14th NSFC Awards
January 3, 1980
----Best Film:
Breaking Away
The 14th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on January 3, 1980, honored the best filmmaking of 1979.[1] [2]
1. Breaking Away
2. Kramer vs. Kramer
3. Manhattan
4. 10
1. Woody Allen - Manhattan
1. Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
3. Peter Yates - Breaking Away
4. Blake Edwards - 10
1. Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer and Agatha
2. Peter Sellers - Being There
3. Nick Nolte - North Dallas Forty
4. Jack Lemmon - The China Syndrome
5. Klaus Kinski - Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) and Woyzeck
5. Richard Pryor -
5. Roy Scheider - All That Jazz
1. Sally Field - Norma Rae
2. Hanna Schygulla - The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)
3. Bette Midler - The Rose
4. Diane Keaton - Manhattan
1. Frederic Forrest - Apocalypse Now and The Rose
2. Melvyn Douglas - Being There and The Seduction of Joe Tynan
3. Paul Dooley - Breaking Away
4. James Mason - Murder by Decree
4. James Woods - The Onion Field
1. Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer, Manhattan and The Seduction of Joe Tynan
2. Barbara Harris - The Seduction of Joe Tynan
3. Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer
3. Barbara Barrie - Breaking Away
1. Steve Tesich - Breaking Away
2. Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman - Manhattan
3. Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer
4. Jerzy Kosinski and Robert C. Jones - Being There
5. Blake Edwards - 10
1. Caleb Deschanel - The Black Stallion and Being There
2. Vittorio Storaro - Apocalypse Now and Agatha
3. Néstor Almendros - Kramer vs. Kramer
4. Gordon Willis - Manhattan