Film Awards 1996 Best Picture: Fargo Other nominees The People Vs. Larry Flynt Lone Star Trainspotting Welcome to The Dollhouse Best Director Joel Coen -Fargo Other nominees Lars Von Trier -Breaking The Waves Spike Lee -Get on The Bus Milos Forman -The People Vs. Larry Flynt Ted Demme -Beautiful Girls Best Actor Woody Harrelson -The People Vs. Larry Flynt Other nominees Billy Bob Thornton -Sling Blade Ewan McGregor -Trainspotting Timothy Hutton -Beautiful Girls Ossie Davis -Get On The Bus Best Actress Emily Watson -Breaking The Waves and Frances McDormand -Fargo (tie) Other nominees Brenda Blethyn -Secrets & Lies Heather Mattarazzo -Welcome To The Dollhouse Nicole Kidman -To Die For Courtney Love -The People Vs. Larry Flynt Best Supporting Actor Steve Buscemi and William H. Macy -Fargo Other nominees Edward Norton -Primal Fear, The People Vs. Larry Flynt, and Everyone Says I love You Vince Vaughn -Swingers Robert Carlyle -Trainspotting Brendan Sexton III -Welcome To The Dollhouse Best Suppoting Actress Natalie Portman -Beautiful Girls Other nominess Uma Thurman -Beautiful Girls Marianne Jean-Baptiste -Secrets & Lies Esther Rolle -Rosewood Elizabeth Pena -Lone Star Best Original Screenplay Fargo -Ethan Coen Other nominees Swingers -Jon Favreau Sling Balde -Billy Bob Thornton Strange Days -The Wachowski Brothers Beautiful Girls -Scott Rosenberg Best Adapted Screenplay Trainspotting -John Hodge Other nominees The People Vs.Larry Flynt -Scott Alexander & Larry Karaszewski Once Upon A Time... When We Were Colored -Paul W. Cooper To Die For -Gus Van Sant Rosewood -Gregory Porier Best Documentary Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Best Animated Film The Hunchback of Notre Dame Best Musical Everyone Says I Love You Best Cinematography Fargo -Roger Deakins Other nominees Trainspotting -Brian Tufano Swingers -Doug Liman Lone Star -Stuart Dryburgh Rosewood -Johnny Jensen Best Song You and Me and Bottle (makes three tonight) -Big Bad Voodoo Daddy Best Score Fargo Breakthrough Performance Male Ewan McGregor -Trainspotting Breakthrough Performance Female Heather Mattarazzo -Welcome To The Dollhouse 1994 Film Awards 1995 Film Awards 1997 Film Awards 1998 Film Awards