The Silence Of The Lambs wins. What a cool thing to happen. The 80s sucked when it comes to the Oscars. Out Of Africa, Gandhi, Chariots Of Fire, The Last Emperor. Then comes the 90s and we start with Dances With Wolves, which we all know sucks. Then all of a sudden, 1991, Silence Of The Lambs wins Best Picture, after being released in February. That's awesome. Then we get Unforgiven, Schindler's List, the 90s are shaping up. Then we get Forrest Gump, Braveheart and The English Patient. No streaks can last forever.
You can see my GABBY winners and nominees HERE
Best Picture
5. The Prince Of Tides is a movie I've seen multiple times and it has left absolutely no impression on me. As I started watching it this time, certain scenes started seeming familiar. I got about half way through and started thinking, oh, wait, I've seen this. I think I've seen this twice. I not only don't like this movie, it immediately leaves my memory after watching it. I'll try to describe it before it leaves again. Nick Nolte's sister attempted suicide and he is seeing a psychiatrist to get to the root of her troubles. His wife is having an affair, the psychiatrist's husband is also having an affair, Nolte and the psychiatrist start sleeping together. It's an adult romance with fine performances but didn't connect with me.
4. Bugsy is a biopic about gangster Bugsy Siegel that doesn't seem to know or care where it wants to focus. Warren Beatty stars as Seigel and you think it's gonna be about his love affair with his mistress or maybe his career or maybe his fascination with movies. It's not really about any of those, it's all over the place and most of the characters remain undefined. It has very good production elements, cinematography, score, art direction, etc. but other than that it's just kinda there.
3. JFK is Oliver Stone's 3 hour plus conspiracy thriller revolving around the assassination of John F. Kennedy. Kevin Costner stars as a New Orleans D.A. who goes to court because him and his team have found much evidence that Oswald could not have acted alone. The movie caused a stir at the time as many accused Stone of fudging facts. I don't know much about history but the movie is solid entertainment that leaves you with questions and theories. It is a very long film but it moves at a great pace and has a cast that includes everyone and everybody.
2. Beauty And The Beast became the first animated film to get a Best Picture nomination. This is based on the French fairy tale about a prince transformed into a beast who needs to find true love to break the curse. This is a beautiful and magical film that has a charm that is lost with computer animation. It's beautiful but it doesn't look perfect. There's still some roughness around the edges but that makes it more compelling because what you're really seeing is the sweat of some animator.
1. The Silence Of The Lambs is one of the coolest films to win Best Picture. The Oscars have a tendency to gravitate towards movies like Howards End and A Passage To India but then every now and then something cool wins and you're like, thanks for not going with The Prince Of Tides. If you haven't seen this it's about an FBI agent tracking a serial killer and she gets help from another serial killer. It's tense, scary, gross but also beautiful. This movie also has the distinction of being the first Best Picture winner released to home video before it won. That means that people had the option to watch the movie on their VCR as they were voting. It was also released in February which means it is one of those rare films that was able to stay in people's heads all year. That's how you know it's good. Most movies are good right after you leave the theater but a truly great movie stays with you long after.
The Silence Of The Lambs is by far the coolest movie here. The only problem is that it doesn't feel like a Best Picture winner. Let's look at the last couple choices, The Last Emperor, Rain Man, Driving Miss Daisy, Dances With Wolves, The Silence Of The Lambs. One of these movies sticks out. That's what makes it a great winner, movies like this don't win but they can and they should.
Oscar Winner: The Silence Of The Lambs
My Vote: The Silence Of The Lambs
GABBY Winner: The Fisher King
Best Actor
5. Warren Beatty is not an actor I like. He plays Bugsy Siegel in Bugsy and he's just not very good. He seems like he's relying on his movie star charisma which really isn't there.
