1991 National Society of Film Critics Awards
# 1991 National Society of Film Critics Awards

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.

## Winners

### Best Picture

1. Life Is Sweet 2. Naked Lunch 3. Bugsy

### Best Director

1. David Cronenberg – Naked Lunch 2. Mike Leigh – Life Is Sweet 3. Jonathan Demme – The Silence of the Lambs

### Best Actor

1. River Phoenix – My Own Private Idaho 2. Warren Beatty – Bugsy 3. Nick Nolte – The Prince of Tides

### Best Actress

1. Alison Steadman – Life Is Sweet 2. Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs 3. Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise

### Best Supporting Actor

1. Harvey Keitel – Thelma & Louise, Bugsy and Mortal Thoughts 2. Steven Hill – Billy Bathgate 3. Elliott Gould – Bugsy

### Best Supporting Actress

1. Jane Horrocks – Life Is Sweet 2. Juliette Lewis – Cape Fear 3. Judy Davis – Naked Lunch

### Best Screenplay

1. David Cronenberg – Naked Lunch 2. James Toback – Bugsy 3. Agnieszka Holland – Europa Europa 3. Calder Willingham – Rambling Rose

### Best Cinematography

1. Roger Deakins – Barton Fink 2. Peter Suschitzky – Naked Lunch 3. Allen Daviau – Bugsy

### Best Foreign Language Film

1. The Double Life of Veronique (La double vie de Véronique) 2. The Vanishing (Spoorloos) 3. Europa Europa

### Best Documentary

1. Paris Is Burning 2. Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse 3. American Dream 3. Madonna: Truth or Dare

### Experimental Film

* Archangel

### Special Citation

* Peter Delpeut – Lyrical Nitrate
