The 70th Academy Awards (1997): Nominees and Winners

NOMINATIONS		AWARDS
14 9 9 7 4 4 4 4 3 3	Titanic Good Will Hunting L.A. Confidential As Good As It Gets Amistad The Full Monty Kundun The Wings of the Dove Boogie Nights Men in Black	11 2 2 2 1 1 1 1 1 1 1	Titanic As Good As It Gets Good Will Hunting L.A. Confidential Character The Full Monty Geri's Game The Long Way Home Men in Black A Story of Healing Visas and Virtue
NOMINATION/WIN TALLY LEGEND Best Picture winner Best Picture nominee Nominations are listed for all films receiving 3 or more

PICTURE (Best Picture)

• As Good As It Gets - James L. Brooks, Bridget Johnson, Kristi Zea
• The Full Monty - Uberto Pasolini
• Good Will Hunting - Lawrence Bender
• L.A. Confidential - Arnon Milchan, Curtis Hanson, Michael Nathanson
• Titanic - James Cameron, Jon Landau

DIRECTING

• The Full Monty - Peter Cattaneo
• Good Will Hunting - Gus Van Sant
• L.A. Confidential - Curtis Hanson
• The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan
• Titanic - James Cameron

ACTOR (Actor in a Leading Role)

• Matt Damon - Good Will Hunting
• Robert Duvall - The Apostle
• Peter Fonda - Ulee's Gold
• Dustin Hoffman - Wag the Dog
• Jack Nicholson - As Good As It Gets

ACTRESS (Actress in a Leading Role)

• Helena Bonham Carter - The Wings of the Dove
• Julie Christie - Afterglow
• Judi Dench - Mrs. Brown
• Helen Hunt - As Good As It Gets
• Kate Winslet - Titanic

SUPPORTING ACTOR (Actor in a Supporting Role)

• Robert Forster - Jackie Brown
• Anthony Hopkins - Amistad
• Greg Kinnear - As Good As It Gets
• Burt Reynolds - Boogie Nights
• Robin Williams - Good Will Hunting

SUPPORTING ACTRESS (Actress in a Supporting Role)

• Kim Basinger - L.A. Confidential
• Joan Cusack - In & Out
• Minnie Driver - Good Will Hunting
• Julianne Moore - Boogie Nights
• Gloria Stuart - Titanic

ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

• As Good As It Gets - Screenplay by Mark Andrus, James L. Brooks; Story by Mark Andrus
• Boogie Nights - Paul Thomas Anderson
• Deconstructing Harry - Woody Allen
• The Full Monty - Simon Beaufoy
• Good Will Hunting - Ben Affleck, Matt Damon

ADAPTED SCREENPLAY (Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

• Donnie Brasco - Paul Attanasio
• L.A. Confidential - Brian Helgeland, Curtis Hanson
• The Sweet Hereafter - Atom Egoyan
• Wag the Dog - Hilary Henkin, David Mamet
• The Wings of the Dove - Hossein Amini

ORIGINAL SONG

• "Go the Distance" - Hercules - Music by Alan Menken; Lyric by David Zippel
• "How Do I Live" - Con Air - Music, Lyric by Diane Warren
• "Journey to the Past" - Anastasia - Music by Stephen Flaherty; Lyric by Lynn Ahrens
• "Miss Misery" - Good Will Hunting - Music, Lyric by Elliott Smith
• "My Heart Will Go On" - Titanic - Music by James Horner; Lyric by Will Jennings

ORIGINAL DRAMATIC SCORE

• Amistad - John Williams
• Good Will Hunting - Danny Elfman
• Kundun - Philip Glass
• L.A. Confidential - Jerry Goldsmith
• Titanic - James Horner

ORIGINAL MUSICAL OR COMEDY SCORE

• Anastasia - Music by Stephen Flaherty; Lyrics by Lynn Ahrens; Orchestral Score by David Newman
• As Good As It Gets - Hans Zimmer
• The Full Monty - Anne Dudley
• Men in Black - Danny Elfman
• My Best Friend's Wedding - James Newton Howard

