1993 National Society of Film Critics Awards

Best Picture

1. Schindler's List
2. The Piano
3. Short Cuts

Best Director

1. Steven Spielberg – Schindler's List
2. Jane Campion – The Piano
3. Robert Altman – Short Cuts

Best Actor

1. David Thewlis – Naked
2. Daniel Day-Lewis – In the Name of the Father
2. Anthony Hopkins – The Remains of the Day and Shadowlands

Best Actress

1. Holly Hunter – The Piano
2. Ashley Judd – Ruby in Paradise
3. Stockard Channing – Six Degrees of Separation

Best Supporting Actor

1. Ralph Fiennes – Schindler's List
2. Leonardo DiCaprio – What's Eating Gilbert Grape and This Boy's Life
2. Tommy Lee Jones – The Fugitive

Best Supporting Actress

1. Madeleine Stowe – Short Cuts
2. Gwyneth Paltrow – Flesh and Bone
3. Jennifer Jason Leigh – Short Cuts
3. Anna Paquin – The Piano

Best Screenplay

1. Jane Campion – The Piano
2. John Guare – Six Degrees of Separation
3. Robert Altman and Frank Barhydt – Short Cuts

Best Cinematography

1. Janusz Kamiński – Schindler's List
2. Stuart Dryburgh – The Piano
3. Michael Ballhaus – The Age of Innocence

Best Foreign Language Film

1. The Story of Qiu Ju (Qiu Ju da guan si)
2. Blue (Trois couleurs: Bleu)
3. Farewell My Concubine (Ba wang bie ji)

Best Documentary

1. Visions of Light
2. It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles
3. The War Room

Experimental Film

• Rock Hudson's Home Movies

Special Citation

• The filmmakers of It's All True: Based on an Unfinished Film by Orson Welles