Posts from the ‘Uncategorized’ Category

Critics’ groups condemn violence against ‘No Other Land’ co-director Hamdan Ballal

The members of the National Society of Film Critics joined with their colleagues in the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association and the Boston Society of Film Critics in issuing the following statement:

We, the members of the National Society of Film Critics, the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the Boston Society of Film Critics, express our support for the Palestinian filmmaker Hamdan Ballal and condemn, in the strongest terms, the brutal and unlawful attack he suffered this week at the hands of Israeli settlers, as well as his detainment by Israeli authorities. We are gravely concerned for Mr. Ballal’s health and safety, as well as the safety of his loved ones, and, now that he has been released, extend our hopes for his full recovery from his injuries.

Mr. Ballal was assaulted near his home in Khirbet Susya, a village in the Masafer Yatta region of the occupied West Bank. Attacks on the residents of Masafer Yatta are nothing new, as we have seen from “No Other Land,” the Academy Award-winning documentary that Mr. Ballal co-directed with Basel Adra, Yuval Abraham, and Rachel Szor. As critics representing four of the numerous organizations that honored “No Other Land” as the best documentary of 2024, we are infuriated that a filmmaker’s brave and principled advocacy has made him even more of a target in a community where Palestinians already exist under continual threat of displacement and violence.

One of the most powerful aspects of “No Other Land” — and the reason so many have tried, in vain, to limit its reach and silence its message — is that it is itself a rare feat of collaboration between Palestinian and Israeli journalists, activists, and artists, united by their belief in dignity and equality for all. By the very nature of its form and creation, the film represents, and dares to imagine, a more peaceful future. We applaud Mr. Ballal and his colleagues for the courage and artistry with which they have advanced that vision and affirm that it will never be forgotten.

‘Nickel Boys’ voted best picture of 2024

The National Society of Film Critics has chosen “Nickel Boys” as Best Picture of 2024.

The Society, which is made up of more than 60 of the country’s most prominent movie critics, held its 59th annual awards voting meeting on Saturday, Jan. 4, 2025. Critics voted at in-person gatherings in Los Angeles and New York, and also participated virtually from across the country.

BEST PICTURE: “Nickel Boys” (47 points)
Runners-up:
“All We Imagine as Light” and “Anora” (34 points)

BEST DIRECTOR: Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light” (49 points)
Runners-up:
RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys” (42 points)
Sean Baker, “Anora” (33 points)

BEST ACTRESS: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths” (79 points)
Runners-up:
Mikey Madison, “Anora” (35 points)
Ilinca Manolache, “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” (32 points)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Michele Austin, “Hard Truths” (55 points)
Runners-up:
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, “Nickel Boys,” and Natasha Lyonne, “His Three Daughters” (39 points)

BEST ACTOR: Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing” (60 points)
Runners-up:
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist” (51 points)
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave” (45 points)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain” (52 points)
Runners-up:
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist” (50 points)
Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown,” and Adam Pearson, “A Different Man” (41 points)

BEST SCREENPLAY: Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain” (47 points)
Runners-up:
Radu Jude, “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” (46 points)
Sean Baker, “Anora” (45 points)

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: “All We Imagine as Light” (49 points)
Runners-up:
“Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” (41 points)
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (28 points)

BEST NONFICTION FILM: “No Other Land” (70 points)
Runners-up:
“Dahomey” (51 points)
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (24 points)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jomo Fray, “Nickel Boys” (80 points)
Runners-up:
Lol Crawley, “The Brutalist” (38 points)
Jarin Blaschke, “Nosferatu” (21 points)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire”

SPECIAL CITATION FOR A FILM AWAITING U.S. DISTRIBUTION: “No Other Land”

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS:
— Scott Eyman, for his outstanding books on film artists and epochal shifts in moviemaking, most recently with “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided,” a revelatory study of the nexus of American politics and American pop culture.
— IndieCollect, which, since its founding in 2010 by Sandra Schulberg, has met the challenge of preserving independent films with a rare sense of artistic responsibility.
— To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, for more than two decades of superb restorations and diverse programming from all over the world, in collaboration with archives, foundations, studios and other organizations.

‘Past Lives’ named best picture of 2023

The National Society of Film Critics has chosen “Past Lives” as Best Picture of 2023. See the following pages for all votes in Best Picture and other categories for outstanding film achievement.

