1996

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Win indicated by an asterisk (*)

1996 (69th)

ACTOR IN A LEADING ROLE

 

Tom Cruise — Jerry Maguire {”Jerry Maguire”}
 

Ralph Fiennes — The English Patient {”Almasy”}
 

Woody Harrelson — The People vs. Larry Flynt {”Larry Flynt”}
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Geoffrey Rush — Shine {”David Helfgott”}
 

Billy Bob Thornton — Sling Blade {”Karl Childers”}

ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

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Cuba Gooding, Jr. — Jerry Maguire {”Rod Tidwell”}
 

William H. Macy — Fargo {”Jerry Lundegaard”}
 

Armin Mueller-Stahl — Shine {”Peter Helfgott”}
 

Edward Norton — Primal Fear {”Aaron Stampler”}
 

James Woods — Ghosts of Mississippi {”Byron De La Beckwith”}

ACTRESS IN A LEADING ROLE

 

Brenda Blethyn — Secrets & Lies {”Cynthia”}
 

Diane Keaton — Marvin’s Room {”Bessie”}
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Frances McDormand — Fargo {”Marge Gunderson”}
 

Kristin Scott Thomas — The English Patient {”Katharine Clifton”}
 

Emily Watson — Breaking the Waves {”Bess”}

ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE

 

Joan Allen — The Crucible {”Elizabeth Proctor”}
 

Lauren Bacall — The Mirror Has Two Faces {”Hannah Morgan”}
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Juliette Binoche — The English Patient {”Hana”}
 

Barbara Hershey — The Portrait of a Lady {”Madame Serena Merle”}
 

Marianne Jean-Baptiste — Secrets & Lies {”Hortense”}

ART DIRECTION

 

The Birdcage — Art Direction: Bo Welch; Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik
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The English Patient — Art Direction: Stuart Craig; Set Decoration: Stephenie McMillan
 

Evita — Art Direction: Brian Morris; Set Decoration: Philippe Turlure
 

Hamlet — Tim Harvey
 

William Shakespeare’s Romeo & Juliet — Art Direction: Catherine Martin; Set Decoration: Brigitte Broch

CINEMATOGRAPHY

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The English Patient — John Seale
 

Evita — Darius Khondji
 

Fargo — Roger Deakins
 

Fly Away Home — Caleb Deschanel
 

Michael Collins — Chris Menges

COSTUME DESIGN

 

Angels and Insects — Paul Brown
 

Emma — Ruth Myers
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The English Patient — Ann Roth
 

Hamlet — Alex Byrne
 

The Portrait of a Lady — Janet Patterson

DIRECTING

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The English Patient — Anthony Minghella
 

Fargo — Joel Coen
 

The People vs. Larry Flynt — Milos Forman
 

Secrets & Lies — Mike Leigh
 

Shine — Scott Hicks

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

 

The Line King: The Al Hirschfeld Story — Susan W. Dryfoos
 

Mandela — Jo Menell, Angus Gibson
 

Suzanne Farrell: Elusive Muse — Anne Belle, Deborah Dickson
 

Tell the Truth and Run: George Seldes and the American Press — Rick Goldsmith
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When We Were Kings — Leon Gast, David Sonenberg

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

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Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O’Brien — Jessica Yu
 

Cosmic Voyage — Jeffrey Marvin, Bayley Silleck
 

An Essay on Matisse — Perry Wolff
 

Special Effects — Susanne Simpson, Ben Burtt
 

The Wild Bunch: An Album in Montage — Paul Seydor, Nick Redman

FILM EDITING

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The English Patient — Walter Murch
 

Evita — Gerry Hambling
 

Fargo — Roderick Jaynes
 

Jerry Maguire — Joe Hutshing
 

Shine — Pip Karmel

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

 

A Chef in Love — Georgia
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Kolya — Czech Republic
 

The Other Side of Sunday — Norway
 

Prisoner of the Mountains — Russia
 

Ridicule — France

MAKEUP

 

Ghosts of Mississippi — Matthew W. Mungle, Deborah La Mia Denaver
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The Nutty Professor — Rick Baker, David LeRoy Anderson
 

Star Trek: First Contact — Michael Westmore, Scott Wheeler, Jake Garber

MUSIC (Original Dramatic Score)

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The English Patient — Gabriel Yared
 

Hamlet — Patrick Doyle
 

Michael Collins — Elliot Goldenthal
 

Shine — David Hirschfelder
 

Sleepers — John Williams

MUSIC (Original Musical or Comedy Score)

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Emma — Rachel Portman
 

The First Wives Club — Marc Shaiman
 

The Hunchback of Notre Dame — Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; Orchestral Score by Alan Menken
 

James and the Giant Peach — Randy Newman
 

The Preacher’s Wife — Hans Zimmer

MUSIC (Original Song)

 

“Because You Loved Me” from Up Close and Personal — Music and Lyric by Diane Warren
 

“For the First Time” from One Fine Day — Music and Lyric by James Newton Howard, Jud J. Friedman and Allan Dennis Rich
 

“I Finally Found Someone” from The Mirror Has Two Faces — Music and Lyric by Barbra Streisand, Marvin Hamlisch, Bryan Adams and Robert ‘Mutt’ Lange
 

