Voting for the National Society of Film Critics is underway, with films like “Nickel Boys” and “A Real Pain” taking home top honors.
NSFC was founded in 1966 and is comprised of over 60 critics hailing from outlets nationally. These journalists mark their annual voting selections for categories such as best picture, director, actor, actress, supporting actor and actress, screenplay and cinematography.
Voting is processed through a weighted ballot system which has critics vote for their top 3 picks. The nominee that garners the most points and is listed on the most ballots wins. The voting process only proceeds to a second round if necessary and voting continues for as long as required until a nominee receives the majority of votes.
“Nickel Boys” took home the Best Picture prize with “Anora” and “All We Imagine Is Light” as runner-ups. For A24’s “Sing Sing,” Colman Domingo earned the Best Actor award alongside Marianne Jean-Baptiste as Best Actress for “Hard Truths.”
“The Brutalist,” meanwhile, nabbed three awards for Adrien Brody as the Best Actor runner-up, Guy Pearce as the Best Supporting Actor runner-up and Lol Crawley as the runner-up in the Best Cinematography category.
The top honor for directing was later won by Payal Kapadia for the film “All We Imagine As Light.”
Check out the official list of winners below:
BEST PICTURE: “Nickel Boys” (47 points)
Runners-up:
“All We Imagine as Light” and “Anora” (34 points)
BEST DIRECTOR: Payal Kapadia, “All We Imagine as Light” (49 points)
Runners-up:
RaMell Ross, “Nickel Boys” (42 points)
Sean Baker, “Anora” (33 points)
BEST ACTRESS: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, “Hard Truths” (79 points)
Runners-up:
Mikey Madison, “Anora” (35 points)
Ilinca Manolache, “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” (32 points)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Michele Austin, “Hard Truths” (55 points)
Runners-up:
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, “Nickel Boys,” and Natasha Lyonne, “His Three Daughters” (39 points)
BEST ACTOR: Colman Domingo, “Sing Sing” (60 points)
Runners-up:
Adrien Brody, “The Brutalist” (51 points)
Ralph Fiennes, “Conclave” (45 points)
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Kieran Culkin, “A Real Pain” (52 points)
Runners-up:
Guy Pearce, “The Brutalist” (50 points)
Edward Norton, “A Complete Unknown,” and Adam Pearson, “A Different Man” (41 points)
BEST SCREENPLAY: Jesse Eisenberg, “A Real Pain” (47 points)
Runners-up:
Radu Jude, “Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” (46 points)
Sean Baker, “Anora” (45 points)
BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE: “All We Imagine as Light” (49 points)
Runners-up:
“Do Not Expect Too Much From the End of the World” (41 points)
“The Seed of the Sacred Fig” (28 points)
BEST NONFICTION FILM: “No Other Land” (70 points)
Runners-up:
“Dahomey” (51 points)
“Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat” (24 points)
BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Jomo Fray, “Nickel Boys” (80 points)
Runners-up:
Lol Crawley, “The Brutalist” (38 points)
Jarin Blaschke, “Nosferatu” (21 points)
BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: “The Ballad of Suzanne Césaire”
SPECIAL CITATION FOR A FILM AWAITING U.S. DISTRIBUTION: “No Other Land”
FILM HERITAGE AWARDS:
— Scott Eyman, for his outstanding books on film artists and epochal shifts in moviemaking, most recently with “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided,” a revelatory study of the nexus of American politics and American pop culture.
— IndieCollect, which, since its founding in 2010 by Sandra Schulberg, has met the challenge of preserving independent films with a rare sense of artistic responsibility.
— To Save and Project: The MoMA International Festival of Film Preservation, for more than two decades of superb restorations and diverse programming from all over the world, in collaboration with archives, foundations, studios and other organizations.
