22nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (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