National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Film

Award from the National Society of Film Critics: Best Film

Winner of the National Society of Film Critics Awards for Best film. The award is presented every year in early January for the best film productions and film-makers of the past calendar year. 1975 and 1977 were two award ceremonies held in January and December, prompting the National Society of Film Critics Award was not awarded in 1976 and 1978.

The most successful in this category was the Swedish film director Ingmar Bergman, whose films have won 1968-1975 three times. In 27 of 45 cases, American film - or co-productions were awarded, of which five have been awarded the Oscar. With four won prices in a year at the most successful were Bergman's Scenes from a Marriage (1975 ) (1), Robert Altman's Nashville (1975 ) (2), Louis Malle's Atlantic City, USA (1982 ), Sydney Pollack's Tootsie (1983 ), David Lynch's Blue Velvet ( 1987), Clint Eastwood's Unforgiven (1993 ), Steven Spielberg's Schindler's List (1994 ), Lars von Trier's Breaking the Waves (1997), Roman Polanski's The Pianist (2003 ), Paul Thomas Anderson's There Will Be Blood (2008) and David Fincher's The Social Network ( 2011).

2009 animated film award for best film of the year with the victory of Ari Folman's Waltz with Bashir first time. 2004 and 2010 sat down with Shari Springer Berman ( together with Robert Pulcini for American Splendor ) and Kathryn Bigelow ( The Hurt Locker - The Hurt Locker) filmmakers through. 2013 was with Michael Haneke love for the first time in a director awarded from the German-speaking countries.

At the last ceremony in 2014, Ethan and Joel Coen's Inside Llewyn Davis sat down with six points ahead of Paul Thomas Anderson's American Hustle (17 points) and Steve McQueen 12 Years a Slave and Spike Jonze Her ( 16 points each ) by.

* = Film productions that won later the Academy Award for Best Film of the Year

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