4. Robert De Niro plays the Robert Mitchum character in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. He's a ruthless killer who is plotting his revenge on the lawyer who put him in prison. He's appropriately menacing in the film but I preferred Mitchum in the original. He had layers of terror while De Niro is always over the top evil. He's good in the film and this is not the type of thing that usually gets nominated. I feel like if anyone else played this part they wouldn't be honored but when Bobby De Niro does it the Academy takes notice.
3. Nick Nolte has such a gruff voice that it's always weird when he plays a sweet role. In The Prince Of Tides he plays a man who goes to New York to visit a psychiatrist in order to figure out why his sister has attempted suicide. He cries a lot and has a lot of sweet moments with co-star/director Barbra Streisand. He's an actor that should have an Oscar but this isn't the role I want him to win for. Blame Roberto Benigni for why Nolte doesn't have an Oscar, not Anthony Hopkins.
2. Robin Williams. The Fisher King is my favorite film of this year. It's directed by Terry Gilliam but it's written by someone else so it has the inventive Gilliam style but the story is sweeter than his normal films and easier to follow. Jeff Bridges plays a shock jock who jokingly tells a caller that he should kill all the yuppies he sees. The caller takes him seriously and opens fire in a restaurant. Bridges's career goes into the toilet, he's now working at a video store run by his girlfriend. One day while he's walking around drunk he runs into Perry, a homeless man who has lost his mind after his wife was killed in the shooting. The DJ thinks he will cure his karma if he helps Perry on his quest to find the holy grail. Williams plays Perry and this is a perfect blend between manic Robin Williams and the more muted Robin Williams. Sometimes he can go to far in either direction but this role was tailor made for him. He's funny, sweet and poignant and still gets to run around naked and scream and throw out random references.
1. Anthony Hopkins creates quite possibly the most iconic villain in film history with his chilling performance as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs. He's a brilliant serial killer who liked to eat his victims. He is now in a prison for the criminally insane and is asked to help a young FBI agent track down another serial killer. Like I was saying with De Niro's performance this year, Hopkins doesn't just play a villain. He gives the role layers to create an evil human being that you almost understand. Yes, he eats people but he's so classy about it that you almost see his point.
I gave Hopkins a win in 1978 for Magic so I honored Robin Williams this year for my awards, which is my favorite performance on the list. When it comes to this category, there is no question that I'm voting for Hopkins. Robin's gonna win in 1997 so everything worked out there and Hopkins is just perfection in his role. It loses just a little bit of coolness because of the disappointing sequels but even though those movies were kind of lame compared to the original, Sir Anthony didn't really lose anything in his character. There is only a little bit of hesitation to vote for him, kind of like how Johnny Depp was nominated for the first Pirates movie and then did it again 5 times.
Best Actor
5. Warren Beatty is not an actor I like. He plays Bugsy Siegel in Bugsy and he's just not very good. He seems like he's relying on his movie star charisma which really isn't there.
4. Robert De Niro plays the Robert Mitchum character in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. He's a ruthless killer who is plotting his revenge on the lawyer who put him in prison. He's appropriately menacing in the film but I preferred Mitchum in the original. He had layers of terror while De Niro is always over the top evil. He's good in the film and this is not the type of thing that usually gets nominated. I feel like if anyone else played this part they wouldn't be honored but when Bobby De Niro does it the Academy takes notice.
3. Nick Nolte has such a gruff voice that it's always weird when he plays a sweet role. In The Prince Of Tides he plays a man who goes to New York to visit a psychiatrist in order to figure out why his sister has attempted suicide. He cries a lot and has a lot of sweet moments with co-star/director Barbra Streisand. He's an actor that should have an Oscar but this isn't the role I want him to win for. Blame Roberto Benigni for why Nolte doesn't have an Oscar, not Anthony Hopkins.
