National Society of Film Critics 2018: ‘The Rider’ Selected as Best Picture

The National Society of Film Critics (NSFC) has announced their winners for the best in film of 2018. The Rider was the big winner, collecting the award for Best Picture. Roma won Best Director, Best Cinematography and Best Foreign Language Film.

Read the full list of National Society of Film Critics 2018 winners below, including runners-up, with vote totals:

Best Picture

The Rider (44 points)

Runners-up:
Roma (41 points)
Burning (27 points)

Best Director

Alfonso Cuarón – Roma (60 points)

Runners-up:
Lee Chang-dong – Burning (22 points)
Chloé Zhao – The Rider (22 points)

Best Actor

Ethan Hawke – First Reformed (58 points)

Runners-up:
Willem Dafoe – At Eternity’s Gate (30 points)
Ben Foster – Leave No Trace (25 points)
John C. Reilly – The Sisters Brothers and Stan & Ollie (25 points)

Best Actress

Olivia Colman – The Favourite (36 points)

Runners-up:
Regina Hall – Support the Girls (33 points)
Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (27 points)

Best Supporting Actor

Steve Yeun – Burning (40 points)

Runners-up:
Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (35 points)
Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows and Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse (32 points)

Best Supporting Actress

Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk (47 points)

Runners-up:
Elizabeth Debicki – Widows (37 points)
Emma Stone – The Favourite (24 points)

Best Screenplay

Armando Iannucci, David Schneider and Ian Martin – The Death of Stalin (47 points)

Runners-up:
Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (27 points)
Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara – The Favourite (24 points)

Best Cinematography

Alfonso Cuarón – Roma (70 points)

Runners-up:
James Laxton – If Beale Street Could Talk (26 points)
Łukasz Żal – Cold War (24 points)

Best Foreign Language Film

Roma (44 points)

Runners-up:
Cold War (34 points)
Burning (30 points)
Shoplifters (30 points)

Best Non-Fiction Film

Minding the Gap (35 points)

Runners-up:
Shirkers (31 points)
Amazing Grace (24 points)

Film Heritage Award

-To the team of producers, editors, restorers, technicians and cineastes who labored for decades to bring Orson Welles’ The Other Side of the Wind to completion for a new generation of movie lovers.