THE SOCIAL NETWORK Tops National Society of Film Critics Awards

Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network

National Society of Film Critics Winners: Giovanna Mezzogiorno, Jesse Eisenberg, Geoffrey Rush, Olivia Wiliams

BEST PICTURE
1. The Social Network 61
2. Carlos 28
3. Winter’s Bone 18

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
1. Carlos 31
2. A Prophet 22
3. White Material 16

BEST DIRECTOR
1. David Fincher 66 - The Social Network
2. Olivier Assayas 36 - Carlos
3. Roman Polanski 29 - The Ghost Writer

BEST ACTOR
1. Jesse Eisenberg 30 - The Social Network
2. Colin Firth 29 - The King’s Speech
2. Edgar Ramirez 29 - Carlos

BEST ACTRESS
1. Giovanna Mezzogiorno 33 - Vincere
2. Annette Bening 28 - The Kids Are All Right
3. Lesley Manville 27 - Another Year

BEST ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
1. Geoffrey Rush 33 - The King’s Speech
2. Christian Bale 32 - The Fighter
3. Jeremy Renner 30 - The Town

BEST ACTRESS IN A SUPPORTING ROLE
1. Olivia Williams 37 - The Ghost Writer
2. Amy Adams 28 - The Fighter
3. Melissa Leo 23 - The Fighter
3. Jacki Weaver 23 - Animal Kingdom

BEST SCREENPLAY
1. Aaron Sorkin 73 - The Social Network
2. David Seidler 25 - The King’s Speech
3. Roman Polanski and Robert Harris 19 - The Ghost Writer

BEST NONFICTION FILM
1. Inside Job 25 (Charles Ferguson)
2. Exit Through the Gift Shop 21 (Banksy)
3. Last Train Home 15 (Lixin Fan)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
1. True Grit 31 (Roger Deakins)
2. Black Swan 27 (Matthew Libatique)
3. Somewhere 18 (Harris Savides)

BEST FILM IN NEED OF DISTRIBUTION Film Socialisme

FILM HERITAGE AWARDS The Film Foundation for its 20th anniversary; Flicker Alley’s DVD set “Chaplin at Keystone”; Fox’s DVD set “The Elia Kazan Collection”; the National Film Preservation Foundation for the discovery of the long-lost 1927 John Ford film “Upstream”; Milestone Films for the release of On the Bowery (1956); the UCLA Film and Television Archive for the restoration, and Milestone for the distribution of Word Is Out (1978)

Runners-up via indieWIRE

Photo: The Social Network (Merrick Morton / Sony Pictures)

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