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16th NSFC Awards<br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 5, 1982 </div>
Best Film: <br> <big> Atlantic City </big> </div> The 16th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 1982, honored the best filmmaking of 1981.
1. Atlantic City<br> 2. Reds<br> 3. Prince of the City<br> 4. Pixote (Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco)<br> 5. Pennies from Heaven
1. Louis Malle – Atlantic City<br> 2. Sidney Lumet – Prince of the City<br> 3. Héctor Babenco – Pixote (Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco)
1. Burt Lancaster – Atlantic City<br> 2. Gene Hackman – All Night Long<br> 3. Henry Fonda – On Golden Pond
1. MarÃÂlia Pêra – Pixote (Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco)<br> 2. Faye Dunaway – Mommie Dearest<br> 3. Diane Keaton – Reds
1. Robert Preston – S.O.B.<br> 2. Jerry Orbach – Prince of the City<br> 3. Jack Nicholson – Reds
1. Maureen Stapleton – Reds<br> 2. Mona Washbourne – Stevie<br> 3. Lisa Eichhorn – Cutter's Way
1. John Guare – Atlantic City<br> 2. Warren Beatty and Trevor Griffiths – Reds<br> 3. Dennis Potter – Pennies from Heaven<br> 3. Jay Presson Allen and Sidney Lumet – Prince of the City
1. Gordon Willis – Pennies from Heaven<br> 2. Vilmos Zsigmond – Blow Out<br> 3. Vittorio Storaro – Reds