56th NSFC Awards | |
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Date | January 8, 2022 |
Highlights | |
Best Picture | Drive My Car |
The 56th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 8 January 2022, honored the best in film for 2021. [1] [2] [3]
Japanese film Drive My Car won the most awards with four, including Best Film and Best Director (Ryusuke Hamaguchi).
Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:
Not awarded because the year's Best Picture was a foreign language film: Drive My Car (Japan)
This year's awards were dedicated to the memory of two longtime members who died: Morris Dickstein and Michael Wilmington. [4] [5] Dickstein brought warmth, enthusiasm and prodigious analytic skills as a literary critic and cultural historian to writing about movies in journals like Dissent and Partisan Review , and in books like "Dancing in the Dark: A Cultural History of the Great Depression". Wilmington wrote beautifully and passionately about cinema as a critic for many publications, including the Chicago Tribune and Los Angeles Times , and co-authored the critical study "John Ford".
The awards were also dedicated to Liz Weis, who stepped down after serving 47 years as executive director of the National Society of Film Critics.
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