FILM EDITING

• Air Force One - Richard Francis-Bruce
• As Good As It Gets - Richard Marks
• Good Will Hunting - Pietro Scalia
• L.A. Confidential - Peter Honess
• Titanic - Conrad Buff, James Cameron, Richard A. Harris

CINEMATOGRAPHY

• Amistad - Janusz Kaminski
• Kundun - Roger Deakins
• L.A. Confidential - Dante Spinotti
• Titanic - Russell Carpenter
• The Wings of the Dove - Eduardo Serra

ART DIRECTION

• Gattaca - Art Direction: Jan Roelfs; Set Decoration: Nancy Nye
• Kundun - Art Direction: Dante Ferretti; Set Decoration: Francesca Lo Schiavo
• L.A. Confidential - Art Direction: Jeannine Oppewall; Set Decoration: Jay R. Hart
• Men in Black - Art Direction: Bo Welch; Set Decoration: Cheryl Carasik
• Titanic - Art Direction: Peter Lamont; Set Decoration: Michael Ford

COSTUME DESIGN

• Amistad - Ruth E. Carter
• Kundun - Dante Ferretti
• Oscar and Lucinda - Janet Patterson
• Titanic - Deborah L. Scott
• The Wings of the Dove - Sandy Powell

MAKEUP

• Men in Black - Rick Baker, David LeRoy Anderson
• Mrs. Brown - Lisa Westcott, Veronica Brebner, Beverley Binda
• Titanic - Tina Earnshaw, Greg Cannom, Simon Thompson

SOUND

• Air Force One - Paul Massey, Rick Kline, D. M. Hemphill, Keith A. Wester
• Con Air - Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell, Arthur Rochester
• Contact - Randy Thom, Tom Johnson, Dennis Sands, William B. Kaplan
• L.A. Confidential - Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer, Kirk Francis
• Titanic - Gary Rydstrom, Tom Johnson, Gary Summers, Mark Ulano

SOUND EFFECTS EDITING

• Face/Off - Mark P. Stoeckinger, Per Hallberg
• The Fifth Element - Mark Mangini
• Titanic - Tom Bellfort, Christopher Boyes

VISUAL EFFECTS

• The Lost World: Jurassic Park - Dennis Muren, Stan Winston, Randal M. Dutra, Michael Lantieri
• Starship Troopers - Phil Tippett, Scott E. Anderson, Alec Gillis, John Richardson
• Titanic - Robert Legato, Mark Lasoff, Thomas L. Fisher, Michael Kanfer

FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Beyond Silence - Germany
• Character - The Netherlands
• Four Days in September - Brazil
• Secrets of the Heart - Spain
• The Thief - Russia

DOCUMENTARY (Feature)

• Ayn Rand: A Sense of Life - Michael Paxton
• Colors Straight Up - Michle Ohayon, Julia Schachter
• 4 Little Girls - Spike Lee, Sam Pollard
• The Long Way Home - Rabbi Marvin Hier, Richard Trank
• Waco: The Rules of Engagement - Dan Gifford, William Gazecki

DOCUMENTARY (Short Subject)

• Alaska: Spirit of the Wild - George Casey, Paul Novros
• Amazon - Kieth Merrill, Jonathan Stern
• Daughter of the Bride - Terri Randall
• Still Kicking: The Fabulous Palm Springs Follies - Mel Damski, Andrea Blaugrund
• A Story of Healing - Donna Dewey, Carol Pasternak

SHORT FILM (Animated)

• Famous Fred - Joanna Quinn
• Geri's Game - Jan Pinkava
• The Mermaid - Alexander Petrov
• Redux Riding Hood - Steve Moore, Dan O'Shannon
• La Vieille Dame et les Pigeons (The Old Lady and the Pigeons) - Sylvain Chomet

SHORT FILM (Live Action)

• Dance Lexie Dance - Pearse Moore, Tim Loane
• It's Good To Talk - Roger Goldby, Barney Reisz
• Sweethearts? - Birger Larsen, Thomas Lydholm
• Visas and Virtue - Chris Tashima, Chris Donahue
• Wolfgang - Kim Magnusson, Anders Thomas Jensen

HONORARY AWARDS

• To Stanley Donen in appreciation of a body of work marked by grace, elegance, wit and visual innovation.

