Alternate Oscars: Best Picture, Director and Supporting Actor of 1988 (Re-Do)

I'm not exactly a hobgoblin for foolish consistency, but if I nominated La Dolce Vita for best picture of 1961, then I really should put Cinema Paradiso, 1989's best foreign picture winner, in, you know, 1989. Thus, this slight reshuffling.

By the way, in the categories we are not revisiting, Tom Hanks (Big) won best actor, Susan Sarandon (Bull Durham) won best actress, and Joan Cusack (Working Girl and Married to the Mob) edged Michelle Pfeiffer and Geena Davis for best supporting actress.

Best Picture of 1988 (Poll Closed)

• Beetlejuice  11.76%  (4 votes)  
   
• ★ Bull Durham  17.65%  (6 votes)  
   
• Die Hard  26.47%  (9 votes)  
   
• A Fish Called Wanda  8.82%  (3 votes)  
   
• Grave of the Fireflies  2.94%  (1 votes)  
   
• My Neighbor Totoro  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!  0%  (0 votes)  
   
• ✔ Rain Man  8.82%  (3 votes)  
   
• Who Framed Roger Rabbit  17.65%  (6 votes)  
   
• Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown  5.88%  (2 votes)  
   

 

Total Votes: 34

 

Best Director of 1988

Pedro Almodóvar (Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown)

✔ Barry Levinson (Rain Man)

John McTiernan (Die Hard)

Ron Shelton (Bull Durham)

★ Robert Zemeckis (Who Framed Roger Rabbit)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1988

Michael Keaton (Beetlejuice)

★ ✔ Kevin Kline (A Fish Called Wanda)

Michael Palin (A Fish Called Wanda)

Alan Rickman (Die Hard)

Tim Robbins (Bull Durham)

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Special Award

Ron Shelton (Bull Durham) (original screenplay)

Leslie Nielsen (The Naked Gun: From the Files of Police Squad!) (the Country Joe West umpire award)

Ken Ralston, Richard Williams, Edward Jones and George Gibbs (Who Framed Roger Rabbit) (visual effects)

Die Hard (worst office Christmas party ever)

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My choices are noted with a ★. A tie is indicated with a ✪. Historical Oscar winners are noted with a ✔. Best foreign-language picture winners are noted with an ƒ. A historical winner who won in a different category is noted with a ✱.