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Best Picture of the Year
 APOLLO 13 - Imagine Entertainment & Universal, Universal. Brian Grazer, Producer
BABE - Kennedy Miller Pictures, Universal. George Miller, Doug Mitchell & Bill Miller, Producers
 BRAVEHEART (Won 5 Awards) - Icon Productions/Ladd Company, Paramount. Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr. & Bruce Davey, Producers
IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN) - Cecchi Gori Group Tiger - Pentafilm/Esterno Mediterraneo/Blue Dahlia, Miramax. Mario Cecchi Gori and Vittorio Cecchi Gori & Gaetano Daniele, Producers
SENSE AND SENSIBILITY - Mirage, Columbia. Lindsay Doran, Producer
Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role
Nicolas Cage in LEAVING LAS VEGAS
Richard Dreyfuss - MR. HOLLAND'S OPUS
Anthony Hopkins - NIXON
Sean Penn in DEAD MAN WALKING
Massimo Troisi in IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN)
Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
Susan Sarandon in DEAD MAN WALKING
Elisabeth Shue in LEAVING LAS VEGAS
Sharon Stone in CASINO
Meryl Streep in THE BRIDGES OF MADISON COUNTY
Emma Thompson in SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Performance by an Actor in a Supporting Role
James Cromwell in BABE
Ed Harris in APOLLO 13
Brad Pitt in 12 MONKEYS
Tim Roth in ROB ROY
Kevin Spacey in THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role
Joan Allen in NIXON
Kathleen Quinlan in APOLLO 13
Mira Sorvino in MIGHTY APHRODITE
Mare Winningham in GEORGIA
Kate Winslet in SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Achievement in Directing
Mike Figgis for LEAVING LAS VEGAS
Mel Gibson for BRAVEHEART
Chris Noonan for BABE
Michael Radford for IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN)
Tim Robbins for DEAD MAN WALKING
Achievement in Writing: Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Randall Wallace - BRAVEHEART
Woody Allen - MIGHTY APHRODITE
Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson & Oliver Stone - NIXON
Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen & Alec Sokolow; Story by John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton & Joe Ranft - TOY STORY
Christopher McQuarrie - THE USUAL SUSPECTS
Achievement in Writing: Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published
William Broyles, Jr. & Al Reinert - APOLLO 13
George Miller & Chris Noonan - BABE
Mike Figgis - LEAVING LAS VEGAS
Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli & Massimo Troisi - IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN)
Emma Thompson - SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Achievement in Cinematography
Stephen Goldblatt - BATMAN FOREVER
John Toll - BRAVEHEART
Emmanuel Lubezki - A LITTLE PRINCESS
Michael Coulter - SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Lu Yue - YAO A YAO YAO DAO WAIPO QUIO (SHANGHAI TRIAD)
Achievement in Art Direction
Michael Corenblith - Art Direction, Merideth Boswell - Set Decoration APOLLO 13
Roger Ford - Art Direction, Kerrie Brown - Set Decoration BABE
Bo Welch - Art Direction, Cheryl Carasik - Set Decoration A LITTLE PRINCESS
Eugenio Zanetti - Art Direction RESTORATION
Tony Burrough - Art Direction RICHARD III
Achievement in Costume Design
Charles Knode - BRAVEHEART
James Acheson - RESTORATION
Shuna Harwood - RICHARD III
Jenny Beavan & John Bright - SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Julie Weiss - 12 MONKEYS
Achievement in Documentary Feature Films
Jon Blair, Producer ANNE FRANK REMEMBERED
Thomas Lennon & Michael Epstein, Producers THE BATTLE OVER CITIZEN KANE
Allan Miller & Walter Scheuer, Producers FIDDLEFEST - Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program
Mike Tollin & Fredric Golding, Producers HANK AARON: CHASING THE DREAM
Jeanne Jordan & Steven Ascher, Producers TROUBLESOME CREEK: A MIDWESTERN
