1995 (68th Annual Awards)
Winners Only

Listed below are the Academy Award winners for the year 1995 (non-winning nominations have been omitted from this list). Click on the name of a film, person or song in the list to display more information about that film, person or song Or, click on a year in the column on the right to display the winners from that year.

Best Picture

Braveheart, Icon Productions/Ladd Company Production; Paramount. Mel Gibson, Alan Ladd, Jr. and Bruce Davey, Producers.

Actor in a Leading Role

Nicolas Cage in Leaving Las Vegas, Initial Productions; MGM/UA. (France, UK, USA)

Actress in a Leading Role

Susan Sarandon in Dead Man Walking, Working Title/Havoc Production; Gramercy Pictures. (UK, USA)

Actor in a Supporting Role

Kevin Spacey in The Usual Suspects, Blue Parrot Production; Gramercy Pictures. (USA, Germany)

Actress in a Supporting Role

Mira Sorvino in Mighty Aphrodite, Sweetheart Production; Miramax Films.

Directing

Braveheart, Icon Productions/Ladd Company Production; Paramount. Mel Gibson.

Art Direction-Set Decoration

Restoration, Segue Productions/Avenue Pictures in association with Oxford Film Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) Eugenio Zanetti.

Cinematography

Braveheart, Icon Productions/Ladd Company Production; Paramount. John Toll.

Costume Design

Restoration, Segue Productions/Avenue Pictures in association with Oxford Film Company Production; Miramax Films. (USA, UK) James Acheson.

Documentary

(Feature)

Anne Frank Remembered, Jon Blair Film Company Limited Production; Sony Pictures Classics. (UK, USA, Netherlands) Jon Blair.

(Short Subject)

One Survivor Remembers, Home Box Office and The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum Production. Kary Antholis.

Film Editing

Apollo 13, Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Mike Hill and Dan Hanley.

Foreign Language Film

Antonia’s Line, Bergen Theatre-Film-Television Production; First Look Pictures. (Netherlands, Belgium, UK, France)

Makeup

Braveheart, Icon Productions/Ladd Company Production; Paramount. Peter Frampton, Paul Pattison and Lois Burwell.

Music

(Original Dramatic Score)

The Postman (Il Postino), Cecchi Gori Group Tiger Cinematografica Production/Pentafilm/Esterno Mediterraneo/Blue Dahlia Production; Miramax Films. (Italy, France, Belgium) Luis Enrique Bacalov.

(Original Musical or Comedy Score)

Pocahontas, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music by Alan Menken; lyrics by Stephen Schwartz; orchestral score by Alan Menken.

(Original Song)

Colors of the Wind from Pocahontas, Walt Disney Pictures Production; Buena Vista. Music by Alan Menken; lyric by Stephen Schwartz.

Short Films

(Animated)

A Close Shave, Aardman Animations Limited Production. (UK) Nick Park.

(Live Action)

Lieberman in Love, Chanticleer Films. Christine Lahti and Jana Sue Memel.

Sound

Apollo 13, Imagine Entertainment and Universal Pictures Production; Universal. Rick Dior, Steve Pederson, Scott Millan and David MacMillan.

Sound Effects Editing

Braveheart, Icon Productions/Ladd Company Production; Paramount. Lon Bender and Per Hallberg.

Special Achievement Award

To John Lasseter for his inspired leadership of the Pixar Toy Story team, resulting in the first feature-length computer-animated film.

Visual Effects

Babe, Kennedy Miller Pictures Production; Universal. (Australia, USA) Scott E. Anderson, Charles Gibson, Neal Scanlan and John Cox.

Writing

(Screenplay Based on Material Previously Produced or Published)

Sense and Sensibility, Mirage Production; Columbia. (USA, UK) Emma Thompson.

(Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen)

The Usual Suspects, Blue Parrot Production; Gramercy Pictures. (USA, Germany) Christopher McQuarrie.

Honorary Award

To Kirk Douglas for fifty years as a creative and moral force in the motion picture community. [ [Statuette]]

To Chuck Jones for the creation of classic cartoons which have brought worldwide joy for more than half a century. [ [Statuette]]

Gordon E. Sawyer Award

Donald C. Rogers

Scientific and Technical Award

(Scientific and Engineering Award)

To Arnold and Richter Cine Technik for the development of the Arriflex 535 Series of cameras for motion picture cinematography.

To Digital Theater Systems for the design and development of the DTS Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.

To Dolby Laboratories for the design and development of the SR-D Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.

To Sony Corporation for the design and development of the SDDS Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.

To Howard Flemming and Ronald Uhlig for their pioneering work leading to motion picture digital sound.

To Ronald C. Goodman, Attila Szalay, Steven Sass and SpaceCam Systems, Inc. for the design of the SpaceCam gyroscopically stabilized Camera System.

To Colin Mossman, Joe Wary, Hans Leisinger, Gerald Painter and Deluxe Laboratories for the design and development of the Deluxe Quad Format Digital Sound Printing Head.

To David Gilmartin, Johannes Borggrebe, Jean-Pierre Gagnon, Frank Ricotta and Technicolor, Inc. for the design and development of the Technicolor Contact Printer Sound Head.

To Iain Neil for the optical design; Rick Gelbard for the mechanical design; Eric Dubberke for the engineering and Panavision International, L.P. for the development of the Primo 3:1 Zoom Lens.

To Martin S. Mueller for the design and development of the MSM 9801 IMAX 65mm/15 perf production motion picture camera.

To Alvy Ray Smith, Ed Catmull, Thomas Porter and Tom Duff for their pioneering inventions in Digital Image Compositing.

(Technical Achievement Award)

To Pascal Chedeville for the design of the L.C. Concept Digital Sound System for motion picture exhibition.

To James Deas of the Warner Bros. Studio Facility for the design and subsequent development of an Automated Patchbay and Metering System for motion picture sound transfer and dubbing operations.

To Clay Davis and John Carter of Todd AO for their pioneering efforts in creating an Automated Patchbay System for motion picture sound transfer and dubbing operations.

To Al Jensen, Chuck Headley, Jean Messner and Hazem Nabulsi of CEI Technology for producing a self-contained, flicker-free Color Video-Assist Camera.

To Peter Denz of Präzisions-Entwicklung Denz for developing a flicker-free Color Video-Assist Camera.

To David Pringle and Yan Zhong Fang for the design and development of “Lightning Strikes,” a flexible, high-performance electronic lightning effect system.

To BHP, Incorporated for their pioneering efforts in developing Digital Sound Printing Heads for motion pictures.

To Joe Finnegan (a.k.a. Joe Yrigoyen) for his pioneering work in developing the Air Ram for motion picture stunt effects.

To Gary Demos, David Ruhoff, Dan Cameron and Michelle Feraud for their pioneering efforts in the creation of the Digital Productions Digital Film Compositing System.

To Douglas Smythe, Lincoln Hu, Douglas S. Kay and Industrial Light and Magic for their pioneering efforts in the creation of the ILM Digital Film Compositing System.

To the Computer Film Company for their pioneering efforts in the creation of the CFC Digital Film Compositing System.

To Institut National Polytechnique de Toulouse for the concept; Kodak Pathe CTP Cine for the prototype; and Eclair Laboratories and Martineau Industries for the development and further implementation of the Toulouse Electrolytic Silver Recovery Cell.