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...choice wasn't nominated. "Leaving Las Vegas" got shafted. Director, actor, female actor, and screenplay all received nominations--so how could it not be nominated for best film? Of the five nominated films, "Sense and Sensibility" is my personal favorite. "Apollo 13," aside from a few genuinely thrilling moments, was one of the most boring movies I've ever seen. The movie did not get off the ground until the astronauts did. To quote film critic David Denby, it's the Bob Dole of films. As for the rest: "Babe" stars animals and animatronics; who wants to see "Braveheart...
...expressive portraits of the redemptive and destructive power of love. Her most popular was 1984's L'Amant (The Lover), an autobiographical novel that depicts the social and sexual tensions between a poor French 15-year-old and her wealthy Asian lover. In film her biggest success was the screenplay for Hiroshima, Mon Amour...
...women. Of course, true to our preconceptions of amoral Hollywood, the actresses are trying their best to use their feminine wiles to make him rewrite the script, so that one or the other will be the main star. Meanwhile, he has to defend the artistic integrity of his screenplay, as the producer is demanding drastic scene cuts...
Still, the film is more entertaining than one might have expected. The backstage network shenanigans have been deftly digested (by Carter, who co-wrote the screenplay, and director Betty Thomas), and the movie gives a good picture, in broad strokes, of how the TV business runs: badly, most of the time. NBC's executives, surprised by Carson's retirement and egged on by Leno's aggressive manager, Helen Kushnick (Kathy Bates), promised the job to Jay without comprehending how it would upset Dave. Letterman, who felt he was entitled to the Tonight post but was unwilling to fight...
...something less than a breakout box-office hit of the Like Water for Chocolate variety, Il Postino became the first foreign-language film nominated for best picture since Ingmar Bergman's Cries and Whispers 22 years ago. Troisi was cited for his performance, Radford for his direction. Both the screenplay and the score were also nominated. In a race where favorites like Tom Hanks and John Travolta stumbled, and where Babe proved that pigs could fly at Oscar time, Il Postino gave the biggest shock...