Mar 21 1999

Oscar Picks 1999

What’s up with Oscar this year?

##Picture

  • **Should Win: Saving Private Ryan**.
  • **Did Win: Shakespeare In Love**.
  • **Comments**: I just don’t understand this. In 20 years, nobody will remember

    Shakespeare In Love, but everyone will remember Saving

    Private Ryan.

##Director

  • Steven Spielberg, *Saving Private Ryan*
  • Steven Spielberg, *Saving Private Ryan*
  • Of course he deserved it. How anyone could pull off what he did still amazes me

##Actor

  • Ian McKellen, *Gods and Monsters*
  • Roberto Benigni, *Life Is Beautiful*
  • Very surprising. What’s a knight to do?

##Actress

  • Gweneth Paltrow, *Shakespeare In Love*
  • Gweneth Paltrow, *Shakespeare In Love*
  • I was in love with her. That’s good enough for me!

##Supporting Actor

  • James Coburn, *Gods and Monsters*
  • James Coburn, *Gods and Monsters*
  • Good for him. I was pulling for him the whole time. With his career

    he should have been recognized long ago.

##Supporting Actress

  • Judi Dench, *Shakespeare In Love*
  • Judi Dench, *Shakespeare in Love*
  • She *was* Queen Elizabeth… ’nuff said!

##Cinemetography

  • Janusz Kaminski, *Saving Private Ryan*
  • Janusz Kaminski, *Saving Private Ryan*
  • Duh!

##Visual Effects

  • *What Dreams May Come*
  • *What Dreams May Come*
  • Thank God this won! This was the most original effects I’ve ever seen.

##Editing

  • *Saving Private Ryan*
  • *Saving Private Ryan*
  • How the hell did they pull off that beach scene?

##Sound

  • *Saving Private Ryan*
  • *Saving Private Ryan*
  • I could hear the bullets flying past my head.

##Sound Effects Editing

  • *Saving Private Ryan*
  • *Saving Private Ryan*
  • Any questions?

##Foreign Language Film

  • *Life Is Beautiful*
  • *Life Is Beautiful*
  • This was a lock the whole time

##Screenplay (Original)

  • Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, *Shakespeare In Love*
  • Marc Norman, Tom Stoppard, *Shakespeare In Love*
  • One of the wittiest scripts I’ve heard in a *long* time.

##Screenplay (Adaptation)

  • Scott B. Smith, *A Simple Plan*
  • Bill Condon, *Gods and Monsters*
  • This surprised me. I didn’t see either one, but from all the press
    *that A Simple Plan* got, I figured it had to win something.

##Original Musical or Comedy Score

  • *Shakespeare In Love*
  • *Shakespeare In Love*
  • The music fit the movie perfectly

##Original Dramatic Score

  • *Saving Private Ryan*
  • *Life Is Beautiful*
  • This was a surprise… Someone beat John Williams!!

##Makeup

  • *Saving Private Ryan*
  • *Elizabeth*
  • I suppose it had to win something.

##Costume Design

  • *Shakespeare In Love*
  • *Shakespeare In Love*
  • Duh!

##Art Direction

  • *What Dreams May Come*
  • *Shakespeare In Love*
  • I just don’t understand this. I mean What Dreams May Come

    actually took place partially in a Monet painting! What better Art Direction

    could you ask for?

##Original Song

  • When You Believe, *Prince Of Egypt*
  • When You Believe, *Prince Of Egypt*
  • Mariah Carey, Whitney Houston… ’nuff said.

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##Totals

  • 20 Categories
  • 14 (70%) Correct