1970 National Society of Film Critics Awards
5th NSFC Awards
January 10, 1971
Best Film:
M*A*S*H
The 5th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 10 January 1971, honored the best filmmaking of 1970.[1][2][3]
The member critics voting for the awards were
Winners
Best Picture
2. The Passion of Anna (25 points)
3. The Wild Child (18 points)
4. My Night at Maud's (16 points)
5. Five Easy Pieces (10 points)
Best Director
Ingmar Bergman – The Passion of Anna (24 points)
2. François Truffaut – The Wild Child (20 points)
3.
4. Luis Buñuel – Tristana (10 points)
5. Bob Rafelson – Five Easy Pieces (9 points)
Best Actor
George C. Scott – Patton (18 points)
2. George Segal – Loving, The Owl and the Pussycat, and Where's Poppa? (14 points)
3. Jean-Louis Trintignant – My Night at Maud's (12 points)
4. Jack Nicholson – Five Easy Pieces (11 points)
5. Alan Arkin – Catch-22 (9 points)
Best Actress
Glenda Jackson – Women in Love (27 points)
2. Françoise Fabian – My Night at Maud's (20 points)
3. Liv Ullmann – The Passion of Anna (15 points)
4. Barbra Streisand – The Owl and the Pussycat (9 points)
5. Carrie Snodgress – Diary of a Mad Housewife (8 points)
Best Supporting Actor
Chief Dan George – Little Big Man (21 points)
2. Anthony Perkins – Catch-22 and WUSA (16 points)
3.
4. Peter Boyle – Joe (8 points)
4. Paul Mazursky – Alex in Wonderland (8 points)
Best Supporting Actress
Lois Smith – Five Easy Pieces (29 points)
2.
3. Eva Marie Saint – Loving (10 points)
4. Karen Black – Five Easy Pieces (9 points)
4. Trish Van Devere – Where's Poppa? (9 points)
Best Screenplay
Éric Rohmer – My Night at Maud's (23 points)
2. Ingmar Bergman – The Passion of Anna (17 points)
3. Adrien Joyce [Carole Eastman] – Five Easy Pieces (15 points)
4. François Truffaut and Jean Gruault – The Wild Child (13 points)
5. Jorge Semprún – The Confession (10 points)
Best Cinematography
Néstor Almendros – The Wild Child and My Night at Maud's (24 points)
2. Sven Nykvist – The Passion of Anna and First Love (18 points)
3. Billy Williams – Women in Love (16 points)
4. Giuseppe Rotunno – Fellini Satyricon (7 points)
Special Awards
- Donald Richie and the Film Department of the Museum of Modern Art for the three-month Retrospective of Japanese Films which they held in 1970
- Daniel Talbot of the New Yorker theater for the contribution he has made to the cinema by showing films that might not otherwise have been available to the public
References
- ^ "'M*A*S*H' Picked as Best Film Of '70 by Critics for Magazines". The New York Times. 11 January 1971. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
- ^ "Film Critics Group Picks 'M.A.S.H' As Best Of 1970". Toledo Blade. 13 January 1971. Retrieved 3 January 2018 – via Google News Archive.
- ^ "Film Critics Vote MASH Best Movie". The Morning Record. 11 January 1971. Retrieved 3 January 2018 – via Google News Archive.
- ^ Denby, David, ed. (1971). Film 70/71: An Anthology by the National Society of Film Critics. New York: Simon and Schuster.