Best Picture
#1: The Usual Suspects (Bryan Singer)
#2: Casino (Martin Scorsese)
#3: Se7en (David Fincher)
#4: Toy Story (John Lasseter)
#5: Nixon (Oliver Stone)
#6: Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins)
#7: Heat (Michael Mann)
#8: Safe (Todd Haynes)
#9: Underground (Emir Kusturica)
#10: Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (Nick Broomfield)
Honorable mentions: Twelve Monkeys (Terry Gilliam), Babe (Chris Noonan), Indictment: The McMartin Trial (Mick Jackson), Antonia’s Line (Marleen Gorris), Anne Frank Remembered (Jon Blair), To Die For (Gus Van Sant), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (Jim Mallon), Braveheart (Mel Gibson), The White Balloon (Jafar Panahi), Clueless (Amy Heckerling), A Personal Journey with Martin Scorsese Through American Movies (Martin Scorsese and Michael Henry Wilson), Fallen Angels (Wong Kar-wai), Les Misérables (Claude Lelouch), Citizen X (Chris Gerolmo), The Crossing Guard (Sean Penn), Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz), Smoke (Wayne Wang), Richard III (Richard Loncraine), Clockers (Spike Lee), Get Shorty (Barry Sonnenfeld), The Young Poisoner’s Handbook (Benjamin Ross), The City of Lost Children (Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro), The Death of Yugoslavia (Norma Percy), Mighty Aphrodite (Woody Allen), Sense and Sensibility (Ang Lee), Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis), and Swimming with Sharks (George Huang).
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Best Director #1: Oliver Stone (Nixon) #2: David Fincher (Se7en) #3: Bryan Singer (The Usual Suspects) #4: Michael Mann (Heat) #5: Tim Robbins (Dead Man Walking) |
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Best Actor #1: Anthony Hopkins (Nixon) #2: Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking) #3: Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas) #4: Ian McKellen (Richard III) #5 (tie): Robert De Niro (Casino) #5 (tie): Jack Nicholson (The Crossing Guard) |
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Best Actress #1: Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking) #2: Nicole Kidman (To Die For) #3: Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas) #4: Jennifer Jason Leigh (Georgia) #5: Sigourney Weaver (Death and the Maiden) |
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Best Supporting Actor #1: Kevin Spacey (The Usual Suspects) #2: Brad Pitt (12 Monkeys) #3: David Morse (The Crossing Guard) #4: James Cromwell (Babe) #5: Bruce Greenwood (Exotica) |
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Best Supporting Actress #1: Joan Allen (Nixon) #2: Mare Winningham (Georgia) #3: Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility) #4: Angelica Huston (The Crossing Guard) #5: Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite) |
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Best Original Screenplay #1: The Usual Suspects (Christopher McQuarrie) #2: Nixon (Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson, and Oliver Stone) #3: Se7en (Andrew Kevin Walker) #4: Exotica (Atom Egoyan) #5: Clueless (Amy Heckerling) |
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Best Adapted Screenplay #1: Get Shorty (Scott Frank) #2: Dead Man Walking (Tim Robbins) #3: Leaving Las Vegas (Mike Figgis) #4: Babe (George Miller and Chris Noonan) #5: Sense and Sensibility (Emma Thompson) |
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Best Cinematography #1: Darius Khondji (Se7en) #2: Newton Thomas Sigel (The Usual Suspects) #3: Roger Deakins (Dead Man Walking) #4: Robert Richardson (Nixon) #5: Dante Spinotti (Heat) |
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Best Film Editing #1: Se7en #2: The Usual Suspects #3: Nixon #4: The Kingdom #5: To Die For |
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Best Original Score #1: The Usual Suspects (John Ottman) #2: Nixon (John Williams) #3: Dead Man Walking (David Robbins) #4: Braveheart (James Horner) #5: Se7en (Howard Shore) |
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Best Original Song #1: “Dead Man Walking” (Dead Man Walking) #2: “You Got a Friend in Me” (Toy Story) #3: “The Long Road” (Dead Man Walking) #4: “Strange Things” (Toy Story) #5: “I Will Go Sailing No More” (Toy Story) |
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Best Production Design #1: Richard III #2: Restoration #3: Braveheart #4: The Usual Suspects #5: Nixon |
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Best Costume Design #1: Richard III #2: Restoration #3: Sense and Sensibility #4: Othello #5: Braveheart |
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Best Makeup #1: Braveheart #2: Se7en #3: The Kingdom #4: Nixon #5: 12 Monkeys |
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Best Sound #1: The Usual Suspects #2: Se7en #3: Crimson Tide #4: Heat #5: Apollo 13 |
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Best Visual Effects #1: Apollo 13 #2: Babe #3: Heat #4: The Usual Suspects #5: Se7en |
–The Honorary Awards–
| Best Breakthrough Performance – Male Linus Roach (Priest) |
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| Best Breakthrough Performance – Female Alicia Silverstone (Clueless) |
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| Best First Feature Chris Noonan (Babe) |
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| Worst Film of the Year Fair Game (dir: Andrew Sipes) |
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