5 Best Lists

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Mike Benedetti's:

5 Best Films of 1996

1. Chungking Express (Asian release 1994)
2. Hamlet (Kenneth Branagh)
3. Dead Man
4. Fargo
5. Police Story 4 (released in US 1997 as First Strike) (Jackie Chan)

5 Acting Awards

Best Actor: Muhammad Ali (When We Were Kings)
Best Actress: Brenda Blethyn (Secrets & Lies)
Best Supporting Actor: TIE between Andri Braugher (Get on the Bus) and Geoffrey Rush (Shine)
Best Supporting Actress: Courtney Love (The People vs. Larry Flynt)
Best Performance by an Animated Character: Beavis (Beavis and Butt-Head Do America)

5 Disappointments

1. Mars Attacks!
2. Lost Highway
3. Crash
4. Girl 6
5. James and the Giant Peach

5 Pleasant Surprises

1. From Dusk Till Dawn (my #6 film of the year)
2. Original Gangstas
3. Beavis and Butt-Head Do America
4. Scream
5. The Bird Cage (it made me cry...)

5 Coolest People in "When We Were Kings"

1. Ali
2. James Brown
3. George Foreman
4. That kinda stoned concert promoter dude
5. Joe Sample

5 Best Action Flicks

1. Police Story 4
2. From Dusk Till Dawn
3. The Frighteners
4. When We Were Kings
5. Independence Day

5 Technical Awards

Best Cinematography: Chungking Express
Best Art Direction: Brain Candy
Best Visual Effects: The Frighteners
Best Visual Effect: NYC Blowing Up--Independence Day
Best Sound: Lost Highway

Mike Benedetti