1992 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
# 1992 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 18th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1992, were given on 12 December 1992.

## Winners

* Best Picture:
   * Unforgiven
   * Runner-up: The Player
* Best Director:
   * Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven
   * Runner-up: Robert Altman – The Player
* Best Actor:
   * Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven
   * Runner-up: Denzel Washington – Malcolm X
* Best Actress:
   * Emma Thompson – Howards End
   * Runner-up: Alfre Woodard – Passion Fish
* Best Supporting Actor:
   * Gene Hackman – Unforgiven
   * Runner-up: Sydney Pollack – Husbands and Wives, Death Becomes Her, and The Player
* Best Supporting Actress:
   * Judy Davis – Husbands and Wives
   * Runner-up: Miranda Richardson – The Crying Game, Damage, and Enchanted April
* Best Screenplay:
   * David Webb Peoples – Unforgiven
   * Runner-up: Neil Jordan – The Crying Game
* Best Cinematography:
   * Zhao Fai – Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)
   * Runner-up: Jack N. Green – Unforgiven
* Best Music Score:
   * Zbigniew Preisner – Damage
   * Runner-up: Mark Isham – A River Runs Through It
* Best Foreign Film:
   * The Crying Game • UK/Japan
   * Runner-up: Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua) • China/Hong Kong/Taiwan
* Best Non-Fiction Film (tie):
   * Black Harvest
   * Threat
* Best Animation:
   * Aladdin
* Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
   * Sadie Benning – It Wasn’t Love
* New Generation Award:
   * Carl Franklin – One False Move
* Career Achievement Award:
   * Budd Boetticher
