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LOS ANGELES (AP) — “Braveheart,” the epic about a 13th-
century Scottish patriot, won five Oscars Monday night, including
best picture and best director for its star Mel Gibson.
Best acting awards went to Susan Sarandon for her performance as
a nun trying to redeem a condemned killer in “Dead Man Walking”
and Nicholas Cage was named best actor for his role as a suicidal alco-
holic in “Leaving Las Vegas.” ,
In a year when no picture was an odds-on favorite, “Braveheart”
proved to be the biggest winner. It collected Oscars for makeup,
sound effects, editing and cinematography, too.
The battle-filled saga tells the story of Scotsman William Wallace,
who fought the English for freedom for his people.
Gibson, a plaid vest flashing from between the lapels of his tuxedo,
Best Actress winner Susan Sarandon, pictured
above, and Mel Gibson, right, winner for Best
Director.
Design by Tonya Andris
thanked writer Randall Wallace and producer Alan
Ladd Jr. for bringing the script to a “fiscal imbecile.”
“Like most directors, what I really want to do is
act,” Gibson joked.
He granted his own wish, casting himself as the wild-
haired warrior who drove the English from Scotland.
“Braveheart” was Gibson’s second outing as a direc-
tor, the first being “The Man Without a Face” in 1993. He
follows a line of actors turned director who have won
Oscars: Robert Redford, Warren Beatty, Woody Allen and
Kevin Costner.
When her award was announced, Sarandon kissed her
director, writer and lover, Tim Robbins, and walked to the
stage to a thunderous ovation.
Finally winning on her fifth nomination, she thanked many
co-workers and Sister Helen Prejean, whom she portrayed.
Then she drew a laugh with an accolade to Robbins, her live-in
partner.
“To my partner in crime and all things of the heart, the writer,
the producer, the director, the spirit, Tim Robbins.... Thank God
we live together.”
Cage breezed to the podium and marveled that “Leaving Las
Vegas” could be made for $3.5 million, and on 16mm film stock
when most movies are made on 35mm or 70 mm film.
“I know it’s not hip to say it, but I just love acting and I hope that
there will be more encouragement for alternative movies where we ~
can experiment and fast-forward into the future of acting,” he said.
Like Gibson, Emma Thompson also received an Oscar in another
area of her craft, adapting the Jane Austen novel “Sense and
Sensibility” for the screen. (She was named best actress for
“Howard’s End” in 1992.)
The English actress told of visiting Austen’s grave at Winchester
Cathedral “to play my respects and tell her about the grosses.”
She concluded by dedicating her award to Ang Lee, who directed
the film but was overlooked for a nomination although the film was
up for best picture.
Supporting actor awards went to Kevin Spacey,the verbal con man
in “The Usual Suspects,” and Mira Sorvino, who played a hooker in.
“Mighty Aphrodite.”
Spacey thanked his mother for driving him to acting
classes when he was 16: “I told you it would
pay off, and here’s the pudding.”
Sorvino thanked her father
as the veteran actor open-
ly sobbed in the audi-
ence.” When you give me
this award you honor my
father, Paul Sorvino, who
taught me everything I know
about acting,” she said.
The elder Sorvino, a char-
acter actor, has appeared in TV’s
‘Law & Order,” and the movie
“GoodFellas,” among others.
The year’s biggest controversy sur-
faced as soon as the ceremony began.
Host Whoopi Goldberg used her open-
ing monologue to defuse the Rev. Jesse
Jackson’s calling to protest the show
because there was only one black nominee.
Goldberg, who like the
show’s producer Quincy Jones is black, ridiculed
Jackson’s call for participants to wear multicolored ribbons. She
reeled off a list of imaginary ribbons in her collection, including the
traditional red ribbon for AIDS awareness, a “milky white ribbon for
mad cow disease,” and a “fake fur ribbon for animal rights.”
Her message for Jackson: “You don’t ask a black woman to buy an
expensive dress and then cover it with ribbons.”
