerry Maguire

Lone Star

Secrets & Lies

Sling Blade

Star Trek: First Contact

Trainspotting

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Best Actor of 1996

Kenneth Branagh (Hamlet)

Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire and Mission: Impossible)

Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient)

★ Ewan McGregor (Trainspotting)

✔ Geoffrey Rush (Shine)

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Best Actress of 1996

Kate Beckinsale (Cold Comfort Farm)

Brenda Blethyn (Secrets & Lies)

Gina Gershon and Jennifer Tilly (Bound)

★ ✔ Frances McDormand (Fargo)

Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves)

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Best Director of 1996

Danny Boyle (Trainspotting)

★ The Coen Brothers (Fargo)

Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies)

✔ Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)

John Sayles (Lone Star)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1996

★ Steve Buscemi (Fargo)

Robert Carlyle (Trainspotting)

✔ Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Jerry Maguire)

William H. Macy (Fargo)

Edward Norton (Primal Fear, The People vs. Larry Flynt and Everyone Says I Love You)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1996

✔ Juliette Binoche (The English Patient)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies)

Vanessa Redgrave (Mission: Impossible)

Alfre Woodard (Star Trek: First Contact)

★ Renée Zellweger (Jerry Maguire)

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Special Award

Ethan Coen and Joel Coen (Fargo) (original screenplay)

John Hodge, based on the novel Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh (Trainspotting) (adapted screenplay)

When We Were Kings (documentary feature)

Volker Engel, Clay Pinney, Douglas Smith and Joseph Viskocil (Independence Day) (visual effects)

Alice Krige (Star Trek: First Contact) (sexiest Borg ever)

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

I nominated The English Patient in several categories, but I'll be honest with you, I'm not a fan. I mean, I got it in terms of all its literary tricks, but did I ever care about what was happening on screen? Nuh-uh. And nothing that's happened in the last twenty-plus years makes me think I ever will.