1991: Year in Review
The Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. My Own Private Idaho (dir: Gus Van Sant)

2. A Brighter Summer Day (dir: Edward Yang)

3. The Silence of the Lambs (dir: Jonathan Demme)

4. Paris Is Burning (dir: Jennie Livingston; US Release Date)

5. Barton Fink (dir: Joel Coen)

6. Slacker (dir: Richard Linklater)

7. The Double Life of Veronique (dir: Krzystof Kieslowski)

8. Europa Europa (dir: Agnieszka Holland; US Release Date)

9. Point Break (dir: Kathryn Bigelow)

10. City of Hope (dir: John Sayles)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Days of Being Wild (dir: Wong Kar-wai; US Release Date), Dogfight (dir: Nancy Savoca), Flirting (dir: John Duigan), JFK (dir: Oliver Stone), Hangin' with the Homeboys (dir: Joseph B. Vasquez), La Femme Nikita (dir: Luc Besson), Let Him Have It (dir: Peter Medark), Life is Sweet (dir: Mike Leigh), Lovers on the Bridge (dir: Leos Carax), The Man in the Moon (dir: Robert Mulligan), The Nasty Girl (dir: Michael Verhoeven; US Release Date), The Prince of the Tides (dir: Barbra Streisand), The Rapture (dir: Michael Tolkin), Terminator 2: Judgement Day (dir: James Cameron), Thelma & Louise (dir: Ridley Scott) and Until the End of the World (dir: Wim Wenders)

Best Film of the Year: My Own Private Idaho
Director: Gus Van Sant Producer: Laurie Parker
US Distributor: Fine Line Features

Best Director:
Gus Van Sant, My Own Private Idaho
2. Richard Linklater, Slacker
3. Edward Yang, A Brighter Summer Day
4. Joel Coen, Barton Fink
5. Jonathan Demme, The Silence of the Lambs

Best Actor:
River Phoenix, My Own Private Idaho AND Dogfight
2. Nick Nolte, The Prince of the Tides
3. Denzel Washington, Mississippi Masala
4. Christopher Eccleston, Let Him Have It
5. Albert Brooks, Defending Your Life

Best Actress:
Jodie Foster, The Silence of the Lambs
2. Alison Steadman, Life Is Sweet
3. Thandiwe Newton, Flirting
4. Mimi Rogers, The Rapture
5. Reese Witherspoon, The Man in the Moon 

Best Supporting Actor:
Anthony Hopkins, The Silence of the Lambs
2. John Goodman, Barton Fink
3. Samuel L. Jackson, Jungle Fever
4. Udo Kier, My Own Private Idaho
5. Chen Chang, A Brighter Summer Day

Best Supporting Actress:
Judy Davis, Barton Fink AND Naked Lunch
2. Jane Horrocks, Life is Sweet
3. Nicole Kidman, Flirting
4. Emily Warfield, The Man in the Moon
5. Sarah Jessica Parker, L.A. Story

Best Original Screenplay:
City of Hope — John Sayles
2. The Nasty Girl — Michael Verhoeven
3. Barton Fink – Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
4. Dogfight — Bob Comfort
5. Flirting — John Duigan

Best Adapted Screenplay:
A Brighter Summer Day — Edward Yang, Hung Hung, Mingtang Lai and Alex Yang
2. My Own Private Idaho – Gus Van Sant
3. JFK — Oliver Stone and Zachary Sklar
4. Europa Europa — Agnieszka Holland
5. The Silence of the Lambs – Ted Tally

Best Cinematography:
The Double Life of Veronique — Slawomir Idziak
2. Cape Fear — Freddie Francis
3. The Silence of the Lambs — Tak Fujimoto
4. A Brighter Summer Day — Hui Kung Chang and Longyu Zhang
5. Europa Europa — Jacek Petrycki

Best Original Score:
The Double Life of Veronique — Zbignew Preisner
2. Thelma & Louise – Hans Zimmer
3. The Silence of the Lambs — Howard Shore
4. The Fisher King — George Fenton
5. Until the End of the World – Graeme Revell

Best Film Editing:
JFK – Joe Hutshing and Pietro Scalia
2. Point Break – Howard Smith
3. Silence of the Lambs — Craig McKay
4. City of Hope — John Sayles
5. My Own Private Idaho – Curtiss Clayton

Best Production Design:
The Silence of the Lambs — Kristi Zea and Karen O’Hara
2. Naked Lunch — Carol Spier and Elinor Rose Galbraith
3. The Addams Family – Richard Macdonald, Cheryal Kearney and John Sweeney
4. Barton Fink – Dennis Gassner and Nancy Haigh
5. The Nasty Girl — Hubert Popp

Best Costume Design:
Bugsy — Albert Wolsky 
2. The Addams Family — Ruth Myers
3. Hook — Anthony Powell
4. The Rocketeer — Marilyn Vance
5. Delicatessen — Valerie Pozzo di Borgo

Best Visual Effects
Terminator 2: Judgement Day
2. Backdraft
3. The Rocketeer

Best Sound
Point Break
2. Terminator 2: Judgement Day
3. JFK

Best Makeup
Naked Lunch
2. The Addams Family
3. Delicatessen

Best Documentary Feature:
Jennie Livingston, Paris Is Burning

Best Animated Feature:
Kirk Wise and Gary Trousdale, Beauty and the Beast

Best Ensemble Cast: 
A Brighter Summer Day

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Richard Linklater, Slacker

Best Ensemble Cast: A Brighter Summer Day (dir: Edward Yang; in alphabetical order): (in alphabetical order): Chang Chen, Chang Han, Chang Hsui-chiung, Chang Kuo-chi, Hung-Yu Chen, Elaine Jin, Lawrence Ko, Lai Fan-yun, Lin Hong-ming, Tan Chih-kang, Wang Chuan, Wong Chi-zan, and Lisa Yang

Best First Feature: Richard Linklater, Slacker

RECAP

W I N S :

My Own Private Idaho — 3, The Silence of the Lambs — 3,
A Brighter Summer Day — 2, The Double Life of Veronique — 2, Naked Lunch — 2, Barton Fink — 1, Beauty and the Beast — 1, Bugsy — 1, City of Hope — 1, Dogfight — 1, JFK — 1, Paris Is Burning — 1, Point Break — 1, Slacker — 1, Terminator 2: Judgement Day — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

The Silence of the Lambs — 9,
Barton Fink — 6, A Brighter Summer Day — 6, My Own Private Idaho — 6, The Addams Family — 3, City of Hope — 3, Europa Europa — 3, Flirting — 3, JFK — 3, Naked Lunch — 3, Point Break — 3, Slacker — 3, Delicatessen — 2, Dogfight — 2, The Double Life of Veronique — 2, Life Is Sweet— 2, Man in the Moon — 2, The Nasty Girl — 2, Paris Is Burning – 2, The Rocketeer — 2, Terminator 2: Judgement Day — 2,

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