Elizabeth, Life is Beautiful, Saving Private Ryan, Shakespeare in Love, The Thin Red Line
Personally, I hated all of these movies, except Life is Beautiful, which I haven't seen. I am not even going to take a guess here.
Roberto Benigni, Terence Malick, John Madden (the football player?) Steven Spielberg, Peter Weir
Please win it Peter, Please win it Peter...
The fantabulous Jim Carrey, Denzel Washington and Johnny Depp were all shot out. Nick Nolte was good in Affliction, but Ed Norton gave a terrifying performance as a nazi in American History X, so I'm going for him here, because he should have won it in '96 for Primal Fear. Come on Ed!
WHAT'S WITH THIS CRAP?????!!!! Of all the performances, I've only seen two, and only Paltrow really deserved a nomination. Holly Hunter gave the most funkadelic performance of the whole year in Living Out Loud, and she should have been nominated, as should Angela Bassett. (Okay, they were chick flicks. Big dang deal.)
In the name of Isaac Hayes and all that is good and decent, do they TRY to pick crappy, unknown performances? BRENDA BLETHYN?! What is up with this? Queen Latifah would probably have been nominated for Living Out Loud if she hadn't been a singer (the same thing happened to Madonna in '96.) I have to go with Kathy Bates, because it's the only performance I've both seen and liked this year.
