The 1995 Oscars. Did they get it right?

Shawshank is the best film of 1995.

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Pulp Fiction

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Shawshank Redemption

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Overrated

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The problem is the limitation on these three films, of which, Shawshank is at best #3.

But there's also: The Lion King, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Ed Wood, True Lies, Bullets Over Broadway, Quiz Show, Leon, Stargate

(Also Blank Check, Blue Chips, Little Giants, Street Fighter, and The Chase what a crazy year ) - And New Nightmare. And perhaps the most misunderstood film of all time - Baby's Day Out.

Anyways, looking back I see two really dominant films in terms of quality - Ed Wood and Quiz Show. I'd rather see either of them win Best Picture. These are completely overshadowed by that trinity above, but are superior films.

Best Director - It probably is Tarantino, but again, I liked Redford to win that, or Burton. Zemeckis isn't really a bad pick at all, honestly.

They did get both Acting awards correct - Hanks and Landau being the right picks, but Depp and Oldman deserved nominations easily. I'd probably give Adapted Screenplay to Quiz Show (Original is spot on with Pulp Fiction).

Editing is a tough category because do you go with the film that did an extraordinary job at cramming 40 years into one film, or the one telling a few different timelines in variant orders? Or do you go with Quiz Show which is just brilliantly composed, plain and simple. I think any of these COULD be defended, but I like editing to be about clarity and story - so probably Quiz Show.

I wish there was room for Four Weddings and a Funeral, but American films were so strong that year, as I'd probably be ok if it won writing awards at the very least.



Shawshank is way overrated by people. it's the ultimate people pleaser film, and is fun to watch, but overall it's kind of meh. Gump just hasn't aged that well, and Pulp Fiction is too "Taratino-esque" to be an impactful film. It's super fun to watch but it's fairly shallow. For PF, Tarantino is a Michael Bay for vocabulary and language and film/genre references. Great movie, but not something that I would say is "the best" of the year. Appropriately, it should win for script, that's what it does best.

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True Lies

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You just invalidated anything you wrote in that post

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All overrated

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This poster gets it.

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Quiz Show

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Amazing movie - doesn't get talked about enough.

So many tense dramatic scenes.

Pulp Fiction is my favorite of those 3. Followed by Shawshank and then Forrest Gump

Can't really complain about either winning tho. I do think Tarantino should have gotten best director

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Amazing movie - doesn't get talked about enough.

So many tense dramatic scenes.

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The whole movie is incredible. It's one of those films that you don't understand that you can be so tense for little visually happening. Great movie, and I just really enjoy the feeling I get from it, and I feel like it's extremely unique.

You're right I I'm sorry.




True Lies was a typo though, right?

I don't believe that Gump gets enough credit. It was an amazing movie when it came out. The visual effects were just almost magical, at the time, and the story was absurd, but endearing at the same time. Until Saving Private Ryan, i thought Gump had the greatest/most realistic battle scenes i had ever seen. Maybe it hasn't aged well, 20 years ago it was unlike anything ever made. I'm glad it won, even though Shawshank and Pulp Fiction are top 5 all time movies for me and Gump probably isn't top 50. Timing has alot to do with these awards..