Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 1996

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The 1st Florida Film Critics Circle Awards honoured the best in film for 1996.

Winners[edit]

• Best Film:
  • Fargo
  • Runner-up: Breaking the Waves
• Best Actor:
  • Geoffrey Rush - Shine
  • Runner-up: Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
• Best Actress:
  • Frances McDormand - Fargo
  • Runner-up: Brenda Blethyn - Secrets & Lies
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Edward Norton - The People vs. Larry Flynt, Everyone Says I Love You and Primal Fear
  • Runner-up: William H. Macy - Fargo
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Courtney Love - The People vs. Larry Flynt
  • Runner-up: Joan Allen - The Crucible
• Best Director:
  • Joel Coen - Fargo
• Best Screenplay:
  • Joel and Ethan Coen - Fargo
• Best Cinematography:
  • John Seale - The English Patient
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Ridicule • France
• Best Newcomers:
  • Doug Liman (director) and Jon Favreau (actor/writer) - Swingers
• Best Song:
  • "That Thing You Do" - That Thing You Do!
• Golden Orange for Outstanding Contribution to Film:
  • The 15 African-American men who pooled their resources to finance Get on the Bus.
  • The Walt Disney Co., for standing up to protests concerning the content of its films by Chinese authorities and the Southern Baptist Convention.

References[edit]

• Florida Film Critic Group Heaps Awards On `Fargo' Archived 2013-02-03 at archive.today Sun Sentinel
• TO FLORIDA CRITICS, TOP MOVIE IS 'FARGO'^{[permanent dead link]} Orlando Sentinel