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14th NSFC Awards<br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 3, 1980 </div>
Best Film: <br> <big> Breaking Away </big> </div> The 14th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on January 3, 1980, honored the best filmmaking of 1979.
1. Breaking Away<br> 2. Kramer vs. Kramer<br> 3. Manhattan<br> 4. 10
1. Woody Allen – Manhattan<br> 1. Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer<br> 3. Peter Yates – Breaking Away<br> 4. Blake Edwards – 10
1. Dustin Hoffman – Kramer vs. Kramer and Agatha<br> 2. Peter Sellers – Being There<br> 3. Nick Nolte – North Dallas Forty<br> 4. Jack Lemmon – The China Syndrome<br> 5. Klaus Kinski – Nosferatu the Vampyre (Nosferatu: Phantom der Nacht) and Woyzeck<br> 5. Richard Pryor – '<br> 5. Roy Scheider – All That Jazz
1. Sally Field – Norma Rae<br> 2. Hanna Schygulla – The Marriage of Maria Braun (Die Ehe der Maria Braun)<br> 3. Bette Midler – The Rose<br> 4. Diane Keaton – Manhattan
1. Frederic Forrest – Apocalypse Now and The Rose<br> 2. Melvyn Douglas – Being There and The Seduction of Joe Tynan<br> 3. Paul Dooley – Breaking Away<br> 4. James Mason – Murder by Decree<br> 4. James Woods – The Onion Field
1. Meryl Streep – Kramer vs. Kramer, Manhattan and The Seduction of Joe Tynan<br> 2. Barbara Harris – The Seduction of Joe Tynan<br> 3. Jane Alexander – Kramer vs. Kramer<br> 3. Barbara Barrie – Breaking Away
1. Steve Tesich – Breaking Away<br> 2. Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman – Manhattan<br> 3. Robert Benton – Kramer vs. Kramer<br> 4. Jerzy Kosinski and Robert C. Jones – Being There<br> 5. Blake Edwards – 10
1. Caleb Deschanel РThe Black Stallion and Being There<br> 2. Vittorio Storaro РApocalypse Now and Agatha<br> 3. N̩stor Almendros РKramer vs. Kramer<br> 4. Gordon Willis РManhattan