Alternate Oscars: 1996

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Fargo*

Mission: Impossible

Secrets & Lies

Twister

BEST DIRECTOR:

Peter Chan, Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Joel Coen, Fargo*

Cheryl Dunye, The Watermelon Woman

Mike Leigh, Secrets & Lies

Baz Luhrmann, Romeo + Juliet

BEST ACTOR:

Kevin Costner, Tin Cup

Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire

Philip Baker Hall, Hard Eight

William H. Macy, Fargo

Jeffrey Wright, Basquiat*

BEST ACTRESS:

Brenda Blethyn, Secrets & Lies

Maggie Cheung, Comrades: Almost a Love Story*

Jake-Ann Jones, Naked Acts

Frances McDormand, Fargo

Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Steve Buscemi, Fargo

Robert Carlyle, Trainspotting

Olivier Gourmet, La Promesse

Matthew Lillard, Scream*

Liev Schreiber, Walking and Talking

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Joan Allen, The Crucible

Drew Barrymore, Scream

Juliette Binoche, The English Patient

Katrin Cartlidge, Breaking the Waves

Parker Posey, The Daytrippers*

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

The English Patient

Foxfire*

Hamlet

Sling Blade

Trainspotting

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Bound

Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Fargo*

Scream

Secrets & Lies

BEST ART DIRECTION:

The English Patient

Hamlet

The Phantom

The Portrait of a Lady

Romeo + Juliet*

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Breaking the Waves

Comrades: Almost a Love Story

Fargo*

Mission: Impossible

Romeo + Juliet

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

101 Dalmatians

Hamlet

The Phantom

The Portrait of a Lady

Romeo + Juliet*

BEST FILM EDITING:

Bound

Fargo

Mission: Impossible

Romeo + Juliet*

Trainspotting

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Comrades: Almost a Love Story*

DragonHeart

Fargo

The Frighteners

Twister

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"I Believe I Can Fly" from Space Jam

"Kissing You" from Romeo + Juliet

"That Thing You Do!" from That Thing You Do!*

"Walls" from She's the One

"You Must Love Me" from Evita

BEST MAKEUP:

The Frighteners

From Dusk Till Dawn

Mission: Impossible*

The Nutty Professor

Star Trek: First Contact

BEST SOUND:

Independence Day

Mission: Impossible

The Rock

Romeo + Juliet

Twister*

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

The Frighteners

Independence Day

Mars Attacks!

Star Trek: First Contact

Twister*

BEST STUNTS:

Broken Arrow

Jackie Chan’s First Strike*

Mission: Impossible

The Rock

Twister

BEST CASTING:

The Birdcage

Fargo

Scream

Secrets & Lies*

Twister

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

Brassed Off

Breaking the Waves

Comrades: Almost a Love Story*

La Promesse

Secrets & Lies

Alternate Oscars: 1997

* = winner

BEST PICTURE:

Cure

Good Will Hunting

The Ice Storm*

Jackie Brown

L.A. Confidential

BEST DIRECTOR:

Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential

Kiyoshi Kurosawa, Cure

Ang Lee, The Ice Storm*

Andrew Niccol, Gattaca

Quentin Tarantino, Jackie Brown

BEST ACTOR:

Russell Crowe, L.A. Confidential

Matt Damon, Good Will Hunting

Ian Holm, The Sweet Hereafter

Ray Winstone, Nil by Mouth

Koji Yakusho, Cure*

BEST ACTRESS:

Joan Allen, The Ice Storm

Helena Bonham Carter, The Wings of the Dove

Neve Campbell, Scream 2

Pam Grier, Jackie Brown*

Helen Hunt, As Good As It Gets

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

Mark Addy, The Full Monty

James Coburn, Affliction

Robert Forster, Jackie Brown

Jude Law, Gattaca

Robin Williams, Good Will Hunting*

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

Kim Basinger, L.A. Confidential

Julianne Moore, Boogie Nights

Sarah Polley, The Sweet Hereafter

Christina Ricci, The Ice Storm*

Sigourney Weaver, The Ice Storm

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:

Donnie Brasco

The Ice Storm

Jackie Brown*

L.A. Confidential

The Sweet Hereafter

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY:

Cure

The Full Monty

The Game

Good Will Hunting*

Grosse Point Blank

BEST ART DIRECTION:

The Fifth Element

Gattaca

The Ice Storm

L.A. Confidential*

Titanic

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

Cure

Happy Together

The Ice Storm

L.A. Confidential*

Lost Highway

BEST COSTUME DESIGN:

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

Kundun

L.A. Confidential*

Titanic

The Wings of the Dove

BEST FILM EDITING:

Boogie Nights

Cure

Jackie Brown

L.A. Confidential

Titanic*

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE:

Gattaca*

The Ice Storm

L.A. Confidential

The Sweet Hereafter

Titanic

BEST ORIGINAL SONG:

"Alive" from Chasing Amy

"How Do I Live" from Con Air

"Men in Black" from Men in Black

"Miss Misery" from Good Will Hunting*

"My Heart Will Go On" from Titanic

BEST MAKEUP:

Amistad

Austin Powers: International Man of Mystery

The Fifth Element

Men in Black*

Mimic

BEST SOUND:

Con Air

Contact

Cure

L.A. Confidential

Titanic*

BEST VISUAL EFFECTS:

The Fifth Element

The Lost World: Jurassic Park

Men in Black

Starship Troopers

Titanic*

BEST STUNTS:

Air Force One

Con Air*

Face/Off

Titanic

Tomorrow Never Dies

BEST CASTING:

Con Air

The Full Monty*

The Ice Storm

Jackie Brown

L.A. Confidential

BEST INTERNATIONAL FILM:

Cure*

Funny Games

Insomnia

The Sweet Hereafter

Taste of Cherry