1995's Oscar Nominees

That said, the talking pig movie gets my pretty easy vote.

mine too, of the 3 I saw. What RELEVANT Hollywood movies of '95 are missing?

however, Apollo 13 > Parenthood.

Babe by a huge margin, followed by Sense and Sensibility (by default).

1985 is another irrelevant year.

so many bypassed relevant movies, I never knew

hmm

I hate Tom Cruise, WS Emma Thompson, can't stand non-wisecracking Mel Gibson, never saw Il postino and really liked Babe (in fact, that is the only one of these movies I've watched).

WS = "would splack"?

What RELEVANT Hollywood movies of '95 are missing?

Leaving Lost Vegas for one.

Babe and Braveheart (i liked it as a kid, haven't seen it since is my excuse). Apollo 13 sucked. Don't know Il Postino and can't remember Sense and Sensibility. It truly is an awful line-up.

Would like to see a list of great movies that came out that year and were left off. i refuse to believe that, as bad as they usually are in their nominee choices, they couldn't come up with anything better!

Good American movies:

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Carrington
Get Shorty
Toy Story

Leaving Las Vegas (which I didn't see) and Casino (which I did) are two from this year that leap to mind, also 12 Monkeys The Usual Suspects, Toy Story and Se7en

Good American movies:

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Soooooooooooooooo OTM

(btw I still haven't seen Toy Story lol)

Alfred's listed most of the good ones, to which I'd add Dead Man Walking, To Die For, 12 Monkeys, Showgirls, et al. xpost

oh yeah – forgot DMW. The Best Director list includes Figgis and Robbins though.

Hell, I'd say even Mr. Holland's Opus was probably more relevant to movies in general than the movie that ended up winning.

Love the fact that the National Society gave their award to Babe.

Oh, and Safe is a good one too.

Best film of the decade according to the Voice, no?

man, that's one of the worst best picture nominees in a year..

1995 had the two best american films of the last 20 years imo, casino and dead man

I sort of assumed Dead Man Walking was a big dick due to Sean Penn; this thread is making me interested in checking it out.

this could be the worst historical poll I've ever seen on ILX

dead man suxxxxxx

Dead Man Walking holds up very well, actually. If Penn had gotten his Oscar then, we might've been spared Mystic River.

oh yeah, this was the year the MTV Movie Awards picked the actual best film: Se7en

DMW belonged here too.

hated last half of Safe soooo much.

this could be the worst historical poll I've ever seen on ILX

Correction: the worst historical SERIES OF polls you've ever seen on ILX.

DMW is probably the best thing either Penn or Robbins were connected with in the last two decades.

Forgot Se7en was this year too. See what I mean? 1995 was really a pretty great year for above average pop filmmaking and it's just sort of weird that the only nominee they went for in that bracket was Apollo 13.

Was about to do a big list of MTV vs. Oscar winners to see how often MTV's was better, but they haven't even had a halfway dece best movie winner since The Matrix.

I remember Siskel & Ebert raving about Il Postino so I rented it in the late 90s. it was such useless bullshit.

I saw all of these in the theatre because I took these things seriously then.

http://www.mansurahmed.com/wp-content/uploads/2009/01/heat.jpg

^"Let's make this the last watchable film either of us ever does, hokay?"

BABE takes this in a walk.

Babe easily.

Some other well-received films that were overlooked... Dead Man, Before Sunrise, Kids, To Die For, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Crossing Guard.

Babe. It's the only one Ive seen since then, and the only one I would want to ever see again.

^"Let's make this the last watchable film either of us ever does, hokay?"

Oh man, not even close. At least all the heist scenes are exciting.

Before Sunrise

oh man forgot this one.

the usual suspects also came out in 1995.

whoops, dan already mentioned that one.

Seven
12 Monkeys
Dead Man Walking
Heat
Crumb

^^ a nom list I could get behind.

I've never seen Babe. While I assume it's the best film up there, is it really, really essential viewing?

yes!

i had no idea toy story was this old either! probably would still pick babe over it, though

Is anything?

xpost

never seen sense and sensibility, but apart from babe, which is great, these movies are all really really bad

i was in HS at the time, and apollo 13 was the first time a sorta-ok movie was make complete shit by the score. an important movie watching experience, in a way.

I think I referred to it as "pap" in an article in my HS newspaper.

Is anything?

Um, yes...

http://cinephile.ca/wp-content/uploads/2008/10/la-haine-all-your-base.jpg

no babe is not at all worth seeing, and sense & sensibility is better

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WQ3dSuQA--I

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Yep, still Babe.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

o_0

Knew it would win, but the margin is surprising.

the fuck y'all got against apollo 13? pretty decent flick.

Sitting in a theatre with a bunch if adults laughing at a bowl of piss being ejected into space is definitely among my least favourite movie-going memories.