Con una scelta in controtendenza la National Society of Film Critics ha scelto come miglior film dell’anno l’indie The Rider di Chloe Zhao, Alfonso Cuaron miglior regista e la coppia Ethan Hawke e Olivia Colman come migliori protagonisti.
L’associazione, nata nel 1966 con base a New York, rappresenta 64 critici tra i più importanti di tutto il paese ed è presieduta da Justin Chang del Los Angeles Times.
Questi sono tutti i vincitori e i secondi e terzi classificati, i runner up.
Best picture: The Rider
Runners-up: Roma, Burning
Best actor: Ethan Hawke, First Reformed
Runners-up:
Willem Dafoe, At Eternity’s Gate; Ben Foster, Leave No Trace; John C. Reilly, The Sisters Brothers and Stan & Ollie
Best actress: Olivia Colman, The Favourite
Runners-up: Regina Hall, Support the Girls; Melissa McCarthy, Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Best supporting actress:
Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk
Runners-up: Elizabeth Debicki, Widows; Emma Stone, The Favourite
Best supporting actor: Steve Yeun, Burning
Runners-up: Richard E. Grant, Can You Ever Forgive Me?; Brian Tyree Henry, Widows and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
Best director:
Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Runners-up: Lee Chang-dong, Burning; Chloe Zhao, The Rider
Best screenplay: Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin, The Death of Stalin
Runners-up: Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty, Can You Ever Forgive Me?; Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara, The Favourite
Best cinematography: Alfonso Cuaron, Roma
Runners-up: James Laxton, If Beale Street Could Talk; Lukasz Zal, Cold War
Best foreign-language film: Roma
Runners-up: Cold War; Burning; Shoplifters
Best non-fiction film: Minding the Gap
Runners-up: Shirkers, Amazing Grace
Special citation for a film awaiting U.S. distribution: A Family Tour (Ying Liang, Taiwan/Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia)
Best experimental film: Good Luck
Film heritage award: The team behind the release of Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind
Film heritage award: The Museum of Modern Art for its restoration of Ernst Lubitsch’s Rosita
Stanze di Cinema 