National Society of Film Critics Awards 2008
2008 National Society of Film Critics Awards
2008 National Society of Film Critics award winners: New York City on January 5, 2008
The numbers in parentheses represent the points earned by each individual/film.

Daniel Day-Lewis in There Will Be Blood
Best Picture
There Will Be Blood (48) – Paul Thomas Anderson
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (28) – Julian Schnabel
No Country for Old Men (27) – Joel and Ethan Coen
Best Foreign-Language Film
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days (57) – Cristian Mungiu
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (42) – Julian Schnabel
Persepolis (18) – Marjane Satrapi and Vincent Paronnaud
Best Director
Paul Thomas Anderson (47) – There Will Be Blood
Joel and Ethan Coen (29) – No Country for Old Men
Julian Schnabel (29) – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Non-Fiction Film
No End in Sight (43) – Charles Ferguson
Sicko (20) – Michael Moore
Terror’s Advocate (18) – Barbet Schroeder
Best Actor
Daniel Day-Lewis (66) – There Will Be Blood
Frank Langella (34) — Starting Out in the Evening
Philip Seymour Hoffman (21) — The Savages, Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Best Supporting Actor
Casey Affleck (37) – The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Javier Bardem (30) – No Country for Old Men
Philip Seymour Hoffman (29) – Charlie Wilson’s War
Best Actress
Julie Christie (53) – Away from Her
Marion Cotillard (50) – La Vie en Rose
Anamaria Marinca (28) – 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
Best Supporting Actress
Cate Blanchett (42) – I’m Not There
Amy Ryan (29) – Gone Baby Gone and Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead
Tilda Swinton (23) – Michael Clayton
Best Screenplay
Tamara Jenkins (28) – The Savages
Paul Thomas Anderson (19) – There Will Be Blood
Ronald Harwood (17) – The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Cinematography
There Will Be Blood (51) – Robert Elswit
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly (40) – Janusz Kaminski
No Country for Old Men (33) – Roger Deakins
Best Experimental Film: Profit motive and the whispering wind by John Gianvito
Film Heritage Award: "Ford at Fox" DVD box set, a series of films John Ford made at Fox/20th Century-Fox, and Ross Lipman of the UCLA Film and Television Archive for the restoration of Charles Burnett’s Killer of Sheep and other independent films
Source: Stuart Oldham’s "National Society draws Blood" in Variety.
National Society of Film Critics Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
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