56th New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1990)

Best Film:

	Goodfellas
	Runners-up: Mr. & Mrs. Bridge, The Grifters and Reversal of Fortune

Best Director:

	Martin Scorsese - Goodfellas
	Runner-up: Bernardo Bertolucci - The Sheltering Sky

Best Actor:

	Robert De Niro - Goodfellas and Awakenings
	Runners-up: Jeremy Irons - Reversal of Fortune and Danny Glover - To Sleep with Anger

Best Actress:

	Joanne Woodward - Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
	Runners-up: Anjelica Huston - The Grifters and Kathy Bates - Misery

Best Supporting Actor:

	Bruce Davison - Longtime Companion
	Runners-up: Joe Pesci - Goodfellas and John Turturro - Miller's Crossing

Best Supporting Actress:

	Jennifer Jason Leigh - Miami Blues and Last Exit to Brooklyn
	Runners-up: Joan Plowright - Avalon and Lorraine Bracco - Goodfellas

Best Screenplay:

	Ruth Prawer Jhabvala - Mr. & Mrs. Bridge
	Runners-up: Whit Stillman - Metropolitan and Charles Burnett - To Sleep with Anger

Best Cinematography:

	Vittorio Storaro - The Sheltering Sky
	Runner-up: Michael Ballhaus - Goodfellas

Best Foreign Film:

	The Nasty Girl (Das schreckliche Mädchen) • West Germany
	Runners-up: Cyrano de Bergerac • France and Cinema Paradiso (Nuovo cinema Paradiso) • Italy

Best New Director:

	Whit Stillman - Metropolitan
	Runners-up: John McNaughton - Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer and Kevin Costner - Dances with Wolves

Special Awards:

	Film Forum
	Karen Cooper
	Bruce Goldstein