I actually think Schindler's List was the best film of the 90s! :-) I think it didnt win BP because SL had won just 5 years earlier. But I think they made the right choice that year. Spielberg got a Directing Oscar but the film itself...with a mediocre and cliched script didn't win.
That film left me sitting in the theater long after the final credit rolled and the screen darkened. I was shaken, feeling like I had just been kicked in the stomach. In fact, because my wife chose not to see it, I felt the need to talk about my experience with someone who had, and was forced to go online to do so.