Oscar Rewrite: 1996

 

Best Picture: The English Patient   Fargo

Best Director: Anthony Minghella (The English Patient)  Danny Boyle (Trainspotting)

Best Actor: Geoffrey Rush (Shine)   Tom Cruise (Jerry Maguire / Mission: Impossible)

Best Actress: Frances McDormand (Fargo)  Emily Watson (Breaking the Waves)

Best Supporting Actor: Cuba Gooding Jr. (Jerry Maguire)   Will Smith (Independence Day)

Best Supporting Actress: Juliette Binoche (The English Patient)   Drew Barrymore (Scream)

Best Original Screenplay: Fargo   Secrets & Lies

Best Adapted Screenplay: Sling Blade   The English Patient

 

Jason Fraley

Hailed by The Washington Post for “his savantlike ability to name every Best Picture winner in history," Jason Fraley began at WTOP as Morning Drive Writer in 2008, film critic in 2011 and Entertainment Editor in 2014, providing daily arts coverage on-air and online.

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