1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
# 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 17th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 14 December 1991 and given on 21 January 1992.

## Winners

* Best Picture:
   * Bugsy
   * Runner-up: The Fisher King
* Best Director:
   * Barry Levinson – Bugsy
   * Runner-up: Terry Gilliam – The Fisher King
* Best Actor:
   * Nick Nolte – The Prince of Tides
   * Runner-up: Warren Beatty – Bugsy
* Best Actress:
   * Mercedes Ruehl – The Fisher King
   * Runner-up: Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs
* Best Supporting Actor:
   * Michael Lerner – Barton Fink
   * Runner-up: Robert Duvall – Rambling Rose
* Best Supporting Actress:
   * Jane Horrocks – Life Is Sweet
   * Runner-up: Amanda Plummer – The Fisher King
* Best Screenplay:
   * James Toback – Bugsy
   * Runner-up: Richard LaGravenese – The Fisher King
* Best Cinematography:
   * Roger Deakins – Barton Fink and Homicide
   * Runner-up: John J. Campbell and Eric Alan Edwards – My Own Private Idaho
* Best Music Score:
   * Zbigniew Preisner – The Double Life of Veronique (La double vie de Véronique), At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Europa Europa
   * Runner-up: Howard Shore – The Silence of the Lambs and Naked Lunch
* Best Foreign Film:
   * La Belle Noiseuse • France/Switzerland
   * Runner-up: Europa Europa • Germany/France/Poland
* Best Non-Fiction Film:
   * American Dream
* Best Animation:
   * Beauty and the Beast
* Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
   * Jon Jost – All the Vermeers in New York
* New Generation Award:
   * John Singleton – Boyz n the Hood
* Career Achievement Award (tie):
   * Elmer Bernstein
   * Vincent Price
* Special Citation:
   * The National Film Board of Canada on the 50th anniversary of its animation unit.
