National Society of Film Critics Awards 1996

31st NSFC Awards

January 5, 1996

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Best Film:
Breaking the Waves

The 31st National Society of Film Critics Awards, given by the National Society of Film Critics on 5 January 1996, honored the best in film for 1996.

Winners

Best Picture:

1. Breaking the Waves
2. Secrets & Lies
3. Dead Man

Best Director:

1. Lars von Trier – Breaking the Waves
2. Mike Leigh – Secrets & Lies
3. Jim Jarmusch – Dead Man

Best Actor:

1. Eddie Murphy – The Nutty Professor
2. Vincent D'Onofrio – The Whole Wide World
3. Geoffrey Rush – Shine

Best Actress:

1. Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves
2. Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies
3. Frances McDormand – Fargo
3. Lili Taylor – I Shot Andy Warhol

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Martin Donovan – The Portrait of a Lady
1. Tony Shalhoub – Big Night
3. Edward Norton – Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flynt and Primal Fear

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Barbara Hershey – The Portrait of a Lady
2. Renée Zellweger – Jerry Maguire
3. Kristin Scott Thomas – The English Patient

Best Screenplay:

1. Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson – Mother
2. Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci – Big Night
3. David O. Russell – Flirting with Disaster

Best Cinematography:

1. Robby Müller – Breaking the Waves and Dead Man
2. Chris Menges – Michael Collins
3. John Seale – The English Patient

Best Foreign Language Film:

1. La Cérémonie
2. Lamerica
3. Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)

Best Documentary:

1. When We Were Kings
2. Anne Frank Remembered
3. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Special Citation:

• James Katz and Robert A. Harris for their restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Vertigo.

External links

• Past Awards

References

• New Honors for 'Breaking the Waves' Los Angeles Times
• 'Waves' Wins Critics' Vote The New York Times
• `Breaking Waves' crests national critics' list The Boston Globe
• Breaking The Waves sweeps awards Toronto Star