69th Academy Awards (1996)
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- DirectorAnthony MinghellaStarsRalph FiennesJuliette BinocheWillem DafoeAt the close of World War II, a young nurse tends to a badly burned plane crash victim. His past is shown in flashbacks, revealing an involvement in a fateful love affair.Winner - Best Picture
Winner - Best Director for Anthony Minghella
Nominated - Best Actor for Ralph Fiennes
Nominated - Best Actress for Kristin Scott Thomas
Winner - Best Supporting Actress for Juliette Binoche
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Anthony Minghella
Winner - Best Original Dramatic Score for Gabriel Yared
Winner - Best Sound Mixing
Winner - Best Art Direction
Winner - Best Cinematography for John Seale
Winner - Best Costume Design for Ann Roth
Winner - Best Film Editing for Walter Murch - DirectorJoel CoenEthan CoenStarsWilliam H. MacyFrances McDormandSteve BuscemiMinnesota car salesman Jerry Lundegaard's inept crime falls apart due to his and his henchmen's bungling and the persistent police work of the quite pregnant Marge Gunderson.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Joel Coen
Winner - Best Actress for Frances McDormand
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for William H. Macy
Winner - Best Original Screenplay for Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Roger Deakins
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Roderick Jaynes - DirectorCameron CroweStarsTom CruiseCuba Gooding Jr.Renée ZellwegerWhen a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former colleague.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Actor for Tom Cruise
Winner - Best Supporting Actor for Cuba Gooding Jr.
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Cameron Crowe
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Joe Hutshing - DirectorMike LeighStarsTimothy SpallBrenda BlethynPhyllis LoganFollowing the death of her adoptive parents, a successful young black optometrist establishes contact with her biological mother -- a lonely white factory worker living in poverty in East London.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Mike Leigh
Nominated - Best Actress for Brenda Blethyn
Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Marianne Jean-Baptiste
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Mike Leigh - DirectorScott HicksStarsGeoffrey RushArmin Mueller-StahlJustin BrainePianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.Nominated - Best Picture
Nominated - Best Director for Scott Hicks
Winner - Best Actor for Geoffrey Rush
Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Armin Mueller-Stahl
Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for Jan Sardi and Scott Hicks
Nominated - Best Original Dramatic Score for David Hirschfelder
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Pip Karmel - DirectorMilos FormanStarsWoody HarrelsonCourtney LoveEdward NortonThe story of controversial pornography publisher Larry Flynt, and how he became a defender of free speech.Nominated - Best Director for Miloš Forman
Nominated - Best Actor for Woody Harrelson - DirectorBilly Bob ThorntonStarsBilly Bob ThorntonDwight YoakamJ.T. WalshKarl Childers, a simple man hospitalized since his childhood murder of his mother and her lover, is released to start a new life in a small town.Nominated - Best Actor for Billy Bob Thornton
Winner - Best Adapted Screenplay for Billy Bob Thornton - DirectorJerry ZaksStarsMeryl StreepLeonardo DiCaprioDiane KeatonAfter seventeen years, a fiercely independent woman and her rebellious son return home and together they turn the family she left behind upside down.Nominated - Best Actress for Diane Keaton
- DirectorLars von TrierStarsEmily WatsonStellan SkarsgårdKatrin CartlidgeOilman Jan is paralyzed in an accident. His wife, who prayed for his return, feels guilty; even more, when Jan urges her to have sex with another.Nominated - Best Actress for Emily Watson
- DirectorGregory HoblitStarsRichard GereLaura LinneyEdward NortonAn altar boy is accused of murdering a priest, and the truth is buried several layers deep.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor for Edward Norton
- DirectorRob ReinerStarsAlec BaldwinJames WoodsWhoopi GoldbergA Mississippi district attorney and the widow of Medgar Evers struggle to finally bring a white racist to justice for the 1963 murder of the civil rights leader.Nominated - Best Supporting Actor James Woods
