1990 - 1999

Simple idea: you are to prepare a list of Oscar-style nominations based on your personal preferences, except you are drawing from not just one year, but an entire decade: the '90s.

Best Picture (Ten films)

Best Director (Five)
Best Actor
Best Actress
Best Supporting Actor
Best Supporting Actress
Best Original Screenplay
Best Adapted Screenplay
Best Animated Feature
Best Documentary
Best Foreign Language Film
Best Art Direction
Best Cinematography
Best Costume Design
Best Film Editing
Best Makeup
Best Original Score
Best Original Song
Best Sound
Best Visual Effects

You can choose a winner in each cat. (if you are so inclined).

BEST PICTURE

Ed Wood
Gattaca
Heat
Howards End
Jackie Brown
Leaving Las Vegas
Magnolia
Schindler's List
The Shawshank Redemption
Velvet Goldmine

Best Director

Paul Thomas Anderson, Magnolia
Todd Haynes, Velvet Goldmine
James Ivory, Howards End
Michael Mann, Heat
Steven Spielberg, Schindler's List

Best Actor

Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas
Tom Hanks, Philadelphia
Edward Norton, American History X
River Phoenix, My Own Private Idaho
David Thewlis, Naked

Best Actress

Kathy Bates, Misery
Lara Belmont, The War Zone
Elisabeth Shue, Leaving Las Vegas
Emma Thompson, Howards End
Emily Watson, Breaking the Waves

Best Supporting Actor

Tom Cruise, Magnolia
Leonardo DiCaprio, What's Eating Gilbert Grape
Ralph Fiennes, Schindler's List
Martin Landau, Ed Wood
Jude Law, Gattaca

Best Supporting Actress

Helena Bonham Carter, Howards End
Kirsten Dunst, Interview with the Vampire
Julianne Moore, Boogie Nights
Samantha Morton, Sweet and Lowdown
Kate Winslet, Hamlet

Best Original Screenplay

Gattaca
In the Company of Men
The Limey
Magnolia
Three Kings

Best Adapted Screenplay

Howards End
The Ice Storm
Jackie Brown
JFK
Leaving Las Vegas

Best Animated Feature

Aladdin
Beauty and the Beast
The Iron Giant
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Toy Story

Best Documentary

The Big One
Buena Vista Social Club
Fast, Cheap & Out of Control
Hoop Dreams
One Day in September

Best Foreign Language Film

Central Station (Brazil)
Chungking Express (Hong Kong)
Eat Drink Man Woman (Taiwan)
La Haine (France)
The Other Side of Sunday (Norway)

Best Art Direction

Bram Stoker's Dracula
Gattaca
Howards End
12 Monkeys
William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet

Best Cinematography

Heat
Howards End
Schindler's List
Snow Falling on Cedars
Three Kings

Best Costume Design

Dark City
Elizabeth
Howards End
The Matrix
Velvet Goldmine

Best Film Editing

The Blair Witch Project
Eyes Wide Shut
Heat
Magnolia
Velvet Goldmine

Best Makeup

Batman Returns
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Elizabeth
The Mask
Velvet Goldmine

Best Original Score

Meet Joe Black
Schindler's List
Sleepy Hollow
The Talented Mr. Ripley
The Virgin Suicides

Best Original Song

"Exit Music (For a Film)," Radiohead, William Shakespeare's Romeo + Juliet
"Hot One," Shudder to Think, Velvet Goldmine
"Love Song for a Vampire," Annie Lennox, Bram Stoker's Dracula
"Miss Misery," Elliott Smith, Good Will Hunting
"Streets of Philadelphia," Bruce Springsteen, Philadelphia

Best Sound

Heat
Jurassic Park
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Thin Red Line
Velvet Goldmine

Best Visual Effects

Babe
Batman Returns
Jurassic Park
The Matrix
Terminator 2: Judgment Day

I'm bored, so why not:

Best Picture
Chungking Express
Eyes Wide Shut
Fight Club
Heat
The Insider
L.A. Confidential
Naked Lunch
Se7en
The Thin Red Line
Twelve Monkeys

Best Director
David Cronenberg, Naked Lunch
Wong Kar-Wai, Chungking Express
Stanley Kubrick, Eyes Wide Shut
Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line
Michael Mann, The Insider

Best Actor
Jeff Bridges, The Big Lebowski
Russell Crowe, The Insider
Johnny Depp, Ed Wood
Tony Leung, Chungking Express
Denzel Washington, Malcolm X

Best Actress
Virginie Ledoyen, A Single Girl
Jennifer Jason Leigh, The Hudsucker Proxy
Frances McDormand, Fargo
Reese Witherspoon, Election
Faye Wong, Chungking Express

Best Supporting Actor
John Goodman, The Big Lebowski
Samuel L. Jackson, Pulp Fiction
Martin Landau, Ed Wood
John Malkovich, Being John Malkovich
Christopher Plummer, The Insider

Best Supporting Actress
Joan Allen, Pleasantville
Kathy Bates, Primary Colors
Laura Linney, The Truman Show
Julianne Moore, Boogie Nights
Michelle Pfeiffer, Batman Returns

Best Original Screenplay
Paul Thomas Anderson, Boogie Nights
Joel + Ethan Coen, The Big Lebowski
Charlie Kaufman, Being John Malkovich
Andrew Niccol, The Truman Show
Quentin Tarantino, Pulp Fiction

Best Adapted Screenplay
Joel + Ethan Coen, Miller's Crossing
David Cronenberg, Naked Lunch
Brian Helgeland + Curtis Hanson, L.A. Confidential
Terrence Malick, The Thin Red Line
Aaron Sorkin, A Few Good Men

Best Animated Feature
The Iron Giant
The Lion King
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Toy Story
Toy Story 2

Best Documentary
Citizen Langlois
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Lumumba: Death of a Prophet
Picture of Light
Project Grizzly

Best Foreign Language Film
71 Fragments to a Chronology of Chance
Chungking Express
Delicatessen
Funny Games
Sonatine

Best Art Direction
Dark City
Delicatessen
Dick Tracy
Sleepy Hollow
Twelve Monkeys

Best Cinematography
Boogie Nights
Chungking Express
Eyes Wide Shut
The Insider
The Thin Red Line

Best Costume Design
Dick Tracy
Dracula
The Fifth Element
Shakespeare in Love
Wild at Heart

Best Film Editing
Chungking Express
Dark City
Fight Club
JFK
Natural Born Killers

Best Makeup
Batman Returns
Dracula
eXistenZ
Naked Lunch
Total Recall

Best Original Score
Damon Albarn + Michael Nyman, Ravenous
Carter Burwell, Fargo
Randy Edelman + Trevor Jones, The Last of the Mohicans
Danny Elfman, Edward Scissorhands
Wojciech Kilar, Dracula

Best Sound
Heat
The Matrix
Saving Private Ryan
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
The Thin Red Line

Best Visual Effects
Independence Day
Jurassic Park
The Matrix
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Total Recall

Nice choices.

It's strange Heat didn't generate any awards buzz during its initial theatrical run. Not a single Oscar nomination, not even in the technical categories.