Award Choices (1939, 1994, 2003)

(For these years I've decided to list only 5 nominees each category, Best Picture included, due to their strength, if you want to ask about the omission of any one of your favourites/surprising omissions, ask in the comments section below :) )

2003

Best Picture: Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King

2. Big Fish
3. Master and Commander
4. Kill Bill Vol. 1
5. Dogville

Best Director: Peter Jackson, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

2. Peter Weir, Master and Commander
3. Tim Burton, Big Fish
4. Park Chan-Wook, Oldboy
5. Quentin Tarantino, Kill Bill Vol. 1

Best Actor: Russell Crowe, Master and Commander

2. Johnny Depp, Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl
3. Choi Min-sik, Oldboy
4. Peter Dinklage, The Station Agent
5. Cillian Murphy, 28 Days Later

Best Actress: Charlize Theron, Monster

2. Nicole Kidman, Dogville
3. Uma Thurman, Kill Bill Vol. 2
4. Jamie Lee Curtis, Freaky Friday
5. Lindsay Lohan, Freaky Friday

Best Supporting Actor: Albert Finney, Big Fish

2. Sean Astin, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
3. Bencio del Toro, 21 Grams
4.  Paul Bettany, Master and Commander
5.  Geoffrey Rush, Pirates of the Carribean: Curse of the Black Pearl

Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Clarkson, Dogville

 

2. Alison Lohman, Matchstick Men
3. Christina Ricci, Monster
4. Miranda Otto, Lord of the Rings: Return of the King
5. Helena Bonham Carter, Big Fish

Best Adapted Screenplay: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Best Original Screenplay: Dogville

Best Cinematography: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Best Film Editing: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Best Sound: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Best Music: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Best Costumes/Styling: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

Best Production Design: Lord of the Rings: Return of the King

1994

Best Picture: Leon: The Professional

2. The Shawshank Redemption
3. Ed Wood
4. Pulp Fiction
5. Forrest Gump

Best Director: Tim Burton (Ed Wood)

2. Frank Darabont (The Shawshank Redemption)
3. Luc Besson (Leon: The Professional)
4. Quentin Tarantino (Pulp Fiction)
5. Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump)

Best Actor: Samuel L. Jackson (Pulp Fiction)

 

2. Tim Robbins (The Shawshank Redemption)
3. Woody Harrelson (Natural Born Killers)
4. Morgan Freeman (The Shawshank Redemption)
5. Johnny Depp (Ed Wood)

(I need to see Immortal Beloved)

Best Actress: Natalie Portman (Leon: The Professional)

2. Winona Ryder (Little Women)
3. Juliette Lewis (Natural Born Killers)
4. Jamie Lee Curtis (True Lies)
5. (?)

Best Supporting Actor: Martin Landau (Ed Wood)

2. Gary Oldman (Leon: The Professional)
3. James Whitmore (The Shawshank Redemption)
4. Raul Julia (Street Fighter)
5. Gary Sinise (Forrest Gump)

Best Supporting Actress: Uma Thurman (Pulp Fiction)

2. Claire Danes (Little Women)
3. Faye Wong (Chungking Express)
4. Sally Field (Forrest Gump)
5. Jennifer Tilly (Bullets Over Broadway)

Best Adapted Screenplay: The Shawshank Redemption

Best Original Screenplay: Ed Wood

Best Cinematography: The Shawshank Redemption

Best Film Editing: Leon: The Professional

Best Sound: Leon: The Professional

Best Music: The Shawshank Redemption

Best Costumes/Styling: Interview With the Vampire: The Vampire Chronicles

Best Production Design: Ed Wood

1939

Best Picture: Gone With the Wind

2. Mr Smith Goes to Washington
3. The Wizard of Oz
4. The Roaring Twenties
5. Goodbye, Mr Chips

 

Best Director: Victor Fleming, Gone With the Wind

2. Victor Fleming, The Wizard of Oz
3. Frank Capra, Mr Smith Goes to Washington
4. Lewis Milestone, Of Mice and Men
5. Raoul Walsh, The Roaring Twenties

Best Actor: Robert Donat, Goodbye, Mr Chips

2. James Stewart, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington
3. Charles Laughton, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
4. Clark Gable, Gone With the Wind
5. James Cagney, The Roaring Twenties

Best Actress: Vivien Leigh, Gone With the Wind

2. Bette Davis, Dark Victory
3. Judy Garland, The Wizard of Oz
4. Greta Garbo, Ninotchka
5. Maureen O'Hara, The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Best Supporting Actor: Claude Rains, Mr Smith Goes to Washington

2. Ralph Richardson, The Four Feathers
3. Lon Chaney Jr., Of Mice and Men
4. Sir Cedric Hardwicke, The Hunchback of Notre Dame
5. Leslie Howard, Gone With the Wind

Best Supporting Actress: Margaret Hamilton, The Wizard of Oz

2. Olivia de Havilland, Gone With the Wind
3. Hattie McDaniel, Gone With the Wind
4. Jean Arthur, Mr Smith Goes to Washington
5. Betty Field, Of Mice and Men

Best Adapted Screenplay: Mr Smith Goes to Washington

Best Original Screenplay: Young Mr. Lincoln

Best Cinematography: Gone With the Wind

Best Film Editing: Gone With the Wind

Best Sound: Gone With the Wind

Best Music: The Wizard of Oz

Best Costumes/Styling: The Wizard of Oz

Best Production Design: The Wizard of Oz