Paul Thomas Anderson’s One Battle After Another has been named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics. The film also picked up wins for Best Director, Best Supporting Actor for Benicio del Toro and Best Supporting Actress for Teyana Taylor. Elsewhere, Kathleen Chalfant (Familiar Touch) and Ethan Hawke (Blue Moon) scored Best Actress and Actor, respectively.
Full list of winners and runners-up below.
Best Picture
ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (57 points)
Runners-up: SINNERS (29 points) THE SECRET AGENT (27 points)
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (54 points)
Runners-up: Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (48 points) Richard Linklater, BLUE MOON and NOUVELLE VAGUE (39 points)
Best Actress
Kathleen Chalfant, FAMILIAR TOUCH (45 points)
Runners-up: Rose Byrne, IF I HAD LEGS I’D KICK YOU (39 points) Renate Reinsve, SENTIMENTAL VALUE (37 points)
Best Actor
Ethan Hawke, BLUE MOON (57 points)
Runners-up: Wagner Moura, THE SECRET AGENT (43 points) Michael B. Jordan, SINNERS (36 points)
Best Supporting Actress
Teyana Taylor, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (56 points)
Runners-up: Inga Ibsdotter Lilleaas, SENTIMENTAL VALUE (47 points) Wunmi Mosaku, SINNERS (41 points)
Best Supporting Actor
Benicio del Toro, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (54 points)
Runners-up: Delroy Lindo, SINNERS (37) Stellan Skarsgård, SENTIMENTAL VALUE (30 points)
Best Screenplay
Jafar Panahi, IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (53 points)
Runners-up: Robert Kaplow, BLUE MOON (50 points) Kleber Mendonça Filho, THE SECRET AGENT (40 points)
Best Cinematography
Autumn Durald Arkapaw, SINNERS (50 points)
Runners-up: Adolpho Veloso, TRAIN DREAMS (36 points) Michael Bauman, ONE BATTLE AFTER ANOTHER (29 points)
Best Nonfiction Film
MY UNDESIRABLE FRIENDS: PART I — LAST AIR IN MOSCOW (56 points)
Runners-up: THE PERFECT NEIGHBOR (22 points)ORWELL: 2+2=5 (18 points)
Best Film Not In The English Language
THE SECRET AGENT (58 points)
Runners-up: IT WAS JUST AN ACCIDENT (57 points) SENTIMENTAL VALUE (38 points)
Best Experimental Film: MORNING CIRCLE (Basma al-Sharif)
Film Heritage Award: the late Ken and Flo Jacobs, an irreplaceable, gravitational center of the American avant-garde, with a shared artistic sensibility that helped define experimental cinema.
Film Heritage Award: 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.
Film Heritage Award: Cinema Tropical, for its tireless efforts to distribute, program and promote Latin American cinema in the U.S.
Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: LANDMARKS (Lucrecia Martel)
