A unique way of tabulating votes leads to a fairly rote list of selections. This marks the fourth of the grandfather critics groups to pick One Battle After Another. That’s a pretty solid sign for its Oscar prospects.

Awards Tallies

(4) One Battle After Another
(1) Blue Moon, Familiar Touch, It Was Just an Accident, Landmarks, Morning Circle, My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow, The Secret Agent, Sinners

The Awards

Best Picture

1. One Battle After Another (57 points)
2. Sinners (29 points)
3. The Secret Agent (27 points)

Best Director

1. Paul Thomas Anderson – One Battle After Another (54 points)
2. Jafar Panahi – It Was Just an Accident (48 points)
3. Richard Linklater – Blue Moon, Nouvelle Vague (39 points)

Best Actor

1. Ethan Hawke – Blue Moon (57 points)
2. Wagner Moura – The Secret Agent (43 points)
3. Michael B. Jordan – Sinners (36 points)

Best Actress

1. Kathleen Chalafant – Familiar Touch (45 points)
2. Rose Byrne – If I Had Legs I’d Kick You (39 points)
3. Renate Reinsve – Sentimental Value (37 points)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Benicio Del Toro – One Battle After Another (54 points)
2. Delroy Lindo – Sinners (37 points)
3. Stellan Skarsgård – Sentimental Value (30 points)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Teyana Taylor – One Battle After Another (56 points)
2. Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas – Sentimental Value (47 points)
2. Wunmi Mosaku (41 points)

Best Screenplay

1. It Was Just an Accident (53 points)
2. Blue Moon (50 points)
3. The Secret Agent (40 points)

Best Cinematography

1. Sinners (50 points)
2. Train Dreams (36 points)
3. One Battle After Another (29 points)

Best Film Not in the English Language

1. The Secret Agent (58 points)
2. It Was Just an Accident (57 points)
3. Sentimental Value (38 points)

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. My Undesirable Friends: Part I – Last Air in Moscow (56 points)
2. The Perfect Neighbor (22 points)
3. Orwell: 2+2=5 (18 points)

Best Experimental Film

Morning Circle

Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution

Landmarks

Film Heritage Award

Cinema Tropical, for its tireless efforts to distribute, program and promote Latin American cinema in the U.S.
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.
Ken and Flo Jacobs, an irreplaceable, gravitational center of the American avant-garde, with a shared artistic sensibility that helped define experimental cinema.

National Society of Film Critics Data

Year Founded: 1966
First Awards: 1966 (59)