1991 Cii Movie Awards

This list and awards compiled February 28, 2013

                      For the criteria of choosing the awards, click here.

Top 10 Films of 1991

1. A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang)
2. Life and Nothing But... (Abbas Kiarostami)
3. Hear My Cry (Maciej J. Drygas)
4. JFK (Oliver Stone)
5. The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam)
6. Slacker (Richard Linklater)
7. Bugsy (Barry Levinson)
8. Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron)
9. The Rocketeer (Joe Johnston)
10. Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat)

Honorable Mentions: The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme), Beauty & the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise), The Double Life of Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski), Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Kevin Reynolds)

Best Actor
Warren Beatty - Bugsy
Jeff Bridges - The Fisher King
Anthony Hopkins - The Silence of the Lambs
Raul Julia - The Addams Family
Steve Martin - Father of the Bride
* Robin Williams - The Fisher King

Best Actress

Geena Davis – Thelma & Louise

Laura Dern – Rambling Rose

Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs

Anjelica Huston – The Addams Family

Iréne Jacob – The Double Life of Véronique

* Susan Sarandon – Thelma & Louise

Best Supporting Actor

Ice Cube – Boyz N the Hood

John Goodman – Barton Fink

* Samuel L. Jackson – Jungle Fever

Tommy Lee Jones – JFK

Martin Short – Father of the Bride

Best Supporting Actress

Judy Davis – Barton Fink

Dianne Ladd – Rambling Rose

Juliette Lewis – Cape Fear

* Mercedes Ruehl – The Fisher King
Teresa Taylor - Slacker

Best Director
Maciej J. Drygas – Hear My Cry

Terry Gilliam – The Fisher King

Maurice Pialat – Van Gogh

Oliver Stone – JFK

* Edward Yang – A Brighter Summer Day

Best Screenplay

A Brighter Summer Day (Hung Hung, Mingtang Lai, Alex Lang & Edward Yang)

Bugsy (James Toback)

* The Fisher King (Richard LaGravenese)

The Silence of the Lambs (Ted Tally)

Slacker (Richard Linklater)

Best Cinematography

A Brighter Summer Day (Huigong Li & Longyu Zhang)

Bugsy (Allen Daviau)

* The Double Life of Véronique (Slawomir Idziak)

Hear My Cry (Stanislaw Sliskowski)

JFK (Robert Richardson)

Best Editing

A Brighter Summer Day (Bo-Wen Chen)

Bugsy (Christopher Holmes & Stu Linder)

Hear My Cry (Dorota Wardeszkiewicz)

* JFK (Joe Hutshing & Pietro Scalia)

The Silence of the Lambs (Craig McKay)

Best Film Score

Beauty & the Beast (Alan Menken)

Bugsy (Ennio Morricone)

JFK (John Williams)

Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves (Michael Kamen)

* The Rocketeer (James Horner)

Best Production Design

Barton Fink

* Bugsy

Hook

Naked Lunch

Terminator 2: Judgment Day

Best Ensemble Cast Performance

A Brighter Summer Day

Bugsy

JFK

The Silence of the Lambs

* Slacker

Movies Seen (49 features seen as of 02.28.2013)

The Addams Family (Barry Sonenfeld, 1991)

An American Tail: Fieval Goes West (Phil Nibbelink & Simon Wells, 1991)

Backdraft (Ron Howard, 1991)

Barton Fink (Joel Coen, 1991)

Beauty & the Beast (Gary Trousdale & Kirk Wise, 1991)

Boyz N the Hood (John Singleton, 1991)

A Brief History of Time (Errol Morris, 1991)

A Brighter Summer Day (Edward Yang, 1991)

Bugsy (Barry Levinson, 1991)

Cape Fear (Martin Scorsese, 1991)

City Slickers (Ron Underwood, 1991)

Dead Again (Kenneth Branagh, 1991)

The Doors (Oliver Stone, 1991)

The Double Life of Véronique (Krzysztof Kieslowski, 1991)

Dying Young (Joel Schumaker, 1991)

Father of the Bride (Charles Shyer, 1991)

The Fisher King (Terry Gilliam, 1991)

Fried Green Tomatoes (Jon Avnet, 1991)

Grand Canyon (Lawrence Kasdan, 1991)

The Hand That Rocks the Cradle (Curtis Hanson, 1991)

Hear My Cry (Maciej J. Drygas, 1991) 

Hearts of Darkness: A Filmmaker’s Apocalypse (Fax Bahr, George Hickenlooper & Eleanor Coppola, 1991)

Homicide (David Mamet, 1991)

Hook (Steven Spielberg, 1991)

Hot Shots! (Jim Abrahams, 1991)

JFK (Oliver Stone, 1991)

Jungle Fever (Spike Lee, 1991)

L.A. Story (Mick Jackson, 1991)

Life and Nothing But… (Abbas Kiarostami, 1991)

My Girl (Howard Zieff, 1991)

My Own Private Idaho (Gus Van Sant, 1991)

Naked Lunch (David Cronenberg, 1991)

Oscar (John Landis, 1991)

The Prince of Tides (Barbara Streisand, 1991)

Rambling Rose (Martha Coolidge, 1991)

Raise the Red Lantern (Zhang Yimou, 1991)

Regarding Henry (Mike Nichols, 1991)

Robin Hood: Princes of Thieves (Kevin Reynolds, 1991)

The Rocketeer (Joe Johnston, 1991)

The Silence of the Lambs (Jonathan Demme, 1991)

Slacker (Richard Linklater, 1991)

Soapdish (Michael Hoffman, 1991)

Terminator 2: Judgment Day (James Cameron, 1991)

Thelma & Louise (Ridley Scott, 1991)

Toy Soldiers (Daniel Petrie Jr., 1991)

Van Gogh (Maurice Pialat, 1991)

What About Bob? (Frank Oz, 1991)

White Fang (Randal Kleiser, 1991)