The Society, which is made up of 61 of the country’s most prominent movie critics, held its 58th annual awards voting meeting on Saturday, Jan. 6, 2024. Critics voted at in-person gatherings in Los Angeles and New York, and also participated virtually from across the country.

BEST PICTURE: “Past Lives” (51 points)
Runners-up:
“The Zone of Interest” (49 points)
“Oppenheimer” (44 points)

BEST DIRECTOR: Jonathan Glazer, “The Zone of Interest” (65 points)
Runners-up:
Todd Haynes, “May December” (42 points)
Christopher Nolan, “Oppenheimer” (41 points)

BEST ACTRESS: Sandra Hüller, “Anatomy of a Fall” and “The Zone of Interest” (61 points)
Runners-up:
Emma Stone, “Poor Things” (56 points)
Lily Gladstone, “Killers of the Flower Moon” (44 points)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, “The Holdovers” (58 points)
Runners-up:
Penélope Cruz, “Ferrari” (32 points)
Rachel McAdams, “Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret.” (23 points)

BEST ACTOR: Andrew Scott, “All of Us Strangers” (52 points)
Runners-up:
Jeffrey Wright, “American Fiction” (39 points)
Cillian Murphy, “Oppenheimer” (29 points)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Charles Melton, “May December” (51 points)
Runners-up:
Robert Downey, Jr., “Oppenheimer,” and Ryan Gosling, “Barbie” (31 points, tie)

BEST SCREENPLAY: Samy Burch, “May December” (53 points)
Runners-up:
Celine Song, “Past Lives” (50 points)
David Hemingson, “The Holdovers” (36 points)

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: “Fallen Leaves” (65 points)
Runners-up:
“The Zone of Interest” (51 points)
“Anatomy of a Fall” (44 points)

BEST NONFICTION FILM: “Menus-Plaisirs — Les Troisgros” (64 points)
Runners-up:
“20 Days in Mariupol” (25 points)
“Kokomo City” (19 points)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Rodrigo Prieto, “Killers of the Flower Moon” (55 points)
Runners-up:
Łukasz Żal, “The Zone of Interest” (45 points)
Hoyte van Hoytema, “Oppenheimer” (44 points)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Jean-Luc Godard’s “Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars”

SPECIAL CITATION FOR A FILM AWAITING U.S. DISTRIBUTION: Víctor Erice’s “Close Your Eyes”

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS:
— Criterion Channel, for an adventurous, wide-ranging, finely curated selection of films, ranging from American independents to world cinema to short films to classic Hollywood, making readily available the kind of repertory cinema that every city should have.
— Facets, Kim’s Video, Scarecrow Video and Vidiots, for maintaining wide-reaching libraries of films on disc and tape and making those libraries available to the general public.

‘Tár’ voted best picture of 2022

The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday, Jan. 7, 2023, chose “Tár” as Best Picture of the Year 2022. See the following pages for all votes in Best Picture and other categories for outstanding film achievement.

The Society, which is made up of 62 of the country’s most prominent movie critics, held its 57th annual awards voting meeting online using a weighted ballot system. Fifty-four members participated in the vote.

BEST PICTURE
1. “Tár” (61 points)
2. “Aftersun” (49 points)
3. “No Bears” (32 points)

BEST DIRECTOR
1. Charlotte Wells, “Aftersun” (60 points)
2. Park Chan-wook, “Decision to Leave” (47 points)
3. Jafar Panahi, “No Bears” (36 points)

BEST ACTRESS
1. Cate Blanchett, “Tár” (59 points)
2. Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (38 points)
3. Tilda Swinton, “The Eternal Daughter,” and Michelle Williams, “The Fabelmans” (27 points)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
1. Kerry Condon, “The Banshees of Inisherin” (57 points)
2. Nina Hoss, “Tár” (43 points)
3. Dolly de Leon, “Triangle of Sadness” (35 points)

BEST ACTOR
1. Colin Farrell, “After Yang” and “The Banshees of Inisherin” (71 points)
2. Paul Mescal, “Aftersun” (55 points)
3. Bill Nighy, “Living” (33 points)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
1. Ke Huy Quan, “Everything Everywhere All at Once” (45 points)
2. Brian Tyree Henry, “Causeway” (35 points)
3. Barry Keoghan, “The Banshees of Inisherin” (27 points)

BEST SCREENPLAY
1. Todd Field, “Tár” (61 points)
2. Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin” (42 points)
3. James Gray, “Armageddon Time” (18 points)

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE
1. “EO” (43 points)
2. “No Bears” (37 points)
3. “Decision to Leave” (34 points)

BEST NONFICTION FILM
1.  “All the Beauty and the Bloodshed” (46 points) 
2. “Descendant” (40 points)
3. “All That Breathes” (27 points)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. Michał Dymek, “EO” (62 points)
2. Hoyte van Hoytema, “Nope” (37 points)
3. Kim Ji-yong, “Decision to Leave” (34 points)

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS

1. Jeanine Basinger, one of our most esteemed and important film scholars, whose work at Wesleyan University and beyond has continually bridged the divide between Hollywood and academia, film studies and movie love.

