The National Society of Film Critics has been around longer than most organizations and they don’t seem to have an agenda other than awarding what they like. Their choices are often more eclectic than other precursors, though seldom predictive.

Award Tallies

(2) Past Lives, The Zone of Interest
(1) All of Us Strangers, Anatomy of a Fall, Close Your Eyes, Fallen Leaves, The Holdovers, Killers of the Flower Moon, May December, Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros, Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars

The Awards

Best Picture

1. Past Lives (51 points)
2. The Zone of Interest (49 points)
3. Oppenheimer (44 points)

Best Director

1. Jonathan Glazer – The Zone of Interest (65 points)
2. Todd Haynes – May December (42 points)
2. Christopher Nolan – Oppenheimer (41 points)

Best Actor

1. Andrew Scott – All of Us Strangers (52 points)
2. Jeffrey Wright – American Fiction (39 points)
3. Cillian Murphy – Oppenheimer (29 points)

Best Actress

1. .Sandra Hüller – Anatomy of a Fall, The Zone of Interest (61 points)
2. Emma Stone – Poor Things (56 points)
3. Lily Gladstone – Killers of the Flower Moon (44 points)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Charles Melton – May December (51 points)
2. Robert Downey Jr. – Oppenheimer (31 points)
2. Ryan Gosling – Barbie (31 points)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Da’Vine Joy Randolph – The Holdovers (58 points)
2. Penélope Cruz – Ferrari (32 points)
3. Rachel McAdams – Are You There God? It’s Me, Margaret. (23 points)

Best Screenplay

1. May December (53 points)
2. Past Lives (50 points)
3. The Holdovers (36 points)

Best Cinematography

1. Killers of the Flower Moon (55 points)
2. The Zone of Interest (45 points)
3. Oppenheimer (44 points)

Best Film Not in the English Language

1. Fallen Leaves (65 points)
2. The Zone of Interest (51 points)
3. Anatomy of a Fall (44 points)

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros (64 points)
2. 20 Days in Mariupol (25 points)
3. Kokomo City (19 points)

Best Experimental Film

Trailer of a Film That Will Never Exist: Phony Wars

Film Heritage Award

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

Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution

Close Your Eyes

National Society of Film Critics Data

Year Founded: 1966
First Awards: 1966 (57)