Cinema-Scene

—Movie Reviews by David L. Blaylock—

Cinema-Scene Awards

1995

Best Picture
#1: The Usual Suspects (dir: Brian Singer)
#2: Nixon (dir: Oliver Stone)
#3: Dead Man Walking (dir: Tim Robbins)
 #4: Se7en (dir: David Fincher)
 #5: Casino (dir: Martin Scorsese)
 #6: Toy Story (dir: John Lasseter)
 #7: Heat (dir: Michael Mann)
 #8: Heidi Fleiss: Hollywood Madam (dir: Nick Broomfield)
 #9: Safe (dir: Todd Haynes)
 #10: To Die For (dir: Gus van Sant)
Honorable Mentions: Indictment: The McMartin Trial (dir: Mick Jackson), Underground (dir: Emir Kusturica), Babe (dir: Chris Noonan), 12 Monkeys (dir: Terry Gilliam), Antonia's Line (dir: Marleen Gorris), Anne Frank Remembered (dir: Jon Blair), Braveheart (dir: Mel Gibson), Clueless (dir: Amy Heckerling), The Crossing Guard (dir: Sean Penn), Richard III (dir: Ian McKellen), Get Shorty (dir: Barry Sonnenfeld), Death of Yugoslavia (dir: Norma Percy), The City of Lost Children (dir: Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro), Citizen X (dir: Chris Gerolmo), Les Misérables (dir: Claude Lelouch), The White Balloon (dir: Jafar Panahi), The Young Poisoner's Handbook (dir: Benjamin Ross), The Secret of Roan Inish (dir: John Sayles), Leaving Las Vegas (dir: Mike Figgis), Clockers (dir: Spike Lee), Mighty Aphrodite (dir: Woody Allen), Smoke (dir: Wayne Wang), Swimming with Sharks (dir: George Huang), and Sense and Sensibility (dir: Ang Lee).

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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


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)


Best Film Editing
#1: Se7en
#2: The Usual Suspects
#3: Nixon
#4: The Kingdom
#5: To Die For


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)


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)


Best Production Design
#1: Richard III
#2: Restoration
#3: Braveheart
#4: The Usual Suspects
#5: Nixon


Best Costume Design
#1: Richard III
#2: Restoration
#3: Sense and Sensibility
#4: Othello
#5: Braveheart


Best Makeup
#1: Braveheart
#2: Se7en
#3: The Kingdom
#4: Nixon
#5: 12 Monkeys


Best Sound
#1: The Usual Suspects
#2: Se7en
#3: Crimson Tide
#4: Heat
#5: Apollo 13


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)


Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
Alicia Silverstone (Clueless)


Best First Feature
Chris Noonan (Babe)


Worst Film of the Year
Fair Game (dir: Andrew Sipes)
by David L. Blaylock