57th New York Film Critics Circle Awards (1991)
Best Film:
The Silence of the Lambs
Runner-up: My Own Private Idaho
Best Director:
Jonathan Demme - The Silence of the Lambs
Runner-up: Gus Van Sant - My Own Private Idaho
Best Actor:
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
Runners-up: River Phoenix - My Own Private Idaho and Nick Nolte - The Prince of Tides
Best Actress:
Jodie Foster - The Silence of the Lambs
Runners-up: Geena Davis and Susan Sarandon - Thelma & Louise
Best Supporting Actor:
Samuel L. Jackson - Jungle Fever
Runners-up: Steven Hill - Billy Bathgate and John Goodman - Barton Fink
Best Supporting Actress:
Judy Davis - Naked Lunch and Barton Fink
Runners-up: Juliette Lewis - Cape Fear and Kate Nelligan - Frankie and Johnny and The Prince of Tides
Best Screenplay:
David Cronenberg - Naked Lunch
Runner-up: Calder Willingham - Rambling Rose
Best Cinematography:
Roger Deakins - Barton Fink
Runner-up: Freddie Francis - Cape Fear
Best Foreign Language Film:
Europa Europa • Germany/France
Runner-up: The Vanishing (Spoorloos) • Netherlands/France
Best Documentary:
Paris Is Burning
Runner-up: Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker's Apocalypse
Best New Director:
John Singleton - Boyz n the Hood
Runner-up: Anthony Minghella - Truly, Madly, Deeply