Throwback Muriels: 1994

Tuesday, July 5, 2011

1994

Picture:
Three Colors: Red
Heavenly Creatures
32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
Hoop Dreams
Pulp Fiction
The Blue Kite
Ed Wood
Nobody’s Fool
Tale of Winter
Bullets Over Broadway

Director:
Krzystzof Kieslowski, Three Colors: Red
Peter Jackson, Heavenly Creatures
Francois Girard, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
Steve James, Hoop Dreams
Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction

Male Lead:
Terence Stamp, The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
Colm Feore, 32 Short Films About Glenn Gould
Paul Newman, Nobody’s Fool
Johnny Depp, Ed Wood
John Travolta, Pulp Fiction

Female Lead:
Irene Jacob, Three Colors: Red
Melanie Lynskey, Heavenly Creatures
Kate Winslet, Heavenly Creatures
Charlotte Very, Tale of Winter
Miranda Richardson, Tom & Viv

Male Supporting:
Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
Jean-Louis Trintignant, Three Colors: Red
Robert Downey, Jr., Natural Born Killers
Martin Landau, Ed Wood
Janusz Gajos, White

Female Supporting:
Helen Mirren, The Madness of King George
Uma Thurman, Pulp Fiction
Sarah Peirse, Heavenly Creatures
Dianne Wiest, Bullets Over Broadway
Brooke Smith, Vanya on 42nd Street

Screenplay:
Heavenly Creatures
Pulp Fiction
Red
Tale of Winter
Ed Wood

Ensemble:
Pulp Fiction
Vanya on 42nd Street
Heavenly Creatures
Red
Bullets Over Broadway

Cinematography:
Three Colors: Red (Sobocinski)
Ed Wood (Czapsky)
The Hudsucker Proxy (Deakins)
Wyatt Earp (Roizman)
Heavenly Creatures (Lesnie)

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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.