68th Academy Awards

68th Academy Awards
Date	Monday, March 25, 1996
Site	Dorothy Chandler Pavilion Los Angeles, California
Host	Whoopi Goldberg
Producer	Quincy Jones
Director	Jeff Margolis
Highlights
Best Picture	Braveheart
Most awards	Braveheart (5)
Most nominations	Braveheart (10)
TV in the United States
Network	ABC
Duration	3 hours, 38 minutes
Ratings	44.81 million 30.48 (Nielsen rating)
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The 68th Academy Awards were held on March 25, 1996, at the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion in Los Angeles, California. The show was hosted by Whoopi Goldberg. The ceremony was watched by 44.48 million viewers, with 30.5% of households tuning in. Despite controversy from the NAACP^{[citation needed]} concerning what was deemed as a lack of attention to African-American actors by the Academy^{[citation needed]}, this show was the one and only time an African-American (Quincy Jones) was hired to produce the show to date^{[citation needed]}.

Key moments in this presentation included Christopher Reeve making his first public appearance onstage after becoming paralyzed, and a Lifetime Achievement Award to Kirk Douglas (recovering from a stroke), and a tribute to Gene Kelly from Savion Glover (Kelly had died one month prior to the ceremonies). Best Documentary Feature winner Jon Blair introduced Miep Gies, the last survivor of the group of people who had sheltered Anne Frank and her family and 4 other people in their secret Amsterdam hiding place during World War II, and the person who had saved Anne Frank's now famous diary for posterity. The entire audience in the Dorothy Chandler Pavilion gave Gies a lengthy standing ovation.

Braveheart won five Oscars out of ten nominations including Best Picture. It is however, one of the few Best Picture winners that did not receive any acting nominations, a feat that would not be repeated until 2004, when The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King was nominated for (and won) eleven Oscars, none of which were in an acting category. This year's ceremony was the last time the Special Achievement Academy Award was awarded, to the first CGI animated feature Toy Story from Pixar, for making the first CGI animated film. Also, Mira Sorvino's won for Best Supporting Actress for Mighty Aphrodite making her the second winner of Best Supporting Actress from a Woody Allen's film in a row, after last year Dianne Wiest also won Best Supporting Actress for Bullets Over Broadway, a Woody Allen film. The Best Documentary Feature and Best Documentary Short winners were both about the Holocaust.

As of 2012, this is the last Oscars where all 4 acting winners were not in a Best Picture nominated film. The last time that happened was during the 42nd Academy Awards.

