<div style="float: right; font-size: smaller; background-color:#E6E6FA; padding: 12px; margin-left: 5em; margin-bottom: 2em; width: 180px" align="center"> **29th NSFC Awards** January 3, 1996 Best Film: ** Babe ** The **30th National Society of Film Critics Awards**, given on 3 January 1996, honored the best filmmaking of [1995](https://bliptext.com/articles/1995-in-film).

Winners

Best Picture

1. Babe
2. Crumb
3. Safe

Best Director

1. Mike Figgis – Leaving Las Vegas
2. Todd Haynes – Safe
3. Walter Hill – Wild Bill

Best Actor

1. Nicolas Cage – Leaving Las Vegas
2. Sean Penn – Dead Man Walking
3. Jeff Bridges – Wild Bill
4. Morgan Freeman – Seven

Best Actress

1. Elisabeth Shue – Leaving Las Vegas
2. Jennifer Jason Leigh – Georgia
3. Meryl Streep – The Bridges of Madison County

Best Supporting Actor

1. Don Cheadle – Devil in a Blue Dress
2. Kevin Spacey – Seven, The Usual Suspects, Swimming with Sharks and Outbreak
3. Delroy Lindo – Clockers and Get Shorty

Best Supporting Actress

1. Joan Allen – Nixon
2. Mira Sorvino – Mighty Aphrodite
3. Illeana Douglas – To Die For

Best Screenplay

1. Amy Heckerling – Clueless
2. André Téchiné, Gilles Taurand and Olivier Massart – Wild Reeds (Les roseaux sauvages)
3. Todd Haynes – Safe

Best Cinematography

Best Foreign Language Film

1. Wild Reeds (Les roseaux sauvages)
2. Lamerica
3. Through the Olive Trees (Zire darakhatan zeyton)

Best Documentary

Experimental Film

Special Archival Prize