National Society of Film Critics: Nickel Boys miglior film dell’anno

La National Society of Film Critics che è attiva dal 1966 e raccoglie circa 60 critici americani di tutto il Paese ha scelto i migliori dell’anno.

Nickel Boys si è imposto come miglior film, mentre l’indiana Payal Kapadia è stata indicata come migliore regista per All We Imagine As Light. Colman Domingo e Marianne Jean-Batiste sono stati scelti come migliori attori dell’anno.

Di seguito vincitori e “piazzati”.

Best Picture: NICKEL BOYS (47 points)

Runners-up:
ANORA and ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (34 points)

Best Director: Payal Kapadia, ALL WE IMAGINE AS LIGHT (49 points)

Runners-up:
RaMell Ross, NICKEL BOYS (42 points)
Sean Baker, ANORA (33 points)

Best Actor: Colman Domingo, SING SING ( 60 points)

Runners-up:
Adrien Brody, THE BRUTALIST (51 points)
Ralph Fiennes, CONCLAVE (45 points)

Best Actress: Marianne Jean-Baptiste, HARD TRUTHS (79 points)

Runners-up:
Mikey Madison, ANORA (35 points)
Ilinca Manolache, DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (32 points)

Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin, A REAL PAIN (52 points)

Runners-up:
Guy Pearce, THE BRUTALIST (50 points)
Edward Norton, A COMPLETE UNKNOWN, and Adam Pearson, A DIFFERENT MAN (41 points)

Best Supporting Actress: Michele Austin, HARD TRUTHS (55 points)

Runners-up:
Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, NICKEL BOYS, and Natasha Lyonne, HIS THREE DAUGHTERS (39 points)

Best Screenplay: Jesse Eisenberg, A REAL PAIN (47 points)

Runners-up:
Radu Jude, DO NOT EXPECT TOO MUCH FROM THE END OF THE WORLD (46 points)
Sean Baker, ANORA (45 points)

Best Cinematography: Jomo Fray, NICKEL BOYS (80 points)

Runners-up:
Lol Crawley, THE BRUTALIST (38 points)
Jarin Blaschke, NOSFERATU (21 points)

Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: NO OTHER LAND

Best Experimental Film: THE BALLAD OF SUZANNE CÉSAIRE

Film Heritage Award: IndieCollect, which, since its founding in 2010 by Sandra Schulberg, has met the challenge of preserving independent films with a rare sense of artistic responsibility.

Film Heritage Award: Scott Eyman, for his outstanding books on film artists and epochal shifts in moviemaking, most recently with “Charlie Chaplin vs. America: When Art, Sex, and Politics Collided” (2023), a revelatory study of the nexus of American politics and American pop culture.