Best Picture: 1995

[Archie Leach]

Sense and Sensibility with Babe a close second. Both Apollo 13 and Braveheart make my heart sink each time I think of how they made the top five over such films as Leaving Las Vegas, Dead Man Walking and Before Sunrise. Have never gotten around to seeing Il Postino though.

[Akash]

Dead Man Walking, Leaving Las Vegas, Toy Story and Before Sunrise SHAME all 5 nominated films (just to name a few). God, what an awful lineup to choose from (and how fitting that the worst of the bunch actually won) but I guess I'll have to go with Sense and Sensibility.

[abcinyvr]

Have to say that the day after seeing Braveheart I went into work, made myself a sword out of cardboard and spent the entire day riding my forklift, swinging my sword and yelling, "Freedom!".

I agree that without Leaving Las Vegas, Dead Man Walking, and Toy Story this list is irrelevant. But if I had to choose I would have to say Sense And Sensibility.

[dreaMaker]

one of the worst years...

[Franz Ferdinand]

A much better line up would have been:

Babe
Dead Man Walking
Heat
Sense and Sensibility
Toy Story

As it is, I voted for Sense and Sensibility. Having seen Braveheart recently, the battle scenes are decent, but the rest of the movie is next to putrid.

[criddic3]

LOL Sabin. I can't imagine busting a load over Braveheart even metaphorically speaking, but I liked it at the time. Gibson proved he could handle epic battle sequences, while maintaining a sense of the characters' relationships. Well-done, but perhaps a bit overrated at the time. Now it is a bit underrated I think.

[Hustler]

I agree with most of the posters in this thread. The best movies, like Leaving las Vegas or Dead man Walking weren´t nominated that year.

[Sabin]

My big year. Saw 'Braveheart'. Became a cinéphile and was, for lack of a better term, gay for 'Braveheart' for the entire year. I could not believe that anybody could have seen the talking pig movie as a better piece of work, let alone a possible winner. And when Gibson's movie won, I busted a load in my pants.

The talking pig was robbed. I would have chosen by Figgis for director for the man's tenacity in getting the damn thing done.

A great year for movies. 'Before Sunrise', 'Wild Reeds', 'Se7en', 'Safe', and 'Toy Story'. 'Babe' is the only nominee that would make my list. I saw it on a plane and to my surprise wept openly by the end.

[criddic3]

Out of these: Apollo 13.

Mine: Oliver Stone's Nixon.

[rudam]

babe

[dws1982]

One of the worst nominee/available nominee ratios ever.

Sure is. There were some masterpieces that year, some from mainstream Hollywood at that, but the Academy missed the boat completely.

I actually voted for Apollo 13. I know it's a bad lineup when I'm voting for the Ron Howard film.

[Mister Tee]

I voted for Sense and Sensibility, but only because Leaving Las Vegas, seven, Nixon, Heat and To Die For weren't on the list. One of the worst nominee/available nominee ratios ever.

[Big Magilla]

Sense and Sensibility is the only one of the five that even deserves to be nominated. The non-nominated Dead Man Walking should have won.

[FilmFan720]

Sense and Sensibility. None of the rest are close in my book.

[Penelope]

Babe.