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 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]
2. Stolen Kisses (11 points)
3. The Unfaithful Wife (10 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)
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)
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)
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
2. Costa-Gavras and Jorge Semprún – Z (18 points)
3. Alvin Sargent – The Sterile Cuckoo (6 points)
2. Miroslav Ondricek – If.... (11 points)
3. Haskell Wexler – Medium Cool (8 points)
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