Chloe Zhao’s The Rider was named best picture on Saturday (5) by the National Society Of Film Critics, while Olivia Colman for The Favourite and Ethan Hawke for First Reformed claimed acting honours.
Alfonso Cuarón won the directing and cinematography prizes for ROMA, his Spanish-language Mexican film that also scooped the best foreign film award. In the supporting acting categories, Regina King prevailed for If Beale Street Could Talk, as did Steven Yeun for South Korea’s Burning.
Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, and Ian Martin claimed screenplay honours for The Death Of Stalin.
Full list of 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
2. 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 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
3. 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 FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
1. ROMA – 44
2. Cold War – 34
3. Burning - 30
3. 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 US distribution:
A Family Tour (Ying Liang, Taiwan-Hong Kong-Singapore-Malaysia).
The Society comprises 60 critics from across the US and voted on its 53nd annual awards at the Film Society of Lincoln Center in New York using a weighted ballot system. For the third year the Society enabled members across the country to vote live over the internet. Scrolls will be sent to the winners. Justin Chang was re-elected chairman for 2019.
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