1984 National Society of Film Critics Awards



19th NSFC Awards January 3, 1985

Best Film:  Stranger Than Paradise  The 19th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1985, honored the best filmmaking of 1984.

Best Picture

 * Stranger Than Paradise
 * Runner-up: A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne)

Best Director

 * Robert Bresson – L'Argent
 * Runner-up: Bertrand Tavernier – A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne)

Best Actor

 * Steve Martin – All of Me
 * Runner-up: Albert Finney – Under the Volcano

Best Actress

 * Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians
 * Runner-up: Kathleen Turner – Romancing the Stone

Best Supporting Actor

 * John Malkovich – Places in the Heart and The Killing Fields
 * Runner-up: Ralph Richardson – Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

Best Supporting Actress

 * Melanie Griffith – Body Double
 * Runner-up: Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India

Best Screenplay

 * Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman – Splash
 * Runner-up: Bertrand Tavernier and Colo Tavernier – A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne)

Best Cinematography

 * Chris Menges – Comfort and Joy and The Killing Fields

Best Documentary

 * Stop Making Sense