4th NSFC Awards
January 5, 1970
----Best Film:
Z
The 4th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 1970, honored the best filmmaking of 1969.[1]
The member critics voting for the awards were Hollis Alpert of the Saturday Review, Harold Clurman of The Nation, Jay Cocks of Time, Brad Darrach of Movie, Penelope Gilliatt of The New Yorker, Pauline Kael of The New Yorker, Stefan Kanfer of Time, Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic, Robert Kotlowitz of Harper's Magazine, Joseph Morgenstern of Newsweek, Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice, Richard Schickel of Life, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. of Vogue, and John Simon of The New Leader.[2]
2. Stolen Kisses (11 points)
3. The Unfaithful Wife (10 points)
2. Costa-Gavras - Z (11 points)
3. Claude Chabrol - The Unfaithful Wife (9 points)
3. Miklós Jancsó - The Red and the White (9 points)
2. Peter O'Toole - Goodbye, Mr. Chips (14 points)
3. Michel Bouquet - The Unfaithful Wife (9 points)
3. Robert Redford - Downhill Racer and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (9 points)
2. Jane Fonda - They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (16 points)
3. Verna Bloom - Medium Cool (5 points)
3. Maggie Smith - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (5 points)
3. Ingrid Thulin - The Damned (5 points)
3. Verna Bloom - Medium Cool (12 points)
3. Dyan Cannon - Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (12 points)
3. Celia Johnson - The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
2. Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún - Z (18 points)
3. Alvin Sargent - The Sterile Cuckoo (6 points)
2. Miroslav Ondricek - If.... (11 points)
3. Haskell Wexler - Medium Cool (8 points)