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]
Winners edit
Best Picture edit
1. Breaking the Waves
2. Secrets & Lies
3. Dead Man
Best Director edit
1. Lars von Trier – Breaking the Waves
2. Mike Leigh – Secrets & Lies
3. Jim Jarmusch – Dead Man
Best Actor edit
1. Eddie Murphy – The Nutty Professor
2. Vincent D'Onofrio – The Whole Wide World
3. Geoffrey Rush – Shine
Best Actress edit
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 edit
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 edit
1. Barbara Hershey – The Portrait of a Lady
2. Renée Zellweger – Jerry Maguire
3. Kristin Scott Thomas – The English Patient
Best Screenplay edit
1. Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson – Mother
2. Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci – Big Night
3. David O. Russell – Flirting with Disaster
Best Cinematography edit
1. Robby Müller – Breaking the Waves and Dead Man
2. Chris Menges – Michael Collins
3. John Seale – The English Patient
Best Foreign Language Film edit
1. La Cérémonie
2. Lamerica
3. Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)
Best Documentary edit
1. When We Were Kings
2. Anne Frank Remembered
3. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Special Citation edit
- James Katz and Robert A. Harris for their restoration of Alfred Hitchcock's classic film Vertigo.
References edit
- ^ "New Honors for 'Breaking the Waves'". Los Angeles Times. 6 January 1997. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Levy, Emanuel (5 January 1997). "U.S. crix make 'Waves' best pic, Murphy actor Crix awards to 'Waves'". Variety. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ "'Waves' Wins Critics' Vote". The New York Times. 7 January 1997. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Carr, Jay (6 January 1997). "'Breaking Waves' crests national critics' list". The Boston Globe. Archived from the original on 7 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2018.
- ^ Gerstel, Judy (6 January 1997). "Breaking The Waves sweeps awards". Toronto Star. Archived from the original on 11 March 2016. Retrieved 2 January 2018.