Awards

Winners are listed first and highlighted with boldface

Best Picture	Best Director
Braveheart Apollo 13 Babe Il Postino Sense and Sensibility	Mel Gibson – Braveheart Mike Figgis – Leaving Las Vegas Chris Noonan – Babe Michael Radford – Il Postino Tim Robbins – Dead Man Walking
Best Actor	Best Actress
Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas Richard Dreyfuss – Mr. Holland's Opus Anthony Hopkins – Nixon Sean Penn – Dead Man Walking Massimo Troisi – Il Postino	Susan Sarandon – Dead Man Walking Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas Sharon Stone – Casino Meryl Streep – The Bridges of Madison County Emma Thompson – Sense and Sensibility
Best Supporting Actor	Best Supporting Actress
Kevin Spacey – The Usual Suspects James Cromwell – Babe Ed Harris – Apollo 13 Brad Pitt – 12 Monkeys Tim Roth – Rob Roy	Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite Joan Allen – Nixon Kathleen Quinlan – Apollo 13 Mare Winningham – Georgia Kate Winslet – Sense and Sensibility
Best Original Screenplay	Best Adapted Screenplay
The Usual Suspects – Christopher McQuarrie Braveheart – Randall Wallace Mighty Aphrodite – Woody Allen Nixon – Oliver Stone, Christopher Wilkinson and Stephen J. Rivele Toy Story – Joss Whedon, Andrew Stanton, Joel Cohen, Alec Sokolow, John Lasseter, Pete Docter and Joe Ranft	Sense and Sensibility – Emma Thompson Apollo 13 – Al Reinert and William Broyles Jr. Babe – George Miller and Chris Noonan Leaving Las Vegas – Mike Figgis Il Postino – Michael Radford, Anna Pavignano, Furio Scarpelli, Giacomo Scarpelli and Massimo Troisi
Best Foreign Language Film	Best Original Song
Antonia (Netherlands) All Things Fair (Sweden) Dust of Life (Algeria) O Quatrilho (Brazil) The Star Maker (Italy)	"Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas – Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by Stephen Schwartz "Dead Man Walkin'" from Dead Man Walking – Music and Lyric by Bruce Springsteen "Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman" from Don Juan DeMarco – Music and Lyric by Michael Kamen, Bryan Adams and Robert John Lange "Moonlight" from Sabrina – Music by John Williams; Lyric by Alan Bergman and Marilyn Bergman "You've Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story – Music and Lyric by Randy Newman
Best Documentary Feature	Best Documentary Short
Anne Frank Remembered – Jon Blair The Battle Over Citizen Kane – Thomas Lennon and Michael Epstein Fiddlefest—Roberta Tzavaras and Her East Harlem Violin Program – Allan Miller and Walter Scheuer Hank Aaron: Chasing the Dream – Mike Tollin and Fredric Golding Troublesome Creek: A Midwestern – Jeanne Jordan and Steven Ascher	One Survivor Remembers – Kary Antholis Jim Dine: A Self-Portrait on the Walls – Nancy Dine and Richard Stilwell The Living Sea – Greg MacGillivray and Alec Lorimore Never Give Up: The 20th Century Odyssey of Herbert Zipper – Terry Sanders and Freida Lee Mock The Shadow of Hate – Charles Guggenheim
Best Live Action Short	Best Animated Short
Lieberman in Love – Christine Lahti and Jana Sue Memel Brooms – Luke Cresswell and Steve McNicholas Duke of Groove – Griffin Dunne and Thom Colwell Little Surprises – Jeff Goldblum and Tikki Goldberg Tuesday Morning Ride – Dianne Houston and Joy Ryan	Wallace & Gromit in A Close Shave – Nick Park The Chicken From Outer Space – John Dilworth The End – Chris Landreth and Robin Barger Gagarin – Alexiy Kharitidi Runaway Brain – Chris Bailey
Best Original Dramatic Score	Best Original Musical or Comedy Score
Il Postino – Luis Enriquez Bacalov Sense and Sensibility – Patrick Doyle Apollo 13 – James Horner Braveheart – James Horner Nixon – John Williams	Pocahontas – Alan Menken and Stephen Schwartz Sabrina – John Williams The American President – Marc Shaiman Toy Story – Randy Newman Unstrung Heroes – Thomas Newman
Best Sound Editing	Best Sound Mixing
Braveheart – Lon Bender and Per Hallberg Crimson Tide – George Watters II Batman Forever – John Leveque and Bruce Stambler	Apollo 13 – Rick Dior, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan and David MacMillan Braveheart – Andy Nelson, Scott Millan, Anna Behlmer and Brian Simmons Batman Forever – Donald O. Mitchell, Frank A. Montaño, Michael Herbick and Petur Hliddal Crimson Tide – Kevin O'Connell, Rick Kline, Gregory H. Watkins and William B. Kaplan Waterworld – Steve Maslow, Gregg Landaker and Keith A. Wester
Best Art Direction	Best Cinematography
Restoration – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Eugenio Zanetti A Little Princess – Art Direction: Bo Welch; Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik Apollo 13 – Art Direction: Michael Corenblith; Set Decoration: Merideth Boswell Babe – Art Direction: Roger Ford; Set Decoration: Kerrie Brown Richard III – Art Direction and Set Decoration: Tony Burrough	Braveheart – John Toll A Little Princess – Emmanuel Lubezki Shanghai Triad – Lu Yue Sense and Sensibility – Michael Coulter Batman Forever – Stephen Goldblatt
Best Makeup	Best Costume Design
Braveheart – Peter Frampton, Paul Pattison and Lois Burwell Roommates – Greg Cannom, Bob Laden and Colleen Callaghan My Family, Mi Familia – Ken Diaz and Mark Sanchez	Restoration – James Acheson Braveheart – Charles Knode Sense and Sensibility – Jenny Beavan and John Bright 12 Monkeys – Julie Weiss Richard III – Shuna Harwood
Best Film Editing	Best Visual Effects
Apollo 13 – Mike Hill and Daniel P. Hanley Crimson Tide – Chris Lebenzon Babe – Marcus D'Arcy and Jay Friedkin Seven – Richard Francis-Bruce Braveheart – Steven Rosenblum	Babe – Scott Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan and John Cox Apollo 13 – Robert Legato, Michael Kanfer, Leslie Ekker and Matt Sweeney

Academy Honorary Award

• Chuck Jones
• Kirk Douglas

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

• Donald C. Rogers

Special Achievement Award

• John Lasseter for Toy Story

In Memoriam

Presented by Arthur Hiller, a tribute honoring those members in the motion picture industry that died in the previous year: Ginger Rogers, composer Miklós Rózsa, Maxine Andrews, Michael V. Gazzo, Dean Martin, Viveca Lindfors, Martin Balsam, animator Friz Freleng, Burl Ives, Butterfly McQueen, costume designer Dorothy Jeakins, Nancy Kelly, Lana Turner, Elisha Cook Jr., Ida Lupino, art director Harry Horner, writer Terry Southern, Haing S. Ngor, Michael Hordern, producer Don Simpson, producer Ross Hunter, director Frank Perry, Alexander Godunov, director Louis Malle, director/writer Howard Koch, and George Burns.

