The 17th Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards were announced on 14 December 1991 and given on 21 January 1992.^[1]

• Best Picture:
  • Bugsy
  • Runner-up: The Fisher King
• Best Director:
  • Barry Levinson – Bugsy
  • Runner-up: Terry Gilliam – The Fisher King
• Best Actor:
  • Nick Nolte – The Prince of Tides
  • Runner-up: Warren Beatty – Bugsy
• Best Actress:
  • Mercedes Ruehl – The Fisher King
  • Runner-up: Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Michael Lerner – Barton Fink
  • Runner-up: Robert Duvall – Rambling Rose
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Jane Horrocks – Life Is Sweet
  • Runner-up: Amanda Plummer – The Fisher King
• Best Screenplay:
  • James Toback – Bugsy
  • Runner-up: Richard LaGravenese – The Fisher King
• Best Cinematography:
  • Roger Deakins – Barton Fink and Homicide
  • Runner-up: John J. Campbell and Eric Alan Edwards – My Own Private Idaho
• Best Music Score:
  • Zbigniew Preisner – The Double Life of Veronique (La double vie de Véronique), At Play in the Fields of the Lord and Europa Europa
  • Runner-up: Howard Shore – The Silence of the Lambs and Naked Lunch
• Best Foreign Film:
  • La Belle Noiseuse • France/Switzerland
  • Runner-up: Europa Europa • Germany/France/Poland
• Best Non-Fiction Film:
  • American Dream
• Best Animation:
  • Beauty and the Beast
• Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  • Jon Jost – All the Vermeers in New York
• New Generation Award:
  • John Singleton – Boyz n the Hood
• Career Achievement Award (tie):
  • Elmer Bernstein
  • Vincent Price
• Special Citation:
  • The National Film Board of Canada on the 50th anniversary of its animation unit.