The 18th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, honoring the best in film for 1992, were given on 12 December 1992.^[1][2]

Winners

• Best Picture:
  • Unforgiven
  • Runner-up: The Player
• Best Director:
  • Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven
  • Runner-up: Robert Altman – The Player
• Best Actor:
  • Clint Eastwood – Unforgiven
  • Runner-up: Denzel Washington – Malcolm X
• Best Actress:
  • Emma Thompson – Howards End
  • Runner-up: Alfre Woodard – Passion Fish
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Gene Hackman – Unforgiven
  • Runner-up: Sydney Pollack – Husbands and Wives, Death Becomes Her, and The Player
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Judy Davis – Husbands and Wives
  • Runner-up: Miranda Richardson – The Crying Game, Damage, and Enchanted April
• Best Screenplay:
  • David Webb Peoples – Unforgiven
  • Runner-up: Neil Jordan – The Crying Game
• Best Cinematography:
  • Zhao Fai – Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua)
  • Runner-up: Jack N. Green – Unforgiven
• Best Music Score:
  • Zbigniew Preisner – Damage
  • Runner-up: Mark Isham – A River Runs Through It
• Best Foreign Film:
  • The Crying Game • UK/Japan
  • Runner-up: Raise the Red Lantern (Da hong deng long gao gao gua) • China/Hong Kong/Taiwan
• Best Non-Fiction Film (tie):
  • Black Harvest
  • Threat
• Best Animation:
  • Aladdin
• Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  • Sadie Benning – It Wasn’t Love
• New Generation Award:
  • Carl Franklin – One False Move
• Career Achievement Award:
  • Budd Boetticher