Drive My Car Named Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics

Ryusuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car has been named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics. The film also picked up wins for Best Director for Hamaguchi, Best Actor for Hidetoshi Nishijima, and Best Screenplay for Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Picture

Drive My Car (48 points)
Runners-up: Petite Maman (25 points) & The Power of the Dog (23 points)

Best Director

Ryusuke Hamaguchi – Drive My Car and Wheel of Fortune and Fantasy (46 points)
Runners-up: Jane Campion – The Power of the Dog (36 points), Céline Sciamma – Petite Maman (28 points)

Best Actress

Penélope Cruz – Parallel Mothers (55 points)
Runners-up: Renate Reinsve – The Worst Person in the World (42 points), Alana Haim – Licorice Pizza (32 points)

Best Actor

Hidetoshi Nishijima – Drive My Car (63 points)
Runners-up: Benedict Cumberbatch – The Power of the Dog (44 points), Simon Rex – Red Rocket (30 points)

Best Supporting Actress

Ruth Negga – Passing (46 points)
Runners-up: Ariana DeBose – West Side Story (22 points), Jessie Buckley – The Lost Daughter (21 points)

Best Supporting Actor

Anders Danielsen Lie – The Worst Person in the World (54 points)
Runners-up: Vincent Lindon – Titane (33 points), Mike Faist – West Side Story (26 points), Kodi Smit-McPhee – The Power of the Dog (26 points)

Best Screenplay

Ryusuke Hamaguchi and Takamasa Oe – Drive My Car (46 points)
Runners-up: Pedro Almodóvar – Parallel Mothers (22 points), Paul Thomas Anderson – Licorice Pizza (20 points)

Best Cinematography

Andrew Droz Palermo – The Green Knight (52 points)
Runners-up: Ari Wegner – The Power of the Dog (40 points), Sayombhu Mukdeeprom – Memoria (35 points)

Best Non-Fiction Film

Flee (41 points)
Runners-up: Procession (28 points), The Velvet Underground (28 points)