Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 1996

Updated on Sep 24, 2024

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The 1st Florida Film Critics Circle Awards honoured the best in film for 1996.

Winners

Best Film:

Fargo

Runner-up: Breaking the Waves

Best Actor:

Geoffrey Rush - Shine

Runner-up: Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire

Best Actress:

Frances McDormand - Fargo

Runner-up: Brenda Blethyn - Secrets & Lies

Best Supporting Actor:

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

Runner-up: William H. Macy - Fargo

Best Supporting Actress:

Courtney Love - The People vs. Larry Flynt

Runner-up: Joan Allen - The Crucible

Best Director:

Joel Coen - Fargo

Best Screenplay:

Joel and Ethan Coen - Fargo

Best Cinematography:

John Seale - The English Patient

Best Foreign Language Film:

Ridicule • France

Best Newcomers:

Doug Liman (director) and Jon Favreau (actor/writer) - Swingers

Best Song:

"That Thing You Do" - That Thing You Do!

Golden Orange for Outstanding Contribution to Film:

The 15 African-American men who pooled their resources to finance Get on the Bus.

The Walt Disney Co., for standing up to protests concerning the content of its films by Chinese authorities and the Southern Baptist Convention.

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