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1969 National Society of Film Critics Awards
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Annual US film award ceremony
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.Weiler A. H. National Film Critics Crown ‘Z,’ Jon Voight, Miss Redgrave https://www.nytimes.com/1970/01/06/archives/national-film-critics-crown-z-jon-voight-miss-redgrave.html 3 January 2018 The New York Times 6 January 1970
The member critics voting for the awards were Hollis Alpert of the Saturday Review, Harold Clurman of The Nation, Jay Cocks of Time, Brad Darrach of Movie, Penelope Gilliatt of The New Yorker, Pauline Kael of The New Yorker, Stefan Kanfer of Time, Stanley Kauffmann of The New Republic, Robert Kotlowitz of Harper's Magazine, Joseph Morgenstern of Newsweek, Andrew Sarris of The Village Voice, Richard Schickel of Life, Arthur M. Schlesinger, Jr. of Vogue, and John Simon of The New Leader.Morgenstern Joseph Kanfer Stefan Film 69/70: An Anthology by the National Society of Film Critics 1970 Simon and Schuster New York
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. Miklós Jancsó – The Red and the White (9 points)
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
Vanessa Redgrave – 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. Miroslav Ondricek – If.... (11 points)
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."
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Past Awards
1969
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