1969 National Society of Film Critics Awards

The 4th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 1970, honored the best filmmaking of 1969.[1]

4th NSFC Awards

January 5, 1970

Best Film:
Z

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.[2]

Winners

Best Picture
  • Z (21 points)

2. Stolen Kisses (11 points)
3. The Unfaithful Wife (10 points)

Best Director

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

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

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

Best Supporting Actress (tie)

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

2. Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún – Z (18 points)
3. Alvin Sargent – The Sterile Cuckoo (6 points)

Best Cinematography

2. Miroslav Ondricek – If.... (11 points)
3. Haskell Wexler – Medium Cool (8 points)

Special Awards
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References
  1. Weiler, A. H. (6 January 1970). "National Film Critics Crown 'Z,' Jon Voight, Miss Redgrave". The New York Times. Retrieved 3 January 2018.
  2. Morgenstern, Joseph; Kanfer, Stefan, eds. (1970). Film 69/70: An Anthology by the National Society of Film Critics. New York: Simon and Schuster.
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