TÁR Declared Best Picture by National Society of Film Critics

Todd Field’s TÁR has been declared Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics. The film also picked up wins for Best Actress for Cate Blanchett and Best Screenplay. Elsewhere, Charlotte Wells was named Best Director for Aftersun and Jerzy Skolimowski’s EO picked up two wins for Best Film Not in the English Language and Best Cinematography.

Full list of winners and runners-up below.

Best Picture:

TÁR (61 points)

Runners-up: AFTERSUN (49 points) NO BEARS (32 points)

Best Director:

Charlotte Wells, AFTERSUN (60 points)

Runners-up: Park Chan-wook, DECISION TO LEAVE (47 points) Jafar Panahi, NO BEARS (36 points)

Best Actor:

Colin Farrell, AFTER YANG and THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (71 points)

Runners-up: Paul Mescal, AFTERSUN (55 points) Bill Nighy, LIVING (33 points)

Best Actress:

Cate Blanchett, TÁR (59 points)

Runners-up: Michelle Yeoh, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (38 points) Tilda Swinton, THE ETERNAL DAUGHTER, and Michelle Williams, THE FABELMANS (27 points)

Best Supporting Actress:

Kerry Condon, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (57 points)

Runners-up: Nina Hoss, TÁR (43 points) Dolly De Leon, TRIANGLE OF SADNESS (35 points)

Best Supporting Actor:

Ke Huy Quan, EVERYTHING EVERYWHERE ALL AT ONCE (45 points)

Runners-up: Brian Tyree Henry, CAUSEWAY (35 points) Barry Keoghan, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (27 points)

Best Screenplay:

Todd Field, TÁR (61 points)

Runners-up: Martin McDonagh, THE BANSHEES OF INISHERIN (42 points) James Gray, ARMAGEDDON TIME (18 points)

Best Cinematography:

Michał Dymek, EO (62 points)

Runners-up: Hoyte van Hoytema, NOPE (37 points) Kim Ji-yong, DECISION TO LEAVE (34 points)

Best Film Not in the English Language:

EO (43 points)

Runners-up: NO BEARS (37 points) DECISION TO LEAVE (34 points)

Best Nonfiction Film:

ALL THE BEAUTY AND THE BLOODSHED (46 points)

Runners-up: DESCENDANT (40 points) ALL THAT BREATHES (27 points)

Film Heritage Award: 

Screen Slate

Film Heritage Award: 

Jeanine Basinger

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.