1996 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

The 22nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1996, were given in December 1996.

• Best Picture:

  • Secrets & Lies
  • Runner-up: Fargo

• Best Director:

  • Mike Leigh – Secrets & Lies
  • Runner-up: Joel Coen – Fargo

• Best Actor:

  • Geoffrey Rush – Shine
  • Runner-up: Eddie Murphy – The Nutty Professor

• Best Actress:

  • Brenda Blethyn – Secrets & Lies
  • Runner-up: Frances McDormand – Fargo

• Best Supporting Actor:

  • Edward Norton – Everyone Says I Love You, The People vs. Larry Flynt and Primal Fear
  • Runner-up: Armin Mueller-Stahl – Shine

• Best Supporting Actress:

  • Barbara Hershey – The Portrait of a Lady
  • Runner-up: Courtney Love – The People vs. Larry Flynt

• Best Screenplay:

  • Joel and Ethan Coen – Fargo
  • Runner-up: Joseph Tropiano and Stanley Tucci – Big Night

• Best Cinematography (tie):

  • Chris Menges – Michael Collins
  • John Seale – The English Patient

• Best Production Design (tie):

  • Brian Morris - Evita
  • Janet Patterson - The Portrait of a Lady

• Best Music Score:

  • Hal Willner and The Hey Hey Club Musicians – Kansas City
  • Runner-up: Elliot Goldenthal – Michael Collins

• Best Foreign-Language Film:

  • La Cérémonie • France/Germany
  • Runner-up: Lamerica • Italy/France/Switzerland

• Best Non-Fiction Film:

  • When We Were Kings
  • Runner-up: Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills

• Best Animation:

  • Nick Park (for his body of work, which includes: Creature Comforts, A Grand Day Out, The Wrong Trousers, and A Close Shave)

• The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:

  • Craig Baldwin – Sonic Outlaws

• New Generation Award:

  • Emily Watson – Breaking the Waves

• Career Achievement Award:

  • Roger Corman

• 22nd Annual Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards