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Nominees: Fargo; Jerry Maguire; Lone Star; Secrets & Lies; Shine...
...categories I haven't seen, but his latex-heavy scenery chewing in the flop movie's preview is way too over-the-top, even for Oscar. Mueller-Stahl, a prickly character actor who deserves more recognition, has too little to do as the terrorizing father in Shine, especially considering that he played the same character in Music Box and The House of the Spirits. That means a head-to-head between Gooding, whose bebop-ebonic hijinks were a riot in Maguire, and Norton, whose hat trick in Fear, The People vs. Larry Flynt and Woody Allen's Everyone Says...
Nominees: Cuba Gooding Jr., Jerry Maguire; William H. Macy, Fargo; Armin Mueller-Stahl, Shine; Edward Norton, Primal Fear; James Woods, Ghosts of Mississippi...
Nominees: Tom Cruise, Jerry Maguire; Ralph Fiennes, The English Patient; Woody Harrelson, The People vs. Larry Flynt; Geoffrey Rush, Shine; Billy Bob Thornton, Sling Blade...
Summing up the next day, the Boston Globe's Richard Dyer wrote, "The sad fact is that David Helfgott should not have been in Symphony Hall last night, and neither should the rest of us." Shine director Scott Hicks disagrees, blaming "the guardians of the elite" for demanding too much of Helfgott. Gillian Helfgott's view is much the same. "I think there are probably people who are coming to see a man who has fought his way through the wilderness," she told a Boston press conference, from which her husband was notably absent. "But if they come for that...