European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - February 19, 1993, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 24 b the stabs and stripes faces a no places Friday february 19, 1993 Eastwood already a big Winner in Oscar race by Jack Mathews new Day the 1992 Academy award season Only officially began with wednesday s announcement of the nominations but we can name some winners and losers right now. The big winners were Clint Eastwood s unforgiven and James Ivory showards end which tied for a the most nominations with nine each Neil Jordan a the crying game an independently made Irish film whose six major nominations include those for its stars Stephen Rea and Jaye Davidson and Martin Brest a scent of a woman whose nominations for Best picture and Best director came with the scent of a scandal. Unforgiven a revisionist look at the myth of the Western outlaw and howards end adapted from . Forster a novel about changing mores in edwardian England showed strength across the Board. Besides Best picture and Best director nominations the two films had acting writing Art direction and cinematography nominations. Eastwood a three personal nominations a for acting directing and producing a were the first in his Long career. If he was the script hog that Orson Welles was and had talked David Webb Peoples into sharing a writing credit on unforgiven he would be duplicating Welles four nominations on citizen Kane. Another multiple nominee is at Pacino who was put on the Best actor ballot for his performance As a Blind retired military officer in scent of a woman and on the supporting actor ballot for his zealous real estate Hustler in Glengarry Glen Ross. On the sidelines the biggest winners were Independent filmmakers who saw their colleagues pick up an astonishing 27 nominations the bulk of them in categories dominated by the major studios since the founding of the awards 65 years ago. New York based Miramar received 12 of those nominations for four of its 92 releases Clint Eastwood won a nomination As Best actor of 1992 for his film Quot unforgiven one of two films to win nine Oscar nominations including Best picture the crying game 6passion fish 2enchanted april 3and close to Eden a russian film nominated for Best foreign language film. Wednesdays biggest losers were Rob reinerus a few Good men and Robert Altman a the player a couple of renomination favourites for Best picture. A few Good men did make the ballot for Best picture but with Reiner left off the directors ballot the film has Little Chance of winning. And though Altman was selected by the directors the player did no to make the Cut for Best picture. With those films eliminated and scent of a woman a chances tarnished by a controversy Over the Golden Globe awards it received the Academy award race seems to be a three Way contest Between unforgiven the crying game and howards end. Among the actors the biggest surprises Emma Thompson s edwardian wife in Quot howards end Quot won a Best actress Oscar nomination wednesday. The film is also up for Best picture of 1992. Were the nominations of Rea the terrorist with a soft heart in the crying game and the omission of Jack Nicholson Hoffa. Nicholson did receive a supporting actor nomination for a few Good men the 10th of his career tying him with Laurence Olivier As the most nominated actor in Oscar history. Pacino a two nominations were his seventh and eighth. If he fails to win either one he will be in the record books too As the most nominated non Winner. Pacino and Rea share the Best actor ballot with Robert Downey jr., whose performance energized an otherwise tepid Chaplin Denzel Washington powerfully moving in the title role of Malcolm a and Eastwood who turned the sum of All his Western heroes into a Drunken killer in unforgiven. Not that there is any other parallel but it should be noted that at 62, Eastwood is the same age As John Wayne when he won his Only Oscar for playing an aging gunslinger in True grit. Washington a nomination was one of Only two for Malcolm x the other was for costume design which reveals As much about Hollywood a opinion of the irascible Spike Lee As it docs about his movie. The film deserved More. As expected Emma Thompson howards end and Susan Sarandon Lorenzo a 0/7who gave towering performances in a year shameful for its Lack of Strong women a roles showed up on the Best actress slate. They re joined by Mary Mcdonnell passion fish Catherine Deneuve Indochina and Michelle Pfeiffer love Field. That category would have been heavily bolstered by the inclusion of Alfre Woodard Brilliant As a reformed drug addict in passion fish in place of. Pfeiffer. Looking ahead there is bound to be More debate Over the four nominations Given to scent of a woman. A recent new York times article published after the nominations had closed revealed that Universal pictures had hosted the los Angeles based foreign press association for a weekend scent junket in new York and implied that the group reciprocated with three Golden Globe awards. On tuesday the foreign press took out a full Page and in the Hollywood reporter denying that the Freebie had influenced its vote. But Given the Competition that scent beat out for the Golden Globe and the groups tainted history it once named Pia Zadora a Star of tomorrow a after being flown to Las vegas and entertained by her and her husband the denial is at least suspect. Much is at stake. The Oscar nominations for scent will be Worth millions at the Box office but More importantly the symbiotic relationship Between the always dubious Golden globes and the oscars will in some Peoples minds be established. 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