2. Robin Williams. The Fisher King is my favorite film of this year. It's directed by Terry Gilliam but it's written by someone else so it has the inventive Gilliam style but the story is sweeter than his normal films and easier to follow. Jeff Bridges plays a shock jock who jokingly tells a caller that he should kill all the yuppies he sees. The caller takes him seriously and opens fire in a restaurant. Bridges's career goes into the toilet, he's now working at a video store run by his girlfriend. One day while he's walking around drunk he runs into Perry, a homeless man who has lost his mind after his wife was killed in the shooting. The DJ thinks he will cure his karma if he helps Perry on his quest to find the holy grail. Williams plays Perry and this is a perfect blend between manic Robin Williams and the more muted Robin Williams. Sometimes he can go to far in either direction but this role was tailor made for him. He's funny, sweet and poignant and still gets to run around naked and scream and throw out random references.
1. Anthony Hopkins creates quite possibly the most iconic villain in film history with his chilling performance as Hannibal Lecter in The Silence Of The Lambs. He's a brilliant serial killer who liked to eat his victims. He is now in a prison for the criminally insane and is asked to help a young FBI agent track down another serial killer. Like I was saying with De Niro's performance this year, Hopkins doesn't just play a villain. He gives the role layers to create an evil human being that you almost understand. Yes, he eats people but he's so classy about it that you almost see his point.
I gave Hopkins a win in 1978 for Magic so I honored Robin Williams this year for my awards, which is my favorite performance on the list. When it comes to this category, there is no question that I'm voting for Hopkins. Robin's gonna win in 1997 so everything worked out there and Hopkins is just perfection in his role. It loses just a little bit of coolness because of the disappointing sequels but even though those movies were kind of lame compared to the original, Sir Anthony didn't really lose anything in his character. There is only a little bit of hesitation to vote for him, kind of like how Johnny Depp was nominated for the first Pirates movie and then did it again 5 times.
Oscar Winner: Anthony Hopkins
My Vote: Anthony Hopkins
GABBY Winner: Robin Williams
Best Actress
5. Bette Midler gets her 2nd Oscar nomination for playing Dixie Leonard, a singer who joins up with James Caan to entertain troops for the USO in For The Boys. This was either a weak year or they really love the Divine Miss M because I saw nothing Oscar worthy in this performance. A Golden Globe, sure. Bette is perfectly fine but I found her chemistry with Caan lacking much of anything.
3. Geena Davis plays Thelma, one of the girls on a road trip that turns into a police chase in Thelma & Louise. She's trying to get a break from the monotony of life with a demanding husband and ends up running from the law after a man is murdered. She's the more ditsy character and her chemistry with Sarandon is really terrific. That's kind of the reason I can't vote for her, you can either vote for both of them or neither of them.
2. Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise - Much like with Davis, I can't really vote for Sarandon because it seems unfair to split them up. She plays Louise in Thelma & Louise. She's the more level headed woman on the road trip except for when she spur of the moment starts the main conflict that gets the cops to start chasing them. I'd rather vote for her than Davis because she's an actress I like more and her winning here would let Elisabeth Shue win in 1995 but, again, it seems weird to vote for one over the other.
1. Jodie Foster gives an incredible performance as FBI agent Clarice Starling in The Silence Of The Lambs. You should have seen the movie by now to know this but she's amazing at playing all facets to her character. She's strong but weak, powerful but powerless at the same time. It's a terrific performance that makes me wish she hadn't have just won 3 years ago.
The only reason I'm hesitant to give Foster my vote is because she just won. I have certain rules I follow when it comes to giving someone a 2nd Oscar. First rule is you have to be better than the performance you already won for. She is much better here than she was in The Accused. Second rule is your first win can't be a fluke. If you win a veteran Oscar like Judi Dench or win for your first movie like Tatum O'Neal then it's hard for me to vote for you to win a second. Jodie's first win was legitimate so she passes that test. My final rule is your winning of a 2nd Oscar shouldn't impede someone who is deserving of winning their first. Geena Davis has already won, Sarandon will end up winning soon, Dern and Midler really don't deserve a win for their particular performances so Foster winning a 2nd one breaks none of my rules and the performance is iconic. Foster all the way.
