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National Society of Film Critics' Awards (203)
Sorted by Rank
LEGEND / BOTTOM
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
The Godfather
1972
P
Coppola, Francis Ford
USA
BDS
Bonnie and Clyde
1967
P
Penn, Arthur
USA
BDS
Raging Bull
1980
P
Scorsese, Martin
USA
BD
Pulp Fiction
1994
P*
Tarantino, Quentin
USA
BD
Annie Hall
1977
P*
Allen, Woody
USA
BD
E.T. The Extra-Terrestrial
1982
P
Spielberg, Steven
USA
BDS
Taxi Driver
1976
P
Scorsese, Martin
USA
BDS
GoodFellas
1990
P*
Scorsese, Martin
USA
BD
Schindler's List
1993
P*
Spielberg, Steven
USA
BDS
The Conformist
1971
P
Bertolucci, Bernardo
Italy
/
France
/
West Germany
BDS
Persona
1967
P*
Bergman, Ingmar
Sweden
BD
Nashville
1975
P*
Altman, Robert
USA
BDS
Raise the Red Lantern
1992
F*
Zhang, Yimou
China
/
Hong Kong
/
Taiwan
DS
L.A. Confidential
1997
P*
Hanson, Curtis
USA
BDS
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972
P*
Buñuel, Luis
France
/
Italy
/
Spain
BD
Saving Private Ryan
1998
P
Spielberg, Steven
USA
BDS
Unforgiven
1992
P*
Eastwood, Clint
USA
BD
Fanny & Alexander
1983
P
Bergman, Ingmar
Sweden
/
France
/
West Germany
BD
Ran
1985
P*
Kurosawa, Akira
Japan
/
France
BD
Blow-Up
1966
P*
Antonioni, Michelangelo
UK
/
Italy
BD
M*A*S*H
1970
P*
Altman, Robert
USA
BD
The Deer Hunter
1978
P
Cimino, Michael
USA
BD
Atlantic City
1981
P*
Malle, Louis
USA
/
Canada
/
France
BDS
Day for Night
1973
P*
Truffaut, François
France
/
Italy
BDS
Blue Velvet
1986
P*
Lynch, David
USA
BDS
All the President's Men
1976
P*
Pakula, Alan J.
USA
BD
The Piano
1993
P
Campion, Jane
Australia
/
New Zealand
/
France
BDS
Mulholland Dr.
2001
P*
Lynch, David
France
/
USA
BDS
A Clockwork Orange
1971
P
Kubrick, Stanley
UK
BD
In the Mood for Love
2001
F*
Wong, Kar Wai
Hong Kong
/
France
/
Thailand
BDS
Red
1994
P,F*
Kieslowski, Krzysztof
Poland
/
France
/
Switzerland
BDS
Five Easy Pieces
1970
P
Rafelson, Bob
USA
BD
Y tu mamá también
2002
P,F*
Cuarón, Alfonso
Mexico
/
USA
BD
Manhattan
1979
P
Allen, Woody
USA
BD
Days of Heaven
1978
P
Malick, Terrence
USA
BDS
The Lord of the Rings:
Fellowship of the Ring
2001
P
Jackson, Peter
New Zealand
/
USA
BDS
Pan's Labyrinth
2006
P*
del Toro, Guillermo
Mexico
/
Spain
/
USA
BD
Reds
1981
P
Beatty, Warren
USA
BD
Tootsie
1982
P*
Pollack, Sydney
USA
BD
The Player
1992
P
Altman, Robert
USA
BD
Kramer vs. Kramer
1979
P
Benton, Robert
USA
BD
The Pianist
2002
P*
Polanski, Roman
Poland
/
France
/
UK
/
Germany
/
Netherlands
D
Secrets & Lies
1996
P
Leigh, Mike
France
/
UK
BD
No Country for Old Men
2007
P
Coen, Ethan
/
Coen, Joel
USA
BD
Hannah and Her Sisters
1986
P
Allen, Woody
USA
BD
Being John Malkovich
1999
P*
Jonze, Spike
USA
BD
Cries and Whispers
1972
P
Bergman, Ingmar
Sweden
BD
Z
1969
P*
Costa-Gavras
Algeria
/
France
D
Sideways
2004
P
Payne, Alexander
USA
BDS
The Hurt Locker
2009
P*
Bigelow, Kathryn
USA
BD
The Crying Game
