In some of the closest races this organization has ever seen, Lady Bird won Best Picture, Director, and Screenplay by one or two votes (two for Best Picture, one each for the other two prize). The Best Director award was so incredibly close that the top three vote-getters were were all within one of each other. There isn’t a lot of new stuff here otherwise.

Award Tallies

(4) Lady Bird

The Awards

Best Picture

1. Lady Bird (41 points)
2. Get Out (39 points)
3. Phantom Thread (28 points)

Best Director

1. Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird (37 points)
2. Jordan Peele – Get Out (36 points)
2. Paul Thomas Anderson – Phantom Thread (36 points)

Best Actor

1. Daniel Kaluuya – Get Out (44 points)
2. Daniel Day-Lewis – Phantom Thread (34 points)
3. Timothée Chalamet – Call Me by Your Name (24 points)

Best Actress

1. Sally Hawkins – The Shape of Water, Maudie (49 points)
2. Saoirse Ronan – Lady Bird (44 points)
3. Frances McDormand – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (24 points)
3. Cynthia Nixon – A Quiet Passion (24 points)

Best Supporting Actor

1. Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project (62 points)
2. Michael Stuhlbarg – Call Me by Your Name, The Shape of Water,
   The Post (25 points)
3. Sam Rockwell – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (23 points)

Best Supporting Actress

1. Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird (74 points)
2. Lesley Manville – Phantom Thread (36 points)
3. Allison Janny – I, Tonya (24 points)

Best Screenplay

1. Lady Bird (50 points)
2. Get Out (49 points)
3. Phantom Thread (31 points)

Best Cinematography

1. Blade Runner 2049 (40 points)
2. Dunkirk (39 points)
3. The Florida Project (36 points)

Best Foreign-Language Film

1. Graduation (36 points)
2. Faces Places (30 points)
3. BPM (Beats Per Minute) (29 points)

Best Documentary

1. Faces Places (70 points)
2. Ex Libris: The New York Public Library (34 points)
3. Dawson City: Frozen Time (32 points)

Experimental Film

Good Luck

Film Heritage Award

One Way or Another: Black Women’s Cinema, 1970-1991
Dan Talbot

Special citation for film awaiting American distribution

Spoor (Pokot)

National Society of Film Critics Data

Year Founded: 1966
First Awards: 1966 (52)