1993 National Society of Film Critics Awards



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 1993.

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

Best Director
1. Steven Spielberg – Schindler's List 2. Jane Campion – The Piano 3. Robert Altman – 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 – 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 – 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. Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt – Short Cuts

Best Cinematography
1. Janusz Kamiński – Schindler's List 2. Stuart Dryburgh – 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

Experimental Film

 * Rock Hudson's Home Movies

Special Citation

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