1992
P
Jordan, Neil
UK
/
Japan
D
Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown
1988
P
Almodóvar, Pedro
Spain
BD
Yi Yi
2000
P*
Yang, Edward
Taiwan
/
Japan
BD
Talk to Her
2002
P,F
Almodóvar, Pedro
Spain
D
Platoon
1986
P
Stone, Oliver
USA
BDS
Lost in Translation
2003
P
Coppola, Sofia
USA
/
Japan
BD
There Will Be Blood
2007
P*
Anderson, Paul Thomas
USA
BD
Shame
1968
P*
Bergman, Ingmar
Sweden
BD
Breaking the Waves
1996
P*
von Trier, Lars
Denmark
/
Sweden
/
France
/
Netherlands
/
Norway
BD
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
2007
P,F
Schnabel, Julian
France
/
USA
D
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
2007
F*
Mungiu, Cristian
Romania
BD
The Dead
1987
P*
Huston, John
UK
D
The Sweet Hereafter
1997
P
Egoyan, Atom
Canada
D
Amores perros
2001
F
Iñárritu, Alejandro González
Mexico
BD
The Social Network
2010
P*
Fincher, David
USA
BDS
Amour
2012
P*
Haneke, Michael
France
/
Germany
/
Austria
BD
Million Dollar Baby
2004
P*
Eastwood, Clint
USA
BDS
That Obscure Object of Desire
1977
P
Buñuel, Luis
France
/
Spain
BY
Taste of Cherry
1998
F*
Kiarostami, Abbas
France
/
Iran
BY
Breaking Away
1979
P*
Yates, Peter
USA
D
Crumb
1995
P
Zwigoff, Terry
USA
BD
Parasite
2019
P*
Bong, Joon-ho
South Korea
BDS
Prizzi's Honor
1985
P
Huston, John
USA
BD
The Double Life of Véronique
1991
F*
Kieslowski, Krzysztof
France
/
Poland
/
Norway
BDS
Mystic River
2003
P
Eastwood, Clint
USA
BDS
The Queen
2006
P
Frears, Stephen
UK
BD
Witness
1985
P
Weir, Peter
USA
BDS
Stolen Kisses
1969
P
Truffaut, François
France
D
Hoop Dreams
1994
P
James, Steve
USA
BD
La La Land
2016
P
Chazelle, Damien
USA
BD
Roma
2018
P,F*
Cuarón, Alfonso
Mexico
/
USA
BD
Boyhood
2014
P
Linklater, Richard
USA
BDS
A Prophet
2010
F
Audiard, Jacques
France
/
Italy
BD
Traffic
2000
P
Soderbergh, Steven
Germany
/
USA
BD
Stranger Than Paradise
1984
P*
Jarmusch, Jim
USA
/
West Germany
BD
My Night at Maud's
1970
P
Rohmer, Eric
France
BD
Nomadland
2020
P*
Zhao, Chloé
USA
/
Germany
B
Waltz with Bashir
2008
P*
Folman, Ari
Israel
/
Germany
/
France
BDS
Claire's Knee
1971
P*
Rohmer, Eric
France
BD
Babe
1995
P*
Noonan, Chris
Australia
/
USA
BD
A Separation
2011
P,F*
Farhadi, Asghar
Iran
BD
Night of the Shooting Stars
1983
P*
Taviani, Paolo
/
Taviani, Vittorio
Italy
BD
A Sunday in the Country
1984
P
Tavernier, Bertrand
France
BD
Zero Dark Thirty
2012
P
Bigelow, Kathryn
USA
BD
Hope and Glory
1987
P
Boorman, John
UK
BD
Army of Shadows
2006
P
Melville, Jean-Pierre
France
/
Italy
BD
The Grifters
1990
P
Frears, Stephen
USA
DS
Melvin and Howard
1980
P*
Demme, Jonathan
USA
Y
Topsy-Turvy
1999
P*
Leigh, Mike
UK
BDS
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
Spotlight
2015
P*
McCarthy, Tom
USA
BD
The Purple Rose of Cairo
1985
P
Allen, Woody
USA
Y
The Tree of Life
2011
P
Malick, Terrence
USA
BDS
12 Years a Slave
2013
P
McQueen, Steve
USA
/
UK
BDS
Persepolis
2007
F
