title: 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
text: # 1991 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
  
  The 17th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 14 December 1991 and given on 21 January 1992.
  
  ## Winners
  
  * Best Picture:
     * Bugsy
     * Runner-up: The Fisher King
  * Best Director:
     * Barry Levinson – Bugsy
     * Runner-up: Terry Gilliam – The Fisher King
  * Best Actor:
     * Nick Nolte – The Prince of Tides
     * Runner-up: Warren Beatty – Bugsy
  * Best Actress:
     * Mercedes Ruehl – The Fisher King
     * Runner-up: Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs
  * Best Supporting Actor:
     * Michael Lerner – Barton Fink
     * Runner-up: Robert Duvall – Rambling Rose
  * Best Supporting Actress:
     * Jane Horrocks – Life Is Sweet
     * Runner-up: Amanda Plummer – The Fisher King
  * Best Screenplay:
     * James Toback – Bugsy
     * Runner-up: Richard LaGravenese – The Fisher King
  * Best Cinematography:
     * Roger Deakins – Barton Fink and Homicide
     * Runner-up: John J. Campbell and Eric Alan Edwards – My Own Private Idaho
  * Best Music Score:
     * Zbigniew Preisner – The Double Life of Veronique (La double vie de Véronique), At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Europa Europa
     * Runner-up: Howard Shore – The Silence of the Lambs and Naked Lunch
  * Best Foreign Film:
     * La Belle Noiseuse • France/Switzerland
     * Runner-up: Europa Europa • Germany/France/Poland
  * Best Non-Fiction Film:
     * American Dream
  * Best Animation:
     * Beauty and the Beast
  * Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
     * Jon Jost – All the Vermeers in New York
  * New Generation Award:
     * John Singleton – Boyz n the Hood
  * Career Achievement Award (tie):
     * Elmer Bernstein
     * Vincent Price
  * Special Citation:
     * The National Film Board of Canada on the 50th anniversary of its animation unit.
  