The National Society Of Film Critics aren’t messing around. While the rest of us clung to the last hours of holiday season freedom on Sunday, they gathered together to name the winners of their annual awards, the big winner is a movie that has been making a quiet impact for the past few months.
Tom McCarthy‘s "Spotlight" won Best Picture and Best Screenplay from the group, but it didn’t take the most prizes. Tied with the film for two awards was "Carol" which took three awards for Best Director and Best Cinematographer, and elsewhere the shine was on "Bridge Of Spies," "Clouds Of Sils Maria," "45 Years," and "Creed," while big auteur efforts like "The Revenant" and "The Hateful Eight" went away empty handed.
Check out the full list of winners below.
Best picture: Spotlight
Best actor: Michael B. Jordan, Creed
Best actress: Charlotte Rampling, 45 Years
Best supporting actor: Mark Rylance, Bridge of Spies
Best supporting actress: Kristen Stewart, Clouds of Sils Maria
Best director: Todd Haynes, Carol
Best screenplay: Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy, Spotlight
Best cinematography: Ed Lachman, Carol
Best foreign-language film: Timbuktu
Best non-fiction film: Amy
Film Heritage: Film Society of Lincoln Center/Jake Perlin, Michelle Materre, Tell It Like It Is: Black Independents in New York, 1968-1986
Film Heritage: Criterion Collection/LiImmagine Ritrovate for the restoration and packaging of The Apu Trilogy by Satyajit Ray
Film Heritage: Association Chaplin for supervising the digital restoration of Charlie Chaplin’s Essanay Films
Special Citation for a Film Awaiting American Distribution: Radu Muntean’s One Floor Below
I agree with your choices for the most part. As a former journalist (now freelance writer) and a practicing but liberal Catholic, I wholeheartedly vote for "Spotlight" as Best Picture/Best Screenplay. To me, it is a perfect movie in every way. The ensemble acting is flawless, the direction, perfect, the camera work, lovely. There is not one wasted scene or even wasted second, IMO. This is the perfect movie!