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Alternate Oscars: 1998

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Best Picture
Elizabeth
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line
The Truman Show

Best Director
Shekhar Kapur (Elizabeth)
Steven Spielberg (Saving Private Ryan)
John Madden (Shakespeare in Love)
Terrence Malick (The Thin Red Line)
Peter Weir (The Truman Show)

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges (The Big Lebowski)
Jim Carrey (The Truman Show)
Tom Hanks (Saving Private Ryan)
Ian McKellen (Gods and Monsters)
Edward Norton (American History X)

Best Actress
Cate Blanchett (Elizabeth)
Fernanda Montenegro (Central Station)
Gwyneth Paltrow (Shakespeare in Love)
Meryl Streep (One True Thing)
Emily Watson (Hilary and Jackie)

Best Supporting Actor
James Coburn (Affliction)
John Goodman (The Big Lebowski)
Ed Harris (The Truman Show)
Geoffrey Rush (Elizabeth)
Billy Bob Thornton (A Simple Plan)

Best Supporting Actress
Joan Allen (Pleasantville)
Kathy Bates (Primary Colors)
Judi Dench (Shakespeare in Love)
Rachel Griffiths (Hilary and Jackie)
Lynn Redgrave (Gods and Monsters)

Best Original Screenplay
American History X
The Big Lebowski
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
The Truman Show

Best Adapted Screenplay
Gods and Monsters
Out of Sight
Primary Colors
A Simple Plan
The Thin Red Line

Best Animated Feature
Antz
A Bug’s Life
Mulan
The Prince of Egypt
The Rugrats Movie

Best Foreign Language Film
Central Station
Children of Heaven
The Grandfather
Life Is Beautiful
Tango

Best Original Song
“I Don’t Want to Miss a Thing” (Armageddon)
“Iris” (City of Angels)
“Reflection” (Mulan)
“When You Believe” (The Prince of Egypt)
“The Prayer” (Quest for Camelot)

Best Documentary Feature
Dancemaker
The Farm: Angola, USA
The Last Days
Lenny Bruce: Swear to Tell the Truth
Regret to Inform

Best Documentary Short
The Personals
A Place in the Land
Sunrise Over Tiananmen Square

Best Live Action Short
Culture
Election Night
Holiday Romance
La Carte Postale
Victor

Best Animated Short
Bunny
The Canterbury Tales
Jolly Roger
More
When Life Departs

Best Original Dramatic Score
Elizabeth
Life Is Beautiful
Saving Private Ryan
The Thin Red Line
The Truman Show

Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
A Bug’s Life
Mulan
Patch Adams
The Prince of Egypt
Shakespeare in Love

Best Sound Effects
Armageddon
The Mask of Zorro
Saving Private Ryan

Best Sound
Armageddon
The Mask of Zorro
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line

Best Art Direction
Elizabeth
Pleasantville
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
What Dreams May Come

Best Cinematography
A Civil Action
Elizabeth
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line

Best Makeup
Elizabeth
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love

Best Costume Design
Beloved
Elizabeth
Pleasantville
Shakespeare in Love
Velvet Goldmine

Best Film Editing
Life Is Beautiful
Out of Sight
Saving Private Ryan
Shakespeare in Love
The Thin Red Line

Best Visual Effects
Armageddon
Mighty Joe Young
What Dreams May Come

Note: Feel free to write your alternate Oscar Winners/Nominees for 1998.

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    LMLM Posts: 63,505
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    While I personally liked Paltrow, i can't disagree with the fact that the deserving and real winner should of been Cate for Elizabeth

    Judi winning for Shakespeare in love was a travesty. I can't help but feel they gave it to her as they felt bad for robbing her blind the year before. Well that and because the movie had the biggest Oscar campaign ever done by a movie at that time and campaigns are certain to get you nominated and win, regardless of whether you are good or not. Not like the old days when you won it based on merit of a performance. To win an Oscar for a comedic fluff pantomime eight minute role was a smack in the face to her talent personally. Lynn Redgrave should of won.

    I would of happily nominated and given an Oscar for Jim Carrey for The Truman show. Laura Linney was deserving of a best supporting actress nom as well. Ed Harris was average at best and yet somehow managed to be nominated. Baffling
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    Darth_Joker_12Darth_Joker_12 Posts: 12,079
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    little-monster wrote: »
    While I personally liked Paltrow, i can't disagree with the fact that the deserving and real winner should of been Cate for Elizabeth

    Judi winning for Shakespeare in love was a travesty. I can't help but feel they gave it to her as they felt bad for robbing her blind the year before. Well that and because the movie had the biggest Oscar campaign ever done by a movie at that time and campaigns are certain to get you nominated and win, regardless of whether you are good or not. Not like the old days when you won it based on merit of a performance. To win an Oscar for a comedic fluff pantomime eight minute role was a smack in the face to her talent personally. Lynn Redgrave should of won.

    I would of happily nominated and given an Oscar for Jim Carrey for The Truman show. Laura Linney was deserving of a best supporting actress nom as well. Ed Harris was average at best and yet somehow managed to be nominated. Baffling

    What gets to me is that Ed Harris got nominated for appearing in the third act of the film, and yet Jim Carrey didn't even get nominated. He won the Golden Globe, so you'd think that he would've gotten a nomination.
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    dodradedodrade Posts: 23,852
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    I realise this is an alternative thread but there was no Best Animated category in 19998.
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    gasheadgashead Posts: 13,819
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    Darth_Vader_12 wrote: »
    Note: Feel free to write your alternate Oscar Winners/Nominees for 1998.
    Out of interest, why 1998? Is that a year you feel the Oscars got it wrong all over the place, perhaps more so than any other year?
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    dodradedodrade Posts: 23,852
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    dodrade wrote: »
    I realise this is an alternative thread but there was no Best Animated category in 19998.

    Sorry, I meant 1998.
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    Darth_Joker_12Darth_Joker_12 Posts: 12,079
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    gashead wrote: »
    Out of interest, why 1998? Is that a year you feel the Oscars got it wrong all over the place, perhaps more so than any other year?

    That's true. There were so many mistakes that year.

    Roberto Benigni beating Edward Norton for Best Actor
    Gwyneth Paltrow beating Cate Blanchett for Best Actress
    Jim Carrey not being nominated for The Truman Show

    and above all...

    Shakespeare in Love beating Saving Private Ryan for Best Picture
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