Achievement in Documentary Short Subjects
Nancy Dine & Richard Stilwell, Producers JIM DINE: A SELF-PORTRAIT ON THE WALLS
Greg MacGillivray & Alec Lorimore, Producers THE LIVING SEA
Terry Sanders & Freida Lee Mock, Producers NEVER GIVE UP: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper
Kary Antholis, Producer ONE SURVIVOR REMEMBERS
Charles E. Guggenheim, Producer THE SHADOW OF HATE
Achievement in Film Editing
Mike Hill & Dan Hanley - APOLLO 13
Marcus D'Arcy & Jay Friedkin - BABE
Steven Rosenblum - BRAVEHEART
Chris Lebenzon - CRIMSON TIDE
Richard Francis-Bruce - SE7EN
Best Foreign Language Film of the Year
LUST OCH FÄGRING STOR (ALL THINGS FAIR, Sweden - Per Holst & Hans Hansen, producers)
ANTONIA (ANTONIA'S LINE, Netherlands - Gerard Cornelisse, Hans de Weers & Hans de Wolf, producers)
POUSSIÈRES DE VIE (DUST OF LIFE, Algeria - Jean Bréhat, producer)
O QUATRILHO (Brazil - Lucy Barreto & Luiz Carlos Barreto, executive producers)
L'UOMO DELLE STELLE (THE STAR MAKER, Italy - Rita Cecchi Gori & Vittorio Cecchi Gori, producers)
Achievement in Makeup
Peter Frampton, Paul Pattison & Lois Burwell - BRAVEHEART
Ken Diaz & Mark Sanchez - MY FAMILY, MI FAMILIA
Greg Cannom, Bob Laden & Colleen Callaghan - ROOMMATES
Achievement in Music: Original Musical or Comedy Score
Marc Shaiman - THE AMERICAN PRESIDENT
Alan Menken - Music, Stephen Schwartz - Lyric, Orchestral Score - Alan Menken POCAHONTAS
John Williams - SABRINA
Randy Newman - TOY STORY
Thomas Newman - UNSTRUNG HEROES
Achievement in Music: Original Dramatic Score
James Horner - APOLLO 13
James Horner - BRAVEHEART
John Williams - NIXON
Luis Bacalov - IL POSTINO (THE POSTMAN)
Patrick Doyle - SENSE AND SENSIBILITY
Achievement in Music: Original Song
Alan Menken - Music, Stephen Schwartz - Lyric POCAHONTAS "Colors of the Wind" 
Bruce Springsteen - Music & Lyric DEAD MAN WALKING "Dead Man Walkin'"
Michael Kamen, Bryan Adams & Robert John "Mutt" Lange DON JUAN DEMARCO "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman"
John Williams - Music, Alan Bergman & Ingmar Bergman - Lyric SABRINA "Moonlight"
Randy Newman - Music & Lyric TOY STORY "You've Got a Friend"
Achievement in Animated Short Films
John R. Dilworth, Producer THE CHICKEN FROM OUTERSPACE
Nick Park, Producer A CLOSE SHAVE
Chris Landreth & Robin Bargar, Producers the end
Alexij Kharitidi, Producer GAGARIN
Chris Bailey, Producer RUNAWAY BRAIN
Achievement in Live Action Short Films
Luke Cresswell & Steve McNicholas, Producers BROOMS
Griffin Dunne & Thom Colwell, Producers DUKE OF GROOVE
Christine Lahti & Jana Sue Memel, Producers LIEBERMAN IN LOVE
Jeff Goldblum & Tikki Goldberg, Producers LITTLE SURPRISES
Dianne Houston & Joy Ryan, Producers TUESDAY MORNING RIDE
Achievement in Sound
Rick Dior, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan & David R. B. MacMillan - APOLLO 13
Donald O. Mitchell, Frank A. Montano, Michael Herbick & Petur Hliddal - BATMAN FOREVER
Andy Nelson, Scott Millan, Anna Behlmer & Brian Simmons - BRAVEHEART
Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline, Gregory H. Watkins & William B. Kaplan - CRIMSON TIDE
Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker & Keith A. Wester - WATERWORLD
Achievement in Sound Effects Editing
John Leveque & Bruce Stambler - BATMAN FOREVER
Lon Bender & Per Hallberg - BRAVEHEART
George Watters, II - CRIMSON TIDE
Achievement in Visual Effects
Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Leslie Ekker & Matt Sweeney - APOLLO 13
Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan & John Cox - BABE
Special Achievement Award
John Lasseter - For his inspired leadership of the Pixar TOY STORY team, resulting in the first feature-length computer animated film.
Scientific and Technical Awards
Academy Award of Merit (Statuette):
No Award given for 1995.
