The Other Movie Oscars: The 1990s

Please keep in mind three things:

1. I'm only choosing Best Picture, Best Actor, and Best Actress.  Let's be honest and say that these are the only three categories most people care about.

2. I'm only choosing from the movies reviewed in my "Some Other Movies From..." entries.  This means that some of the movies I choose might actually be award-winners from that year.

3. The movies reviewed in my "Some Other Movies From..." entries were chosen because I hadn't seen them before, and/or because of their relative obscurity.  To put an even finer point on it, they were chosen half willfully and half randomly.  I tend to pick 7 or 8 movies featuring people I'm familiar with, and 7 or 8 movies featuring people unknown to me.

4. For fun I'm adding another category, something memorable from a film belonging to a given year.

1999

Best Picture: All About My Mother
Best Actor: Clint Eastwood (True Crime)
Best Actress: Angelina Jolie (Girl, Interrupted)
Most Excruciating Shakespeare Adaptation: 10 Things I Hate About You

1998

Best Picture: Primary Colors
Best Actor: Dennis Quaid (Savior)
Best Actress: Emma Thompson (Primary Colors)
Biggest Trainwreck of a Movie: Lost in Space

1997

Best Picture: The Boxer
Best Actor: Koji Yakusho (Unagi "The Eel")
Best Actress: Emily Watson (The Boxer)
Best Overlooked Comedy: The Wrong Guy

1996

Best Picture: Citizen Ruth
Best Actor: Armand Assante (Gotti)
Best Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh (Bastard Out of Carolina)
Worst Use of Meryl Streep: Before and After

1995

Best Picture: Ghost in the Shell
Best Actor: No idea, it was a slow year.
Best Actress: No idea, it was slow year.
Most Family Friendly WTF: Top Dog

1994

Best Picture: Death and the Maiden
Best Actor: Tommy Lee Jones (Cobb)
Best Actress: Sigourney Weaver (Death and the Maiden)
So Bad Everyone Needs to See It: Double Dragon

1993

Best Picture: The Age of Innocence
Best Actor: Daniel Day-Lewis (The Age of Innocence)
Best Actress: Michelle Pfeiffer (The Age of Innocence)
Best Surgically Enhanced Breasts: Ashlyn Gere (The Night Train)

1992

Best Picture: The Player
Best Actor: Laurence Fishburne (Deep Cover)
Best Actress: Helena Bonham Carter (Howard's End)
Best Black Scientist Obsessed with Temporal Anomalies: Joe Morton (Forever Young, T2, and other movies)

1991

Best Picture: High Heels
Best Actor: William Hurt (The Doctor)
Best Actress: Victoria Abril (High Heels)
Most Stunningly Beautiful Woman: Emmanuelle Beart (La Belle Noiseuse)

1990

Best Picture: Presumed Innocent
Best Actor: Alec Baldwin (Miami Blues)
Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Postcards from the Edge)
Most Inexplicable Movie: The Forbidden Dance

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Some Other Movies From 1991
Superhero Movies From October 2018 Onward (6)
Some Other Movies From 1993
Some Other Movies From 1995