Past Lives Named Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics

Celine Song’s Past Lives has been named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics. Elsewhere, Jonathan Glazer was named Best Director for The Zone of Interest and Andrew Scott scored his first win of the season for Best Actor for All of Us Strangers.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Picture

Winner: PAST LIVES (51 points)

Runners-up: THE ZONE OF INTEREST (49 points) OPPENHEIMER (44 points)

Best Director

Winner: Jonathan Glazer, THE ZONE OF INTEREST (65 points)

Runners-up: Todd Haynes, MAY DECEMBER (42 points) Christopher Nolan, OPPENHEIMER (41 points)

Best Actress

Winner: Sandra Hüller, ANATOMY OF A FALL and THE ZONE OF INTEREST (61 points)

Runners-up: Emma Stone, POOR THINGS (56 points) Lily Gladstone, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (44 points)

Best Actor

Winner: Andrew Scott, ALL OF US STRANGERS (52 points)

Runners-up: Jeffrey Wright, AMERICAN FICTION (39 points) Cillian Murphy, OPPENHEIMER (29 points)

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Da’Vine Joy Randolph, THE HOLDOVERS (58 points)

Runners-up: Penélope Cruz, FERRARI (32 points) Rachel McAdams, ARE YOU THERE GOD? IT’S ME, MARGARET. (23 points)

Best Supporting Actor

​Winner: Charles Melton, MAY DECEMBER (51 points)

Runners-up: Robert Downey, Jr., OPPENHEIMER, and Ryan Gosling, BARBIE (31 points, tie)

Best Screenplay

Winner: Samy Burch, MAY DECEMBER (53 points)

Runners-up: Celine Song, PAST LIVES (50 points) David Hemingson, THE HOLDOVERS (36 points)

Best Cinematography

Winner: Rodrigo Prieto, KILLERS OF THE FLOWER MOON (55 points)

Runners-up: Łukasz Żal, THE ZONE OF INTEREST (45 points) Hoyte van Hoytema, OPPENHEIMER (44 points)

Best Nonfiction Film

Winner: MENUS-PLAISIRS — LES TROISGROS (64 points)

Runners-up: 20 DAYS IN MARIUPOL (25 points), KOKOMO CITY (19 points)

Best Film Not In The English Language

Winner: FALLEN LEAVES (65 points)

Runners-up: THE ZONE OF INTEREST (51 points) ANATOMY OF A FALL (44 points)

Best Experimental Film: Jean Luc-Godard’s TRAILER OF A FILM THAT WILL NEVER EXIST: PHONY WARS

Film Heritage Award: Criterion Channel, for an adventurous, wide-ranging, finely curated selection of films, ranging from American independents to world cinema to short films to classic Hollywood, making readily available the kind of repertory cinema that every city should have.

Film Heritage Award: Facets, Kim’s Video, Scarecrow Video and Vidiots, for maintaining wide-reaching libraries of films on disc and tape and making those libraries available to the general public.

Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: Víctor Erice’s CLOSE YOUR EYES


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.