Cinema-Scene

—Movie Reviews by David L. Blaylock—

1st Annual Cinema-Scene Awards

1996


Best Picture
#1: Fargo (dir: Joel Coen)
#2: Breaking the Waves (dir: Lars von Trier)
#3: Secrets & Lies (dir: Mike Leigh)
#4: The English Patient (dir: Anthony Minghella)
#5: Trainspotting (dir: Danny Boyle)
#6: Bound (dir: Larry and Andy Wachowski)
#7: Hamlet (dir: Kenneth Branagh)
#8: Looking for Richard (dir: Al Pacino)

#9: Lone Star (dir: John Sayles)

#10: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills (dir: Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofsky)


Honorable Mentions: Prisoner of the Mountains
(dir: Sergei Bodrov), Mystery Science Theater 3000: The Movie (dir: Jim Mallon), The People Vs. Larry Flynt (dir: Milos Forman), Sling Blade (dir: Billy Bob Thornton), Private Confessions (dir: Liv Ullmann), Ponette (dir: Jacques Doillon), Crash (dir: David Cronenberg), Shine (dir: Scott Hicks), La Promesse (dir: Jean-Pierre and Luc Dardenne), James and the Giant Peach (dir: Henry Selick), Crime of the Century (dir: Mark Rydell), Waiting for Guffman (dir: Christopher Guest), Big Night (dir: Stanley Tucci and Campbell Scott), The Crucible (dir: Nicholas Hytner), Freeway (dir: Matthew Bright), Get on the Bus (dir: Spike Lee), Mission: Impossible (dir: Brian De Palma), A Perfect Candidate (dir: R.J. Cutler and David Van Taylor), The Quiet Room (dir: Rolf de Heer), Evita (dir: Alan Parker), Jerry Maguire (dir: Cameron Crowe), Girl's Town (dir: Jim McKay), Welcome to the Dollhouse (dir: Todd Solondz), and When We Were Kings (dir: Leon Gast).

Best Director
#1: Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)
#2: Joel Coen (Fargo)
#3: Lars von Trier (Breaking the Waves)
#4: Mike Leigh (Secrets & Lies)
#5: Larry and Andy Wachowski (Bound)


Best Actor
#1: Geoffrey Rush (Shine)

#2: William H. Macy (Fargo)
#3: Timothy Spall (Secrets & Lies)
#4: Billy Bob Thornton (Sling Blade)
#5: Ralph Fiennes (The English Patient)


Best Actress
#1: Frances McDormand (Fargo)
#2: Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves)
#3: Brenda Blethyn (Secrets & Lies)
#4: Kristen Scott Thomas (The English Patient)
#5: Debbie Reynolds (Mother)


Best Supporting Actor
#1: Derek Jacobi (Hamlet)
#2: Steve Buscemi (Fargo)
#3: Armin Mueller-Stahl (Shine)
#4: Edward Norton (Primal Fear)
#5: Willem Dafoe (The English Patient)


Best Supporting Actress
#1: Juliette Binoche (The English Patient)
#2: Marianne Jean-Baptiste (Secrets & Lies)
#3: Joan Allen (The Crucible)
#4: Julie Christie (Hamlet)
#5: Katrin Cartlidge (Breaking the Waves)


Best Original Screenplay
#1: Fargo (Joel and Ethan Coen)
#2: Secrets & Lies (Mike Leigh)
#3: Breaking the Waves (Lars von Trier)
#4: Welcome to the Dollhouse (Todd Solondz)
#5: Shine (Jan Sardi)


Best Adapted Screenplay
#1: The English Patient (Anthony Minghella)
#2: Trainspotting (John Hodge)
#3: Sling Blade (Billy Bob Thornton)
#4: Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
#5: The Crucible (Arthur Miller)


Best Cinematography
#1: John Seale (The English Patient)
#2: Roger Deakins (Fargo)
#3: Robby Muller (Breaking the Waves)
#4: Chris Menges (Michael Collins)
#5: Bill Pope (Bound)


Best Film Editing
#1: Fargo

#2: The English Patient
#3: Breaking the Waves
#4: Trainspotting
#5: Bound


Best Original Score
#1: Fargo (Carter Burwell)
#2: The English Patient (Gabriel Yared)
#3: Shine (David Hirschfelder)
#4: Secrets & Lies ()
#5: Hamlet (Patrick Doyle)


Best Original Song
#1: "You Must Love Me" (Evita)
#2: "I've Finally Found Someone" (The Mirror Has Two Faces)
#3: "Because You Loved Me" (Up Close and Personal)
#4: "For the First Time" (One Fine Day)
#5: "Someday" (The Hunchback of Notre Dame)


Best Production Design
#1: Hamlet
#2: The English Patient
#3: William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
#4: Evita
#5: Bound


Best Costume Design
#1: Hamlet
#2: The English Patient
#3: Fargo
#4: The Portrait of a Lady
#5: Bound


Best Makeup
#1: The English Patient
#2: The Nutty Professor
#3: Trainspotting
#4: Star Trek: First Contact
#5: Fargo


Best Sound
#1: Twister
#2: The English Patient
#3: Eraser
#4: Fargo
#5: Mission: Impossible


Best Visual Effects
#1: Twister
#2: Dragenheart
#3: Eraser
#4: The English Patient
#5: The Nutty Professor

 

--The Honorary Awards--

Best Breakthrough Performance - Male
Edward Norton (Primal Fear)


Best Breakthrough Performance - Female
Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves)


Best First Feature
Larry and Andy Wachowski (Bound)


Worst Film of the Year
Jack (dir: Francis Ford Coppola)
by David L. Blaylock