Best Picture:

1. Ashes of Time
2. Chungking Express
3. Drunken Master II
4. Ed Wood
5. The Hudsucker Proxy
6. In the Heat of the Sun
7. Pom Poko
8. Pulp Fiction
9. Sátántangó
10. Three Colors: Red

Best Director:

1. Wong Kar-wai, Ashes of Time
2. Wong Kar-wai, Chungking Express
3. Jiang Wen, In the Heat of the Sun
4. Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction
5. Béla Tarr, Sátántangó

Best Actor:

1. Tony Leung, Chungking Express
2. Jackie Chan, Drunken Master II
3. Johnny Depp, Ed Wood
4. Xia Yu, In the Heat of the Sun
5. Sam Neill, In the Mouth of Madness

Best Actress:

1. Faye Wong, Chungking Express
2. Anita Yuen, He’s a Woman, She’s a Man
3. Linda Fiorentino, The Last Seduction
4. Juliet Aubrey, Middlemarch
5. Rena Owen, Once Were Warriors

Supporting Actor:

1. Takashi Kaneshiro, Chungking Express
2. John Hannah, Four Weddings and a Funeral
3. Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
4. Paul Scofield, Quiz Show
5. Kevin Spacey, Swimming with Sharks

Supporting Actress:

1. Brigitte Lin, Chungking Express
2. Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hudsucker Proxy
3. Ning Jing, In the Heat of the Sun
4. Kirsten Dunst, Interview with a Vampire
5. Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction

Jennifer Jason Leigh might be deserving of a nomination this year for playing Dorothy Parker in Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, but I’ve never managed to stay awake all the way through that movie (I haven’t tried in 15 years though). She’s great as Rosalind Russell/Glenda Farrell in Hudsucker.

Original Screenplay:

1. Wong Kar-wai, Chungking Express
2. The Coen Brothers & Sam Raimi, The Hudsucker Proxy
3. Michael de Luca, In the Mouth of Madness
4. Isao Takahata, Pom Poko
5. Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction

Adapted Screenplay:

1. Wong Kar-wai, Ashes of Time
2. Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski, Ed Wood
3. Jiang Wen, In the Heat of the Sun
4. Paul Attanasio, Quiz Show
5. László Krasznahorkai & Béla Tarr, Sátántangó

Non-English Language Film:

1. Ashes of Time
2. Chungking Express
3. Drunken Master II
4. In the Heat of the Sun
5. Sátántangó

Non-Fiction Film:

1. Crumb (Terry Zwigoff)
2. Hoop Dreams (Steve James)
3. That’s Entertainment III (Bud Friedgen & Michael J. Sheridan)

Animated Film:

1. Pom Poko (Isao Takahata)

Unseen Film:

1. Amateur (Hal Hartley)
2. Queen Margot (Patrice Chéreau)
3. Serial Mom (John Waters)
4. Through the Olive Trees (Abbas Kiarostami)
5. Vive l’amour (Tsai Ming-liang)

I thought I had this year pretty well covered, but of the 88 movies I’ve seen, a lot of them are just terrible. Five great looking movies for me to watch here.

Cinematography:

1. Ashes of Time
2. Chungking Express
3. In the Heat of the Sun
4. Sátántangó
5. Three Colors: Red

Film Editing:

1. Ashes of Time
2. Chungking Express
3. Drunken Master II
4. Hoop Dreams
5. Pulp Fiction

Original Score:

1. Ed Wood
2. Exotica
3. The Hudsucker Proxy
4. Sátántangó
5. Three Colors: Red

Adapted Score:

1. Chungking Express
2. The Crow
3. Natural Born Killers
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Reality Bites

A fantastic year for compiled soundtracks, I had to leave out Forrest Gump, PCU, Above the Rim, Immortal Beloved and Clerks.