Scientific and Engineering Awards (Plaques)
 Howard Flemming and Ronald Uhlig - For their pioneering work leading to motion picture digital sound.
Digital Theater Systems - For the design and development of the DTS Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.
Dolby Laboratories - For the design and development of the SR-D Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.
Sony Corporation - For the design and development of the SDDS Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.
Colin F. Mossman, Joe Wary, Hans Leisinger, Gerald Painter & Deluxe Laboratories - For the design and development of the Deluxe Quad Format Digital Sound Printing Head.
David Gilmartin, Johannes Borggrebe, Jean-Pierre Gagnon, Frank Ricotta & Technicolor, Inc. - For the design and development of the Technicolor Contact Printer Sound Head.
Ronald C. Goodman, Attila Szalay, Steven Sass & SpaceCam Systems, Inc. - For the design of the SpaceCam gyroscopically stabilized Camera System.
Martin S. Mueller - For the design and development of the MSM 9801 IMAX 65mm/15 perf production motion picture camera.
Iain Neil - For the optical design; Rick Gelbard - For the mechanical design; Eric Dubberke - For the engineering & Panavision International, L. P. - For the development of the Primo 3:1 Zoom Lens.
Arnold & Richter Cine Technik - For the development of the Arriflex 535 Series of Cameras for motion picture cinematography.
Alvy Ray Smith, Ed Catmull, Thomas Porter & Tom Duff - For their pioneering inventions in Digital Image Compositing.
Technical Achievement Awards (Certificates)
 David Pringle & Yan Zhong Fang - For the design and development of "Lightning Strikes", a flexible, high-performance electronic lightning effect system.
Al Jensen, Chuck Headley, Jean Messner & Hazem Nabulsi of CEI Technology - For producing a self-contained, flicker-free, Color Video-Assist Camera.
Peter Denz of Präzisions-Entwicklung Denz - For developing a flicker-free Color Video-Assist Camera.
Gary Demos, David Ruhoff, Dan Cameron & Michelle Feraud - For their pioneering efforts in the creation of the Digital Productions Digital Film Compositing System.
Douglas Smythe, Lincoln Hu, Douglas S. Kay & Industrial Light and Magic - For their pioneering efforts in the creation of the ILM Digital Film Compositing System.
Computer Film Company - For their pioneering efforts in the creation of the CFC Digital Film Compositing System.
Joe Finnegan (a.k.a. Joe Yrigoyen) - For his pioneering work in developing the Air Ram for motion picture stunt effects.
Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse - For the concept; Kodak Pathé CTP CINE - For the prototype; and Eclair Laboratories & Martineau Industries - For the development and further implementation of the Toulouse Electrolytic Silver Recovery Cell.
BHP, Incorporated - For their pioneering efforts developing Digital Sound Printing Heads for motion pictures.
James Deas of the Warner Bros. Studio Facility - For the design and subsequent development of an Automated Patchbay and Metering System for motion picture sound transfer and dubbing operations.
Clay Davis & John Carter of Todd-AO - For their pioneering efforts in creating an Automated Patchbay System for motion picture sound transfer and dubbing operations.
Pascal Chedeville - For the design of the L.C. Concept Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.
Honorary and Other Awards
Kirk Douglas: "For fifty years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community." Winner presented a Statuette.
Chuck Jones: "For the creation of classic cartoons which have brought worldwide joy for more than half a century." Winner presented a Statuette.
Irving G. Thalberg Memorial Award
No Award given for 1995.
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award
No Award given for 1995.
Gordon E. Sawyer Award
Donald C. Rogers whose technological contributions have brought credit
to the industry.
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FIRSTS
· Susan Sarandon becomes first person to win Best Actress for playing a nun.
· Toy Story is the first full-length fully computer-generated feature film.
EIGHTHS
Mira Sorvino becomes the eighth actress to bring home an Oscar® for playing a prostitute or "fallen woman." The others: Anne Baxter (1946), Claire Trevor (1948), Donna Reed (1953), Jo Van Fleet (1955), Dorothy Malone (1956), Elizabeth Taylor and Shirley Jones (1960), and Jane Fonda (1971).
RULE CHANGES
Original Score category again divided into "Musical or Comedy" and "Dramatic".