Nominated - Best Makeup - DirectorNicholas HytnerStarsDaniel Day-LewisWinona RyderPaul ScofieldA Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Joan Allen
Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Arthur Miller - DirectorBarbra StreisandStarsBarbra StreisandJeff BridgesLauren BacallA shy, middle-aged professor enters into a romantic but non-physical relationship with an unlucky-in-love colleague.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Lauren Bacall
Nominated - Best Original Song for "I Finally Found Someone" - DirectorJane CampionStarsNicole KidmanJohn MalkovichBarbara HersheyAn American girl inherits a fortune and falls into a misguided relationship with a gentleman confidence artist whose true nature, including a barbed and covetous disposition, turns her life into a nightmare.Nominated - Best Supporting Actress for Barbara Hershey
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Janet Patterson - DirectorJohn SaylesStarsChris CooperElizabeth PeñaStephen MendilloWhen the skeleton of his murdered predecessor is found, Sheriff Sam Deeds unearths many other long-buried secrets in his Texas border town.Nominated - Best Original Screenplay for John Sayles
- DirectorKenneth BranaghStarsKenneth BranaghJulie ChristieDerek JacobiHamlet, Prince of Denmark, returns home to find his father murdered and his mother remarrying the murderer, his uncle. Meanwhile, war is brewing.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for Kenneth Branagh
Nominated - Best Original Dramatic Score for Patrick Doyle
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Alexandra Byrne - DirectorDanny BoyleStarsEwan McGregorEwen BremnerJonny Lee MillerRenton, deeply immersed in the Edinburgh drug scene, tries to clean up and get out despite the allure of drugs and the influence of friends.Nominated - Best Adapted Screenplay for John Hodge
- DirectorJan SverákStarsZdenek SverákAndrey KhalimonLibuse SafránkováA confirmed bachelor is in for the surprise of his life when a get-rich-quick scheme backfires and leaves him with a pint-sized new roommate.Winner - Best Foreign Language Film (Czech Republic)
- DirectorSergei BodrovStarsOleg MenshikovSergey BodrovSusanna MekhraliyevaTwo Russian soldiers, one battle-seasoned and the other barely into his boots and uniform, are taken prisoner by an anxious Islamic father from a remote village hoping to trade them for his captured son.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Russia)
- DirectorNana DzhordzhadzeStarsPierre RichardNino KirtadzeMicheline PresleThe story of Pascal Ichak, a larger-than-life French traveller, bon vivant, and chef, who falls in love with Georgia and a Georgian princess in the early 1920s. All is well until the arrival of the Red Army of the Caucasus, as the Soviet revolution that has swept Russian comes to Georgia. Told as a flashback from the present, as a French-Georgian man whose mother was Pascal's lover translates his memoirs for Pascal's niece.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Georgia)
- DirectorPatrice LeconteStarsCharles BerlingJean RochefortFanny ArdantTo get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (France)
- DirectorBerit NesheimStarsMarie TheisenHildegun RiiseBjørn SundquistThe Other Side of Sunday criticizes the small, and often tight church community. We follow the Preachers Daughter; Maria, in her journey to liberate herself from the stiff church community and her strict religious father.Nominated - Best Foreign Language Film (Norway)
- DirectorAlan ParkerStarsMadonnaJonathan PryceAntonio BanderasThe hit musical based on the life of Eva Perón (Evita Duarte), a B-picture Argentinian actress who eventually became the wife of Argentinian president Juan Domingo Perón, and the most beloved and hated woman in Argentina.Winner - Best Original Song for "You Must Love Me"
Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Art Direction
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Darius Khondji
Nominated - Best Film Editing for Gerry Hambling - DirectorMichael HoffmanStarsMichelle PfeifferGeorge ClooneyMae WhitmanThe lives of two strangers and their young children unexpectedly intersect on one hectic, stressful day in New York City.Nominated - Best Original Song for "For the First Time"
- DirectorTom HanksStarsTom HanksLiv TylerCharlize TheronA local Pennsylvania band scores a one-hit wonder in 1964 and rides the star-making machinery as long as they can, with lots of help from their manager.Nominated - Best Original Song for "That Thing You Do!"