Oscar Winner: Jodie Foster
Best Actress
5. Bette Midler gets her 2nd Oscar nomination for playing Dixie Leonard, a singer who joins up with James Caan to entertain troops for the USO in For The Boys. This was either a weak year or they really love the Divine Miss M because I saw nothing Oscar worthy in this performance. A Golden Globe, sure. Bette is perfectly fine but I found her chemistry with Caan lacking much of anything.
4. Laura Dern. Remember that movie Milk Money, where a young boy hires a prostitute to see boobies and then tries to get her to fall in love with his dad? Rambling Rose is that movie mixed with Places In The Heart. It's the Great Depression and Dern plays Rose, a girl who has been living as a prostitute who comes to live with a family to escape her terrible life. She ends up falling in love with the father and the son of the family also starts to develop feelings for her. At 25 years old, Dern became the youngest actress ever nominated in this category. She has since been surpassed by Quvenzhané Wallis.
3. Geena Davis plays Thelma, one of the girls on a road trip that turns into a police chase in Thelma & Louise. She's trying to get a break from the monotony of life with a demanding husband and ends up running from the law after a man is murdered. She's the more ditsy character and her chemistry with Sarandon is really terrific. That's kind of the reason I can't vote for her, you can either vote for both of them or neither of them.
2. Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise - Much like with Davis, I can't really vote for Sarandon because it seems unfair to split them up. She plays Louise in Thelma & Louise. She's the more level headed woman on the road trip except for when she spur of the moment starts the main conflict that gets the cops to start chasing them. I'd rather vote for her than Davis because she's an actress I like more and her winning here would let Elisabeth Shue win in 1995 but, again, it seems weird to vote for one over the other.
1. Jodie Foster gives an incredible performance as FBI agent Clarice Starling in The Silence Of The Lambs. You should have seen the movie by now to know this but she's amazing at playing all facets to her character. She's strong but weak, powerful but powerless at the same time. It's a terrific performance that makes me wish she hadn't have just won 3 years ago.
The only reason I'm hesitant to give Foster my vote is because she just won. I have certain rules I follow when it comes to giving someone a 2nd Oscar. First rule is you have to be better than the performance you already won for. She is much better here than she was in The Accused. Second rule is your first win can't be a fluke. If you win a veteran Oscar like Judi Dench or win for your first movie like Tatum O'Neal then it's hard for me to vote for you to win a second. Jodie's first win was legitimate so she passes that test. My final rule is your winning of a 2nd Oscar shouldn't impede someone who is deserving of winning their first. Geena Davis has already won, Sarandon will end up winning soon, Dern and Midler really don't deserve a win for their particular performances so Foster winning a 2nd one breaks none of my rules and the performance is iconic. Foster all the way.
Oscar Winner: Jodie Foster
My Vote: Jodie Foster
GABBY Winner: Jodie Foster
Best Supporting Actor
5. Ben Kingsley due to no fault of his own has a completely undefined character. Bugsy is a biopic of Bugsy Siegel that seems to think the audience has an encyclopedic knowledge of all the people in Siegel's life. I was never sure who Kingsley was or what importance he had in the film. I'm not sure why he was nominated and he already won so we can move on.
4. Harvey Keitel is a little more interesting than Kingsley in Bugsy but he is just playing a tough thug. Keitel brings more to the role than a lesser actor would but the character is basically just a goon who solves all problems with his fists.
3. Michael Lerner only has 3 scenes in Barton Fink. In his first two he is praising the main character's genius and then in his final scene he completely drops the facade and tears him down. He plays a movie studio head who hires Barton to write a wrestling picture only to find that he is too highbrow for the job. It's a bigger than life performance but if you were gonna nominate someone from Barton Fink in this category I would pick John Goodman. It's hard to vote for someone when he's not the best supporting actor in his own film.
