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

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.