2. Screen Slate, published and edited by Jon Dieringer, an essential daily online publication that has done much to build and sustain the filmmaking, theatrical exhibition and film critical communities of New York City and by extension the world at large.

3. Turner Classic Movies, for a rich array of programming that ranges deep and wide in the history of cinema, a service too easily taken for granted by audiences and worthy of the utmost care and attention from its corporate owners.

The Society dedicated this meeting to Sheila Benson, an esteemed Society member and the warmest, most gracious of colleagues. As film critic for the Los Angeles Times and other publications, she wrote about movies with infectious joy and enviable skill. We miss her dearly.

Awards for year 2021

BEST PICTURE:

*1. “Drive My Car” (48)

2. “Petite Maman” (25)

3. “The Power of the Dog” (23)

Per our rules, because this year’s Best Picture is not in the English language, there is no award for Best Foreign-Language Film.

BEST DIRECTOR:

*1. Ryusuke Hamaguchi (46)  – “Drive My Car” and “Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy”

2. Jane Campion (36) – “The Power of the Dog”

3. Céline Sciamma (28) – “Petite Maman”

BEST SCREENPLAY:

*1. “Drive My Car” (46) –  Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe

2. “Parallel Mothers” (22) – Pedro Almodóvar

3. “Licorice Pizza” (20) – Paul Thomas Anderson

BEST NONFICTION FILM:

*1.  “Flee” (41)

2. “Procession” (28)

2. “The Velvet Underground” (28)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

*1. “The Green Knight” (52) – Andrew Droz Palermo

2. “The Power of the Dog” (40) – Ari Wegner

3. “Memoria” (35) – Sayombhu Mukdeeprom

BEST ACTRESS:

*1. Penélope Cruz (55) – “Parallel Mothers”

2. Renate Reinsve (42) – “The Worst Person in the World”

3. Alana Haim (32) – “Licorice Pizza”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

*1. Ruth Negga (46) – “Passing”

2. Ariana DeBose (22) – “West Side Story”

3. Jessie Buckley (21) – “The Lost Daughter”

BEST ACTOR:

*1. Hidetoshi Nishijima (63) – “Drive My Car”

2. Benedict Cumberbatch (44) – “The Power of the Dog”

3. Simon Rex (30) – “Red Rocket”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: 

*1. Anders Danielsen Lie (54) – “The Worst Person in the World”

2. Vincent Lindon (33) – “Titane”

3. Mike Faist (26) – “West Side Story”

3. Kodi Smit-McPhee (26) – “The Power of the Dog”

SPECIAL CITATION for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: Jean-Gabriel Périot’s documentary “Returning to Reims”

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS:

1. Maya Cade for founding the Black Film Archive, which expands knowledge of and access to Black films made between 1915 and 1979, and includes her critical essays that define the project and consider the films in relation to each other and to the cinema overall.

2. The late Bertrand Tavernier and Peter Bogdanovich, distinguished critic-filmmakers who never lost their passion for other people’s movies and film history. Both crowned their careers with invaluable chronicles of their engagement with the cinema: Tavernier with the with the documentary “My Journey Through French Cinema” and the books “50 Years of American Cinema” and “American Friends,” and Bogdanovich with the books “Who the Devil Made It” and “Who the Hell’s In It.”

DEDICATIONS:

We dedicate this year’s awards to the memory of two esteemed colleagues and longtime members who are no longer with us. Morris Dickstein brought warmth, enthusiasm and prodigious analytic skills as a literary critic and cultural historian to writing about movies in journals like Dissent and Partisan Review and in books like “Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression.” Michael Wilmington wrote beautifully and passionately about cinema as a critic for many publications, including the Chicago Tribune and the Los Angeles Times, and co-authored the critical study “John Ford.” They will both be deeply missed.

We also dedicate our awards, with deepest appreciation and gratitude, to Liz Weis, who is stepping down after serving 47 years as Executive Director of the National Society of Film Critics. For her decades of extraordinary leadership and tireless service to the organization, we owe her an immeasurable debt.

