National Society of Film Critics Award Winners

BEST PICTURE:

*1.  The Rider – 44

2. Roma – 41
3. Burning – 27

BEST DIRECTOR:

*1. Alfonso Cuarón (Roma) – 60

2. Lee Chang-dong (Burning) – 22
3. Chloé  Zhao (The Rider) – 22

BEST ACTRESS:

*1. Olivia Colman (The Favourite) – 36 points

2. Regina Hall (Support the Girls) – 33
3. Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) – 27

BEST ACTOR:

*1.  Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) – 58

2. Willem Dafoe (At Eternity’s Gate) – 30
3. Ben Foster (Leave No Trace) – 25
4. John C. Reilly (The Sisters Brothers, Stan & Ollie) 25

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

*1. Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) – 47

2. Elizabeth Debicki (Widows) – 37
3. Emma Stone (The Favourite) – 24

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

*1. Steven Yeun (Burning) – 40

2. Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) – 35
3. Brian Tyree Henry (If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) – 32

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

*1. Roma (Alfonso Cuarón) – 70

2. If Beale Street Could Talk (James Laxton) – 26
3. Cold War (Lukasz Zal) – 24

BEST SCREENPLAY:

*1.  The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin) – 47

2. Can You Ever Forgive Me?  (Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty) – 27
3. The Favourite (Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara) – 24

BEST PICTURE:

*1.  The Rider – 44

2. Roma – 41
3. Burning – 27

BEST DIRECTOR:

*1. Alfonso Cuarón (Roma) – 60

2. Lee Chang-dong (Burning) – 22
3. Chloé  Zhao (The Rider) – 22

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

*1. Roma – 44

2. Cold War – 34
3. Burning – 30
4. Shoplifters – 30

BEST NON-FICTION FILM

*1.  Minding the Gap – 35

2. Shirkers – 31
3. Amazing Grace – 24

SPECIAL CITATION for a film awaiting U.S. distribution: A Family Tour (Ying Liang, Taiwan/Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia).

THE NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS

            The National Society of Film Critics counts among its members many of the country’s leading film critics.  Its purpose is to promote the mutual interests of film criticism and filmmaking.

            Founded in l966, the Society differs from other critical associations in a number of significant ways.  In the first place, it is truly national.  Its 60 members include critics from major papers in Los Angeles, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Atlanta, Chicago and Washington, D.C. Its members also include the critics not just of Time, Newsweek and The New Yorker, but also of Slate, Variety and The Wall Street Journal. Second, membership is by election.

            The Society represents movie criticism in the United States by supplying the official critic delegate to the National Film Preservation Board of the Library of Congress and abroad as the official American representative to FIPRESCI, the international federation of members of the film press.

             Besides responding to specific issues, such as colorization, film preservation, or the ratings system, the Society regularly meets early in January to vote on the Society’s awards for the finest film achievements of the year.