Florida Film Critics Circle Awards 1996



 1st FFCC Awards 

Best Film:  Fargo  The 1st Florida Film Critics Circle Awards honoured the best in film for 1996.

Winners

 * Best Film:
 * Fargo
 * Runner-up: Breaking the Waves
 * Best Actor:
 * Geoffrey Rush - Shine
 * Runner-up: Tom Cruise - Jerry Maguire
 * Best Actress:
 * Frances McDormand - Fargo
 * Runner-up: Brenda Blethyn - Secrets & Lies
 * Best Supporting Actor:
 * Edward Norton - The People vs. Larry Flynt, Everyone Says I Love You and Primal Fear
 * Runner-up: William H. Macy - Fargo
 * Best Supporting Actress:
 * Courtney Love - The People vs. Larry Flynt
 * Runner-up: Joan Allen - The Crucible
 * Best Director:
 * Joel Coen - Fargo
 * Best Screenplay:
 * Joel and Ethan Coen - Fargo
 * Best Cinematography:
 * John Seale - The English Patient
 * Best Foreign Language Film:
 * Ridicule • France
 * Best Newcomers:
 * Doug Liman (director) and Jon Favreau (actor/writer) - Swingers
 * Best Song:
 * "That Thing You Do" - That Thing You Do!
 * Golden Orange for Outstanding Contribution to Film:
 * The 15 African-American men who pooled their resources to finance Get on the Bus.
 * The Walt Disney Co., for standing up to protests concerning the content of its films by Chinese authorities and the Southern Baptist Convention.