Jackson led about 75 marchers outside the Hollywood offices of
KABC-TV across town from the award ceremonies. Demonstrations
also were held in Chicago and Washington, D.C.
The academy passed over black filmmaker Diane Houston’s
“Tuesday Morning Ride” in the live action short film category, choos-
ing “Lieberman in Love,” from Jane Sue Memel and actress Christine
Lahti of television's “Chicago Hope.”
Actors struggling. with real-life pain brought the lavishly attired
audience to its feet twice in teary ovations.
Kirk Douglas fought with stroke-caused paralysis on the right side
of his face that slurred his words as he accepted an honorary Oscar —
announced earlier—for “50 years as a creative and moral force in the
making of the motion picture community.”
Douglas, who has never won an Oscar for acting, struggled to form
the words as her thanked his family.
“I see my four sons. They are proud of the old man,” he said.
“Superman” actor Christopher Reeve, paralyzed by a horse-riding
accident and breathing with the help of a tube in his throat, nonethe-
less looked happily into the camera as he introduced a tribute to films
that “courageously put social issues ahead of box-office success.”
“What you probably don’t know is that I left New York last
September and I just arrived here this morning,” Reeves quipped
after curtains parted to reveal him sitting in a wheelchair.”
“Hollywood needs to do more. Let’s continue to take risks. Let’s
tackle the issues,” he concluded, drawing another ovation that lasted
into a commercial break.
And for those who dicta’
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What year did former Brat Pracker Rob Lowe
embarrass himself by singing a duet with Snow White?
The answer to this question and many others can be
found in a new book written by Mason Wiley and
Damien Bona titled “Inside Oscar: The Unofficial
History of the Academy Awards.”
“Inside Oscar” is filled with facts and fun about
Hollywood’s biggest night. This is the 10th anniversary
edition of the publication, which was first printed in
1968.
The book has remained a favorite of movie buffs
everywhere. It is filled with the kind of trivia that will
delight and challenge even the most devoted followers.
One actor, for instance, five years after condemning the
Academy Awards as “obscene and “dirty,” went on to
give one of the longest acceptance speeches on record.
It even points out an actor who won an Oscar posthu-
mously.”
“We’ve tried to tell the Oscar tale the way Oscar fans
talk about it.,” said authors Wiley and Bona. “To many
artists, the Academy Awards ritual is silly, meaningless
and humiliating.”
These are the very elements that make the ceremony
such a treat for fans worldwide.
Wiley passed away as this volume was being pre-
pared. Work was completed by Bona, who is a regular
columnist for Premiere magazine.
By the way, the answers to the above trivia are 1988,
Dustin Hoffman and Peter Finch.
1. What movie has won more Oscars than
any other and how many?
2. At the 1994 Oscars, Lizzy Gardiner and
Tim Chappel won the best costume
award for the movie “The Adventures of
Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.” This
movie is the second time the award has
gone for transvestite fashions. When was
the first time the award was given out
and what movie was it from?
3. What Best Actor winner in 1937 avoid-
ed attending the ceremony because of an
appendectomy?
4. Who was the first person to win for
playing someone of the opposite sex?
5. What year was the first Oscars broad-
cast on television and who was the host?
6. Who is the first woman to receive an
Oscar nomination for actress and sup-
porting actress?
7. Ingrid Bergman won the Best
Actress award in 1944 for what movie
that involves tricks and deceit?
8. What movie gave the Three Stooges
their only nomination in 1934 in the
best comedy short subject category?
9. Who was the first blind Oscar win-
ner?
10. What film was the first to win the
best picture award without a best
director nomination?
11. What two sisters were nominated
for Best Actress Oscars in 1966?
12. How many movies have swept all
the major Oscar categories of Best
Picture, Actress, Actor, Director and
Writing?
13. What does Woody Allen, Orson
Wells and Warren Beatty have in com-
mon?
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