National Society of Film Critics

A hearty congrats and welcome to Katie Walsh (@katiewalshstx.bsky.social) and Mark Asch, the two newest members of the National Society of Film Critics!

This concludes our 60th annual voting meeting. Thank you for following along, and congratulations to all our winners.

Best Nonfiction Film: MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW (56 points) Runners-up: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR (22 points) ORWELL: 2+2=5 (18 points)

Best Film Not in the English Language: THE SECRET AGENT (58 points) Runners-up:
IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (57 points) SENTIMENTAL VALUE (38 points)

Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (54 points) Runners-up: Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (48 points) Richard Linklater, BLUE MOON and NOUVELLE VAGUE (39 points)

Best Picture: ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (57 points) Runners-up: SINNERS (29 points) THE SECRET AGENT (27 points)

Best Screenplay: Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (53 points) Runners-up: Robert Kaplow, BLUE MOON (50 points) Kleber Mendonça Filho, THE SECRET AGENT (40 points)

Best Supporting Actor: Benicio del Toro, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (54 points) Runners-up: Delroy Lindo, SINNERS (37) Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE (30 points)

Best Actor: Ethan Hawke, BLUE MOON (57 points) Runners-up: Wagner Moura, THE SECRET AGENT (43 points) Michael B. Jordan, SINNERS (36 points)

Best Cinematography: Autumn Durald Arkapaw, SINNERS (50 points) Runners-up:
 Adolpho Veloso, TRAIN DREAMS (36 points) Michael Bauman, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (29 points)

Best Supporting Actress: Teyana Taylor, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (56 points) Runners-up: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, SENTIMENTAL VALUE (47 points) Wunmi Mosaku, SINNERS (41 points)

Best Actress: Kathleen Chalfant, FAMILIAR TOUCH (45 points) Runners-up: Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU (39 points) Renate Reinsve, SENTIMENTAL VALUE (37 points)

Film Heritage Award: the late Ken and Flo Jacobs, an irreplaceable, gravitational center of the American avant-garde, with a shared artistic sensibility that helped define experimental cinema.

Film Heritage Award: The Film Desk, for releasing key movies from all over the world, in 35mm prints and on home video, and publishing books that have enriched the public’s knowledge of cinema.

Film Heritage Award: Cinema Tropical, for its tireless efforts to distribute, program and promote Latin American cinema in the U.S.

Best Experimental Film: MORNING CIRCLE (Basma al-Sharif)

Special Award for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: LANDMARKS (Lucrecia Martel)

The National Society of Film Critics’ 60th annual voting meeting is about to begin. Follow this account for live winner announcements, category by category.

The National Society of Film Critics will be voting on 2025's best achievements in film on Saturday, Jan. 3. Please follow us here for the winner and runner-up announcements, category by category.

We join our colleagues in @lafilmcritics.bsky.social and @nsfc.bsky.social in condemning the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" off the air.

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We strongly condemn the actions taken by Nexstar and Disney-ABC to pull JIMMY KIMMEL LIVE! off the air.

Warmest of welcomes to Lovia Gyarkye, the newest member of the National Society of Film Critics. Congratulations, Lovia!

We join our colleagues in @nyfcc.bsky.social, @lafilmcritics.bsky.social and @bsfc.bsky.social in condemning the attack on NO OTHER LAND co-director Hamdan Ballal.

This concludes our 59th annual voting meeting. Thank you for following along, and congratulations to all our winners.

Best Nonfiction Film: NO OTHER LAND (70 points) Runners-up: DAHOMEY (50 points) SOUNDTRACK TO A COUP D’ETAT (24 points)

Best Film Not in the English Language: ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (44 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 Director: Payal Kapadia, ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (49 points) Runners-up: RaMell Ross, NICKEL BOYS (42 points) Sean Baker, ANORA (33 points)

Best Picture: NICKEL BOYS (47 points) Runners-up: ANORA and ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (34 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 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 Actor: Colman Domingo, SING SING ( 60 points) Runners-up: Adrien Brody, THE BRUTALIST (51 points) Ralph Fiennes, CONCLAVE (45 points)

Best Cinematography: Jomo Fray, NICKEL BOYS (80 points) Runners-up: Lol Crawley, THE BRUTALIST (38 points) Jarin Blaschke, NOSFERATU (21 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 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)

Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: NO OTHER LAND

Best Experimental Film: THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE

Film Heritage Award: 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.

Film Heritage Award: 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.

Film Heritage Award: 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” (2023), a revelatory study of the nexus of American politics and American pop culture.

The National Society of Film Critics is now on Bluesky. We will be voting on our awards for 2024's best achievements in film on Saturday, Jan. 4. Please follow us here for the winner and runner-up announcements, category by category.