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 BraineDavid Helfgott, a gifted pianist, struggles through childhood as his dysfunctional father abuses him and his siblings. Years later, he suffers a mental breakdown but manages to return as a legend.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 NortonThe murder of a high and mighty archbishop leads to the involvement of Martin Vail, Chicago's best attorney. As he studies the suspects, he becomes convinced of certain aspects, but there's more to the story than meets the eye.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 supremacist 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!"