title: Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1996
text: # Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 1996
  
  9th CFCA Awards March 10, 1997
  
  Best Film:
  
  Fargo
  
  The 9th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given on 10 March 1997, honored the finest achievements in 1996 filmmaking.
  
  ## Winners
  
  * Best Actor:
     * Billy Bob Thornton - Sling Blade
  * Best Actress:
     * Frances McDormand - Fargo
  * Best Cinematography:
     * The English Patient
  * Best Director:
     * Joel Coen - Fargo
  * Best Film:
     * Fargo
  * Best Foreign Language Film:
     * Dekalog (The Decalogue), Poland
  * Best Score:
     * "Fargo" - Carter Burwell
  * Best Screenplay:
     * Fargo - Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
  * Best Supporting Actor:
     * Cuba Gooding Jr. - Jerry Maguire
  * Best Supporting Actress:
     * Irma Hall - A Family Thing
  * Most Promising Actor:
     * Edward Norton - Primal Fear, Everyone Says I Love You and The People vs. Larry Flynt
  * Most Promising Actress:
     * Courtney Love - The People vs. Larry Flynt
  