National Society of Film Critics Awards 1991

26th NSFC Awards

January 5, 1992

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Best Film:
Life Is Sweet

The 26th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 1992, honored the best filmmaking of 1991.

Winners

Best Picture:

1. Life Is Sweet
2. Naked Lunch
3. Bugsy

Best Director:

1. David Cronenberg – Naked Lunch
2. Mike Leigh – Life Is Sweet
3. Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs

Best Actor:

1. River Phoenix – My Own Private Idaho
2. Warren Beatty – Bugsy
3. Nick Nolte – The Prince of Tides

Best Actress:

1. Alison Steadman – Life Is Sweet
2. Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs
3. Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Harvey Keitel – Thelma & Louise, Bugsy and Mortal Thoughts
2. Steven Hill – Billy Bathgate
3. Elliott Gould – Bugsy

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Jane Horrocks – Life Is Sweet
2. Juliette Lewis – Cape Fear
3. Judy Davis – Naked Lunch

Best Screenplay:

1. David Cronenberg – Naked Lunch
2. James Toback – Bugsy
3. Agnieszka Holland – Europa Europa
3. Calder Willingham – Rambling Rose

Best Cinematography:

1. Roger Deakins – Barton Fink
2. Peter Suschitzky – Naked Lunch
3. Allen Daviau – Bugsy

Best Foreign Language Film:

1. The Double Life of Veronique (La double vie de Véronique)
2. The Vanishing (Spoorloos)
3. Europa Europa

Best Documentary:

1. Paris Is Burning
2. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
3. American Dream
3. Madonna: Truth or Dare

Experimental Film:

• Archangel

Special Citation:

• Peter Delpeut – Lyrical Nitrate

External links

• Past Awards

References

• Film Critics' Award to 'Life Is Sweet' The New York Times
• National Film Critics Honor `Life Is Sweet` Chicago Tribune
• 'Life Is Sweet' is film critics' best of 1991 The Baltimore Sun
• Film critics select `Life Is Sweet' The Boston Globe
• SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS HONORS `LIFE IS SWEET' Kudos for Director Cronenberg Newsday