2018 National Society of Film Critics Awards



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.

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, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, 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