1995: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

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  1. Exotica (dir: Atom Egoyan; US Release Date)

  2. Safe (dir: Todd Haynes)

  3. Casino (dir: Martin Scorsese)

  4. Maborosi (dir: Hirokazu Kore-eda)

  5. Devil in a Blue Dress (dir: Carl Franklin)

  6. Heat (dir: Michael Mann)

  7. The Addiction (dir: Abel Ferrara)

  8. Strange Days (dir: Kathryn Bigelow)

  9. Hyenas (dir: Djibril Diop Mambéty; USS Release Daate)

  10. Clueless (dir: Amy Heckerling)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): 12 Monkeys (dir: Terry Gilliam), Babe (dir: Chris Noonan), The Bridges of Madison Country (dir: Clint Eastwood), Clockers (dir: Spike Lee), Crumb (dir: Terry Zwigoff), Fallen Angels (dir: Wong Kar-Wai), Kicking and Screaming (dir: Noah Baumbach), Leaving Las Vegas (dir: Mike Figgis), A Little Princess (dir: Alfonso Cuaron), Se7en (dir: David Fincher), Showgirls (dir: Paul Verhoeven), Smoke (dir: Wayne Wang), To Die For (dir: Gus Van Sant), Toy Story (dir: John Lasseter), The Usual Suspects (dir: Bryan Singer) and Welcome to the Dollhouse (dir: Todd Solondz)


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Best Film of the Year: Exotica
Director: Atom Egoyan Producers: Atom Egoyan, Camelia Frieberg
US Distributor: Miramax


Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro on the set of Casino

Best Director:
Martin Scorsese, Casino
2. Todd Haynes, Safe
3. Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maborosi
4. Atom Egoyan, Exotica
5. Michael Mann, Heat


Denzel Washington in Carl Franklin’s Devil in a Blue Dress

Denzel Washington in Carl Franklin’s Devil in a Blue Dress

Best Actor:
Denzel Washington, Devil in a Blue Dress
2. Clint Eastwood, The Bridges of Madison County
3. Morgan Freeman, Se7en
4. Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas
5. Al Pacino, Heat

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Nicole Kidman and Joaquin Phoenix in Gus Van Sant's To Die For

Nicole Kidman and Joaquin Phoenix in Gus Van Sant's To Die For

Best Actress:
Nicole Kidman, To Die For
2. Elisabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas
3. Meryl Streep, The Bridges of Madison County
4. Alicia Silverstone, Clueless
5. Kathy Bates, Dolores Claiborne


Don Cheadle in Carl Franklin’s Devil in a Blue Dress

Don Cheadle in Carl Franklin’s Devil in a Blue Dress

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Gina Gershon in Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls

Gina Gershon in Paul Verhoeven’s Showgirls

Best Supporting Actress:
Gina Gershon, Showgirls
2. Sharon Stone, Casino
3. Regina Taylor, Clockers
4. Kate Winslet, Sense and Sensibility
5. Brittany Murphy, Clueless

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Brittany Murphy and Alicia Silverstone in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless

Brittany Murphy and Alicia Silverstone in Amy Heckerling’s Clueless

Best Original Screenplay:
Clueless – Amy Heckerling
2. Exotica — Atom Egoyan
 3. Welcome to the Dollhouse – Todd Solondz
4. Smoke — Paul Auster
5. Heat — Michael Mann

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Don Cheadle and Denzel Washington in Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress

Don Cheadle and Denzel Washington in Carl Franklin's Devil in a Blue Dress

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Devil in a Blue Dress — Carl Franklin
2. Clockers – Richard Price and Spike Lee
3. To Die For – Buck Henry
4. 12 Monkeys – David Webb Peoples and Janet Peoples
5. Dolores Claiborne — Tony Gilroy


Hirokazu Koreeda’s Maborosi

Best Cinematography:
Maborosi — Masao Nakabori
2. A Little Princess — Emmanuel Lubezki
3. Strange Days — Matthew F. Leonetti
4. The City of Lost Children – Darius Khondji
5. Heat — Dante Spinotti


Kevin Pollack, William Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro, Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Spacey in Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects

Kevin Pollack, William Baldwin, Benicio Del Toro, Gabriel Byrne and Kevin Spacey in Bryan Singer's The Usual Suspects

Best Original Score:
The Usual Suspects – John Ottman

2. 12 Monkeys – Paul Buckmaster
3. A Little Princess – Patrick Doyle
4. Clockers – Terence Blanchard
5. Exotica — Mychael Danna

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Al Pacino in Michael Mann's Heat

Al Pacino in Michael Mann's Heat

Best Film Editing:
 Heat – Dov Koeing, Pasquale Buba, Tom Rolf and William Goldenberg
2. The Usual Suspects – John Ottman
3. Casino — Thelma Schoonmaker
4. 12 Monkeys – Mick Audsley
5. Exotica — Susan Shipton

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Nicole Kidman and Val Kilmer in Joel Schumacher’s Batman Forever

Best Production Design:
Batman Forever — Barbara Ling, Cricket Rowland, and Elaine O’Donnell
2. The City of Lost Children – Marc Caro, Jean Rabasse, Aline Bonetto, Georges Mougine, Denis Ozenne and Marie-Laure Valla
3. Braveheart — Tom Sanders and Peter Howitt
4. Babe — Roger Ford and Kerrie Brown
5. 12 Monkeys – Jeffrey Beecroft and Crispian Sallis

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Sharon Stone in Martin Scorsese's Casino

Sharon Stone in Martin Scorsese's Casino

Best Costume Design:
Casino — Rita Ryack and John Dunn

2. 12 Monkeys — Julie Weiss
3. Sense and Sensibility — Jenny Beavan and John Bright
4. Richard III — Shuna Harwood
5. City of Lost Children — Jean-Paul Gaultier

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Best Visual Effects
Apollo 13

2. Babe
3. 12 Monkeys


Best Sound
Heat
2. Apollo 13
3. Casino


Best Makeup
Se7en
2. The City of Lost Children
3. Braveheart


Best Documentary Feature:
Terry Zwigoff, Crumb

Best Animated Feature:
John Lasseter, Toy Story

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Best Ensemble Cast: 
Heat

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Hirokazu Kore-eda, Maborosi

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Michael Mann; in alphabetical order): Hank Azaria, Amy Brenneman, Robert De Niro (pictured), William Fichtner, Kevin Gage, Dennis Haysbert, Ashley Judd, Val Kilmer (pictured), Ted Levine, Tom Noonan, Al Pacino, Natalie Portman, Tom Sizemore, Wes Studi, Danny Trejo, Diane Venora, Jon Voight, Mykelti Williamson

Best First Feature: Hirokazu Kore-eda’s Maborosi


RECAP

W I N S :

Casino 3, Devil in a Blue Dress 3,
Heat 2, Maborosi 2, Apollo 13 1, Batman Forever 1, Clueless 1, Crumb 1, Exotica 1, Se7en — 1, Showgirls 1, To Die For 1, Toy Story1, The Usual Suspects 1


M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Heat 8,
12 Monkeys 6, Casino 6, Exotica6, The City of Lost Children 4, Clockers 4, Clueless 4, Devil in a Blue Dress4, Maborosi — 3, Se7en 3, To Die For 3, The Usual Suspects 3, Apollo 13 2, Braveheart 2, The Bridges of Madison County 2, Dolores Claiborne 2, Leaving Las Vegas 2, A Little Princess 2, Safe 2, Sense & Sensibility 2, Showgirls 2, Strange Days 2