Biography

The 68th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 1996, were announced on 9 December 1996 and given on 9 February 1997.

Top 10 films

1. Shine
2. The English Patient
3. Fargo
4. Secrets & Lies
5. Everyone Says I Love You
6. Evita
7. Sling Blade
8. Trainspotting
9. Breaking the Waves
10. Jerry Maguire

Top Foreign Films

1. Ridicule
2. Les Voleurs
3. Bitter Sugar
4. La Cérémonie
5. Kolya

Winners

• Best Picture:
  • Shine
• Best Foreign Language Film
  • Ridicule, France
• Best Actor:
  • Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
• Best Actress:
  • Frances McDormand - Fargo
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Edward Norton - Everyone Says I Love You
• Best Supporting Actress (tie):
  • Juliette Binoche and Kristin Scott Thomas - The English Patient
• Best Ensemble Acting:
  • The First Wives Club
• Breakthrough performance:
  • Renée Zellweger - Jerry Maguire
• Best Director:
  • Joel Coen - Fargo
• Best Documentary:
  • Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
• Best Film Made for Cable TV:
  • Wild Bill: Hollywood Maverick
• Special Achievement in Filmmaking:
  • Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade
• Special Citation:
  • Elia Kazan, for lifetime achievement in direction
• Freedom of Expression Award:
  • The People vs. Larry Flynt - Miloš Forman, Oliver Stone
• International Freedom Award:
  • Zhang Yuan
• Billy Wilder Award:
  • Sidney Lumet
• Career Achievement Award:
  • Gena Rowlands
• William K. Everson Award for Film History:
  • Peter Bogdanovich, for Who the Devil Made It?
• Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking:
  • Angels & Insects
  • Basquiat
  • Big Night
  • Bound
  • Caught
  • Follow Me Home
  • I Shot Andy Warhol
  • Lone Star
  • Marvin's Room
  • The Substance of Fire
  • Swingers
  • The Deli
  • The War Room
  • Unhook the Stars
  • Welcome to the Dollhouse

External links

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 1996