Paronnaud, Vincent
/
Satrapi, Marjane
France
BDS
Drugstore Cowboy
1989
P*
Van Sant, Gus
USA
Y
Blue is the Warmest Colour
2013
F*
Kechiche, Abdellatif
France
BD
Inglourious Basterds
2009
P
Tarantino, Quentin
USA
/
Germany
/
France
BDS
Mad Max: Fury Road
2015
P
Miller, George
Australia
/
USA
BDS
A History of Violence
2005
P
Cronenberg, David
USA
BD
Tár
2022
P*
Field, Todd
USA
BD
Wall•E
2008
P
Stanton, Andrew
USA
BDS
The Story of Qiu Ju
1993
F*
Zhang, Yimou
China
/
Hong Kong
D
Moonlight
2016
P*
Jenkins, Barry
USA
BDS
Scenes from a Marriage
1974
P*
Bergman, Ingmar
Sweden
BD
Capote
2005
P*
Miller, Bennett
USA
BD
Gosford Park
2001
P
Altman, Robert
UK
/
USA
/
Germany
/
Italy
Y
Berlin Alexanderplatz
1983
P
Fassbinder, Rainer Werner
Italy
/
West Germany
BD
Birdman
2014
P
Iñárritu, Alejandro González
USA
BD
House of Flying Daggers
2004
F
Zhang, Yimou
China
/
Hong Kong
BD
Manchester by the Sea
2016
P
Lonergan, Kenneth
USA
BDS
Toni Erdmann
2016
F*
Ade, Maren
Germany
/
Austria
BD
The Power of the Dog
2021
P
Campion, Jane
UK
/
Australia
/
USA
/
Canada
/
New Zealand
BD
Wild Reeds
1995
F*
Téchiné, André
France
D
The Unfaithful Wife
1969
P
Chabrol, Claude
Italy
/
France
D
La Cérémonie
1996
F*
Chabrol, Claude
France
/
Germany
Y
Election
1999
P
Payne, Alexander
USA
BD
Cold War
2018
F
Pawlikowski, Pawel
Poland
/
UK
/
France
BD
An Unmarried Woman
1978
P
Mazursky, Paul
USA
BD
Prince of the City
1981
P
Lumet, Sidney
USA
D
Winter's Bone
2010
P
Granik, Debra
USA
BD
American Splendor
2003
P*
Berman, Shari Springer
/
Pulcini, Robert
USA
D
The Wild Child
1970
P
Truffaut, François
France
D
The Unbearable Lightness of Being
1988
P*
Kaufman, Philip
USA
D
Shoplifters
2018
F
Koreeda, Hirokazu
Japan
D
Safe
1995
P
Haynes, Todd
UK
/
USA
BD
Letters from Iwo Jima
2006
P
Eastwood, Clint
USA
BD
Inside Llewyn Davis
2013
P*
Coen, Ethan
/
Coen, Joel
USA
/
France
BD
Drive My Car
2021
P*
Hamaguchi, Ryûsuke
Japan
BD
Moolaadé
2004
F*
Sembene, Ousmane
Senegal
/
France
/
Burkina Faso
/
Cameroon
/
Morocco
/
Tunisia
D
Before Sunset
2004
P
Linklater, Richard
USA
BDS
Her
2013
P
Jonze, Spike
USA
BD
Lady Bird
2017
P*
Gerwig, Greta
USA
BDS
2046
2005
P
Wong, Kar Wai
China
/
France
/
Germany
/
Hong Kong
BD
The Man Without a Past
2003
F*
Kaurismäki, Aki
Finland
/
Germany
/
France
Y
BPM (Beats Per Minute)
2017
F
Campillo, Robin
France
DS
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
1978
P*
Blier, Bertrand
Belgium
/
France
BD
Melancholia
2011
P*
von Trier, Lars
Denmark
/
Sweden
/
France
/
Germany
BD
Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
2019
P
Tarantino, Quentin
UK
/
USA
/
China
BDS
The Great Beauty
2013
F
Sorrentino, Paolo
Italy
BDS
Out of Sight
1998
P*
Soderbergh, Steven
USA
D
The Circle
2001
F
Panahi, Jafar
Iran
/
Switzerland
/
Italy
Y
Little Women
2019
P
Gerwig, Greta
USA
BDS
The Master
2012
P
Anderson, Paul Thomas
USA
BD
American Hustle
2013
P
Russell, David O.
