2018 National Society of Film Critics Awards

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53rd NSFC Awards<br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 5, 2019 </div>

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Best Film:<br> <big> The Rider </big> </div>

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 &ndash; Roma (60)
2. Lee Chang-dong &ndash; Burning (22)
3. Chloé Zhao &ndash; The Rider (22)

Best Actor

1. Ethan Hawke &ndash; First Reformed (58)
2. Willem Dafoe &ndash; At Eternity's Gate (30)
3. Ben Foster &ndash; Leave No Trace (25)
4. John C. Reilly &ndash; The Sisters Brothers and Stan & Ollie (25)

Best Actress

1. Olivia Colman &ndash; The Favourite (36)
2. Regina Hall &ndash; Support the Girls (33)
3. Melissa McCarthy &ndash; Can You Ever Forgive Me? (27)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Steven Yeun &ndash; Burning (40)
2. Richard E. Grant &ndash; Can You Ever Forgive Me? (35)
3. Brian Tyree Henry &ndash; If Beale Street Could Talk, ', and Widows (32)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Regina King &ndash; If Beale Street Could Talk (47)
2. Elizabeth Debicki &ndash; Widows (37)
3. Emma Stone &ndash; The Favourite (24)

Best Screenplay

1. Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, and Ian Martin &ndash; The Death of Stalin (47)
2. Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty &ndash; Can You Ever Forgive Me? (27)
3. Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara &ndash; The Favourite (24)

Best Cinematography

1. Alfonso Cuarón &ndash; Roma (70)
2. James Laxton &ndash; If Beale Street Could Talk (26)
3. Łukasz Żal &ndash; Cold War (24)

Best Foreign Language Film

1. Roma &ndash; Alfonso Cuarón (44)
2. Cold War &ndash; Paweł Pawlikowski (34)
3. Burning &ndash; Lee Chang-dong (30)
4. Shoplifters &ndash; Hirokazu Kore-eda (30)

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. Minding the Gap &ndash; Bing Liu (35)
2. Shirkers &ndash; Sandi Tan (31)
3. Amazing Grace &ndash; 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

References

External links

• Official website