RaMell Ross’ Nickel Boys has been named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics. Elsewhere, Payal Kapadia was named Best Director for All We Imagine as Light (which also won Best Film Not In The English Language), while Marianne Jean-Baptiste and Michele Austin were the winners of Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress, respectively for Hard Truths. This marks Austin’s first win of the season.
Full list of winners and runners-up below.
Best Picture
Winner: NICKEL BOYS (47 points)
Runners-up: ANORA and ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (34 points each)
Best Director
Winner: Payal Kapadia, ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (49 points)
Runners-up: RaMell Ross, NICKEL BOYS (42 points), Sean Baker, ANORA (33 points)
Best Actress
Winner: 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)
Best Actor
Winner: Colman Domingo, SING SING ( 60 points)
Runners-up: Adrien Brody, THE BRUTALIST (51 points), Ralph Fiennes, CONCLAVE (45 points)
Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Michele Austin, HARD TRUTHS (55 points)
Runners-up: Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, NICKEL BOYS, and Natasha Lyonne, HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (39 points each)
Best Supporting Actor
Winner: 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 Screenplay
Winner: 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 Cinematography
Winner: Jomo Fray, NICKEL BOYS (80 points)
Runners-up: Lol Crawley, THE BRUTALIST (38 points), Jarin Blaschke, NOSFERATU (21 points)
Best Nonfiction Film
Winner: 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
Winner: 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 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,” a revelatory study of the nexus of American politics and American pop culture.
Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: NO OTHER LAND
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