2000 National Society of Film Critics Awards



35th NSFC Awards January 6, 2001

Best Film:  Yi Yi 

The 35th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 6 January 2001, honored the best in film for 2000.

Best Picture
1. Yi Yi 2. Traffic 3. The House of Mirth

Best Director
1. Steven Soderbergh – Traffic and Erin Brockovich 2. Edward Yang – Yi Yi 3. Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)

Best Actor
1. Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls 2. Mark Ruffalo – You Can Count on Me 3. Tom Hanks – Cast Away

Best Actress
1. Laura Linney – You Can Count on Me 2. Gillian Anderson – The House of Mirth 3. Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream

Best Supporting Actor
1. Benicio del Toro – Traffic 2. Fred Willard – Best in Show 3. Willem Dafoe – Shadow of the Vampire

Best Supporting Actress
1. Elaine May – Small Time Crooks 2. Frances McDormand – Almost Famous and Wonder Boys 3. Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock

Best Screenplay
1. Kenneth Lonergan – You Can Count on Me 2. Steve Kloves – Wonder Boys 3. Stephen Gaghan – Traffic

Best Cinematography
1. Agnès Godard – Beau Travail 2. Peter Pau – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) 2. Steven Soderbergh – Traffic

Best Non-Fiction Film
1. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg 2. Dark Days 3. The Original Kings of Comedy

Experimental Film Award

 * The Heart of the World

Film Heritage Award

 * The National Film Preservation Foundation for "Treasures from American Film Archives," its four-DVD anthology of 50 films, "for preserving and propagating a body of films of cultural and historical significance, with an emphasis on non-Hollywood films."

Special Citation

 * Michelangelo Antonioni