National Society of Film Critics Winners

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nightwingnova wrote
Little Women as the top two favorite of this group too is quite odd, considering that it has tended towards the new and the novel.

The film is written and directed in a new way.

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Very odd, indeed. As, in past years, the NSFC tended to track the NYFCC in many categories.

Little Women as one of the top two favorite of this group too is quite odd, considering that it has tended towards the new and the novel.

Yup.

Best Director: Greta Gerwig, LITTLE WOMEN (39 points)

Runners-up:
Bong Joon Ho, PARASITE (36 points)
Martin Scorsese, THE IRISHMAN (31 points)

Repeating her Lady Bird win.

This is one of the few categories where The Irishman was even close. Apparently, the NY critics who cross over to the National Society are not the ones who gave the film the win in NY.

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The Parasite train continues with awards for Best Picture and Screenplay. It probably would've won Best Director as well had the Critics not made a conscious choice to spread the wealth (pure speculation).

If you only look at the three major critics groups then Parasite won six major awards. Two awards for Best Picture, one for Best Foreign Language Film, one for Best Director, one for Best Screenplay, and one for Best Supporting Actor.

Not quite a sweep but a clear winner. How does it stack up against Roma?

Eight. Two awards for Best Picture, two for Best Director, three for Best Cinematography, and one for Best Foreign Language Film.

Lady Bird actually picked up more awards as well. Seven total. Moonlight leads the decade with eleven major awards from the three groups, picking up Best Director, Supporting Actor, and Cinematography from all three and Best Picture only from two. The Social Network is next behind with ten.

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Film Heritage Award: to the Museum of Modern Art for "Private Lives, Public Spaces," curated by Ron Magliozzi, which makes visible MoMA's collection of more than 100 years of vernacular moving images, most of them home movies by the famous and unknown.

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Best Non-Fiction Film: HONEYLAND (33 points)

Runners-up:
AMERICAN FACTORY (28 points)
APOLLO 11 (27 points)

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So, to summarize the big three critics groups:

Antonio Banderas sweeps, as does Claire Mathon.

Parasite 2/Irishman 1 for best film.

Mary Kay Place 2/Lupita Nyong'o 1 for lead actress (you could have got long odds on that a month ago).

Laura Dern 2/JLo 1 for supporting actress.

Director (Safdies/Bong/Gerwig) and screenplay (Once Upon a Time NY/Marriage Story LA/Parasite here) three-way split.

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Yup.

Best Director: Greta Gerwig, LITTLE WOMEN (39 points)

Runners-up:
Bong Joon Ho, PARASITE (36 points)
Martin Scorsese, THE IRISHMAN (31 points)

Repeating her Lady Bird win.

This is one of the few categories where The Irishman was even close. Apparently, the NY critics who cross over to the National Society are not the ones who gave the film the win in NY.

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Yup.

Best Director: Greta Gerwig, LITTLE WOMEN (39 points)

Runners-up:
Bong Joon Ho, PARASITE (36 points)
Martin Scorsese, THE IRISHMAN (31 points)

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They're taking quite a while on Best Director. I wonder if they're going to split Best Director from Best Picture and give it to Greta Gerwig?

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Best Picture: PARASITE (44 points)

Runners-up:
LITTLE WOMEN (27 points)
ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD (22 points)

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Best Screenplay: Bong Joon Ho and Han Jin Won, PARASITE (37 points)

Runners-up:
Quentin Tarantino, ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD (34 points)
Greta Gerwig, LITTLE WOMEN (33 points)

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Best Cinematography: Claire Mathon, PORTRAIT OF A LADY ON FIRE and ATLANTICS (41 points)

Runners-up:
Robert Richardson, ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD (29 points)
Yorick Le Saux, LITTLE WOMEN (22 points)

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Mister Tee wrote
Two possibilities: 1) actor and supporting actress were decided on an earlier ballot, with proxies included, while actress went to a later ballot, limited to the hardcore, Goodbye to Language voters;

Because Florence Pugh is in both Best Actress and Supporting Actress, I would imagine that they had to deliberate which films of hers would be included on which category, which accounts for how rapid fire they were announced. I think the same thing happened last year with Olivia Colman.

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Best Supporting Actor: Brad Pitt, ONCE UPON A TIME ... IN HOLLYWOOD (64 points)

Runners-up:
Joe Pesci, THE IRISHMAN (30 points)
Wesley Snipes, DOLEMITE IS MY NAME, and Song Kang Ho, PARASITE (18 points, tie)

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The best actress vote seems to have taken place on a different planet from the other two -- while both others are mainstream films top to bottom, best actress is all obscure/all the time. Two possibilities: 1) actor and supporting actress were decided on an earlier ballot, with proxies included, while actress went to a later ballot, limited to the hardcore, Goodbye to Language voters; or 2) as at LA, best actress has become a semi-official "we never go for the Oscar contenders" category, even when Oscar contenders would be perfectly legitimate choices. (If Driver suits them, why not Johansson? If Dern, why not Ronan? This out-on-the-fringe thing only seems to happen in best actress, no matter how broad or narrow the field.)

Interesting Nyong'o doesn't even crack the top three. As if NY picking her made her not hip enough for this crowd.