Tonight at Central Cinema: Forget the Oscars, the Felix has 20/20 hindsight

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Those old white dudes at the Academy (94 percent white and 77 percent male? Seriously?) might be working to decide the best films and actors of the past year, but the folks behind the 20/20 Awards are doing much more important work: Deciding the best films of 1992.

The third annual two-decades-delayed award show will announce the big winners during a show at 7 p.m. Wednesday at Central Cinema. Tickets are nearly sold out, so buy now if you want to go. (UPDATE: If you don’t get tickets, Central Sounds is hosting an interesting crew from Women Who Rock tonight at Hollow Earth Radio, just around the corner from Central Cinema. See bottom of this post for details)

From the 20/20 Awards:

In 1992, SILENCE OF THE LAMBS swept the Academy Awards, taking 7 nominations and winning the “Big Five” including Best Picture, Best Actress (Foster), Best Actor (Hopkins), Best Director (Demme) and Best Adapted Screenplay (Ted Tally). This is the first year the 20/20 Awards is poised for a repeat, with an exciting opportunity for multiple coveted “Odd Couples”, when a nominee wins both an Oscar, and 20 years later wins a Felix. However, BARTON FINK is a heavy contender weighing in with 10 nominations.

The 20/20 Awards www.2020awards.org offer a unique alternative to award shows, emphasizing the test of time as the key criterion by which films and filmmakers should be honored. Looking back twenty years affords voters an insight free from industry insiderism and the contemporary zeitgeist.

Here’s the list of nominees (Oscar winners marked with an *):

BEST PICTURE

BARTON FINK

BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

THE FISHER KING

THELMA & LOUISE

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS*

BEST DIRECTOR

Joel Coen – BARTON FINK

Jonathan Demme – THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS*

Terry GIlliam – THE FISHER KING

Barry Levinson – BUGSY

Ridley Scott – THELMA & LOUISE

BEST ACTOR

Jeff Bridges – THE FISHER KING

Robert DeNiro – CAPE FEAR

Anthony Hopkins – THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS*

John Turturro – BARTON FINK

Robin Williams – THE FISHER KING

BEST ACTRESS

Annette Bening – BUGSY

Judy Davis – NAKED LUNCH

Jodie Foster – THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS*

Susan Sarandon – THELMA & LOUISE

Lily Taylor – DOGFIGHT

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

John Goodman – BARTON FINK

Ian Holm – NAKED LUNCH

Ted Levine – THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Gary Oldman – JFK

Jack Palance – CITY SLICKERS*

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Geena Davis – THELMA & LOUISE

Juliette Lewis – CAPE FEAR

Christina Ricci – THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Brooke Smith – THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Jessica Tandy – FRIED GREEN TOMATOES

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

Albert Brooks – DEFENDING YOUR LIFE

Joel and Ethan Coen – BARTON FINK

Richard LaGravanese – THE FISHER KING

Callie Khouri – THELMA & LOUISE*

Steve Martin – L.A. STORY

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

David Cronenberg – NAKED LUNCH

Roddy Doyle, Dick Clement, Ian La Frenais – THE COMMITMENTS

Fannie Flagg, Carol Sobieski – FRIED GREEN TOMATOES

Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar – JFK

Ted Tally – THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS*

BEST FOREIGN FILM

DELICATESSEN

THE DOUBLE LIFE OF VERONIQUE MADAME BOVARY

RAISE THE RED LANTERN

ZENTROPA

BEST DOCUMENTARY

35 UP

A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME

DOING TIME: LIFE INSIDE THE BIG HOUSE

HEARTS OF DARKNESS: A FILMMAKER’S APOCALYPSE

MADONNA: TRUTH OR DARE

BEST SCORE

George Fenton – THE FISHER KING

Alan Menken – BEAUTY AND THE BEAST*

Ennio Morricone – BUGSY

Wilson Pickett – THE COMMITMENTS

Howard Shore – THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

BEST SONG

Beauty And The Beast – BEAUTY AND THE BEAST*

Be Our Guest – BEAUTY AND THE BEAST

Everything I Do, I Do For You – ROBIN HOOD: PRINCE OF THEIVES

Until The End Of The World – UNTIL THE END OF THE WORLD

BEST EDITING

Conrad Buff, Mark Goldblatt, Richard A. Harris – TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY*

Joe Hutsching, Pietro Scalia – JFK

Roderick Jaynes – BARTON FINK

Craig McKay – THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Hervé Schneid – DELICATESSEN

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

Roger Deakins – BARTON FINK

Tak Fujimoto – THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS

Darius Khondji – DELICATESSEN

Edvard Klosinsky, Jean-Paul Meurisse, Joakim Holbek – ZENTROPA

Lun Yang – RAISE THE RED LANTERN

BEST ART DIRECTION

Mel Bourne – THE FISHER KING

Marc Caro – DELICATESSEN

Dennis Gassner – BARTON FINK

Richard MacDonald – THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Carol Spier – NAKED LUNCH

BEST COSTUME

Richard Hornung – BARTON FINK

Ellen Lens – PROSPERO’S BOOKS

Ruth Myers – THE ADDAMS FAMILY

Valérj]ie Pozzo di Borgo – DELICATESSEN

Albert Wolsky – BUGSY*

BEST MAKEUP

THE ADDAMS FAMILY

HOOK

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY*

BEST VISUAL FX

BACKDRAFT

TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY*

ZENTROPA

BEST SOUND DESIGN

BACKDRAFT

BARTON FINK

THE SILENCE OF THE LAMBS TERMINATOR 2: JUDGEMENT DAY*

UPDATE: Also tonight in the same block: Hollow Earth Radio’s Central Sounds will be talking to some of the folks behind the upcoming Women Who Rock UnConference and Film Festival at Washington Hall March 2-3. Listen online:

 

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