1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards Explained

17th LAFCA Awards
Date:	December 14, 1991
Award1 Type:	Best Picture
Award1 Winner:	Bugsy
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The 17th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 14 December 1991 and given on 21 January 1992.^[1]

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.

External links

17th Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Notes and References

News: Fox. David. 'Bugsy' Top Film for L.A. Critics. 28 December 2017. Los Angeles Times. 16 December 1991.