1969 National Society of Film Critics Awards
4th NSFC Awards
January 5, 1970
Best Film:
Z
The 4th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 1970, honored the best filmmaking of 1969.[1]
The member critics voting for the awards were
Winners
Best Picture
- Z (21 points)
2. Stolen Kisses (11 points)
3. The Unfaithful Wife (10 points)
Best Director
- François Truffaut – Stolen Kisses (12 points)
2. Costa-Gavras – Z (11 points)
3. Claude Chabrol – The Unfaithful Wife (9 points)
3.
Best Actor
- Jon Voight – Midnight Cowboy (18 points)
2. Peter O'Toole – Goodbye, Mr. Chips (14 points)
3. Michel Bouquet – The Unfaithful Wife (9 points)
3. Robert Redford – Downhill Racer and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (9 points)
Best Actress
- The Loves of Isadora(24 points)
2. Jane Fonda – They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (16 points)
3. Verna Bloom – Medium Cool (5 points)
3. Maggie Smith – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (5 points)
3. Ingrid Thulin – The Damned (5 points)
Best Supporting Actor
- Jack Nicholson – Easy Rider (majority vote – 1st ballot)
Best Supporting Actress (tie)
- Delphine Seyrig – Stolen Kisses (13 points)
- Siân Phillips – Goodbye, Mr. Chips (13 points)
3. Verna Bloom – Medium Cool (12 points)
3. Dyan Cannon – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (12 points)
3. Celia Johnson – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Best Screenplay
- Paul Mazursky and Larry Tucker – Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (22 points)
2. Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún – Z (18 points)
3. Alvin Sargent – The Sterile Cuckoo (6 points)
Best Cinematography
- Lucien Ballard – The Wild Bunch (16 points)
2.
3. Haskell Wexler – Medium Cool (8 points)
Special Awards
- Ivan Passer for Intimate Lighting, "a first film of great originality."
- Dennis Hopper "for his achievements in Easy Rider as director, co-writer and co-star."
References
- ^ Weiler, A. H. (6 January 1970). "National Film Critics Crown 'Z,' Jon Voight, Miss Redgrave". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ Morgenstern, Joseph; Kanfer, Stefan, eds. (1970). Film 69/70: An Anthology by the National Society of Film Critics. New York: Simon and Schuster.