“That Thing You Do!” from That Thing You Do! — Music and Lyric by Adam Schlesinger
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“You Must Love Me” from Evita — Music by Andrew Lloyd Webber; Lyric by Tim Rice

BEST PICTURE

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The English Patient — Saul Zaentz, Producer
 

Fargo — Ethan Coen, Producer
 

Jerry Maguire — James L. Brooks, Laurence Mark, Richard Sakai and Cameron Crowe, Producers
 

Secrets & Lies — Simon Channing-Williams, Producer
 

Shine — Jane Scott, Producer

SHORT FILM (Animated)

 

Canhead — Timothy Hittle, Chris Peterson
 

La Salla — Richard Condie
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Quest — Tyron Montgomery, Thomas Stellmach
 

Wat’s Pig — Peter Lord

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

 

De Tripas, Corazon — Antonio Urrutia
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Dear Diary — David Frankel, Barry Jossen
 

Ernst & Lyset — Kim Magnusson, Anders Thomas Jensen
 

Esposados — Juan Carlos Fresnadillo
 

Wordless — Bernadette Carranza, Antonello De Leo

SOUND

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The English Patient — Walter Murch, Mark Berger, David Parker, Chris Newman
 

Evita — Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Ken Weston
 

Independence Day — Chris Carpenter, Bill W. Benton, Bob Beemer, Jeff Wexler
 

The Rock — Kevin O’Connell, Greg P. Russell, Keith A. Wester
 

Twister — Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker, Kevin O’Connell, Geoffrey Patterson

SOUND EFFECTS EDITING

 

Daylight — Richard L. Anderson, David A. Whittaker
 

Eraser — Alan Robert Murray, Bub Asman
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The Ghost and the Darkness — Bruce Stambler

VISUAL EFFECTS

 

Dragonheart — Scott Squires, Phil Tippett, James Straus, Kit West
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Independence Day — Volker Engel, Douglas Smith, Clay Pinney, Joseph Viskocil
 

Twister — Stefen Fangmeier, John Frazier, Habib Zargarpour, Henry La Bounta

WRITING (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

 

The Crucible — Arthur Miller
 

The English Patient — Anthony Minghella
 

Hamlet — Kenneth Branagh
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Sling Blade — Billy Bob Thornton
 

Trainspotting — John Hodge

WRITING (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

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Fargo — Ethan Coen, Joel Coen
 

Jerry Maguire — Cameron Crowe
 

Lone Star — John Sayles
 

Secrets & Lies — Mike Leigh
 

Shine — Screenplay by Jan Sardi; Story by Scott Hicks

HONORARY AWARD

* To Michael Kidd in recognition of his services to the art of the dance in the art of the screen.

IRVING G. THALBERG MEMORIAL AWARD

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Saul Zaentz

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Academy Award of Merit)

* To IMAX CORPORATION for the method of filming and exhibiting high-fidelity, large-format, wide-angle motion pictures. [Systems]

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Scientific and Engineering Award)

* To JOHN SCHLAG, BRIAN KNEP, ZORAN KACIC-ALESIC and THOMAS WILLIAMS for the development of the Viewpaint 3D Paint System for film production work. [Special Photographic]
* To WILLIAM REEVES for the original concept and the development of particle systems used to create computer generated visual effects in motion pictures. [Special Photographic]
* To JIM HOURIHAN for the primary design and development of the interactive language-based control of partical systems as embodied in the Dynamation software package. [Special Photographic]
* To JONATHAN ERLAND and KAY BEVING ERLAND for the development of the Digital Series Traveling Matte Backing System used for composite photography in motion pictures. [Special Photographic]

SCIENTIFIC AND TECHNICAL AWARD (Technical Achievement Award)

* To PERRY KIVOLOWITZ, for the primary design, and DR. GARTH A. DICKIE for the development of the algorithms, for the shape-driven warping and morphing subsystem of the Elastic Reality Special Effects System. [Special Photographic]
* To KEN PERLIN for the development of Perlin Noise, a technique used to produce natural appearing textures on computer generated surfaces for motion picture visual effects. [Special Photographic]
* To NESTOR BURTNYK and MARCELI WEIN of the National Research Council of Canada for their pioneering work in the development of software techniques for Computer Assisted Key Framing for Character Animation. [Cartoon Process]
* To GRANT LOUCKS for the concept and specifications of the Mark V Director’s Viewfinder. [Photography]
* To BRIAN KNEP, CRAIG HAYES, RICK SAYRE and THOMAS WILLIAMS for the creation and development of the Direct Input Device. [Special Photographic]
* To JAMES KAJIYA and TIMOTHY KAY for their pioneering work in producing computer generated fur and hair in motion pictures. [Special Photographic]
* To JEFFREY YOST, CHRISTIAN ROUET, DAVID BENSON and FLORIAN KAINZ for the development of a system to create and control computer generated fur and hair in motion pictures. [Special Photographic]
* To RICHARD A. PREY and WILLIAM N. MASTEN for the design and development of the Nite Sun II lighting crane and camera platform. [Camera Cranes]

AWARD OF COMMENDATION

* To Joe Lombardi in celebration of 50 years in the motion picture industry. His knowledge and leadership in the field of pyrotechnics and special effects along with his uncompromising promotion of safety on the set have established the standard for today’s special effects technicians.

JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION

* To Volker W. Bahnemann in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
* To Burton ‘Bud’ Stone in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.