2. Tommy Lee Jones plays Clay Shaw, the guy who goes on trial for conspiracy charges in the JFK assassination. If you're gonna pick someone from the huge ensemble of the film to nominate it might as well be Jones. He has the biggest part of the supporting players. He has a lot of good moments in the film but I feel like this is the nomination for the film more than him. Best Picture nominees usually need at least one acting nomination to be considered a front runner and Jones got his name pulled out of the hat. He's gonna win in two years so he doesn't need to win here. My only problem with his performance is that he's playing a gay man and he's just slightly lisping it up. It may be historically accurate but there were times where I saw a straight man playing effeminate when that can be considered a stereotype.
1. Jack Palance plays Curly, the old cowhand who bestows wisdom on the main character in City Slickers. On the surface this looks like a win for a guy who has been in movies since the beginning of time. It is indeed that, if Palance didn't have a career that spanned over 40 years there is no way he would win this but his performance is quite good. He's able to play intimidating and sweet at the same time which is exactly what the part calls for.
Sometimes a vote for the oldest guy in the room is legitimate. In this category, Kingsley and Keitel cancel each other out, Lerner and Jones are just small pieces in impressive ensembles so that really leaves Palance as the only one to vote for. This was also a late career resurgence for an actor who had been appearing mostly in B-movies for the last decade or so of his career. It also gave us the often played moment of him doing one armed push-ups on the stage so I gotta cast my vote for Palance as well.
Best Supporting Actor
5. Ben Kingsley due to no fault of his own has a completely undefined character. Bugsy is a biopic of Bugsy Siegel that seems to think the audience has an encyclopedic knowledge of all the people in Siegel's life. I was never sure who Kingsley was or what importance he had in the film. I'm not sure why he was nominated and he already won so we can move on.
4. Harvey Keitel is a little more interesting than Kingsley in Bugsy but he is just playing a tough thug. Keitel brings more to the role than a lesser actor would but the character is basically just a goon who solves all problems with his fists.
3. Michael Lerner only has 3 scenes in Barton Fink. In his first two he is praising the main character's genius and then in his final scene he completely drops the facade and tears him down. He plays a movie studio head who hires Barton to write a wrestling picture only to find that he is too highbrow for the job. It's a bigger than life performance but if you were gonna nominate someone from Barton Fink in this category I would pick John Goodman. It's hard to vote for someone when he's not the best supporting actor in his own film.
2. Tommy Lee Jones plays Clay Shaw, the guy who goes on trial for conspiracy charges in the JFK assassination. If you're gonna pick someone from the huge ensemble of the film to nominate it might as well be Jones. He has the biggest part of the supporting players. He has a lot of good moments in the film but I feel like this is the nomination for the film more than him. Best Picture nominees usually need at least one acting nomination to be considered a front runner and Jones got his name pulled out of the hat. He's gonna win in two years so he doesn't need to win here. My only problem with his performance is that he's playing a gay man and he's just slightly lisping it up. It may be historically accurate but there were times where I saw a straight man playing effeminate when that can be considered a stereotype.
1. Jack Palance plays Curly, the old cowhand who bestows wisdom on the main character in City Slickers. On the surface this looks like a win for a guy who has been in movies since the beginning of time. It is indeed that, if Palance didn't have a career that spanned over 40 years there is no way he would win this but his performance is quite good. He's able to play intimidating and sweet at the same time which is exactly what the part calls for.
Sometimes a vote for the oldest guy in the room is legitimate. In this category, Kingsley and Keitel cancel each other out, Lerner and Jones are just small pieces in impressive ensembles so that really leaves Palance as the only one to vote for. This was also a late career resurgence for an actor who had been appearing mostly in B-movies for the last decade or so of his career. It also gave us the often played moment of him doing one armed push-ups on the stage so I gotta cast my vote for Palance as well.
