Alternate Oscars—1990s

1990

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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1991

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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1992

Best Picture of 1992

Aladdin

Army of Darkness

The Crying Game

Enchanted April

A Few Good Men

Howards End

The Last of the Mohicans

Malcolm X

Reservoir Dogs

★ ✔ Unforgiven

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Best Actor of 1992

Bruce Campbell (Army of Darkness)

Robert Downey, Jr. (Chaplin)

Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)

Harvey Keitel (Bad Lieutenant and Reservoir Dogs)

★ Denzel Washington (Malcolm X)

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Best Actress of 1992

Helena Bonham Carter (Howards End)

Geena Davis (A League of Their Own)

Josie Lawrence (Enchanted April)

Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct)

★ ✔ Emma Thompson (Howards End)

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Best Director of 1992

★ ✔ Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)

James Ivory (Howards End)

Neil Jordan (The Crying Game)

Spike Lee (Malcolm X)

Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1992

Alec Baldwin (Glengarry Glen Ross)

Jaye Davidson (The Crying Game)

✔ Gene Hackman (Unforgiven)

Jack Nicholson (A Few Good Men)

★ Robin Williams (Aladdin)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1992

Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives)

Frances Fisher (Unforgiven)

Joan Plowright (Enchanted April)

★ Miranda Richardson (Enchanted April, Damage and The Crying Game)

✔ Marisa Tomei (My Cousin Vinny)

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Special Award

Quentin Tarantino (Reservoir Dogs) (original screenplay)

Trevor Jones and Randy Edelman (The Last of the Mohicans) (score)

Alec Baldwin (Glengarry Glen Ross) (best de-motivational speech)

"Porco Rosso" (Porco Rosso) (best flying pig)

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1993

Best Picture of 1993

Dazed and Confused

The Fugitive

Groundhog Day

Jurassic Park

The Nightmare Before Christmas

The Piano

The Sandlot

★ ✔ Schindler's List

Sleepless in Seattle

Tombstone

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Best Actor of 1993

✔ Tom Hanks (Philadelphia and Sleepless in Seattle)

Kevin Kline (Dave)

★ Bill Murray (Groundhog Day)

Liam Neeson (Schindler's List)

Robin Williams (Mrs. Doubtfire)

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Best Actress of 1993

Angela Bassett (What's Love Got To Do With It?)

Juliette Binoche (Three Colors: Blue)

★ ✔ Holly Hunter (The Piano and The Firm)

Emma Thompson (The Remains of the Day, Much Ado About Nothing and In the Name of the Father)

Debra Winger (A Dangerous Woman and Shadowlands)

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Best Director of 1993

Jane Campion (The Piano)

Nora Ephron (Sleepless in Seattle)

Richard Linklater (Dazed and Confused)

Harold Ramis (Groundhog Day)

★ ✔ Steven Spielberg (Schindler's List and Jurassic Park)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1993

★ Ralph Fiennes (Schindler's List)

Mark Hamill (Batman: Mask of the Phantasm)

✔ Tommy Lee Jones (The Fugitive)

Val Kilmer (Tombstone)

Ben Kingsley (Schindler's List)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1993

Embeth Davidtz (Schindler’s List)

Gong Li (Farewell My Concubine)

✔ Anna Paquin (The Piano)

Rosie Perez (Fearless)

★ Winona Ryder (The Age of Innocence)

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Special Award

Danny Rubin and Harold Ramis, from a story by Danny Rubin (Groundhog Day) (original screenplay)

Steven Zaillian, from the novel Schindler's Ark by Thomas Keneally (Schindler's List) (adapted screenplay)

Janusz Kaminski (Schindler’s List) (cinematography)

Dennis Murren, Stan Winston, Phil Tippett and Michael Lantieri (Jurassic Park) (visual effects)

Gary Summers, Gary Rydstrom, Shawn Murphy and Ron Judkins (Jurassic Park) (sound)

Kevin Kline as "Dave Kovic" (Dave) (if only all our fake presidents could be Dave Kovic)

"You're killin' me, Smalls!" (The Sandlot) (just because I like the line)

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1994

Best Picture of 1994

Bullets Over Broadway

Chungking Express

Ed Wood

✔ Forrest Gump

Four Weddings and a Funeral

The Lion King

Little Women

★ Pulp Fiction

The Shawshank Redemption

The Three Colours Trilogy

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Best Actor of 1994

Johnny Depp (Ed Wood)

★ Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption)

Hugh Grant (Four Weddings and a Funeral)

✔ Tom Hanks (Forrest Gump)

John Travolta (Pulp Fiction)

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Best Actress of 1994

Toni Collette (Muriel's Wedding)

★ Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies)

Linda Fiorentino (The Last Seduction)

Jennifer Jason Leigh (Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle and The Hudsucker Proxy)

Natalie Portman (Léon: The Professional)

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Best Director of 1994

Tim Burton (Ed Wood)

Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption)

Krzysztof Kieslowski (The Three Colours Trilogy)

★ Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)

✔ Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1994

Simon Callow (Four Weddings and a Funeral)

★ Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction)

✔ Martin Landau (Ed Wood)

Chazz Palminteri (Bullets Over Broadway)

Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1994

Kirsten Dunst (Interview with the Vampire and Little Women)

Kristen Scott-Thomas (Four Weddings and a Funeral)

Jennifer Tilly (Bullets Over Broadway)

Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction)

★ ✔ Dianne Wiest (Bullets Over Broadway)

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Special Award

Roger Avary and Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction) (original screenplay)

Frank Darabont, from the novella "Rita Hayworth and the Shawshank Redemption" by Stephen King (The Shawshank Redemption) (adapted screenplay)

Thomas Newman (The Shawshank Redemption) (score)

Sally Menke (Pulp Fiction) (film editing)

Hoop Dreams (documentary feature)

Speed (next time, take Uber)

Jim Carrey and Jeff Daniels (Dumb and Dumber) (best couple)

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1995

Best Picture of 1995

Apollo 13

Babe

Before Sunrise

✔ Braveheart

Heat

Leaving Las Vegas

Sense and Sensibility

Seven

★ Toy Story

The Usual Suspects

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Best Actor of 1995

✔ Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)

Morgan Freeman (Seven)

Ethan Hawke (Before Sunrise)

Ian McKellen (Richard III)

★ Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking)

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Best Actress of 1995

Julie Delpy (Before Sunrise)

Nicole Kidman (To Die For)

★ Parker Posey (Party Girl)

✔ Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking)

Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas)

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Best Director of 1995

David Fincher (Seven)

✔ Mel Gibson (Braveheart)

★ Ron Howard (Apollo 13)

Michael Mann (Heat)

Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1995

★ Don Cheadle (Devil in a Blue Dress)

James Cromwell (Babe)

Ed Harris (Apollo 13, Nixon and Just Cause)

Brad Pitt (Twelve Monkeys and Seven)

✔ Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects, Seven, Swimming with Sharks and Outbreak)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1995

Joan Allen (Nixon)

Illeana Douglas (To Die For)

✔ Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite)

★ Sharon Stone (Casino)

Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility)

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Special Award

Jane Austen (Sense and Sensibility, Persuasion, Clueless and the television miniseries Pride and Prejudice) (author of the year)

Joss Whedon and Andrew Stanton and Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow, from an original story by John Lasseter, Pete Docter, Andrew Stanton & Joe Ranft (Toy Story) (original screenplay)

"You've Got a Friend in Me"(Toy Story) music and lyrics by Randy Newman (original song)

George Miller & Chris Noonan, from the novel The Sheep-Pig by Dick King-Smith (Babe) (adapted screenplay)

Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan and John Cox (Babe) (visual effects)

Julie Newmar (To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything, Julie Newmar) (best cameo because, you know, Julie Newmar!)

Crimson Tide (worst movie title for an Auburn Tigers fan)

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1996

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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1997

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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1998

Best Picture of 1998

★ The Big Lebowski

ƒ Life is Beautiful

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

Out of Sight

Pleasantville

Rushmore

Saving Private Ryan

✔ Shakespeare in Love

The Thin Red Line

The Truman Show

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Best Actor of 1998

✔ Roberto Benigni (Life is Beautiful)

★ Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski)

Jim Carrey (The Truman Show)

Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters)

Jason Schwartzman (Rushmore)

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Best Actress of 1998

★ Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth)

Jane Horrocks (Little Voice)

Lindsay Lohan (The Parent Trap)

Jennifer Lopez (Out of Sight)

✔ Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)

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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

✔ James Coburn (Affliction)

★ John Goodman (The Big Lebowski)

Ed Harris (The Truman Show)

Bill Murray (Rushmore)

Billy Bob Thornton (Simple Plan and Primary Colors)

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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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1999

Best Picture of 1999

✔ American Beauty

Beau Travail

Being John Malkovich

The Blair Witch Project

Fight Club

The Green Mile

Magnolia

The Matrix

★ The Sixth Sense

Toy Story 2

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Best Actor of 1999

Jim Broadbent (Topsy-Turvy)

Russell Crowe (The Insider)

Richard Farnsworth (The Straight Story)

★ Haley Joel Osment (The Sixth Sense)

✔ Kevin Spacey (American Beauty)

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Best Actress of 1999

Annette Bening (American Beauty)

Sarah Michelle Geller (Cruel Intentions)

Cecilia Roth (All About My Mother)

✔ Hilary Swank (Boys Don’t Cry)

★ Reese Witherspoon (Election)

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Best Director of 1999

Paul Thomas Anderson (Magnolia)

Claire Denis (Beau Travail)

✔ Sam Mendes (American Beauty)

M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense)

★ The Wachowskis (The Matrix)

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Best Supporting Actor of 1999

✔ Michael Caine (The Cider House Rules)

Tom Cruise (Magnolia)

Michael Clarke Duncan (The Green Mile)

Rhys Ifans (Notting Hill)

★ Sam Rockwell (Galaxy Quest)

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Best Supporting Actress of 1999

★ Toni Collette (The Sixth Sense)

Alyson Hannigan (American Pie)

✔ Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted)

Catherine Keener (Being John Malkovich)

Carrie-Anne Moss (The Matrix)

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Special Award

M. Night Shyamalan (The Sixth Sense) (original screenplay)

John Gaeta, Janek Sirrs, Steve Courley and Jon Thum (The Matrix) (visual effects)

Trey Parker and Marc Shaiman (South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut) (original song score)

Gary Cole as "Bill Lumbergh" (Office Space) (we've all had that boss at least once)

"Jar-Jar Binks" (Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace) (the prequel trilogy in a nutshell)

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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 ✱.

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