1991 Alternate Oscars

Anthony Hopkins's performance in The Silence of the Lambs is iconic, deservedly so, one of the greatest villains in movie history. In fact, his Hannibal Lecter is so memorable, you forget how little time he's actually on the screen — 16 minutes, one of the shortest Oscar-winning outings in history. Thus, I've dropped him into the supporting category where I think he belongs ...

Best Picture of 1991

Beauty and the Beast

Boyz n the Hood

The Double Life of Véronique

The Fisher King

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse

JFK

★ Raise The Red Lantern

✔ The Silence of the Lambs

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Thelma & Louise

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Best Actor of 1991

Kevin Costner (JFK)

★ Danny DeVito (Other People's Money)

River Phoenix (My Own Private Idaho)

John Turturro (Barton Fink)

Robin Williams (The Fisher King)

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Best Actress of 1991

Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise)

★ ✔ Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)

Gong Li (Raise the Red Lantern)

Irène Jacob (The Double Life of Véronique)

Lili Taylor (Dogfight)

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Best Director of 1991

✔ Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)

Terry Gilliam (The Fisher King)

Ridley Scott (Thelma & Louise)

John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood)

★ Zhang Yimou (Raise The Red Lantern)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1991

Laurence Fishburne (Boyz n the Hood)

★ ✱ Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)

✔ Jack Palance (City Slickers)

Gregory Peck (Other People's Money)

William Sadler (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1991

Judy Davis (Naked Lunch and Barton Fink)

He Saifei (Raise The Red Lantern)

Jane Horrocks (Life is Sweet)

Christina Ricci (The Addams Family)

★ ✔ Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)

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Special Award

John Singleton (Boyz n the Hood) (original screenplay)

Zhen Ni, from the novel Wives and Concubines by Su Tong (Raise The Red Lantern) (adapted screenplay)

Alan Menken (music) and Howard Ashman (lyrics) (Beauty and the Beast) (song score)

Dennis Murren, Stan Winston, Gene Warren, Jr. and Robert Skotak (Terminator II: Judgment Day) (visual effects)

Thelma & Louise (worst road trip, Grand Canyon edition)

William Sadler as "the Grim Reaper" (Bill & Ted's Bogus Journey) (best sore loser)

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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 ✱.

1990 Alternate Oscars

Best Picture of 1990

An Angel at My Table

✔ Dances with Wolves

Edward Scissorhands

La Femme Nikita

★ Goodfellas

Home Alone

Ju Dou

Miller's Crossing

Misery

Pretty Woman

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Best Actor of 1990

★ Gabriel Byrne (Miller's Crossing)

Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)

Gérard Depardieu (Cyrano de Bergerac and Green Card)

✔ Jeremy Irons (Reversal of Fortune)

Ray Liotta (Goodfellas)

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Best Actress of 1990

✔ Kathy Bates (Misery)

Anjelica Huston (The Grifters)

Gong Li (Ju Dou)

Anne Parillaud (La Femme Nikita)

★ Julia Roberts (Pretty Woman)

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Best Director of 1990

Tim Burton (Edward Scissorhands)

Jane Campion (An Angel at My Table)

The Coen Brothers (Miller's Crossing)

✔ Kevin Costner (Dances with Wolves)

★ Martin Scorsese (Goodfellas)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1990

Marlon Brando (The Freshman)

Bruce Davison (Longtime Companion)

Robert De Niro (Awakenings and Goodfellas)

Albert Finney (Miller's Crossing)

★ ✔ Joe Pesci (Goodfellas and Home Alone)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1990

Annette Bening (The Grifters)

★ Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas)

✔ Whoopi Goldberg (Ghost)

Marcia Gay Harden (Miller's Crossing)

Penelope Ann Miller (The Freshman and Awakenings)

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Special Award

Joel Coen and Ethan Coen (Miller's Crossing) (original screenplay)

Nicholas Pileggi & Martin Scorsese, from Pileggi's book Wiseguy: Life in a Mafia Family (Goodfellas) (adapted screenplay)

Michael Ballhaus (Goodfellas) (cinematography)

Thelma Schoonmaker (Goodfellas) (film editing)

Bo Welch, Tom Duffield and Cheryl Carasik (Edward Scissorhands) (art direction / set decoration)

Quigley Down Under (best Australian western)

Hawaiian tiger fish and smoked turkey (The Freshman) (best Komodo dragon imitation)

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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 ✱.