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- From: jdooley@maemaster.eng.uci.edu (John R. Dooley)
- Subject: Re: Academy Awards
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- Date: 1 Jan 93 00:51:54 GMT
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- Okay I'll try ($ - predicted winner, ! - my pick):
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- Best Picture
- *************
- Howards End ($)
- Unforgiven
- Malcolm X
- The Player
- The Crying Game (!)
-
- [The first three seem shoe-ins. But after the
- Golden Globe, Malcolm X may not make it. Other
- possibilities are Damage, A Few Good Men, Chaplin,
- Hoffa, Scent of A Woman, Glengary Glenn Ross,
- Enchanted April.]
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- Best Director
- *************
- James Ivory (Howard's End) ($)
- Robert Altmann (The Player)
- Spike Lee (Malcolm X)
- Neil Jordan (The Crying Game) (!)
- Woody Allen (Husbands and Wives)
-
- [The first two are shoe-in nominees. Other possibilities:
- Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven), Rob Reiner (A Few Good Men),
- Attenborough (Chaplin), Nick Gomez (Laws of Gravity),
- Louis Malle (Damage)]
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- Best Actor
- **********
- Denzel Washington (Malcolm X) ($)
- Al Pacino (Scent of A Woman) (!)
- Jack Lemmon (Glengary Glenn Ross)
- Jack Nicholson (Hoffa)
- Clint Eastwood (Unforgiven)
-
- [The first two are probably shoe-ins. Other possibilities:
- Jeremy Irons (Damage), Timothy Robbins (The Player), Timothy
- Robbins (Bob Roberts), Robert Downey Jr. (Chaplin),
- Steven Rea (The Crying Game), Harvey Keitel (The Bad
- Lieutenant)]
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- Best Actress
- ************
- Susan Sarandon (Lorenzo's Oil) ($)
- Emma Thompson (Howards End) (!)
- Mary McDonnell (Passion Fish)
- Shirley MacLaine (Used People)
- Josie Lawrence (Enchanted April)
-
- [First three shoe-ins. Other possibilities: Michelle Pfeiffer
- (Love Field), Geena Davis (A League of Their Own), Madelleine
- Stowe (The Last of the Mohicans).]
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- Best Supporting Actor
- *********************
- Gene Hackman (Unforgiven) ($)
- Jack Nicholson (A Few Good Men)
- Brad Pitts (A River Runs Through It)
- Ed Harris (Glengary Glen Ross)
- Al Freeman, Jr. (Malcolm X)
-
- [No Shoe-Ins. (Not even Hackman or Nicholson.)
- Other Possibilies: Alan Arkin, Alec Baldwin and
- Al Pacino (Glengary Glen Ross), Anthony Hopkins
- (Howards End), Jaye Davison (The Crying Game),
- Forrest Whitaker (The Crying Game) (!),
- Chris O'Donnell (Scent of a Woman), Richard
- Harris and Morgan Freeman (Unforgiven), Wesley
- Snipes (The Waterdance)]
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- Best Supporting Actress
- ***********************
- Judy Davis (Husbands and Wives)($)
- Joan Plowright (Enchanted April)(!)
- Miranda Richardson (The Crying Game)
- Vanessa Redgrave (Howards End)
- Andre Woodard (Passion Fish)
-
- [Other than Judy Davis, no shoe-ins, other possibilies:
- Polly Walker (Enchanted April), Helena Bonham
- Carter (Howards End), Miranda Richardson (Damage),
- ????? (Cousin Vinnie), Geraldine Chaplin (Chaplin)]
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- Best Original Screenplay
- ************************
- The Crying Game ($) (!)
- Unforgiven
- Passion Fish
- Scent of A Woman
- Damage
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- Best Adapted Screenplay
- ***********************
- Howards End ($)
- Glengary Glen Ross
- Malcolm X
- The Player (!)
- Enchanted April
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- John D.
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