Oscar Winner: Jack Palance
My Vote: Jack Palance
GABBY Winner: Laurence Fishburne for Boyz N The Hood
Best Supporting Actress
2. Juliette Lewis plays Nick Nolte's daughter in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. All of her scenes are filled with incredible tension as Robert De Niro is so filled with creepy rage and Juliette Lewis plays her character with complete innocence. De Niro is a recently released convict who is plotting his revenge on the lawyer who put him there. Lewis is the lawyer's daughter who is in that phase where she is rebelling against her parents. De Niro poses as a drama teacher at her school and creepy scenes ensue. Lewis is really great in the film in an uncomfortable jailbait role, it's no surprise that Woody Allen cast her in his next movie.
1. Mercedes Ruehl plays Jeff Bridges's supportive girlfriend in The Fisher King. I love this film so much, Jeff Bridges partners with a homeless Robin Williams to find the holy grail. It's an amazing film and Mercedes Ruehl...doesn't do that much in the film. She helps Bridges get Williams ready for a date, she gives him some words of encouragement, but that's about it. She's good in the film, not exactly Oscar worthy, in fact I would much rather have Amanda Plummer in this category for the same film.
Mercedes Ruehl wins the Oscar which I really only condone because a vote for her is a vote for my favorite movie of the year. That's why I'm voting for her too. Also, this category is really weak. Nelligan, Tandy and Ladd don't factor in for a vote at all. The only ones that do are Ruehl and Lewis. I don't want to vote for Lewis because she's so young so that leaves Ruehl. So, none of these performances really deserve to win. I'm gonna vote for my favorite movie.
Oscar Winner: Mercedes Ruehl
Best Supporting Actress
5. Kate Nelligan plays Nick Nolte's mother in The Prince Of Tides. She plays the character in two parts of her life. In the flashback scenes she's younger and in the present day she is wearing slightly unconvincing makeup. She didn't do much for me in the film and the film didn't connect with me at all.
4. Jessica Tandy. Hi, I'm an old lady. Can I get an Oscar nomination for basically just showing up? Sure. In Fried Green Tomatoes she plays an old lady who befriends Kathy Bates and tells her a story. She doesn't do much other than that in the film but she's a sweet old lady so a nomination is fine. She just won for a much better performance so there's no way I can vote for her.
3. Diane Ladd got herself in the Oscar trivia books this year as she, along with Laura Dern, became the first mother and daughter nominated in the same year. That's pretty much the most interesting thing about this nomination. Her performance in Rambling Rose is fine but nothing I would ever vote for. She's appropriately maternal in the role, she plays sort of a mother figure to Rose, her real life daughter but in the film they are no relation.
2. Juliette Lewis plays Nick Nolte's daughter in Martin Scorsese's remake of Cape Fear. All of her scenes are filled with incredible tension as Robert De Niro is so filled with creepy rage and Juliette Lewis plays her character with complete innocence. De Niro is a recently released convict who is plotting his revenge on the lawyer who put him there. Lewis is the lawyer's daughter who is in that phase where she is rebelling against her parents. De Niro poses as a drama teacher at her school and creepy scenes ensue. Lewis is really great in the film in an uncomfortable jailbait role, it's no surprise that Woody Allen cast her in his next movie.
1. Mercedes Ruehl plays Jeff Bridges's supportive girlfriend in The Fisher King. I love this film so much, Jeff Bridges partners with a homeless Robin Williams to find the holy grail. It's an amazing film and Mercedes Ruehl...doesn't do that much in the film. She helps Bridges get Williams ready for a date, she gives him some words of encouragement, but that's about it. She's good in the film, not exactly Oscar worthy, in fact I would much rather have Amanda Plummer in this category for the same film.
Mercedes Ruehl wins the Oscar which I really only condone because a vote for her is a vote for my favorite movie of the year. That's why I'm voting for her too. Also, this category is really weak. Nelligan, Tandy and Ladd don't factor in for a vote at all. The only ones that do are Ruehl and Lewis. I don't want to vote for Lewis because she's so young so that leaves Ruehl. So, none of these performances really deserve to win. I'm gonna vote for my favorite movie.
