1973 National Society of Film Critics Awards



8th NSFC Awards January 4, 1974

Best Film:  Day for Night  The 8th National Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1973. Voting by nineteen members of the society took place on 2 January 1974 and winners announced that day. Citations were presented to the winners in a ceremony on 20 January 1974. Both the voting and the ceremony occurred at the Algonquin Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.

Best Picture

 * Day for Night (La nuit américaine)

Best Director

 * François Truffaut – Day for Night (La nuit américaine)

Best Actor

 * Marlon Brando – Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi)

Best Actress

 * Liv Ullmann – The New Land (Nybyggarna)

Best Supporting Actor

 * Robert De Niro – Mean Streets

Best Supporting Actress

 * Valentina Cortese – Day for Night (La nuit américaine)

Best Screenplay

 * George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck – American Graffiti

Best Cinematography

 * Vilmos Zsigmond – The Long Goodbye

Special Awards

 * Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del subdesarrollo)
 * Daryl Duke
 * Robert Ryan – The Iceman Cometh