1992: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. The Long Day Closes (dir: Terence Davies)

2. Raise the Red Lantern (dir: Zhang Yimou; US Release Date)

3. Deep Cover (dir: Bill Duke)

4. Unforgiven (dir: Clint Eastwood)

5. The Match Factory Girl (dir: Aki Kaurismäki; US Release Date)

6. Malcolm X (dir: Spike Lee)

7. Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (dir: David Lynch)

8. The Crying Game (dir: Neil Jordan)

9. Close-Up (dir: Abbas Kiarostami; US Release Date)

10. Howards End (dir: James Ivory)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Basic Instinct (dir: Paul Verhoeven), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (dir: Francis Ford Coppola), Candyman (dir: Bernard Rose), Glengarry Glen Ross (dir: James Foley), Golden Eighties (dir: Chantal Akerman; US Release Date), Husbands and Wives (dir: Woody Allen), Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. (dir: Leslie Harris) The Last of the Mohicans (dir: Michael Mann), Light Sleeper (dir: Paul Schrader), The Living End (dir: Gregg Araki), One False Move (dir: Carl Franklin), Passion Fish (dir: John Sayles), The Player (dir: Robert Altman), Poison (dir: Todd Haynes), Surviving Desire (dir: Hal Hartley) and White Men Can’t Jump (dir: Ron Shelton)

Best Film of the Year: The Long Day Closes
Director: Terence Davies Producers: Olivia Stewart, Angela Topping
US Distributor: Sony Pictures Classics

Best Director:
Terence Davies, The Long Day Closes
2.Clint Eastwood, Unforgiven
3. Spike Lee, Malcolm X
4. Bill Duke, Deep Cover
5. Zhang Yimou, Raise the Red Lantern

Best Actor:
Denzel Washington, Malcolm X
2. Willem Dafoe, Light Sleeper
3. Harvey Keitel, Bad Lieutenant
4. Laurence Fishburne, Deep Cover
5. Bill Paxton, One False Move

Best Actress:
Sheryl Lee, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me
2. Gong Li, Raise the Red Lantern
3. Mia Farrow, Husbands and Wives
4. Emma Thompson, Howards End
5. Ariyan A. Johnson, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.

Best Supporting Actor:
Gene Hackman, Unforgiven
2. Wesley Snipes, White Men Can’t Jump
3. Al Pacino, Glengarry Glen Ross
4. Jaye Davidson, The Crying Game
5. Vincent D'Onfrio, The Player

Best Supporting Actress:
Rosie Perez, White Men Can’t Jump
2. Judy Davis, Husbands and Wives
3. Alfre Woodard, Passion Fish
4. Marisa Tomei, My Cousin Vinny
5. Susan Sarandon, Light Sleeper

Best Original Screenplay:
The Crying Game – Neil Jordan
2. Passion Fish — John Sayles
3. White Men Can’t Jump — Ron Shelton
4. Unforgiven – David Webb Peoples
5. Husbands and Wives — Woody Allen

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Deep Cover — Henry Bean and Michael Tolkin
2. The Player – Michael Tolkin
3. Glengarry Glen Ross — David Mamet
4. Howards End — Ruth Prawer Jhabvala
5. Raise the Red Lantern — Zhen Ni

Best Cinematography:
The Long Day Closes — Michael Coulter
2. A River Runs Through It – Phillippe Rousselot
3. Basic Instinct — Jost Vacano
4. Alien3 — Alex Thomson
5. Raising Cain — Stephen H. Burum

Best Original Score:
Candyman — Philip Glass
2. Basic Instinct – Jerry Goldsmith
3. Bram Stoker's Dracula – Wojciech Kilar
4. Death Becomes Her – Alan Silvestri
5. A River Runs Through It – Mark Isham

Best Film Editing:
The Match Factory Girl — Aki Kaurismäki
2. Deep Cover — John Carter
3. The Long Day Closes — William Diver
4. Basic Instinct — Frank J. Urioste
5. Reservoir Dogs — Sally Menke

Best Production Design:
Bram Stoker's Dracula – Tom Sanders and Garrett Lewis
2. Howards End — Luciana Arrighi and Ian Whittaker
3. Batman Returns — Bo Welch and Cheryl Carasik
4. Alien3 — Norman Reynolds and Michael White
5. Unforgiven – Henry Bumstead and Janice Blackie-Goodine

Best Costume Design:
Bram Stoker's Dracula – Eiko Ishioka
2. Raise the Red Lantern — Huamiao Tong
3. The Last of the Mohicans — Elsa Zamparelli
4. Howards End — Jenny Beavan and John Bright
5. A River Runs Through It — Kathy O'Rear and Bernie Pollack

Best Visual Effects
Death Becomes Her
2. Batman Returns
3. Alien3

Best Sound
The Last of the Mohicans
2. Bram Stoker’s Dracula
3. The Crying Game

Best Makeup
Bram Stoker’s Dracula
2. Batman Returns
3. Hoffa

Best Documentary Feature:
Abbas Kiarostami, Close-Up

Best Animated Feature:
Ron Clements and John Musker, Aladdin

Best Ensemble Cast: 
Glengarry Glen Ross

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Leslie Harris, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: James Foley; in alphabetical order): Bruce Altman, Alan Arkin (pictured), Alec Baldwin (pictured), Ed Harris, Jack Lemmon, Al Pacino, Jonathan Pryce and Kevin Spacey

Best First Feature: Ariyan A. Johnson in Leslie Harris’ Just Another Girl on the I.R.T.

RECAP

W I N S :

Bram Stoker’s Dracula — 3, The Long Day Closes — 3,
Aladdin — 1, Candyman — 1, Close-Up — 1, The Crying Game — 1, Death Becomes Her — 1, Deep Cover — 1, Glengarry Glen Ross — 1, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. — 2, The Last of the Mohicans — 1, Malcolm X — 1, Match Factory Girl — 1, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me — 1, Unforgiven — 1, White Men Can’t Jump — 1

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

Bram Stoker’s Dracula — 5, Deep Cover — 5, Howards End — 5, Raise the Red Lantern — 5, Unforgiven — 5,
The Crying Game — 4, The Long Day Closes — 4, Alien3 — 3, Basic Instinct — 3, Batman Returns — 3, Glengarry Glen Ross — 3, Husbands and Wives — 3, Malcolm X — 3, A River Runs Through It — 3, White Men Can’t Jump — 3, Close-Up — 2, Just Another Girl on the I.R.T. — 2, The Last of the Mohicans — 2, Light Sleeper — 2, Match Factory Girl— 2, Passion Fish— 2, The Player — 2, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me — 2

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Best of the Decade:
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