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]
1. Breaking the Waves 2. Secrets & Lies 3. Dead Man
1. Lars von Trier – Breaking the Waves 2. Mike Leigh – Secrets & Lies 3. Jim Jarmusch – Dead Man
1. Eddie Murphy – The Nutty Professor 2. Vincent D'Onofrio – The Whole Wide World 3. Geoffrey Rush – Shine
1. Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves 2. Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies 3. Frances McDormand – Fargo 3. Lili Taylor – I Shot Andy Warhol
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
1. Barbara Hershey – The Portrait of a Lady 2. Renée Zellweger – Jerry Maguire 3. Kristin Scott Thomas – The English Patient
1. Albert Brooks and Monica Johnson – Mother 2. Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci – Big Night 3. David O. Russell – Flirting with Disaster
1. Robby Müller – Breaking the Waves and Dead Man 2. Chris Menges – Michael Collins 3. John Seale – The English Patient
1. La Cérémonie 2. Lamerica 3. Chungking Express (Chung Hing sam lam)
1. When We Were Kings 2. Anne Frank Remembered 3. Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills