28th NSFC Awards

January 3, 1994

---- Best Film:
Schindler's List

The 28th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1994, honored the best filmmaking of

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Winners

Best Picture

1. '' Schindler's List''
2. '' The Piano''
3. '' Short Cuts''

Best Director

Steven Spielberg Steven Allan Spielberg (; born December 18, 1946) is an American director, writer, and producer. A major figure of the New Hollywood era and pioneer of the modern blockbuster, he is the most commercially successful director of all time. Spie ...

– '' Schindler's List''
2. Jane Campion – '' The Piano''
3.

Robert Altman Robert Bernard Altman ( ; February 20, 1925 – November 20, 2006) was an American film director, screenwriter, and producer. He was a five-time nominee of the Academy Award for Best Director and is considered an enduring figure from the New H ...

– '' Short Cuts''

Best Actor

1. David Thewlis – '' Naked''
2. Daniel Day-Lewis – '' In the Name of the Father''
2. Anthony Hopkins – '' The Remains of the Day'' and '' Shadowlands''

Best Actress

1. Holly Hunter – '' The Piano''
2. Ashley Judd – '' Ruby in Paradise''
3.

Stockard Channing Stockard Channing (born Susan Antonia Williams Stockard; February 13, 1944) is an American actress. She is known for playing Betty Rizzo in the film '' Grease'' (1978) and First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series ''The West Wing'' ( ...

– '' Six Degrees of Separation''

Best Supporting Actor

1. Ralph Fiennes – '' Schindler's List''
2. Leonardo DiCaprio – '' What's Eating Gilbert Grape'' and '' This Boy's Life''
2. Tommy Lee Jones – '' The Fugitive''

Best Supporting Actress

1. Madeleine Stowe – '' Short Cuts''
2.

Gwyneth Paltrow Gwyneth Kate Paltrow (; born ) is an American actress and businesswoman. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Primetime Emmy Award. Paltrow gained notice for her early work in films ...

– '' Flesh and Bone''
3. Jennifer Jason Leigh – '' Short Cuts''
3. Anna Paquin – '' The Piano''

Best Screenplay

1. Jane Campion – '' The Piano''
2. John Guare – '' Six Degrees of Separation''
3.

and Frank Barhydt – '' Short Cuts''

Best Cinematography

1. Janusz Kamiński – '' Schindler's List''
2.

Stuart Dryburgh Stuart Dryburgh (born 30 March 1952 in London) is an English-born New Zealand cinematographer, now working in Hollywood. He completed a degree in architecture at the University of Auckland, but subsequently moved into the film industry. He was no ...

– '' The Piano''
3. Michael Ballhaus – '' The Age of Innocence''

Best Foreign Language Film

1. '' The Story of Qiu Ju'' (''Qiu Ju da guan si'')
2. '' Blue'' (''Trois couleurs: Bleu'')
3. '' Farewell My Concubine'' (''Ba wang bie ji'')

Best Documentary

1. '' Visions of Light''
2. '' It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles''
3. ''

The War Room ''The War Room'' is a 1993 American documentary film about Bill Clinton's campaign for President of the United States during the 1992 United States presidential election. Directed by Chris Hegedus and D. A. Pennebaker, the film was released on De ...

Experimental Film

*''

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Special Citation

*The filmmakers of '' It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles''

References

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Past Awards
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