National Society of Film Critics Awards Articles

Georges Méliès' A Trip to the Moon MELANCHOLIA, A SEPARATION Screenplay, Runner-Up Jeannie Berlin: National Society of Film Critics' Surprises Two interesting omissions from the NSFC roster: critics' fave Michelle Williams (for portraying Marilyn Monroe in Simon Curtis' My Week with Marilyn) and George Clooney (for his stressed out father in Alexander Payne's The Descendants) weren't among the critics' top three actresses/actors. Dunst and Yun [...]

Kirsten Dunst, Alexander Skarsgård, Kiefer Sutherland, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Melancholia MELANCHOLIA, A SEPARATION Screenplay, Jeannie Berlin: National Society of Film Critics' Surprises BEST PICTURE 1. Melancholia – 29 (Lars von Trier) 2. The Tree of Life – 28 (Terrence Malick) 3. A Separation – 20 (Asghar Farhadi) BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM 1. A Separation – 67 (Asghar Farhadi) 2. Mysteries of Lisbon – 28 (Raoul Ruiz) [...]

Andrew Garfield, Joseph Mazzello, Jesse Eisenberg, Patrick Maple, The Social Network Even though New York and Los Angeles critics represent a large percentage of the National Society of Film Critics' voters, only five times in the last 35 years (the Los Angeles Film Critics Association was founded in 1975) have all three major US critics groups agreed on their Best Film winner. The first time [...]

Mohammad Rasoulof's The White Meadows National Society of Film Critics' Statement on the MPAA Ratings System STATEMENT ON JAILED IRANIAN DIRECTORS On December 18, 2010, an Iranian court sentenced Jafar Panahi and Mohammad Rasoulof to six years in prison and banned both from filmmaking for 20 years for “colluding in gatherings and making propaganda against the regime.” The members of the National Society of Film [...]