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Academy Award® Winners: The 90s
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Academy Award® Winners: The 90s
Here, in one nice tidy place, are the winners in the top categories from the 90s. Remember that the year is the year the film was released, not the year the show was broadcast.
| 1999 | ||
| Best Picture | American Beauty | |
| Best Director | Sam Mendes | American Beauty |
| Best Actor | Kevin Spacey | American Beauty |
| Best Actress | Hilary Swank | Boys Don't Cry |
| Best Supporting Actor | Michael Caine | The Cider House Rules |
| Best Supporting Actress | Angelina Jolie | Girl, Interrupted |
| 1998 | ||
| Best Picture | Shakespeare in Love | |
| Best Director | Steven Spielberg | Saving Private Ryan |
| Best Actor | Roberto Benigni | Life is Beautiful |
| Best Actress | Gwyneth Paltrow | Shakespeare in Love |
| Best Supporting Actor | James Coburn | Affliction |
| Best Supporting Actress | Judi Dench | Shakespeare in Love |
| 1997 | ||
| Best Picture | Titanic | |
| Best Director | James Cameron | Titanic |
| Best Actor | Jack Nicholson | As Good As It Gets |
| Best Actress | Helen Hunt | As Good As It Gets |
| Best Supporting Actor | Robin Williams | Good Will Hunting |
| Best Supporting Actress | Kim Basinger | L.A. Confidential |
| 1996 | ||
| Best Picture | The English Patient | |
| Best Director | Anthony Minghella | The English Patient |
| Best Actor | Geoffrey Rush | Shine |
| Best Actress | Frances McDormand | Fargo |
| Best Supporting Actor | Cuba Gooding Jr. | Jerry Maguire |
| Best Supporting Actress | Juliette Binoche | The English Patient |
| 1995 | ||
| Best Picture | Braveheart | |
| Best Director | Mel Gibson | Braveheart |
| Best Actor | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas |
| Best Actress | Susan Sarandon | Dead Man Walking |
| Best Supporting Actor | Kevin Spacey | The Usual Suspects |
| Best Supporting Actress | Mira Sorvino | Mighty Aphrodite |
| 1994 | ||
| Best Picture | Forrest Gump | |
| Best Director | Robert Zemeckis | Forrest Gump |
| Best Actor | Tom Hanks | Forrest Gump |
| Best Actress | Jessica Lange | Blue Sky |
| Best Supporting Actor | Martin Landau | Ed Wood |
| Best Supporting Actress | Dianne Wiest | Bullets Over Broadway |
| 1993 | ||
| Best Picture | Schindler's List | |
| Best Director | Steven Spielberg | Schindler's List |
| Best Actor | Tom Hanks | Philadelphia |
| Best Actress | Holly Hunter | The Piano |
| Best Supporting Actor | Tommy Lee Jones | The Fugitive |
| Best Supporting Actress | Anna Paquin | The Piano |
| 1992 | ||
| Best Picture | Unforgiven | |
| Best Director | Clint Eastwood | Unforgiven |
| Best Actor | Al Pacino | Scent of a Woman |
| Best Actress | Emma Thompson | Howards End |
| Best Supporting Actor | Gene Hackman | Unforgiven |
| Best Supporting Actress | Marisa Tomei | My Cousin Vinny |
| 1991 | ||
| Best Picture | The Silence of the Lambs | |
| Best Director | Jonathan Demme | The Silence of the Lambs |
| Best Actor | Anthony Hopkins | The Silence of the Lambs |
| Best Actress | Jodie Foster | The Silence of the Lambs |
| Best Supporting Actor | Jack Palance | City Slickers |
| Best Supporting Actress | Mercedes Ruehl | The Fisher King |
| 1990 | ||
| Best Picture | Dances with Wolves | |
| Best Director | Kevin Costner | Dances with Wolves |
| Best Actor | Jeremy Irons | Reversal of Fortune |
| Best Actress | Kathy Bates | Misery |
| Best Supporting Actor | Joe Pesci | GoodFellas |
| Best Supporting Actress | Whoopi Goldberg | Ghost |
