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Date: Tue, 13 Feb 1996 10:28:47 -0500
From: Chris White <[log in to unmask]>
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'Braveheart' leads Academy Award nominees
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. - Braveheart, actor Mel Gibson's directing debut,
captured a leading 10 Academy Award nominations Tuesday, including
best picture. The other best picture nominations were Apollo 13, Babe,
Sense and Sensibility, and Italy's The Postman.
Massimo Troisi was made the first posthumous acting selection in 20
years for his leading role in The Postman. Also nominated for best actor
were Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, Richard Dreyfuss in Mr.
Holland's Opus, Anthony Hopkins in Nixon and Sean Penn in Dead Man
Walking.
Emma Thompson was nominated for best actress for Sense and
Sensibility. She faces Susan Sarandon in Dead Man Walking, Elisabeth
Shue in Leaving Las Vegas, Sharon Stone in Casino and Meryl Streep in
The Bridges of Madison County.
Among films with multiple nominations, Apollo 13 collected nine and Babe
and Sense and Sensibility each earned seven. The best picture
nomination for The Postman was the first foreign-language selection in
the top category since Cries and Whispers in 1973.
Even though Leaving Las Vegas was not picked for best picture, as
was widely expected, director Mike Figgis was nominated for best
director. He faces Gibson, Babe's Chris Noonan, The Postman's Michael
Radford and actor Tim Robbins, who directed Dead Man Walking.
All of the supporting acting nominees are first-time Oscar honorees.
Selected for best supporting actor were James Cromwell in Babe, Ed
Harris in Apollo 13, Brad Pitt in 12 Monkeys, Tim Roth in Rob Roy and
Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects.
Joan Allen was nominated for best supporting actress for Nixon as was
Kathleen Quinlan for Apollo 13, Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, Mare
Winningham for Georgia and Kate Winslet for Sense and Sensibility.
Holland's Antonia's Line was nominated for foreign language film, where
it faces Sweden's All Thing's Fair, Algeria's Dust of Life, Brazil's O
Quatrilho and Italy's The Star Maker.
Troisa's posthumous nomination for the 68th annual awards puts the late
Italian actor in select Oscar company. The last posthumous nominee was
Peter Finch in 1976, who won for Network. Other posthumous nominees
include James Dean and Spencer Tracy.
Woody Allen, nominated for writing Mighty Aphrodite, tied filmmaker Billy
Wilder for most career nominations for screenplay, with 12.
In addition to picture and directing, Braveheart was nominated for
cinematography, costumes, editing, makeup, original score, sound, sound
effects editing and original screenplay.
Some films once considered Oscar favorites did poorly in the voting by
the 5,043 voters of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
The American President collected just one nomination, as did The Bridges
of Madison County and Casino.
Several of 1995's highest grossing films also were largely overlooked.
Batman Forever earned three nominations, and Pocahontas got two.
Waterworld, the most expensive movie ever made, drew just one
nomination, for sound.
The original screenplay nominations were Braveheart, Mighty Aphrodite,
Nixon, Toy Story and The Usual Suspects. The adapted screenplay
picks were Apollo 13, Babe, Leaving Las Vegas, The Postman and
Sense and Sensibility.
Academy voters did not embrace most of the prestige projects released
late in the year. Only one best picture selection - Sense and Sensibility -
was released in December, and the other four all came out in August or
earlier.
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Partial list of 38th Annual Academy Award nominations:
BEST PICTURE:
Apollo 13
Babe
Braveheart
The Postman (Il Postino)
Sense Sensibility
BEST ACTOR:
Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas
Richard Dreyfuss, Mr. Holland's Opus
Anthony Hopkins, Nixon
Sean Penn, Dead Man Walking
Massimo Troisi, The Postman (Il Postino)
BEST ACTRESS:
Susan Sarandon, Dead Man Walking
Elisabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas
Sharon Stone, Casino
Meryl Streep, The Bridges of Madison County
Emma Thompson, Sense and Sensibility
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:
James Cromwell, Babe
Ed Harris, Apollo 13
Brad Pitt, 12 Monkeys
Tim Roth, Rob Roy
Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:
Joan Allen, Nixon
Kathleen Quinlan, Apollo 13
Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite
Mare Winningham, Georgia
Kate Winslet, Sense and Sensibility
BEST DIRECTOR:
Chris Noonan, Babe
Mel Gibson, Braveheart
Tim Robbins, Dead Man Walking
Mike Figgis, Leaving Las Vegas
Michael Radford, The Postman (Il Postino)
BEST FOREIGN FILM:
All Things Fair, Sweden
Antonia's Line, The Netherlands
Dust of Life, Algeria
O Quatrilho, Brazil
The Star Maker, Italy
BEST SCREENPLAY (written directly for the screen):
Randall Wallace, Braveheart
Woody Allen, Mighty Aphrodite
Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson and Oliver Stone, Nixon
Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow,
story by John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton
and Joe Ranft, Toy Story
Christopher McQuarrie, The Usual Suspects
BEST SCREENPLAY (adapted for the screen):
William Broyles Jr. and Al Reinert, Apollo 13
George Miller and Chris Noonan, Babe
Mike Figgis, Leaving Las Vegas
Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli
and Massimo Troisi, The Postman (Il Postino)
Emma Thompson, Sense and Sensibility
BEST ART DIRECTION:
Apollo 13
Babe
A Little Princess
Restoration
Richard III
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:
Batman Forever
Braveheart
A Little Princess
Sense and Sensibility
Shanghai Triad
Why is Joan Allen a *supporting* actress whereas Sharon Stone is
an actress?
Gloria Monti
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