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)
Film Heritage Awards
Maya Cade for the Black Film Archive
Bertrand Tavernier and Peter Bogdanovich
Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution
Jean-Gabriel Périot’s Returning to Reims