Personal Oscar Choices: 1995

Best Picture: Se7en (just about the perfect thriller. Pitch-perfect performances, a great sense of atmosphere, a hellishly good soundtrack, and just overall great direction makes this one of the most immersive motion pictures of the 1990's, and by far my favourite film of 1995.)

Nominees: Dead Man Walking, Toy Story, Before Sunrise, Babe, Braveheart, Apollo 13

Best Director: David Fincher, Se7en

Nominees: Tim Robbins (Dead Man Walking), Mel Gibson (Braveheart), Ron Howard (Apollo 13), Richard Linklater (Before Sunrise)

Best Actor: Ian McKellen, Richard III

Nominees: James Earl Jones (Cry, the Beloved Country), Morgan Freeman (Se7en), Sean Penn (Dead Man Walking), Nicolas Cage (Leaving Las Vegas)

Best Actress: Susan Sarandon (Dead Man Walking)

Nominees: Julie Delpy (Before Sunrise), Elisabeth Shue (Leaving Las Vegas), Emma Thompson (Sense and Sensibility), Mira Sorvino (Mighty Aphrodite)

Best Supporting Actor: Richard Harris, Cry, the Beloved Country

Nominees: Raymond J. Barry (Dead Man Walking), Alan Rickman (Sense and Sensibility), Don Cheadle (Devil in a Blue Dress), Kevin Spacey (Se7en)

Best Supporting Actress: Kate Winslet (Sense and Sensibility)

Nominees: Famke Janssen (Goldeneye), Lois Smith (Dead Man Walking), Joan Allen (Nixon), Madeline Stowe (Twelve Monkeys)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Dead Man Walking

Best Original Screenplay: Before Sunrise (technically speaking these sorts of scenes would come across as incredibly pretentious in the wrong hands, but the script for this whole series is great so no problems in that regard.)

Best Cinematography: Braveheart

Best Film Editing: Se7en

Best Sound: Se7en

Best Music: Braveheart

Best Costumes/Styling: Braveheart

Best Production Design: Braveheart