Throwback Muriels: 1992

Thursday, July 7, 2011

1992

Picture:
Glengarry Glen Ross
Unforgiven
Malcolm X
Raising Cain
Reservoir Dogs
The Match Factory Girl
Lorenzo’s Oil
One False Move
The Long Day Closes
The Crying Game

Director:
Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
Spike Lee, Malcolm X
James Foley, Glengarry Glen Ross
Brian De Palma, Raising Cain
Aki Kaurismaki, The Match Factory Girl

Male Lead:
Denzel Washington, Malcolm X
Jacques Dutronc, Van Gogh
Stephen Rea, The Crying Game
John Lithgow, Raising Cain
Tim Robbins, The Player

Female Lead:
Kati Outinen, The Match Factory Girl
Gong Li, Raise the Red Lantern
Miranda Richardson, Enchanted April
Mary McDonnell, Passion Fish
Mia Farrow, Husbands and Wives

Male Supporting:
Jack Lemmon, Glengarry Glen Ross
Sydney Pollack, Husbands and Wives
Gene Hackman, Unforgiven
Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game
Harvey Keitel, Reservoir Dogs

Female Supporting:
Judy Davis, Husbands and Wives
Michelle Pfeiffer, Batman Returns
Rosie Perez, White Men Can’t Jump
Alexandra London, Van Gogh
Vanessa Redgrave, Howards End

Screenplay:
Unforgiven
Glengarry Glen Ross
Reservoir Dogs
The Crying Game
One False Move

Ensemble:
Glengarry Glen Ross
Reservoir Dogs
The Player
Husbands and Wives
The Crying Game

Cinematography:
Raise the Red Lantern (Zhao)
Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Ballhaus)
Malcolm X (Dickerson)
Delicatessen (Khondji)
Europa (Bendtsen/Klosinski/Meurisse)

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Administrative Stuff

In keeping with the spirit of the project I started this past winter, I’ve decided to continue formulating lists of retrospective nominees by year. Of course, as we move backwards in time I’d estimate that some years will be pretty lean. Therefore, I fear I will have to stop when I feel I can’t fill out a satisfactory ballot, although this probably won’t happen for a while yet.

As with the present-day Muriels, I based these old-school awards on the film’s NYC commercial release date. Since Mike D’Angelo’s eligibility lists don’t go back past 1998, I used the listed release dates in IMDb for this purpose. And much like the contemporary Muriels, if a movie remains unreleased in Gotham within five years of its international release date, it is ineligible for nominations. Sadly, that means I couldn’t throw any nominations at, say, Play Time, Satantango, the films of Yasujiro Ozu, or (sniff) Jeanne Dielman. So it goes.

Additionally, I reserve the right to allow ties here, especially in the case of movies featuring same-sex co-leads who are equally awesome. Several Bergman films spring to mind here, but there will no doubt be other occurrences as well.

Finally, I’ve decided to limit these lists to a “big nine” (picture, director, 4 acting categories, screenplay, ensemble, and cinematography). Much as I would have loved to include Best Cinematic Moment- probably my favorite Muriels category- here as well, I have a feeling that I’d forget some embarrassingly obvious choices and would prefer to save myself the bother.

As before, I’ll post one of these here per day as long as I’m able. I’ll try to remember to update these as needed, but I make no promises.

By the way, here’s a link to the 1995-2009 throwback Muriels I posted this winter. In time, I’ll probably move them over here, but until then this’ll have to do.