Presenters

• Angela Bassett and Laurence Fishburne (Presenters: Best Original Song)
• Pierce Brosnan (Presenter: Best Costume Design)
• Sandra Bullock (Presenter: Best Sound Effects Editing)
• Nicolas Cage and Elisabeth Shue (Presenters: Documentary Awards)
• Jim Carrey (Presenter: Best Cinematography)
• Richard Dreyfuss (Presenter: Scientific & Technical Awards)
• Mel Gibson (Presenter: Best Foreign Language Film)
• Tom Hanks (Presenter: Best Actress)
• Goldie Hawn and Kurt Russell (Presenters: Best Film Editing)
• Arthur Hiller (Presenter: In Memoriam Montage)
• Anthony Hopkins and Susan Sarandon (Presenters: Writing Awards)
• Anjelica Huston (Presenter: Sense and Sensibility Film Clip)
• Jeremy Irons (Presenter: Braveheart Film Clip)
• Quincy Jones and Sharon Stone (Presenter: Best Original Musical or Comedy Score and Best Original Dramatic Score)
• Nicole Kidman (Presenter: Babe Film Clip)
• Martin Landau (Presenter: Best Supporting Actress)
• Nathan Lane (Presenter: Vanessa Williams Performance)
• Jessica Lange (Presenter: Best Actor)
• Liam Neeson (Presenter: Il Postino Film Clip)
• Chris O'Donnell (Presenter: Gloria Estefan Performance)
• Sidney Poitier (Presenter: Best Picture)
• Christopher Reeve (Presenter: Social Issue Films Montage)
• Winona Ryder (Presenter: Bruce Springsteen Performance)
• Steven Seagal (Presenter: Best Sound)
• Alicia Silverstone (Presenter: Best Makeup)
• Will Smith (Presenter: Best Visual Effects)
• Jimmy Smits (Presenter: Bryan Adams Performance)
• Steven Spielberg (Presenter: Honorary Award to Kirk Douglas)
• Emma Thompson (Presenter: Best Art Direction)
• John Travolta (Presenter: Apollo 13 Film Clip)
• Dianne Wiest (Presenter: Best Supporting Actor)
• Robin Williams (Presenter: Honorary Award to Chuck Jones and Special Achievement Award to John Lasseter)
• Robert Zemeckis (Presenter: Best Director)

Performers

• Bryan Adams ("Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman?" from Don Juan DeMarco)
• Gloria Estefan ("Moonlight" from Sabrina)
• Savion Glover ("Singin' in the Rain")
• Lyle Lovett and Randy Newman ("You've Got a Friend in Me" from Toy Story)
• Bruce Springsteen ("Dead Man Walking" from Dead Man Walking)
• Stomp (Best Sound Effects Editing Montage)
• Take 6 (Best Original Song Medley)
• Vanessa Williams ("Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas)

Multiple nominations and awards

The following nineteen films received multiple nominations:

• Ten: Braveheart
• Nine: Apollo 13
• Seven: Babe and Sense and Sensibility
• Five: Il Postino
• Four: Dead Man Walking, Leaving Las Vegas, Nixon and Toy Story
• Three: Batman Forever and Crimson Tide
• Two: 12 Monkeys, A Little Princess, Mighty Aphrodite, Pocahontas, Restoration, Richard III, Sabrina and The Usual Suspects

The following five films received multiple awards:

• Five: Braveheart
• Two: Apollo 13, Pocahontas, Restoration and The Usual Suspects

See also

• Academy Award
• Academy Honorary Award
• 68th Academy Awards nominees and winners
• 53rd Golden Globe Awards
• 2nd Screen Actors Guild Awards
• 16th Golden Raspberry Awards
• 1995 in film
• List of Academy Awards ceremonies
• Submissions for the 68th Academy Award for Best Foreign Film
• 38th Grammy Awards
• 47th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 48th Primetime Emmy Awards
• 49th British Academy Film Awards
• 50th Tony Awards
• Governors Awards

External links

• 68th Academy Awards at IMDb