Oscar Winner: Mercedes Ruehl
My Vote: Mercedes Ruehl
GABBY Winner: Judy Davis for Barton Fink
Best Director
We haven't talked yet about my 2nd favorite film of 1991, Boyz N The Hood. That's because even after the Spike Lee debacle of 1989 the Academy overlooked this near perfect film about young black men in South Central Los Angeles. It only nabbed nominations for its screenplay and here for John Singleton. He became not only the youngest director ever nominated but also the first African American nominated in this category. Jonathan Demme wins for The Silence Of The Lambs which is a completely justified and deserved decision but I just thought I'd mention that they had an opportunity to honor a black filmmaker twice, as he also wrote the script, and didn't.
Best Original Screenplay/Adapted Screenplay
Best Director
We haven't talked yet about my 2nd favorite film of 1991, Boyz N The Hood. That's because even after the Spike Lee debacle of 1989 the Academy overlooked this near perfect film about young black men in South Central Los Angeles. It only nabbed nominations for its screenplay and here for John Singleton. He became not only the youngest director ever nominated but also the first African American nominated in this category. Jonathan Demme wins for The Silence Of The Lambs which is a completely justified and deserved decision but I just thought I'd mention that they had an opportunity to honor a black filmmaker twice, as he also wrote the script, and didn't.
Best Original Screenplay/Adapted Screenplay
Thelma & Louise wins the Original Screenplay category. I would definitely pick Boyz N The Hood or The Fisher King instead but Thelma & Louise would be my third choice. Over in the Adapted category The Silence Of The Lambs deservedly wins over JFK and fluff like The Prince Of Tides.
Best Original Score/Original Song
Best Original Score/Original Song
Beauty And The Beast rightfully wins the Score category over worthy nominees Bugsy, JFK and The Fisher King. The Prince Of Tides also scored a nomination. I thought the music in the film was fine but overbearing. It plays throughout the whole film loudly to the point of distraction. Beauty And The Beast also wins the Best Song category for the title song over stiff competition from itself with Be Our Guest and Belle. I'm not surprised but it wouldn't have been a shocker if there was a vote split and Bryan Adams won for the love ballad from Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves.
Best Sound/Sound Effects Editing
Terminator 2: Judgment Day wins both categories and deservedly so.
Best Art Direction/Costume Design
I was not a fan of Bugsy but it did have impressive production elements including the art direction and costumes. It wins both of these categories. Art Direction is deserved, I would have voted for The Fisher King just because I love the film so much. I would have given Costume Design to Hook or The Addams Family but Bugsy is an okay winner.
Best Makeup
Terminator 2: Judgment Day wins over Hook and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. None of them leap out as a clear winner so might as well give it to the best film.
Best Cinematography/Film Editing
JFK wins both categories. I remember at the time reading Entertainment Weekly and someone said that JFK should win "least editing" because it was so long. As anyone should know, editing is about how well the movie is put together, not how long the film is. JFK is superbly edited and rightfully won this category.
Best Visual Effects
Terminator 2: Judgment Day wins over Hook and Backdraft. Absolutely no complaints here.
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Best Sound/Sound Effects Editing
Terminator 2: Judgment Day wins both categories and deservedly so.
Best Art Direction/Costume Design
I was not a fan of Bugsy but it did have impressive production elements including the art direction and costumes. It wins both of these categories. Art Direction is deserved, I would have voted for The Fisher King just because I love the film so much. I would have given Costume Design to Hook or The Addams Family but Bugsy is an okay winner.
Best Makeup
Terminator 2: Judgment Day wins over Hook and Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country. None of them leap out as a clear winner so might as well give it to the best film.
Best Cinematography/Film Editing
JFK wins both categories. I remember at the time reading Entertainment Weekly and someone said that JFK should win "least editing" because it was so long. As anyone should know, editing is about how well the movie is put together, not how long the film is. JFK is superbly edited and rightfully won this category.
Best Visual Effects
Terminator 2: Judgment Day wins over Hook and Backdraft. Absolutely no complaints here.
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