31st NSFC Awards
Best Film:
Breaking the Waves
The 31st National Society of Film Critics Awards, given by the National Society of Film Critics on January 5, 1997, honored the best in film for 1996. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5]
1.
Breaking the Waves
2.
Secrets & Lies
3.
Dead Man
1.
Lars von Trier –
Breaking the Waves
2.
Mike Leigh –
Secrets & Lies
3.
Jim Jarmusch –
Dead Man
1.
Eddie Murphy –
The Nutty Professor
2.
Vincent D'Onofrio –
The Whole Wide World
3.
Geoffrey Rush –
Shine
1.
Emily Watson –
Breaking the Waves
2.
Brenda Blethyn –
Secrets & Lies
3.
Frances McDormand –
Fargo
3.
Lili Taylor –
I Shot Andy Warhol
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
1.
Barbara Hershey –
The Portrait of a Lady
2.
Renée Zellweger –
Jerry Maguire
3.
Kristin Scott Thomas –
The English Patient
1.
Albert Brooks and
Monica Johnson –
Mother
2.
Joseph Tropiano and
Stanley Tucci –
Big Night
3.
David O. Russell –
Flirting with Disaster
1.
Robby Müller –
Breaking the Waves and
Dead Man
2.
Chris Menges –
Michael Collins
3.
John Seale –
The English Patient
1.
La Cérémonie
2.
Lamerica
3.
Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)
1.
When We Were Kings
2.
Anne Frank Remembered
3.
Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills