STN Entertainment
MI&
Don't forget to cast your votes in our
fi rst annual competition.
THE RULES
• Choose the entry in each cate-
gory that you believe will win
the Oscar. Check one box only
in each category. (You will be
disqualified if any categories
are left blank or if there is more
than one box checked per cat-
egory.)
• Mail your entry form to Atten-
tion: Oscar, The Jewish News
27676 Franklin Road, South-
field, MI 48034; or fax to (810)
354-6069 (no phone calls).
JEWISH NEWS OSCAR CONTEST
the April 4 issue.
Jewish News
Oscar Contest
• Entries must be received no lat-
er than Wednesday, March 19.
• One entry per person (you must
use the entry form, but photo-
copies are acceptable).
• Entrants must be at least 18
years of age.
• If the event there are more win-
ners than prizes, winners will
be drawn at random from those
entries with the most correct
answers.
• Winners will be announced in
• Employees of The Jewish News,
Olympia Entertainment, the
AMC Maple 3 Theatre and
their families are not eligible to
enter.
Best Picture
❑ The English
Patient
❑ Fargo
❑ Jerry Maguire
❑ Secrets and Lies
❑ Shine
THE PRIZES
1 Grand Prize winner will
receive:
Best Actor
• Concert/Theater Tickets for 4
(concert to be announced)
❑ Tom Cruise,
Jerry Maguire
❑ Ralph Fiennes,
The English
Patient
❑ Woody Harrelson,
The People vs.
Larry Flynt
❑ Geoffrey Rush,
Shine
❑ Billy Bob
Thornton, Sling
Blade
• 8 AMC Maple 3 Theatre tick-
ets
• The opportunity to review an
upcoming film for our JN En-
tertainment Reviews page. (op-
tional)
10 Runners Up will receive:
• 4 AMC Maple 3 Theatre tick-
ets each
Best Actress
cur on a crowded free-
Rated R
jewel heist gone wrong for way, with ridiculous
Jack Nicholson and stunt driving and gra-
Michael Caine is the basis tuitous mass destruc-
of the complex thriller tion of automobiles.
There's more deduc-
Blood and Wine. And though the
film is full of twists and turns, tion than fisticuffs, more
the plot never seems contrived. reason than gunplay.
As each character
Alex Gates (Nicholson) is a
searches,
we learn
wine merchant who's hit hard
times: Business is so bad, he about that character,
can't keep his credit cards. His and not one is all good
home life isn't much better, with or all bad.
Victor, who's con-
wife Suzanne, played by Judy
Davis (My Brilliant Career), stantly coughing up
Husbands and Wives), fed up blood, doesn't want to
with his lies and infidelities, and die a poor man in a
stepson Jason, played by prison hospital or char-
Stephen Dorff (Backbeat, City of ity ward. Alex wants a
Industry), fed up with working second chance with his
new girlfriend. Jason
for him.
Alex's solution: steal a million- wants to get even with
dollar diamond necklace with the Alex, and to live his life
help of seedy, tubercular ex-con on a boat, as a fisher-
Victor Spansky (Caine), sell it man or doing charter
and start over with Gabrielle cruises. And Gabrielle, Jack Nicholson and Michael Caine team up in Blood
(Jennifer Lopez), Alex's young a Cuban refugee, wants and Wine.
both Alex and security.
mistress.
The entire cast works
warumbes and empty Tarantino
Complications arise when
well
as an ensemble. It's espe- imitations. The characters be-
Suzanne and Jason leave Alex,
cially nice to see Jack have more or less like real
taking the suitcase in
Nicholson and Michael people. Their actions have real-
which the necklace was
MOVIES
Caine acting without world consequences: If you're hit
hidden. When Jason
hamming
it up too much. in the head with a stick, you're
discovers it in the lug-
gage's lining, he decides to keep And Judy Davis shines in a part probably going to need stitches;
that could have been little more if your car flips over, you're not
it.
While everyone is trying to ei- than a standard betrayed and likely to just get up and walk
away.
ther find the necklace or hang on bitter wife.
