1995 (68th Annual Awards)
Nominations and Winners
Listed below are the Academy Award nominations and winners for the year 1995. The
symbol appears next to the winner in each category. Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song. Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the nominations and winners from that year.
Best Picture
Apollo 13, Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Brian Grazer, Producer.Babe, Kennedy Miller Pictures Production; Universal. (Australia, USA) George Miller, Doug Mitchell and Bill Miller, Producers.Braveheart, Icon Productions/Ladd Company Production; Paramount. Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr. and Bruce Davey, Producers.The Postman (Il Postino), Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica Production/Pentafilm/Esterno Mediterraneo/Blue Dahlia Production; Miramax Films. (Italy, France, Belgium) Mario Cecchi Gori, Vittorio Cecchi Gori and Gaetano Daniele, Producers.Actor in a Leading Role
Richard Dreyfuss in Mr. Holland’s Opus, Hollywood Pictures/Interscope Communications Production; Buena Vista.Anthony Hopkins in Nixon, Hollywood Pictures/Cinergi Pictures Entertainment Production; Buena Vista.Massimo Troisi in The Postman (Il Postino), Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica Production/Pentafilm/Esterno Mediterraneo/Blue Dahlia Production; Miramax Films. (Italy, France, Belgium)Actress in a Leading Role
Actor in a Supporting Role
Actress in a Supporting Role
Directing
The Postman (Il Postino), Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica Production/Pentafilm/Esterno Mediterraneo/Blue Dahlia Production; Miramax Films. (Italy, France, Belgium) Michael Radford.Art Direction-Set Decoration
Apollo 13, Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Art direction by Michael Corenblith; set decoration by Merideth Boswell.Babe, Kennedy Miller Pictures Production; Universal. (Australia, USA) Art direction by Roger Ford; set decoration by Kerrie Brown.A Little Princess, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. Art direction by Bo Welch; set decoration by Cheryl Carasik.Restoration, Segue Productions/Avenue Pictures in association with Oxford Film Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) Eugenio Zanetti.Cinematography
Costume Design
Restoration, Segue Productions/Avenue Pictures in association with Oxford Film Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) James Acheson.Documentary
(Feature)
Anne Frank Remembered, Jon Blair Film Company Limited Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, USA, Netherlands) Jon Blair.The Battle over Citizen Kane, Lennon Documentary Group Producton for The American Experience. Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein.Fiddlefest—Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program, Four Oaks Foundation Production. Allan Miller and Walter Scheuer.(Short Subject)
Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls, Outside in July, Inc. Production. Nancy Dine and Richard Stilwell.Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper, American Film Foundation. (USA, Canada) Terry Sanders and Freida Lee Mock.One Survivor Remembers, Home Box Office and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Production. Kary Antholis.The Shadow of Hate, Guggenheim Productions, Inc. Production for the Southern Poverty Law Center. Charles Guggenheim.Film Editing
Apollo 13, Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Mike Hill and Dan Hanley.Babe, Kennedy Miller Pictures Production; Universal. (Australia, USA) Marcus D’Arcy and Jay Friedkin.Foreign Language Film
All Things Fair, Per Holst Film Production. (Denmark, Sweden)Antonia’s Line, Bergen Theatre-Film-Television Production; First Look Pictures. (Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France)Dust of Life, 3B Production. (France, Algeria, Belgium, Germany, Hong Kong)O Quatrilho, Producoes Cinematograficas L.C. Barreto Ltda./Filmes do Equador Ltda. Production. (Brazil)The Star Maker, Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica Production; Miramax Films. (Italy)Makeup
Braveheart, Icon Productions/Ladd Company Production; Paramount. Peter Frampton, Paul Pattison and Lois Burwell.Roommates, Hollywood Pictures/Interscope Communications Production; Buena Vista. Greg Cannom, Bob Laden and Colleen Callaghan.Music
(Original Dramatic Score)
The Postman (Il Postino), Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica Production/Pentafilm/Esterno Mediterraneo/Blue Dahlia Production; Miramax Films. (Italy, France, Belgium) Luis Enrique Bacalov.(Original Musical or Comedy Score)
Pocahontas, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music by Alan Menken; lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; orchestral score by Alan Menken.Sabrina, Mirage/Scott Rudin/Sandollar Production; Paramount in association with Constellation Films. (Germany, USA) John Williams.(Original Song)
Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music by Alan Menken; lyric by Stephen Schwartz.Dead Man Walkin’ from Dead Man Walking, Working Title/Havoc Production; Gramercy Pictures. (UK, USA) Music and lyric by Bruce Springsteen.Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman from Don Juan DeMarco, Juno Pix Production; New Line. Music and lyric by Michael Kamen, Bryan Adams and Robert John Lange.Moonlight from Sabrina, Mirage/Scott Rudin/Sandollar Production; Paramount in association with Constellation Films. (Germany, USA) Music by John Williams; lyric by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman.You’ve Got a Friend from Toy Story, Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Production; Buena Vista. Music and lyric by Randy Newman.Short Films
(Animated)
The Chicken from Outer Space, Stretch Films, Inc./Hanna-Barbera Cartoons, Inc./Cartoon Network Production. John R. Dilworth.(Live Action)
Sound
