The Natonal Society of Film Critics issued their year-end awards last night, and here are the winners, along with runners up. I like that they gave you the point totals for each, too. Would be interesting if the Academy did the same. 

BEST ACTRESS:

• Olivia Colman (The Favourite) – 36 points
• Regina Hall (Support the Girls) – 33
• Melissa McCarthy (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) – 27

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

• Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk) – 47
• Elizabeth Debicki (Widows) – 37
• Emma Stone (The Favourite) – 24

BEST ACTOR:

• Ethan Hawke (First Reformed) – 58
• Willem Dafoe (At Eternity's Gate) – 30
• Ben Foster (Leave No Trace) – 25 and John C. Reilly (The Sisters Brothers, Stan & Ollie) – 25

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

• Steven Yeun (Burning) – 40
• Richard E. Grant (Can You Ever Forgive Me?) – 35
• Brian Tyree Henry (If Beale Street Could Talk, Widows, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse) – 32

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY:

• Roma (Alfonso Cuarón) – 70
• If Beale Street Could Talk (James Laxton) – 26
• Cold War (Lukasz Zal) – 24

BEST SCREENPLAY:

• The Death of Stalin (Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, Ian Martin) – 47
• Can You Ever Forgive Me? (Nicole Holofcener, Jeff Whitty) – 27
• The Favourite (Deborah Davis, Tony McNamara) – 24

BEST PICTURE:

• The Rider – 44
• Roma – 41
• Burning – 27

BEST DIRECTOR:

• Alfonso Cuarón (Roma) – 60
• Lee Chang-dong (Burning) – 22 and Chloé Zhao (The Rider) – 22

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM:

• Roma – 44
• Cold War – 34
• Burning – 30 and Shoplifters – 30

BEST NON-FICTION FILM:

• Minding the Gap – 35
• Shirkers – 31
• Amazing Grace – 24

FILM HERITAGE AWARD:

• To the team of producers, editors, restorers, technicians, and cineastes who labored for decades to bring Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind to completion for a new generation of movie lovers.
• To the Museum of Modern Art for restoring Ernst Lubitsch's 1923 film Rosita, starring Mary Pickford.

SPECIAL CITATION for a film awaiting U.S. distribution: A Family Tour (Ying Liang, Taiwan/Hong Kong/Singapore/Malaysia).

Closest race was best actress and best film. One wonders if “Roma” might‘ve won its best pic if it also wasn’t up for best foreign-language film. 

Still need to see “The Rider.” P and I saw “Minding the Gap” yesterday. I went in thinking it was about daredevil skateboarders. Nope.

Here are the past winners from the Natonal Society of Film Critics, so you can see if you agree much. I tend to, give or take a Godard: