1990 Oscar Shouldabeens

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Best Picture: Goodfellas
Best Director: Martin Scorsese for Goodfellas
Best Actor: Jeremy Irons in Reversal of Fortune
Best Actress: Kathy Bates in Misery
Best Supporting Actor: Joe Pesci in Goodfellas
Best Supporting Actress: Lorraine Bracco in Goodfellas
Best Original Screenplay: Miller's Crossing
Best Adapted Screenplay: Goodfellas
Best Score: Dances with Wolves
Best Art Direction: Dick Tracy
Best Costume Design: Cyrano de Bergerac
Best Editing: Goodfellas
Best Cinematography: Dances with Wolves
Best Sound: Dances with Wolves
Best Foreign Film: ???
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Top 20, not top 10, for me.
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ksrymy wrote:There is almost no love here for Whit Stillman's Metropolitan. What gives?
Well, if its any consolation Metropolitan is in my top ten of 1990 at No. 8.
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There is almost no love here for Whit Stillman's Metropolitan. What gives?
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Fixed. Thanks.
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Big Magilla wrote:Best Director
Francis Ford Coppola, The Godfather Part III
Kevin Costner, Dances With Wolves
Stephen Frears, The Grifters
Barbet Schroeder, Reversal of Fortune
*Martin Scorsese, GoodFellas
Giuseppe Tornatore, Cinema Paradiso
Six nominations?
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Best Picture
01. Close-up
02. The Match Factory Girl
03. Metropolitan
04. An Angel at My Table
05. Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
06. The Grifters
07. Paris Is Burning
08. Wild at Heart
09. GoodFellas
10. Days of Being Wild

Best Actor
01. Michael Rooker, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer
02. Clint Eastwood, White Hunter Black Heart
03. Christian Slater, Pump Up the Volume
04. Leslie Cheung, Days of Being Wild
05. Jeremy Irons, Reversal of Fortune

06. Gérard Depardieu, Cyrano de Bergerac

Best Actress
01. Kati Outinen, The Match Factory Girl
02. Anjelica Huston, The Grifters
03. Kerry Fox, An Angel at My Table
04. Joanne Woodward, Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
05. Kathy Bates, Misery

06. Jessica Lange, Men Don't Leave

Best Supporting Actor
01. Bruce Davison, Longtime Companion
02. Chris Eigeman, Metropolitan
03. Robin Harris, House Party
04. Albert Finney, Miller's Crossing
05. Graham Greene, Dances with Wolves

06. John Turturro, Miller's Crossing

Best Supporting Actress
01. Annette Bening, The Grifters
02. Lorraine Bracco, GoodFellas
03. Diane Ladd, Wild at Heart
04. Rebecca Pan, Days of Being Wild
05. Glenn Close, Reversal of Fortune

06. Shirley MacLaine, Postcards From the Edge

Best Director
01. Abbas Kiarostami, Close-up
02. Aki Kaurismäki, The Match Factory Girl
03. Jane Campion, An Angel at My Table
04. Whit Stillman, Metropolitan
05. John McNaughton, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer

06. David Lynch, Wild at Heart
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Picture:
* Last Exit To Brooklyn
Goodfellas
Postcards From The Edge
Mr And Mrs Bridge
Alice

Actor:
* Stephen Lang (Last Exit To Brooklyn)
Ray Liotta (Goodfellas)
Paul Newman (Mr And Mrs Bridge)
Jeremy Irons (Reversal Of Fortune)
Nicholas Cage (Wild At Heart)

Actress:
* Jennifer Jason Leigh (Last Exit To Brooklyn)
Meryl Streep (Postacards From The Edge)
Joanne Woodward (Mr And Mrs Bridge)
Debra Winger (The Sheltering Sky)
Jessica Lange (Men Don't Leave)

Supporting Actor:
* Joe Pesci (Goodfellas)
Gene Hackman (Postacrds From The Edge)
Dennis Quaid (Postacrds From The Edge)
Burt Young (Last Exit To Brooklyn)
Andy Garcia (Godfather Part III)

Supporting Actress:
* Diane Ladd (Wild At Heart)
Shirley MacLaine (Postacrds From The Edge)
Lorraine Bracco (Goodfellas)
Joan Cusack (Men Don't Leave)
Winona Ryder (Mermaids)
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BEST PICTURE
Avalon
Edward Scissorhands
The Grifters
Miller's Crossing
Reversal of Fortune