Apollo 13, Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Rick Dior, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan and David MacMillan.Batman Forever, Warner Bros. Production; Warner Bros. (USA, UK) Donald O. Mitchell, Frank A. Montaño, Michael Herbick and Petur Hliddal.Braveheart, Icon Productions/Ladd Company Production; Paramount. Andy Nelson, Scott Millan, Anna Behlmer and Brian Simmons.Crimson Tide, Hollywood Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Kevin O’Connell, Rick Kline, Gregory H. Watkins and William B. Kaplan.Waterworld, Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker and Keith A. Wester.Sound Effects Editing
Special Achievement Award
To John Lasseter for his inspired leadership of the Pixar Toy Story team, resulting in the first feature-length computer-animated film.Visual Effects
Apollo 13, Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Leslie Ekker and Matt Sweeney.Babe, Kennedy Miller Pictures Production; Universal. (Australia, USA) Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan and John Cox.Writing
(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)
Apollo 13, Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures Production; Universal. William Broyles, Jr. and Al Reinert.Babe, Kennedy Miller Pictures Production; Universal. (Australia, USA) George Miller and Chris Noonan.The Postman (Il Postino), Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica Production/Pentafilm/Esterno Mediterraneo/Blue Dahlia Production; Miramax Films. (Italy, France, Belgium) Anna Pavignano, Michael Radford, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli and Massimo Troisi.(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)
Nixon, Hollywood Pictures/Cinergi Pictures Entertainment Production; Buena Vista. Stephen J. Rivele, Christopher Wilkinson and Oliver Stone.Toy Story, Walt Disney Pictures/Pixar Production; Buena Vista. Screenplay by Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen and Alec Sokolow; story by John Lasseter, Peter Docter, Andrew Stanton and Joe Ranft.The Usual Suspects, Blue Parrot Production; Gramercy Pictures. (USA, Germany) Christopher McQuarrie.Honorary Award
To Kirk Douglas for fifty years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community. [ [Statuette]]To Chuck Jones for the creation of classic cartoons which have brought worldwide joy for more than half a century. [ [Statuette]]Gordon E. Sawyer Award
NOTE: The Gordon E. Sawyer Award was presented at the Scientific and Technical Awards ceremony on March 2, 1996, in the Ballroom of the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.
Scientific and Technical Award
(Scientific and Engineering Award)
To Arnold and Richter Cine Technik for the development of the Arriflex 535 Series of cameras for motion picture cinematography.To Digital Theater Systems for the design and development of the DTS Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.To Dolby Laboratories for the design and development of the SR-D Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.To Sony Corporation for the design and development of the SDDS Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.To Howard Flemming and Ronald Uhlig for their pioneering work leading to motion picture digital sound.To Ronald C. Goodman, Attila Szalay, Steven Sass and SpaceCam Systems, Inc. for the design of the SpaceCam gyroscopically stabilized Camera System.To Colin Mossman, Joe Wary, Hans Leisinger, Gerald Painter and Deluxe Laboratories for the design and development of the Deluxe Quad Format Digital Sound Printing Head.To David Gilmartin, Johannes Borggrebe, Jean-Pierre Gagnon, Frank Ricotta and Technicolor, Inc. for the design and development of the Technicolor Contact Printer Sound Head.To Iain Neil for the optical design; Rick Gelbard for the mechanical design; Eric Dubberke for the engineering and Panavision International, L.P. for the development of the Primo 3:1 Zoom Lens.To Martin S. Mueller for the design and development of the MSM 9801 IMAX 65mm/15 perf production motion picture camera.To Alvy Ray Smith, Ed Catmull, Thomas Porter and Tom Duff for their pioneering inventions in Digital Image Compositing.(Technical Achievement Award)
To Pascal Chedeville for the design of the L.C. Concept Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.To 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.To Clay Davis and John Carter of Todd AO for their pioneering efforts in creating an Automated Patchbay System for motion picture sound transfer and dubbing operations.To Al Jensen, Chuck Headley, Jean Messner and Hazem Nabulsi of CEI Technology for producing a self-contained, flicker-free Color Video-Assist Camera.To Peter Denz of Präzisions-Entwicklung Denz for developing a flicker-free Color Video-Assist Camera.To David Pringle and Yan Zhong Fang for the design and development of “Lightning Strikes,” a flexible, high-performance electronic lightning effect system.To BHP, Incorporated for their pioneering efforts in developing Digital Sound Printing Heads for motion pictures.To Joe Finnegan (a.k.a. Joe Yrigoyen) for his pioneering work in developing the Air Ram for motion picture stunt effects.To Gary Demos, David Ruhoff, Dan Cameron and Michelle Feraud for their pioneering efforts in the creation of the Digital Productions Digital Film Compositing System.To Douglas Smythe, Lincoln Hu, Douglas S. Kay and Industrial Light and Magic for their pioneering efforts in the creation of the ILM Digital Film Compositing System.To the Computer Film Company for their pioneering efforts in the creation of the CFC Digital Film Compositing System.To Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse for the concept; Kodak Pathe CTP Cine for the prototype; and Eclair Laboratories and Martineau Industries for the development and further implementation of the Toulouse Electrolytic Silver Recovery Cell.NOTE: The Scientific and Technical Awards were presented at their own ceremony on March 2, 1996, in the Ballroom of the Regent Beverly Wilshire Hotel.