USA
BDS
Carol
2015
P
Haynes, Todd
UK
/
USA
/
France
BDS
EO
2022
F*
Skolimowski, Jerzy
Poland
/
Italy
T
The Handmaiden
2016
F
Park, Chan-wook
South Korea
DS
Get Out
2017
P
Peele, Jordan
USA
BD
The Passion of Anna
1970
P
Bergman, Ingmar
Sweden
Y
Elle
2016
F
Verhoeven, Paul
France
/
Germany
/
Belgium
BDS
Happy-Go-Lucky
2008
P
Leigh, Mike
UK
D
Timbuktu
2015
F*
Sissako, Abderrahmane
France
/
Mauritania
BD
Carlos
2010
P,F*
Assayas, Olivier
France
/
Germany
BD
Time Out
2002
F
Cantet, Laurent
France
Y
Enemies, A Love Story
1989
P
Mazursky, Paul
USA
BYS
Life Is Sweet
1991
P*
Leigh, Mike
UK
BD
White Material
2010
F
Denis, Claire
France
BD
Head-On
2005
F*
Akin, Fatih
Germany
/
Turkey
D
Autumn Tale
1999
F*
Rohmer, Eric
France
V
Le Havre
2011
F
Kaurismäki, Aki
Finland
/
France
/
Germany
BD
Phantom Thread
2017
P
Anderson, Paul Thomas
USA
BD
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
2006
P
Puiu, Cristi
Romania
D
La Promesse
1997
F*
Dardenne, Jean-Pierre
/
Dardenne, Luc
Belgium
/
France
/
Luxembourg
BD
Aftersun
2022
P
Wells, Charlotte
UK
/
USA
B
Affliction
1998
P
Schrader, Paul
USA
Y
Petite Maman
2021
P
Sciamma, Céline
France
Collective
2020
F*
Nanau, Alexander
Romania
/
Luxembourg
/
Germany
D
Summer Hours
2009
P,F*
Assayas, Olivier
France
BD
Mr. Turner
2014
P
Leigh, Mike
UK
BDS
Burning
2018
P,F
Lee, Chang-dong
South Korea
BD
Decision to Leave
2022
F
Chan-wook, Park
South Korea
BD
First Cow
2020
P
Reichardt, Kelly
USA
BD
The Assassin
2015
F
Hou, Hsiao-Hsien
Taiwan
/
China
/
Hong Kong
/
France
BD
Naked Lunch
1991
P
Cronenberg, David
Canada
/
UK
/
Japan
BDS
Everlasting Moments
2009
F
Troell, Jan
Denmark
/
Finland
/
Norway
/
Sweden
/
Germany
BD
35 Shots of Rum
2009
F
Denis, Claire
France
/
Germany
D
Ariel
1990
F*
Kaurismäki, Aki
Finland
D
The Rider
2018
P*
Zhao, Chloé
USA
BD
The House of Mirth
2000
P
Davies, Terence
UK
/
France
/
Germany
/
USA
Y
Goodbye to Language 3D
2014
P*
Godard, Jean-Luc
Switzerland
/
France
BD
Bacurau
2020
F
Dornelles, Juliano
/
Filho, Kleber Mendonça
Brazil
/
France
BDS
Faces Places
2017
F
JR
/
Varda, Agnès
France
BD
Things to Come
2016
F
Hansen-Løve, Mia
France
/
Germany
BD
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
2020
P
Hittman, Eliza
UK
/
USA
DS
Mysteries of Lisbon
2011
F
Ruiz, Raoul
Portugal
/
France
BD
No Bears
2022
P,F
Panahi, Jafar
Iran
Phoenix
2015
F
Petzold, Christian
Germany
/
Poland
BD
Beanpole
2020
F
Balagov, Kantemir
Russia
BD
Graduation
2017
F*
Mungiu, Cristian
Romania
/
France
/
Belgium
BD
Notre Musique
2004
F
Godard, Jean-Luc
France
/
Switzerland
D
Police, Adjective
2009
F
Porumboiu, Corneliu
Romania
D
A Touch of Sin
2013
F
Jia, Zhangke
China
BD
Vitalina Varela
2020
F
Costa, Pedro
Portugal
BD
RATING
TITLE
YEAR
DIRECTOR
COUNTRY
MEDIA
*
Winner
P
Best Picture
F
Best Foreign Language Film
Website:
National Society of Film Critics
Media Availability Codes (Amazon.com)
T Theaters (US)
B
Blu-ray Disc
D DVD
V VHS
Y Yes (DVD or VHS, unspecified)
S Soundtrack