- DirectorJon AvnetStarsRobert RedfordMichelle PfeifferStockard ChanningAn ambitious young woman, determined to build a career in television journalism, gets good advice from her first boss, and they fall in love.Nominated - Best Original Song for "Because You Loved Me"
- DirectorLeon GastStarsMuhammad AliGeorge ForemanDon KingBoxing documentary on the 1974 world heavyweight championship bout between defending champion, George Foreman, and the underdog challenger, Muhammad Ali.Winner - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorSusan Warms DryfoosStarsJulie AndrewsLauren BacallCarol ChanningThe childhood, adolescence, and incredible adult years of Al Hirshfeld, celebrated creator of thousands of line drawings of famous people - many in the entertainment industry - over a span of more than sixty years.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorAngus GibsonJo MenellStarsWinnie MandelaNelson MandelaPatrick ShaiFollows Nelson Mandela, from his early protests against racial discrimination, to his election as South Africa's first Democratically elected leader.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorAnne BelleDeborah DicksonStarsGeorge BalanchineJacques d'AmboiseJorge DonnA documentary about the ballerina Suzanne FarrellNominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorRick GoldsmithStarsSusan SarandonEdward AsnerBen BagdikianThe profile of controversial journalist George Seldes and a piercing examination of America's news media. Narrated by Susan Sarandon, with readings of writings by Ed Asner, this Academy Award-nominated film includes stunning archival materials.Nominated - Best Documentary Feature
- DirectorJessica YuStarsMark O'BrienElizabeth DuvallIan BerzonPortrait of writer Mark O'Brien, who contracted polio as a child and spent much of his life in an iron lung.Winner - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorBayley SilleckStarsMorgan FreemanWhere do we fit in with the universe? This film seeks to explore our place among the ever-expanding universe.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorPerry WolffStarsPerry WolffConnor SmithChronicles the life and art of Henri Matisse (1869-1954), the French painter whose innovative style and use of color changed the face of 20th-century art.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorBen BurttStarsJohn LithgowJean BolteCarl N. FrederickAn IMAX production that explores the ground-breaking special effects portrayed in Hollywood films from the very originals to the breathtaking special effects in movies today. Takes the audience on a "behind the scenes" look into what goes on during the production of a movie and how the special effects are created.Nominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorPaul SeydorStarsNick RedmanWalon GreenNewell AlexanderNominated - Best Documentary Short
- DirectorDavid FrankelStarsBebe NeuwirthBrian KerwinRhea Silver-SmithThe film revolves around a New York magazine art director, married and the mother of two, who, having just turned 40, decides to record the events of her day in a journal.Winner - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorAntonio UrrutiaStarsElpidia CarrilloGael García BernalMartín AltomaroThe coming-of-age story of young milk-boy Martín. While his friends Jesús and Roberto are cocky and apparently they have a lot of experience in sex, and boast about their supposed sexual experiences, he is shy, quiet and still virgin. Away from his friends, he dreams of the Meifer, the most beautiful girl in the local brothel. Everything changes when Jesús and Roberto want to prove they're men and go to a brothel without Martín.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorAnders Thomas JensenTomas Villum JensenStarsJens Jørn SpottagSøren ØstergaardJesper BæhrenzThe businessman Ernst has just landed in the airport and is on his way home to his wife. Its raining heavy outside and therefore he takes a hitchhiker with him. They start a conversation about the value of life and soon it becomes evident to the spectators that the hitchhiker is Jesus Christ, but Ernst is in too much of a rush to go back to his wife to notice.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorJuan Carlos FresnadilloStarsPedro Mari SánchezAnabel AlonsoGermán CobosAntonio and Concha, a couple who are constantly fighting about money, win the Christmas Lottery first prize. Concha, who is very bossy, starts making decisions about how they're going to spend it. But Antonio is fed up with her, he just wants to go to Brazil, lay in the sun, and never see her again. So he starts to plan how to get rid of her...Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorAntonello De LeoStarsLuca AmorosinoFabio CamilliRosa MasciopintoA man falls in love with a deaf girl. He learns sign language and pretends to be mute in order to woo her.Nominated - Best Live Action Short
- DirectorTyron MontgomeryIn the desolate landscapes of an unforgiving desert, a desperate for water wanderer summons up the strength to follow the muffled sound of dripping liquid, only to pay the high price of pursuing a dream. Is all hope lost?Winner - Best Animated Short
- DirectorTimothy HittleA clay man encounters a sweet blue clay dog, only to lose track of him during a protracted battle with a huge metal creature. A surreal landscape of cans, bottles, scrap metal, oil, and fissures threaten the protagonist. How will he survive, and where's the dog?Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorRichard CondieStarsJay BrazeauA tale of a man who has everything he needs in his one little room, and the disasters that befall him when he succumbs to the temptation of the world outside his door. An Italian opera, with subtitles and some cows and fish.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorPeter LordTwo princes are separated at birth and reunited only after a crisis grips the country.Nominated - Best Animated Short
