1996 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

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Date December 1996		Best Picture Secrets & Lies

The 22nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1996, were given in December 1996.

Winners

Best Picture:

Secrets & Lies

Runner-up: Fargo

Best Director:

Mike Leigh – Secrets & Lies

Runner-up: Joel Coen – Fargo

Best Actor:

Geoffrey Rush – Shine

Runner-up: Eddie Murphy – The Nutty Professor

Best Actress:

Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies

Runner-up: Frances McDormand – Fargo

Best Supporting Actor:

Edward Norton – Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flynt and Primal Fear

Runner-up: Armin Mueller-Stahl – Shine

Best Supporting Actress:

Barbara Hershey – The Portrait of a Lady

Runner-up: Courtney Love – The People vs. Larry Flynt

Best Screenplay:

Joel and Ethan Coen – Fargo

Runner-up: Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci – Big Night

Best Cinematography (tie):

Chris Menges – Michael Collins

John Seale – The English Patient

Best Production Design (tie):

Brian Morris - Evita

Janet Patterson - The Portrait of a Lady

Best Music Score:

Hal Willner and The Hey Hey Club Musicians – Kansas City

Runner-up: Elliot Goldenthal – Michael Collins

Best Foreign-Language Film:

La Cérémonie • France/Germany

Runner-up: Lamerica • Italy/France/Switzerland

Best Non-Fiction Film:

When We Were Kings

Runner-up: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

Best Animation:

Nick Park (for his body of work, which includes: Creature Comforts, A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, and A Close Shave)

The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:

Craig Baldwin – Sonic Outlaws

New Generation Award:

Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves

Career Achievement Award:

Roger Corman

References

1996 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Wikipedia

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