ROLE REVERSALS
· Mel Gibson wanted Terry Gilliam to direct Braveheart.
· Actors considered for the title role in Oliver Stone's Nixon: Tom Hanks, Jack Nicholson, Warren Beatty.
SINS OF OMISSION
Picture: Dead Man Walking, Leaving Las Vegas
UNMENTIONABLES
· The cast and crew of Apollo 13 flew between 500 and 600 parabolic arcs in NASA's KC-135 airplane (nicknamed the "Vomit Comet") to achieve real weightlessness. Each of the arcs got them 23 seconds of zero gravity. All of these flights were completed in 13 days.
· In preparing for Leaving Las Vegas, Nicolas Cage researched his character by binge drinking and visiting many hospitalized career alcoholics. Elisabeth Shue associated with prostitutes and interviewed them on the strip in Las Vegas.
· When James Cromwell was handed the screenplay for Babe, he thumbed through it to see how many lines he had. Seeing that he didn't have that many, he decided that he would do it as a nice easy film. What he didn't realize was that he would have more screen time in this film than any of his previous films.
· In a 2005 interview with Vanity Fair, Woody Allen stated that even after their bitter and much- publicized divorce, Allen considered casting Mia Farrow as his wife Amanda in Mighty Aphrodite, citing that he believed she would be the best actress for the role. In response to this, his casting director Juliet Taylor responded "What, are you nuts?" Helena Bonham Carter got the part.
· The name of the production company for The Usual Suspects, Blue Parrot/Bad Hat Harry Productions is an inside reference to a line from Jaws, where Brody is mocked by an old guy in a black bathing cap on the beach and greets him by saying "That's some bad hat, Harry." The "Blue Parrot" part is a reference to Sidney Greenstreet's bar in Casablanca, as is the title of the film (Claude Rains: "Round up the usual suspects").
· Emma Thompson recounted how during a scene in Sense and Sensibility, where Colonel Brandon, on horseback, approaches Elinor and Marianne in the out-of-doors, many takes were ruined by the horse surrendering to a bout of flatulence. Eventually, they were forced to shoot the scene with the farting horse as the flatulence would not abate, and the rather loud reports later were edited out of the soundtrack.
· Braveheart screenwriter Randall Wallace had been visiting Edinburgh in 1983 to learn about his heritage when he came across a statue of William Wallace outside Edinburgh Castle; he had never heard of the 14th-century figure who shared his name but was intrigued enough by the stories told to him about "Scotland's greatest hero" to research the story as much as possible. He had very little historical evidence to work with in regard to William Wallace's life; he has noted that even Churchill's definitive work A History of the English Speaking Peoples observed in only a single line that virtually no factual material survives about the Scottish leader. Because of this, Randall Wallace relied heavily on a 15th-century romantic poem by the Scottish writer Henry the Minstrel ("Blind Harry") in constructing his story.
· Originally the main character in Toy Story was going to be Tinny, the title character in Pixar's Tin Toy (1988). He would have gotten lost during a family trip and joined up with a sarcastic ventriloquist dummy in a search for a home. Eventually, Tinny was replaced with a toy astronaut named Lunar Larry, which then became Buzz Lightyear. The dummy, meanwhile, was given the identity of a cowboy, eventually becoming Woody.
· At the Awards show, the heartbreaking story behind 4-category nominee Il Postino -- "the little Italian movie that could" -- resulted in tumultuous applause at the mention of its star, Massimo Troisi, 41, who died just a few hours after filming his final scene.
· After Tim Burton stepped down as director of Batman Forever (the year's 2nd-highest-grossing film), Sam Raimi (then a popular "cult" director) offered his services to Warner Bros. He never got the job because the studio felt he wasn't a big enough name. Raimi went on to become a big name by directing Spider-Man (2002) and Spider-Man 2 (2004).
· 12 Monkeys director Terry Gilliam first met Bruce Willis while casting his film The Fisher King (1991). He was impressed by the sensitivity shown by Willis in the scene from Die Hard (1988) where McClane (Willis) talks about his wife while pulling glass from his feet. Talking to Willis, Gilliam discovered that this part was ad-libbed by Willis. Gilliam remembered this, and was convinced to cast him in this film. However, Gilliam gave Willis a list of "Willis acting clichés" not to be used during the film, including the "steely blue eyes look".
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