Sunday, June 23, 2024

1995 Alternate Oscars

We've talked about this before — my alternate Oscar picks are not exactly the same thing as my favorite movies. More of a case of me trying to narrow the field to something like a general consensus, and then counting on the crowdsourced wisdom of my movie-loving readers to pick the winners.

From time to time I'll squeeze in a personal favorite I feel has been overlooked but I rarely foist my idiosyncrasies on the world through my blog — I reserve that for face-to-face interactions with my friends and family. Poor bastards.

Never has the gap between the consensus and my personal favorites been greater than in 1995. Don't know why. I like to think I know an entertaining, well-made movie when I see one, but for some reason, many of my favorites from '95 missed with audiences, critics or both.

And vice versa.

Anyway, I posted a picture at the top of my favorites. The consensus picks (based on pure math) are below. Of them, I chose Toy Story as best picture because it was the first Pixar feature and a real groundbreaker. But I also like Apollo 13, Babe and Before Sunrise, and maybe you're a fan of one of the others. As always, the choice is yours.

Best Picture of 1995
Best Actor of 1995
Best Actress of 1995
Best Director of 1995
Best Supporting Actor of 1995
Best Supporting Actress of 1995

Special Award

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 ✱.

1 comment:

Anonymous said...

Of course my votes are arbitrary and capricious as I usually haven’t seen these movies and if I did I forgot them. Some of my votes are based on memory. Oh well.