NOMADLAND TOPS 2020 AWARDS

AWARDS FOR THE YEAR 2020

BEST PICTURE:

*1. Nomadland – 52

2. First Cow – 50

3. Never Rarely Sometimes Always — 41

BEST DIRECTOR:

*1. Chloé Zhao (Nomadland) – 58

2. Steve McQueen (Small Axe) – 41

3. Kelly Reichardt (First Cow) – 30

BEST SCREENPLAY:

*1. Never Rarely Sometimes Always (Eliza Hittman) – 38

2. First Cow (Jon Raymond and Kelly Reichardt) – 35

3. I’m Thinking of Ending Things (Charlie Kaufman) – 29

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM:

*1. Collective – 38

2. Beanpole and Bacurau – tied at 36

BEST NONFICTION FILM:

*1.  Time – 46

2. City Hall — 28

3.  Collective – 22

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

*1.  Nomadland (Joshua James Richards) – 47

2. Lovers Rock (Shabier Kirchner) – 41

3. Vitalina Varela (Leonardo Simões) – 34

BEST ACTRESS:

*1. Frances McDormand (Nomadland) – 46 points

2. Viola Davis (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) – 33

3. Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always) – 29

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

*1. Maria Bakalova (Borat Subsequent Moviefilm) – 47

2. Amanda Seyfried (Mank) – 40

3. Youn Yuh-jung (Minari) – 33

BEST ACTOR:

*1. Delroy Lindo (Da 5 Bloods) – 52

2. Chadwick Boseman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) – 47

3. Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal) – 32

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: 

*1.  Paul Raci (Sound of Metal) – 53

2. Glynn Turman (Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom) – 36

3. Chadwick Boseman (Da 5 Bloods) – 35

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS:

• Women Make Movies, which, since the 1970s, has been releasing daring and distinctive female-directed movies that more conventional distributors wouldn’t touch. 
• Film Comment, founded in 1962 and currently on hiatus, has long been the most substantial and wide-ranging American film magazine.
• The Brattle Theatre in Cambridge, MA. Among America’s premier repertory houses, showing arthouse movies steadily since 1953, and holding strong in continuing the time-honored tradition of daily double features.

We dedicated this meeting to our beloved friend and colleague William Wolf, who died in April of COVID-19. Bill was a longtime NSFC member whose career spanned Cue and New York magazines as well as his online Wolf Entertainment Guide. We miss him dearly.

“PARASITE” is voted Best Picture of 2019

The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday, January 4th, 2020, chose The South Korean film PARASITE  as Best Picture of the Year 2019.  The Society, which is made up of 60 of the country’s most prominent movie critics, held its 54th annual awards voting meeting as guests of Film at Lincoln Center in New York City, using a weighted ballot system.  For the fourth year the Society enabled members across the country to vote live over the internet.

BEST PICTURE:

*1. Parasite – 44

2. Little Women – 27
3. Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood – 22

BEST DIRECTOR:

*1. Greta Gerwig (Little Women) – 39

2. Bong Joon Ho (Parasite) – 36
3. Martin Scorsese (The Irishman) – 31

BEST ACTRESS:

*1.  Mary Kay Place (Diane) – 40

2. Zhao Tao (Ash Is Purest White) – 28
3. Florence Pugh (Midsommar) – 25

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

*1.  Laura Dern (Marriage Story, Little Women) – 57

2. Florence Pugh (Little Women) – 44
3. Jennifer Lopez (Hustlers) – 26

BEST ACTOR:

*1.  Antonio Banderas (Pain and Glory) – 69

2. Adam Driver (Marriage Story) – 43
3. Adam Sandler (Uncut Gems) – 41

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

*1.  Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood) – 64

2. Joe Pesci (The Irishman) – 30
3. Wesley Snipes (Dolemite Is My Name) and Song Kang Ho (Parasite) – 18  [TIE]

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

*1. Claire Mathon (Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Atlantics) – 41

2. Robert Richardson (Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood) – 29
3. Yorick Le Saux (Little Women) – 22

BEST SCREENPLAY:

*1.  Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won (Parasite) – 37

2. Quentin Tarantino (Once Upon a Time . . . in Hollywood) – 34
3. Greta Gerwig (Little Women) – 33

BEST NONFICTION FILM:

*1.  Honeyland – 33

2. American Factory -28
3. Apollo 11 – 27

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS:

“Private Lives, Public Spaces” at the Museum of Modern Art:  Curated by Ron Magliozzi, this exhibit makes visible MOMA’s collection of over one hundred years of vernacular moving images, most of them home movies by the famous and the unknown. Shown on multiple screens in the lobbies of MoMA’s Titus theaters, they form a crazy quilt of personal and cultural history.

