26th NSFC Awards
January 5, 1992
Best Film:
Life Is Sweet
The 26th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 1992, honored the best filmmaking of 1991. [1] [2] [3] [4] [5] [6]
1. Life Is Sweet
2. Naked Lunch
3. Bugsy
1. David Cronenberg – Naked Lunch
2. Mike Leigh – Life Is Sweet
3. Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs
1. River Phoenix – My Own Private Idaho
2. Warren Beatty – Bugsy
3. Nick Nolte – The Prince of Tides
1. Alison Steadman – Life Is Sweet
2. Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs
3. Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise
1. Harvey Keitel – Thelma & Louise , Bugsy and Mortal Thoughts
2. Steven Hill – Billy Bathgate
3. Elliott Gould – Bugsy
1. Jane Horrocks – Life Is Sweet
2. Juliette Lewis – Cape Fear
3. Judy Davis – Naked Lunch
1. David Cronenberg – Naked Lunch
2. James Toback – Bugsy
3. Agnieszka Holland – Europa Europa
3. Calder Willingham – Rambling Rose
1. Roger Deakins – Barton Fink
2. Peter Suschitzky – Naked Lunch
3. Allen Daviau – Bugsy
1. The Double Life of Veronique (La double vie de Véronique)
2. The Vanishing (Spoorloos)
3. Europa Europa
1. Paris Is Burning
2. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
3. American Dream
3. Madonna: Truth or Dare
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