But it's the direction of Bob
This is a thriller that doesn't
to it, the story manages to avoid
the usual cliches. Although there Rafelson (who also directed insult your intelligence, and
is a brief car chase, it doesn't oc- Nicholson in Five Easy Pieces) that's the best thrill of all.
and the screenplay by Nick Vil-
liers and Alison Cross that dis-
Stephen Bitsoli is the former
tinguishes Blood and Wine from
entertainment editor of Detroit
other post-Body Heat film noir
— Stephen Bitsoli
Monthly magazine.
C)Q)
,
COU RTESY OF FOX SEARCHLIG HT PICTU RES
Blood And Wine'
❑ Brenda Blethyn,
Secrets and Lies
❑ Diane Keaton,
Marvin's Room
❑ Frances
McDormand,
Fargo
❑ Kristin Scott
Thomas, The
English Patient
❑ Emily Watson,
Breaking the
Waves
Best Supporting'Ador
❑ Cuba Gooding
Jr., Jerry Maguire
❑ William H.
Macy, Fargo
❑ Armin Mueller-
Stahl, Shine
❑ Edward Norton,
Primal Fear
❑ James Woods,
Ghosts of
Mississippi
Best Supporting Actress
❑
❑
❑
❑
❑
Joan Allen, The
Crucible
Lauren Bacall,
The Mirror Has
Two Faces
Juliette Binoche,
The English
Patient
Barbara Hershey,
The Portrait of a
Lady
Marianne Jean-
Baptiste, Secrets
and Lies
Best Director
❑ Anthony
Minghella, The
English Patient
❑ Joel Coen, Fargo
❑ Milos Forman, The
People Vs. Larry
Flynt
❑ Mike Leigh,
Secrets and Lies
❑ Scott Hicks, Shine
Best Foreign- Fin'
❑ A Chef in Love,
Georgia
❑ Kolya, Czech
Republic
❑ The Other Side of
Sunday, Norway
❑ Prisoner of the
Mountains, Russia
❑ Ridicule, France
Best Screenplay (written
directly for the screen)
❑ Ethan Coen, Fargo
❑ Cameron Crowe,
Jerry Maguire
❑ John Sayles, Lone
Star
❑ Mike Leigh,
Secrets and Lies
❑ Jan Hardi & Scott
Hicks, Shine
Best Screenplay (based
on material previou_ sly
produced or published)
❑ Arthur Miller, The
Crucible
❑ Anthony
Minghella, The
English Patient
❑ Kenneth Branagh,
Hamlet
❑ Billy Bob
Thornton, Sling
Blade
❑ John Hodge,
Trainspotting
Art Direction
❑ The Birdcage
❑ The English
Patient
❑ Evita
❑ Hamlet
❑ William
Shakespeare's
Romeo and Juliet
Gnematography
❑ The English
Patient
❑ Evita
❑ Fargo
❑ Fly Away Home
❑ Michael Collins
Sound
❑ The English
Patient
❑ Evita
❑ Independence Day
❑ The Rock
❑ Twister
Sound Effects [(king
❑ Daylight
❑ Eraser
❑ The Ghost and the
Darkness
Original Song
❑ "Because You
Loved Me," from
Up Close and
Personal
❑ "For the First
Time," from One
Fine Day
❑ "I Finally Found
Someone," from
The Mirror Has
Two Faces
❑ 'That Thing You
Do!" from That
Thing You Do!
❑ "You Must Love
Me," from Evita
Costume
❑ Angels and Insects
❑ Emma
❑ The English
Patient
❑ Hamlet
❑ The Portrait of a
Lady
rim Editing
❑ The English
Patient
❑ Evitd
❑ Fargo
❑ Jerry Maguire
❑ Shine
Makeup
❑ Ghosts of
Mississippi
❑ The Nutty
Professor
❑ Star Trek: First
Contact
Visual Effects
❑ Dragonheart
❑ Independence Day
❑ Twister
TIEBREAKER
Documentary Feature
❑ The Line King:
The Al Hirschfield
Story
❑ Mandela
❑ Suzanne Farrell:
Elusive Muse
❑ Tell the Truth and
Run: George Seldes
and the American
Press
❑ When We Were
Kings
Name -
Address -
Daytime
Phone.