Throwback Muriels: 1993

Wednesday, July 6, 2011

1993

Picture:
The Age of Innocence
Naked
Three Colors: Blue
Short Cuts
Un Coeur en Hiver
Dazed and Confused
Groundhog Day
Jacquot de Nantes
Carlito’s Way
Schindler’s List

Director:
Martin Scorsese, The Age of Innocence
Mike Leigh, Naked
Krzystzof Kieslowski, Three Colors: Blue
Robert Altman, Short Cuts
Brian De Palma, Carlito’s Way

Male Lead:
David Thewlis, Naked
Leslie Cheung, Farewell My Concubine
Bill Murray, Groundhog Day
Daniel Auteuil, Un Coeur en Hiver
Daniel Day-Lewis, The Age of Innocence

Female Lead:
Juliette Binoche, Three Colors: Blue
Holly Hunter, The Piano
Tilda Swinton, Orlando
Angela Bassett, What’s Love Got to Do With It?
Michelle Pfeiffer, The Age of Innocence

Male Supporting:
Sean Penn, Carlito’s Way
Peter Wight, Naked
Alec Baldwin, Malice
Benoit Regent, Three Colors: Blue
Gary Oldman, True Romance

Female Supporting:
Katrin Cartlidge, Naked
Winona Ryder, The Age of Innocence
Rosie Perez, Fearless
Michelle Burke, Dazed and Confused
Cathy Moriarty, Matinee

Screenplay:
Groundhog Day
The Age of Innocence
Dazed and Confused
Short Cuts
Un Coeur en Hiver

Ensemble:
Dazed and Confused
Short Cuts
The Age of Innocence
Naked
Malice

Cinematography:
The Age of Innocence (Ballhaus)
Farewell My Concubine (Gu)
Three Colors: Blue (Idziak)
The Piano (Dryburgh)
Schindler’s List (Kaminski)

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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.