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■ LOS ANGELES (AP) — For-
k.s/ Gump, the surprise block-
' therebuster about a slow-witted
cludinggoutherner, won six Oscars on
■onday, including best picture.
, alongits star, Tom Hanks, became
1 generbnly the second performer to
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in as best actor two years in a
Robert Zemeckis won as best
erector for Gump, the surprise
urprisecblockbuster that was favored to
as, that win best picture as well,
lenwestj “I feel as though I’m stand-
itternomg on magic legs in a special
've froir [effects process that is too unbe-
lieveable to imagine and far too
torm4|costly to make a reality,” said
ivemirlan emotional Hanks, who won
om tli! last year as the lawyer dying of
j AIDS in Philadelphia.
velope Jessica Lange was named
stroii best actress for her role as a
ctedi'Afrustrated Army wife in Blue
liS/jy. Blue Sky took an unlikely
■ath to the Oscars: It was
shelved for three years because
fof studio financial troubles; its
prector, Tony Richardson, died
|efore it was released, and it
as a box-office flop despite
P 00< d reviews.
I “This is such a wonderful
honor, especially for a little
film that seemed to have no fu
ture,” said Lange, who previ
ously won a supporting award
for Tootsie.
Gump had drawn a near
record 13 Academy nominations
but was unable to turn the bak
er’s dozen nominations into
enough Oscars to challenge the
most honored film, Ben Hur,
which won 11 Academy Awards.
Gump, whose gross of more
than $317 million puts it in the
No. 4 spot on Hollywood’s list of
all-time top moneymakers, lost
in several technical categories
and also, as expected, for sup
porting actor, as Landau beat
out Gary Sinise, who played a
legless Vietnam veteran.
Dianne Wiest, the grandly
melodramatic stage star in Bul
lets Over Broadway, and Martin
Landau, a washed-up, drug-ad
dicted Bela Lugosi in Ed Wood,
won awards for supporting per
formances.
“God, what a night, what a
life, what a moment, what
everything!” a teary-eyed Lan
dau exclaimed. He thanked di
rector Tim Burton for giving
him “the part of my life” in the
quirky film about Wood, a
1950’s jmovie maker ranked af
fectionately by some as
the worst director
of all time
For Wiest, it
was the second
supporting
award — both
times in Woody Allen films.
Eight years ago she accepted
the Oscar for Hannah and Her
Sisters.
She hurried exuberantly to
the podium and announced, as
she began reading her accep-:
tance speech: “This is as sur
prising and marvelous as it
was the first time, although
this time I need glasses.”
Pulp Fiction took the origi
nal screenplay award for
Quentin Tarantino, who also
directed the dark gangster
comedy, and Roger Avary. For
rest Gump brought the best
adapted screenplay prize for
Eric Roth.
Technical awards were
spread over an unusually wide
field.
The Adventures of Priscilla,
Queen of the Desert took the
Oscar for costume design, Ed
Wood for makeup, Speed for
sound effects editing and
sound. Legends of the Fall for
cinematography and The Mad
ness of King George for art di
rection.
Disney’s The Lion King won
best original score and the ani
mated film’s “Can You Feel
the Love Tonight” by Elton
John and Tim Rice was
named best song.
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