BEST DIRECTOR
Tim Burton - Edward Scissorhands
Joel Coen - Miller's Crossing
Stephen Frears - The Grifters
Barbet Schroeder - Reversal of Fortune
Martin Scorsese - GoodFellas

BEST ACTOR
Gabriel Byrne - Miller's Crossing
Gerard Depardieu - Cyrano de Bergerac
Johnny Depp - Edward Scissorhands
Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune
Campbell Scott - Longtime Companion

BEST ACTRESS
Kathy Bates - Misery
Mia Farrow - Alice
Anjelica Huston - The Grifters
Shirley Maclaine - Postcards From The Edge
Joanne Woodward - Mr. and Mrs. Bridge

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion
Mark Lamos - Longtime Companion
Al Pacino - Dick Tracy
Joe Pesci - GoodFellas
John Turturro - Miller's Crossing

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Annette Bening - The Grifters
Lorraine Bracco - GoodFellas
Whoopi Goldberg - Ghost
Mary Louise Parker - Longtime Companion
Dianne Weist - Edward Scissorhands

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Avalon
Edward Scissorhands
Ghost
Longtime Companion
Miller's Crossing

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
GoodFellas
The Grifters
Mr and Mrs Bridge
Postcards From The Edge
Reversal of Fortune




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I just saw Goodfellas for the first time, and I enjoyed the raw energy that rudeboy mentions. The freeze-shots, quick closeups and the great labyrinthine entrance that Henry and Karen make through the kitchen in one shot are outstanding. The contemporary soundtrack was also great.

Joe Pesci's performance, I could see how it could be grating, but I thought it was a blast: maybe not Oscar-worthy, and it might not hold up over time, but it was hilarious. I didn't find it all one-dimensional though. There was a lucid moment as the camera pans across the people in the Copacabana in slow motion, and Tommy is in a pensive state, a calm and human look on his face.

Sadly, I watched it in reverse: the DVD split the movie into two halves and I unknowingly watched Side B, thinking it was a strange and truncated movie. I anticipate watching it in proper running order soon.
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Big Magilla wrote:Godfather III I liked excpet for Sohia Coppola's godawful performance. SPOILER ALERT. I did feel bad for her when the Christmas Day audience I saw it with applauded when she's murdered at the end, but I was happy to know if there was going to be a fourth installment it would have to be without her.
Funny I, too, saw this film on Christmas day (in New York) and the audience clapped at the death scene.
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I haven’t sat through GoodFellas as a whole for quite some years, but I do occasionally catch it in bits and pieces. Parts of it I still find incredibly compelling – there’s a raw energy which I like, and the art direction, costumes and cinematography are terrific. I really like Ray Liotta and Lorraine Bracco’s performances, too.

But it is an overrated film, always was. And Joe Pesci’s dreadful performance – nothing but one-note yelling and sneering - may be my least favourite supporting actor winner of the 90s – which is really saying something.

For the record, my favourite movies of 1990 include Europa, Europa (which was eligible for the following year’s oscars), most of Dances With Wolves (the crushing detriment being Costner’s blank lead performance), Edward Scissorhands and the lovely, underrated Men Don’t Leave. But I agree with Magilla that this year was overall a real low for movies.
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If there was ever a year I wanted to pass over it would be 1990.

The two films I really liked were Reversal of Fortune and The Grifters, but I admired GoodFellas more at the time, though I haven't watched it in years so I may be over-rating it in my mind. Dances With Wolves bored me silly, but there were moments from it that have stayed in my head all these years. Godfather III I liked excpet for Sohia Coppola's godawful performance. SPOILER ALERT. I did feel bad for her when the Christmas Day audience I saw it with applauded when she's murdered at the end, but I was happy to know if there was going to be a fourth installment it would have to be without her.
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Me three. It's certainly well-made, but it's never struck me as the masterpiece others claim it to be (I much prefer Scorsese's earlier films). I, too, prefer The Godfather Part III (ever the contrarian, I actually enjoy this installment more than the first two), as well as Ghost and Dances With Wolves; and such unnominated fare as Europa, Europa; The Grifters; Postcards from the Edge; Internal Affairs; Reversal of Fortune; and Wild at Heart (a film that has rather special memories for me). Wow, I really need to do my 1990 shouldabeens....
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dws1982 wrote:Am I the only one who finds GoodFellas to be pretty overrated?

You are not alone, Daniel. It's beautifully made but essentiallly it's a film about nothing -- which is to say, it has no subtext.
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