- DirectorNeil JordanStarsLiam NeesonAidan QuinnJulia RobertsNeil Jordan's historical biopic of Irish revolutionary Michael Collins, the man who led a guerrilla war against the UK, helped negotiate the creation of the Irish Free State, and led the National Army during the Irish Civil War.Nominated - Best Original Dramatic Score for Elliot Goldenthal
Nominated - Best Cinematography for Chris Menges - DirectorBarry LevinsonStarsRobert De NiroKevin BaconBrad PittAfter a prank goes disastrously wrong, a group of boys are sent to a detention center where they are brutalized. Thirteen years later, an unexpected random encounter with a former guard gives them a chance for revenge.Nominated - Best Original Dramatic Score for John Williams
- DirectorDouglas McGrathStarsGwyneth PaltrowJames CosmoGreta ScacchiWhile matchmaking for friends and neighbours, a young 19th Century Englishwoman nearly misses her own chance at love.Winner - Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for Rachel Portman
Nominated - Best Costume Design for Ruth Meyers - DirectorHugh WilsonStarsGoldie HawnBette MidlerDiane KeatonReunited by the death of a college friend, three divorced women seek revenge on the husbands who left them for younger women.Nominated - Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for Marc Shaiman
- DirectorGary TrousdaleKirk WiseStarsDemi MooreJason AlexanderMary Kay BergmanA deformed bell-ringer must assert his independence from a vicious government minister in order to help his friend, a gypsy dancer.Nominated - Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz
- DirectorHenry SelickStarsPaul TerryJoanna LumleyPete PostlethwaiteAn orphan who lives with his two cruel aunts befriends anthropomorphic bugs who live inside a giant peach, and they embark on a journey to New York City.Nominated - Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for Randy Newman
- DirectorPenny MarshallStarsDenzel WashingtonWhitney HoustonCourtney B. VanceAn angel comes to Earth to help a preacher save his church and his family.Nominated - Best Original Musical or Comedy Score for Hans Zimmer
- DirectorStephen HopkinsStarsMichael DouglasVal KilmerTom WilkinsonA bridge engineer and an experienced old hunter begin a hunt for two lions after they start attacking local construction workers.Winner - Best Sound Editing
- DirectorRob CohenStarsSylvester StalloneAmy BrennemanViggo MortensenDisaster in a New York tunnel as explosions collapse both ends of it. One hero tries to help the people inside find their way to safety.Nominated - Best Sound Editing
- DirectorChuck RussellStarsArnold SchwarzeneggerVanessa WilliamsJames CaanA Witness Protection specialist becomes suspicious of his co-workers when dealing with a case involving high-tech weapons.Nominated - Best Sound Editing
- DirectorRoland EmmerichStarsWill SmithBill PullmanJeff GoldblumThe aliens are coming and their goal is to invade and destroy Earth. Fighting superior technology, mankind's best weapon is the will to survive.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Winner - Best Visual Effects - DirectorMichael BayStarsSean ConneryNicolas CageEd HarrisA mild-mannered chemist and an ex-con must lead the counterstrike when a rogue group of military men, led by a renegade general, threaten a nerve gas attack from Alcatraz against San Francisco.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
- DirectorJan de BontStarsHelen HuntBill PaxtonCary ElwesTwo storm chasers on the brink of divorce must work together to create an advanced weather alert system by putting themselves in the cross-hairs of extremely violent tornadoes.Nominated - Best Sound Mixing
Nominated - Best Visual Effects - DirectorMike NicholsStarsRobin WilliamsNathan LaneGene HackmanA gay cabaret owner and his drag queen companion agree to put up a false straight front so that their son can introduce them to his fiancée's right-wing moralistic parents.Nominated - Best Art Direction
- DirectorBaz LuhrmannStarsLeonardo DiCaprioClaire DanesJohn LeguizamoShakespeare's famous play is updated to the hip modern suburb of Verona still retaining its original dialogue.Nominated - Best Art Direction
- DirectorCarroll BallardStarsJeff DanielsAnna PaquinDana DelanyA father and daughter decide to attempt to lead a flock of orphaned Canada Geese south by air.Nominated - Best Cinematography for Caleb Deschanel
- DirectorTom ShadyacStarsEddie MurphyJada Pinkett SmithJames CoburnGrossly overweight yet good-hearted professor Sherman Klump takes a special chemical that turns him into the slim but obnoxious Buddy Love.Winner - Best Makeup
- DirectorJonathan FrakesStarsPatrick StewartJonathan FrakesBrent SpinerThe Borg travel back in time intent on preventing Earth's first contact with an alien species. Captain Picard and his crew pursue them to ensure that Zefram Cochrane makes his maiden flight reaching warp speed.Nominated - Best Makeup
- DirectorPhilip HaasStarsMark RylanceKristin Scott ThomasPatsy KensitIn the 1800s a naturalist marries into a family of British country gentry.Nominated - Best Costume Design for Paul Brown
- DirectorRob CohenStarsDennis QuaidSean ConneryDina MeyerThe last dragon and a disillusioned dragonslaying Knight must cooperate to stop an evil King, who was given partial immortality.Nominated - Best Visual Effects