Rialto Pictures:  We honor Rialto Pictures, in its 22^nd year, both for distributing 4K restorations of beloved classics like Kind Hearts and Coronets and for presenting neglected work by international masters, such as Federico Fellini’s The White Sheik, and, for the first time, the uncut version of Francesco Rosi’s Christ Stopped at Eboli, with restored prints and upgraded subtitles.

 

 

“The Rider” is voted Best Picture of 2018

The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday, January 5th, 2019, chose THE RIDER as Best Picture of the Year 2018.

The Society, which is made up of 60 of the country’s most prominent movie critics, held its 53nd annual awards voting meeting as guests of the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York City, using a weighted ballot system.

Here are the results.

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 SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

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

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

BEST ACTOR:

*1. Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) – 58

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

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    and Chloé Zhao (The Rider) – 22

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM:

*1. Roma – 44

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

BEST NON-FICTION FILM:

*1. Minding the Gap – 35

2. Shirkers – 31
3. Amazing Grace – 24

FILM HERITAGE AWARD:

To the team of producers, editors, restorers, technicians, and cineastes who labored for decades to bring Orson Welles’s The Other Side of the Wind to completion for a new generation of movie lovers.

• To the Museum of Modern Art for restoring Ernst Lubitsch’s 1923 film Rosita, starring Mary Pickford.

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

 

 

 

Lady Bird leads 2017 awards

BEST ACTRESS:

*1. Sally Hawkins – 49 (The Shape of Water, Maudie)

2. Saoirse Ronan – 44 (Lady Bird)
3. Frances McDormand 24 (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)
4. Cynthia Nixon – 24 (A Quiet Passion) [tie]

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

*1. Laurie Metcalf – 74 (Lady Bird)

2. Lesley Manville – 36 (Phantom Thread)
3. Allison Janney – 24 (I, Tonya)

BEST ACTOR:

*1. Daniel Kaluuya – 44 (Get Out)

2. Daniel Day-Lewis – 34 (Phantom Thread)
3. Timothée Chalamet — 24 (Call Me by Your Name)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

*1. Willem Dafoe – 62 (The Florida Project)

2. Michael Stuhlbarg – 25 (Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water, The Post)
3. Sam Rockwell – 23 (Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

*1. Blade Runner 2049 – 40 (Roger Deakins)

2. Dunkirk – 39 (Hoyte van Hoytema)
3. The Florida Project – 36 (Alexis Zabe)

BEST SCREENPLAY:

*1. Lady Bird – 50 (Greta Gerwig)

2. Get Out – 49 (Jordan Peele)
3. Phantom Thread – 31 (Paul Thomas Anderson)

BEST PICTURE:

*1. Lady Bird – 41

2. Get Out – 39
3. Phantom Thread – 28

BEST DIRECTOR:

*1. Greta Gerwig – 37 (Lady Bird)

2. Jordan Peele – 36 (Get Out)
3. Paul Thomas Anderson – 36 (Phantom Thread)  [tie]

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM

*1. Graduation – 35 (Cristian Mungiu)

2. Faces Places – 30 (Agnès Varda)
3. BPM (Beats Per Minute) – 29 (Robin Campillo)

BEST NON-FICTION FILM

*1. Faces Places – 70 (Agnès Varda)

2. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library – 34 (Frederick Wiseman)
3. Dawson City: Frozen Time – 32 (Bill Morrison)

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM:  Good Luck, by Ben Russell

FILM HERITAGE AWARD:

• “One Way or Another: Black Women’s Cinema, 1970-1991,” curated by the Brooklyn Academy of Music Cinématek.  Co-programmers Nellie Killian, BAMcinematek and Michelle Materre, Creatively Speaking.
• Special commendation to Dan Talbot for his pioneering work as an exhibitor and distributor, in bringing world-wide cinema to the United States.

SPECIAL CITATION for a film awaiting U.S. distribution: Spoor (Pokot), by Agnieska Holland.

This year’s National Society of Film Critics awards are dedicated to Richard Schickel, the legendary film critic and historian, author of 37 books and director of 37 documentaries, and a founding member of the Society.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Response to Disney blackout of L.A. Times