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