2018 National Society of Film Critics Awards explained

53rd NSFC Awards

January 5, 2019

----Best Film:
The Rider

The 53rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 2019, honored the best in film for 2018.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Winners

Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:

Best Picture

1. The Rider (44)
2. Roma (41)
3. Burning (27)

Best Director

1. Alfonso Cuarón  - Roma (60)
2. Lee Chang-dong  - Burning (22)
3. Chloé Zhao  - The Rider (22)

Best Actor

1. Ethan Hawke  - First Reformed (58)
2. Willem Dafoe  - At Eternity's Gate (30)
3. Ben Foster  - Leave No Trace (25)
4. John C. Reilly  - The Sisters Brothers and Stan & Ollie (25)

Best Actress

1. Olivia Colman  - The Favourite (36)
2. Regina Hall  - Support the Girls (33)
3. Melissa McCarthy  - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (27)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Steven Yeun  - Burning (40)
2. Richard E. Grant  - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (35)
3. Brian Tyree Henry  - If Beale Street Could Talk, , and Widows (32)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Regina King  - If Beale Street Could Talk (47)
2. Elizabeth Debicki  - Widows (37)
3. Emma Stone  - The Favourite (24)

Best Screenplay

1. Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, and Ian Martin  - The Death of Stalin (47)
2. Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty  - Can You Ever Forgive Me? (27)
3. Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara  - The Favourite (24)

Best Cinematography

1. Alfonso Cuarón  - Roma (70)
2. James Laxton  - If Beale Street Could Talk (26)
3. Łukasz Żal  - Cold War (24)

Best Foreign Language Film

1. Roma  - Alfonso Cuarón (44)
2. Cold War  - Paweł Pawlikowski (34)
3. Burning  - Lee Chang-dong (30)
4. Shoplifters  - Hirokazu Kore-eda (30)

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. Minding the Gap  - Bing Liu (35)
2. Shirkers  - Sandi Tan (31)
3. Amazing Grace  - Sydney Pollack (24)

Film Heritage Award

• Museum of Modern Art for restoring Ernst Lubitsch's 1923 film Rosita.
• "The team of producers, editors, restorers, technicians, and cineastes who labored for decades to bring Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind to completion for a new generation of movie lovers."

Special Citation

• A Family Tour, a film awaiting American distribution

External links

• Official website

Notes and References

1. Web site: "The Rider" is voted Best Picture of 2018 . January 5, 2019 . . January 6, 2019.
2. Web site: National Society Of Film Critics Names Chloe Zhao's 'The Rider' As Best Picture . Ramos . Dino-Ray . January 5, 2019 . . January 6, 2019.
3. News: 'The Rider' Named Best Picture by the National Society of Film Critics . Kilkenny . Katie . January 5, 2019 . . January 6, 2019.