Cinema-Scene

—Movie Reviews by David L. Blaylock—

Cinema-Scene Awards

1991


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Best Picture
#1: The Double Life of Veronique (dir: Krzysztof Kieslowski)
#2: JFK (dir: Oliver Stone)
#3: Poison (dir: Todd Haynes)
#4: The Silence of the Lambs (dir: Jonathan Demme)
#5: Beauty and the Beast (dir: Gary Trousdale)
#6: Days of Being Wild (dir: Wong Kar-Wai)

#7: An Angel at My Table (dir: Jane Campion)
#8: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse (dir: Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper)
#9: Naked Lunch (dir: David Cronenberg)
#10: Boyz N the Hood (dir: John Singleton)

Honorable Mentions:
What About Bob? (dir: Frank Oz), Bugsy (dir: Barry Levinson), 35 Up (dir: Michael Apted), Ju Dou (dir: Zhang Yimou), Truly, Madly, Depply (dir: Anthony Minghella), Termiantor 2: Judgment Day (dir: James Cameron), Cape Fear (dir: Martin Scorsese), Monster in a Box (dir: Nick Broomfield), and The Addams Family (dir: Barry Sonnenfeld).

Best Director
#1: Oliver Stone (JFK)
#2: Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs)
#3: David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch)
#4: George Sluizer (The Vanishing)
#5: Warren Beatty (Bugsy)


Best Actor
#1: Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs)
#2: Warren Beatty (Bugsy)
#3: John Gielgud (Prospero's Book)
#4: Robert De Niro (Cape Fear)
#5: John Turturro (Barton Fink)


Best Actress
#1: Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs)
#2: Annette Bening (Bugsy)
#3: Kerry Fox (An Angel at My Table)
#4: Alison Steadman (Life is Sweet)
#5: Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise)


Best Supporting Actor
#1: Gary Oldman (JFK)
#2: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (The Vanishing)
#3: Ben Kingsley (Bugsy)
#4: Ian Holm (Naked Lunch)
#5: Harvey Keitel (Bugsy)


Best Supporting Actress
#1: Judy Davis (Naked Lunch)
#2: Sissy Spacek (JFK)
#3: Jane Horrocks (Life is Sweet)
#4: Jessica Tandy (Fried Green Tomatoes)
#5: Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)


Best Original Screenplay
#1: Bugsy (James Toback)
#2: Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh)
#3: The Vanishing (Tim Krabbé and George Sluizer)
#4: Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen)
#5: Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton)


Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: The Silence of the Lambs (Ted Tally)
#2: JFK (Oliver Stone and Zachary Skylar)
#3: An Angel at My Table (Laura Jones)
#4: Cape Fear (Wesley Strick)
#5: The Commitments (Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle, Ian La Frenais)


Best Cinematography
#1: Robert Richardson (JFK)
#2: Tak Fujimoto (The Silence of the Lambs)
#3: Toni Kuhn (The Vanishing)
#4: Allen Daviau (Bugsy)
#5: Sacha Vierny (Prospero's Book)


Best Film Editing
#1: JFK
#2: The Silence of the Lambs
#3: Cape Fear
#4: Boyz N the Hood
#5: Terminator 2


Best Original Score
#1: JFK (John Williams)
#2: The Silence of the Lambs (Howard Shore)
#1: Beauty and the Beast (Allen Menken)
#3: Bugsy (Ennio Morricone)
#4: The Vanishing (Henny Vrienten)


Best Original Song
#1: "Tears in Heaven" (Rush)
#2: "Beauty and the Beast" (Beauty and the Beast)
#3: "Be Our Guest" (Beauty and the Beast)
#4: "(Everything I Do) I Do It For You" (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves)
#5: "Belle" (Beauty and the Beast)


Best Production Design
#1: The Addams Family
#2: Prospero's Book
#3: Barton Fink
#4: An Angel at My Table
#5: Bugsy


Best Costume Design
#1: Bugsy
#2: An Angel at My Table
#3: Barton Fink
#4: Naked Lunch
#5: JFK


Best Makeup
#1: The Silence of the Lambs
#2: Naked Lunch
#3: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
#4: JFK
#5: Terminator 2


Best Sound
#1: Terminator 2
#2: The Silence of the Lambs
#3: JFK
#4: Backdraft
#5: Naked Lunch


Best Visual Effects
#1: Terminator 2
#2: Backdraft
#3: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country
#4: Naked Lunch
#5: Cape Fear

 

--The Honorary Awards--

Best Breakthrough Performance - Male
Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Boyz N the Hood)


Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
Kerry Fox (An Angel at My Table)


Best First Feature
John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood)


Worst Film of the Year
Bingo! (dir: Matthew Robbins)
by David L. Blaylock