GORDON E. SAWYER AWARD

• Don Iwerks

JOHN A. BONNER MEDAL OF COMMENDATION

• To Pete Clark in appreciation for outstanding service and dedication in upholding the high standards of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE I (Academy Award of Merit)

• To GUNNAR P. MICHELSON for the engineering and development of an improved, electronic, high-speed, precision light valve for use in motion picture printing machines. [Laboratory]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE II (Plaque)

• To AL JENSEN, CHUCK HEADLEY, JEAN MESSNER and HAZEM NABULSI of CEI Technology for the production of a self-contained, flicker-free, Color Video-Assist Camera. [Camera]
• To KIRK HANDLEY, RAY MELUCH, SCOTT ROBINSON, WILSON H. ALLEN and JOHN NEARY for the design, development and implementation of the Dolby CP500 Digital Cinema Processor. [Sound]
• To CRAIG W. REYNOLDS for his pioneering contributions to the development of three-dimensional computer animation for motion picture production. [Special Photographic]
• To DOMINIQUE BOISVERT, RJEAN GAGN, DANIEL LANGLOIS and RICHARD LAPERRIERE for the development of the 'Actor' animation component of the Softimage computer animation system. [Special Photographic]
• To EBEN OSTBY, WILLIAM REEVES, SAMUEL J. LEFFLER and TOM DUFF for the development of the Marionette Three-Dimensional Computer Animation System. [Special Photographic]
• To JOHN GIBSON, ROB KRIEGER, MILAN NOVACEK, GLEN OZYMOK and DAVE SPRINGER for the development of the geometric modeling component of the Alias PowerAnimator System. [Special Photographic]
• To RICHARD SHOUP, ALVY RAY SMITH and THOMAS PORTER for their pioneering efforts in the development of digital paint systems used in motion picture production. [Special Photographic]
• To WILLIAM KOVACS for his creative leadership and ROY HALL for his principal engineering efforts that led to the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system. [Special Photographic]
• To JOEL W. JOHNSON of the O'Connor Laboratories for the unique design improvement in fluid head counter-balancing techniques as used in their Model 2575. [Stage Operations]

SCIENTIFIC AND/OR TECHNICAL AWARD - TYPE III (Certificate)

• To JAMES M. REILLY, DOUGLAS W. NISHIMURA and MONIQUE C. FISCHER of the Rochester Institute of Technology for the creation of A-D Strips, a diagnostic tool for the detection of the presence of vinegar syndrome in processed acetate-based motion picture film. [Laboratory]
• To JIM FRAZIER, for the design concept, and IAIN NEIL and RICK GELBARD for the further design and development of the Panavision/Frazier Lens System for motion picture photography. [Lenses and Filters]
• To CLARK F. CRITES for the design and development of the Christie ELF 1-C Endless Loop Film Transport and Storage System. [Projection]
• To JACK CASHIN, ROGER HIBBARD and LARRY JACOBSON for the design, development and implementation of a projection system analyzer. [Projection]
• To DAN LEIMETER and ROBERT WEITZ for the development and implementation of a Portable Adjustment Tool for T-Style Slit Lens Assemblies. [Sound]
• To GREG HERMANOVIC, KIM DAVIDSON, MARK ELENDT and PAUL H. BRESLIN for the development of the procedural modeling and animation components of the Prisms software package. [Special Photographic]
• To JAMES J. KEATING, MICHAEL WAHRMAN and RICHARD HOLLANDER for their contributions that led to the Wavefront Advanced Visualizer computer graphics system. [Special Photographic]
• To RICHARD CHUANG, GLENN ENTIS and CARL ROSENDAHL for the concept and architecture of the Pacific Data Images (PDI) Animation System. [Special Photographic]
• To JAMES F. FOLEY, CHARLES E. CONVERSE and F. EDWARD GARDNER of UCISCO; and to ROBERT W. STOKER, JR. and MATT SWEENEY for the development and realization of Liquid Synthetic Air. [Stage Operations]
• To PHILIP C. CORY for the design and development of the Special Effects Spark Generator. [Stage Operations]