The Year in Film: 1991

Best Picture

#1: The Double Life of Veronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
#2: Poison (Todd Haynes)
#3: The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme)
#4: JFK (Oliver Stone)
#5: Beauty and the Beast (Gary Trousdale and Kirk Wise)
#6: An Angel at My Table (Jane Campion)
#7: A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris)
#8: Europa (Lars von Trier)
#9: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Fax Bahr and George Hickenlooper)
#10: Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg)

Honorable mentions: Boyz N The Hood (John Singleton), Truly Madly Deeply (Anthony Minghella), Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron), Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese), 35 Up (Michael Apted), Addams Family, The (Barry Sonnenfeld), What About Bob? (Frank Oz).

Best Director #1: Oliver Stone (JFK) #2: Jonathan Demme (The Silence of the Lambs) #3: David Cronenberg (Naked Lunch) #4: George Sluizer (The Vanishing) #5: Warren Beatty (Bugsy)

Best Actor #1: Anthony Hopkins (The Silence of the Lambs) #2: Warren Beatty (Bugsy) #3: John Gielgud (Prospero’s Book) #4: Robert De Niro (Cape Fear) #5: John Turturro (Barton Fink)

Best Actress #1: Jodie Foster (The Silence of the Lambs) #2: Annette Bening (Bugsy) #3: Kerry Fox (An Angel at My Table) #4: Alison Steadman (Life is Sweet) #5: Susan Sarandon (Thelma & Louise)

Best Supporting Actor #1: Gary Oldman (JFK) #2: Bernard-Pierre Donnadieu (The Vanishing) #3: Ben Kingsley (Bugsy) #4: Ian Holm (Naked Lunch) #5: Harvey Keitel (Bugsy)

Best Supporting Actress #1: Judy Davis (Naked Lunch) #2: Sissy Spacek (JFK) #3: Jane Horrocks (Life is Sweet) #4: Jessica Tandy (Fried Green Tomatoes) #5: Mercedes Ruehl (The Fisher King)

Best Original Screenplay #1: Bugsy (James Toback) #2: Life is Sweet (Mike Leigh) #3: The Vanishing (Tim Krabbé and George Sluizer) #4: Barton Fink (Joel and Ethan Coen) #5: Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton)

Best Adapted Screenplay #1: The Silence of the Lambs (Ted Tally) #2: JFK (Oliver Stone and Zachary Skylar) #3: An Angel at My Table (Laura Jones) #4: Cape Fear (Wesley Strick) #5: The Commitments (Dick Clement, Roddy Doyle, Ian La Frenais)

Best Cinematography #1: Robert Richardson (JFK) #2: Tak Fujimoto (The Silence of the Lambs) #3: Toni Kuhn (The Vanishing) #4: Allen Daviau (Bugsy) #5: Sacha Vierny (Prospero’s Book)

Best Film Editing #1: JFK #2: The Silence of the Lambs #3: Cape Fear #4: Boyz N the Hood #5: Terminator 2

Best Original Score #1: JFK (John Williams) #2: The Silence of the Lambs (Howard Shore) #1: Beauty and the Beast (Allen Menken) #3: Bugsy (Ennio Morricone) #4: The Vanishing (Henny Vrienten)

Best Original Song #1: “Tears in Heaven” (Rush) #2: “Beauty and the Beast” (Beauty and the Beast) #3: “Be Our Guest” (Beauty and the Beast) #4: “(Everything I Do) I Do It For You” (Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves) #5: “Belle” (Beauty and the Beast)

Best Production Design #1: The Addams Family #2: Prospero’s Book #3: Barton Fink #4: An Angel at My Table #5: Bugsy

Best Costume Design #1: Bugsy #2: An Angel at My Table #3: Barton Fink #4: Naked Lunch #5: JFK

Best Makeup #1: The Silence of the Lambs #2: Naked Lunch #3: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country #4: JFK #5: Terminator 2

Best Sound #1: Terminator 2 #2: The Silence of the Lambs #3: JFK #4: Backdraft #5: Naked Lunch

Best Visual Effects #1: Terminator 2 #2: Backdraft #3: Star Trek VI: The Undiscovered Country #4: Naked Lunch #5: Cape Fear

–The Honorary Awards–

Best Breakthrough Performance – Male Cuba Gooding, Jr. (Boyz N the Hood)

Best Breakthrough Performance – Female Kerry Fox (An Angel at My Table)

Best First Feature John Singleton (Boyz N the Hood)