1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

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The 61st New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1995. The winners were announced on 14 December 1995 and the awards were given on 7 January 1996.

Winners

Best Actor:

Nicolas Cage - Leaving Las Vegas

Runners-up: Anthony Hopkins - Nixon, Jeff Bridges - Wild Bill and John Travolta - Get Shorty

Best Actress:

Jennifer Jason Leigh - Georgia

Runners-up: Elisabeth Shue - Leaving Las Vegas, Julianne Moore - Safe, Nicole Kidman - To Die For, Meryl Streep - The Bridges of Madison County and Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility

Best Cinematography:

Lü Yue - Shanghai Triad

Best Director:

Ang Lee - Sense and Sensibility

Runners-up: Mike Figgis - Leaving Las Vegas and Todd Haynes - Safe

Best Documentary:

Crumb

Best Film:

Leaving Las Vegas

Runners-up: Sense and Sensibility and Safe

Best Foreign Language Film:

Wild Reeds (Les Roseaux sauvages) • France

Runners-up: Through the Olive Trees (Zire darakhatan zeyton) • Iran and Lamerica • Italy

Best New Director:

Chris Noonan - Babe

Runners-up: Lodge Kerrigan - Clean, Shaven and Noah Baumbach - Kicking and Screaming

Best Screenplay:

Emma Thompson - Sense and Sensibility

Runner-up: Amy Heckerling - Clueless

Best Supporting Actor:

Kevin Spacey - Swimming with Sharks, The Usual Suspects, Outbreak and Seven

Runner-up: Don Cheadle - Devil in a Blue Dress

Best Supporting Actress:

Mira Sorvino - Mighty Aphrodite

Runner-up: Joan Allen - Nixon

References

1995 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Wikipedia

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