Favorite Movie Scenes (1st)

Best One-Liner or Camp Quote in Movie History (First Awards)

Winner

  • Steel Magnolias (1989) [“If you don’t have anything nice to say about anyone, come sit next to me.” – Clairee Belcher]

Additional Nominees

  • The Women (1939) [“There’s a name for you ladies. But it isn’t used in polite society … outside of a kennel.” – Crystal Allen]
  • Mommie Dearest (1981) [“I’m not mad at you, I’m mad at the dirt!” – Joan Crawford]
  • The Lion in Winter (1968) [“Of course he has a knife, he always has a knife, we all have knives! It’s 1183 and we’re barbarians!” – Eleanor of Aquitaine]
  • Gone with the Wind (1939) [“As God is my witness I will never be hungry again!” – Scarlett O’Hara]

Best Action or Chase Sequence in Movie History (First Awards)

Winner

  • Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981) [Indiana Jones and Nazi chase under the truck]

Additional Nominees

  • Foul Play (1978) [San Francisco hills chase]
  • The General (1926) [Train chase]
  • Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [Battle of Hoth]
  • What’s Up Doc? (1972) [Bicycle chase through San Francisco]

Best Fight Sequence in Movie History (First Awards)

Winner

  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) [Bar fight]
  • Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (2000) [Nighttime chase/fight between the two women (first fight)]

Additional Nominees

  • Aliens (1986) [Sigourney Weaver v. the Mother Alien]
  • The Matrix (1999) [The whole movie]
  • Star Wars: Episode V – The Empire Strikes Back (1980) [Luke v. Vader]
  • Superman II (1980) [Superman’s fight in the diner after he lost his powers]

Best Screen Kiss in Movie History (First Awards)

Winner

  • From Here to Eternity (1953) [The beach kiss]
  • Gone with the Wind (1939) [Scarlett and Rhett]
  • My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) [Daniel Day Lewis & Saeed Jaffrey in the alley]

Additional Nominees

  • A Little Romance (1979) [Gondola under the bridge in Venice]
  • Never Been Kissed (1999) [Final scene on the baseball diamond]
  • Trick (1999) [Ending by the subway station]

Best Sex Scene in Movie History (First Awards)

Winner

  • Bound (1996) [The first time the two women have sex]
  • My Beautiful Laundrette (1985) [Daniel Day-Lewis & Saeed Jaffrey in the laundrette]

Additional Nominees

  • American Pie (1999) [Pie scene]
  • The Name of the Rose (1986) [Christian Slater and the scullery maid]

Most Romantic Scene in Movie History (First Awards)

Winner

  • Casablanca (1942) [At the airplane]

Additional Nominees

  • Another Country (1984) [Picnic scene]
  • The Sound of Music (1965) [“I must have done something right” song]

Saddest Scene in Movie History (First Awards)

Winner

  • Longtime Companion (1989) [Bruce Davison letting his lover go]
  • Bambi (1942) [Bambi’s mother dies]
  • Sophie’s Choice (1982) [Sophie’s flashback about making her choice]
  • Terms of Endearment (1983) [Debra Winger’s death]

Additional Nominees

  • El Norte (1983) [Rosa dies]

Most Emotionally Moving Moment in Movie History (First Awards)

Winner

  • Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) [Matthew’s reading of the W.H. Auden poem in his eulogy for Gareth]

Additional Nominees

  • Longtime Companion (1989) [Fantasy reunion on the beach (closing sequence)]
  • Norma Rae (1979) [On the table rallying the workers to strike]
  • Without a Trace (1983) [They find the kid]

Scariest Scene in Movie History (First Awards)

Winner

  • Psycho (1960) [The shower scene]

Additional Nominees

  • Alien (1979) [The alien kills the captain in air shaft]
  • Fatal Attraction (1987) [Glenn Close pops up in the bath]
  • The Silence of the Lambs (1991) [Shootout in the blacked out basement]
  • Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962) [Jane catches Blanche on the phone]
  • Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971) [Tunnel scene]

Most Effective Use of a Song or Background Music (First Awards)

Winner

  • Psycho (1960) [Scoring (shower scene)]

Additional Nominees

  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [Also Sprach Zarathustra in the opening scene]
  • 2001: A Space Odyssey (1968) [Blue Danube while approaching the space station]
  • Jaws (1975) [Scoring (shark’s theme)]
  • Living Out Loud (1998) [If you want me, say it (lesbian dance scene)]
  • Vertigo (1958) [Score]