European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 24, 1991, Darmstadt, Hesse Picking the oscars some predictions continued from Page 11 there Are All kinds of murky machinations behind the selections and that s what makes the oscars so much fun. Which is to say your guess is As Good As mine. Nevertheless Here Are my fearless predictions for the oscars coming to you live Early tuesday morning Central european time. A Best picture awakenings ghost the godfather part Iii dances with wolves Good fellas. Who should win in terms of highest emotional response among viewers both awakenings or Good fellas beats out dances with wolves which was fascinating but did no to pack the same kind of punch. Awakenings has the most to say about the human condition which is what Alt Art should aspire to. Who will win dances with wolves no contest no doubt no ifs ands or buts. Should some warped twist of Fate let ghost win to jump off the nearest tall at the drive in the nominees Are. Joe Bob Briggs creators Syndicate inc. And Here Are a few nominees from the worlds Only drive in movie critic Joe Bob Briggs. You probably wont see any of these people he a nominated a pick up an Academy. Award mainly because Joe Bob invented the category and maybe some of the nominees too. Here goes a Best line of dialogue in a film Catherine Carin in chopper Chicks in com Beetown As the Leader of the Cycle sluts for saying a a you re the sluts try and act like it Quot Deborah Foreman in lobster Man troth Mars As the Damsel in distress forsaking a a it sail very simple Bunny men from Neptune had invaded Mars a / a a a a a. R a Best actor Kevin Costner dances with wolves Richard Harris the Field Gerard Depardieu Cyrano de Bergerac Jeremy Irons reversal of Fortune Robert do Niro awakenings who should win de Niro with another awesome showing As a catatonic who revives after 30 years. Everyone a picking Costner but i can to believe the Academy will name him both Best actor and director and i think he a stronger As director. Besides for All his popularity he has yet to show a very extensive acting Range. Who will win strictly a two horse race w Ith do Niro Over Costner in a photo finish. A Best actress meryl Streep postcards from the Edge Kathy Bates misery Anjelica Huston the Griffers Julia Roberts pretty woman Joanne Woodward or and mrs. Bridge. Who should win Bates who showed the most Range of anyone in this category As the Lunatic who tortures James Caan although Huston was great As a Tough con artist. Watch for Woodward a the Academy loves to Honor its old guard even when their Best work Isnit represented. A Roberts is window dressing. Streep is Here because its a Law that she has to be nominated every year. Who will win Huston who had a Fine time gnawing the scenery in her film will steal it from the lesser known Bates. A Best supporting actor Bruce Davison longtime companion Andy Garcia the godfather part Iii Graham Greene dances with wolves Al Pacino Dick Tracy Joe Pesci Good fellas. Quot who should win its Tough to pick Between the soldering Garcia the Only saving Grace in Francis Ford Coppola a bloated Turkey and Greene who gave the most moving portrayal of a native american Ever put on film. Pesci would have a shot if his character Wasny to a third banana behind Ray Liotta and de Niro. Who will win Greene and deservedly so. A Best supporting actress Annette boning the Griffers Lorraine Brae co Good fellas whoops Goldberg ghost Diane Ladd wild at heart Mary Mcdonnell dances with wolves. Who should win Mcdonnell Superb As the White woman raised by Sioux. Boning is Strong. But not Strong enough. Ladd s curse is director David Lynch who is still too weird for mainstream Hollywood. Bracco has the same problem As Pesci noted above. Who will win i have a Hunch that Goldberg May score the big upset this year for her role As a bogus psychic who helps dead Patrick Swap pc connect with live Demi Moore. A Best director Kevin Costner dances with wolves Francis Ford Coppola the godfather part Iii Martin Scorcese Good fellas Stephen friars the grift ers Barbet Schroeder reversal of Fortune. Who should win Costner. He May be a Rookie director but he made a Majestic three hour epic that is never Boring a and that is no Small feat Scorcese is always a contender. If Coppola wins something is definitely Rotten in the state of California. Who will win Best original screenplay Woody Allen Alice Barry Levinson Avalon Bruch Joel Rubin ghost Peter Weir Green. Card Whit Stillman metropolitan. Who should win Levinson for his heartwarming Story of an immigrant family making a new Start in America. Allens talc of a whiny woman who does no to know what she wants from life is grating. Rubin and Weir must be Here for comic Relief. And who in the world is Whit Stillman and did anyone see his movie who will win alien for being the Best known Quantity / a Best adapted screen play Steve Zaillian awakenings Michael Blake dances with wolves Nicholas Pileggi and Martin Scorcese Good fellas Donald e. Westlake the Griffers Nicholas Kazan reversal of Fortune. Who should win Tough category but awaken Ings is one engrossing Story and should get it if for no other reason than the subject matter of the other four a the old West mobsters con artists and murderers a has been done to death. Who Wilt win Blake hanging 10 on the wave of Costner mania. Finally i d like to note my favorite for Best documentary Short subject chimps so like us although in a not sure if the title Means that chimps Are similar to humans or if its a they we re cute we re cuddly so like Anita Morris in martians go Home a a meat loaf in the shape of a tree is surprisingly Cynthia Bond As the Devil woman in def by temptation for putting on her Christian dior stockings with no hands and for saying a Honey in be Given you something there a no cure Steve Vinovich in Back to Hollywood Boulevard a i done to think a. Little tiling like minor tissue damage should get in our David Knell in chopper Chicks in Zombie town a jeez dad maybe if you done to cat anybody nobody la notice you re a . James Lorinz in Franke Hooker a after All in a not killing anybody. Its the crack that a Gonna kill pm. If they done to Wanna do it they can just say Lynch the cocaine worshipper in hardware a a it a my heart a it feels like an Noel Peters in the invisible maniac a i m injecting the serum into the Bunny Rabbit now and Quot i was inexplicably drawn to the girls locker Sledge in lobster Man from Mars who inspects giant lobster tracks and says a it. Means that either he escaped or he walked backward from the horizon to commit suicide in this Bonfire a March 24, 1991 sunday a a Page 17
