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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.