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This is a list of the winners of awards from the four most prestigious American film critics associations, the so-called "Big Four":
| Year | Film | Producer(s) | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Schindler's List ≈ | Steven Spielberg, Gerald R. Molen, and Branko Lustig | [1] [2] [3] [4] |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential ≠ | Arnon Milchan, Curtis Hanson, and Michael Nathanson | [5] [6] [3] [7] |
| 2010 | The Social Network ≠ | Scott Rudin, Dana Brunetti, Michael De Luca, and Ceán Chaffin | [8] [9] [3] [10] |
| 2025 | One Battle After Another | Adam Somner, Sara Murphy and Paul Thomas Anderson |
| Year | Director | Film | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Quentin Tarantino | Pulp Fiction ≠ | [11] [12] [3] [13] |
| 1997 | Curtis Hanson | L.A. Confidential ≠ | [5] [6] [3] [7] |
| 2000 | Steven Soderbergh | Erin Brockovich ≠ | [14] [15] [16] [17] |
| Traffic ≈ | |||
| 2010 | David Fincher | The Social Network ≠ | [18] [19] [3] [20] |
| 2016 | Barry Jenkins | Moonlight ≠ | [21] [22] [23] [24] |
| Year | Actor | Film | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1995 | Nicolas Cage | Leaving Las Vegas ≈ | [25] [26] [3] [27] |
| 2006 | Forest Whitaker | The Last King of Scotland ≈ | [28] [29] [3] [30] |
| Year | Actress | Film | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Sally Field | Norma Rae ≈ | [31] [32] [3] [33] |
| 1980 | Sissy Spacek | Coal Miner's Daughter ≈ | [34] [35] [3] [36] |
| 1982 | Meryl Streep | Sophie's Choice ≈ | [37] [38] [3] [39] |
| 1989 | Michelle Pfeiffer | The Fabulous Baker Boys ≠ | [40] [41] [3] [42] |
| 1992 | Emma Thompson | Howards End ≈ | [43] [44] [3] [45] |
| 1993 | Holly Hunter | The Piano ≈ [46] [47] [3] [48] | [46] [47] [3] [48] |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren | The Queen ≈ | [49] [50] [3] [51] |
| Year | Actor | Film | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1983 | Jack Nicholson | Terms of Endearment ≈ | [52] [53] [3] [54] |
| 2017 | Willem Dafoe | The Florida Project ≠ | [55] [56] [57] [58] |
| 2024 | Kieran Culkin | A Real Pain ≈ | [59] [60] [61] [62] |
| Year | Actress | Film | Refs |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | Meryl Streep | Kramer vs. Kramer ≈ | [63] [64] [3] [65] |
| The Seduction of Joe Tynan | [66] [67] [3] [68] | ||
| 1985 | Anjelica Huston | Prizzi's Honor ≈ | [69] [70] [3] [71] |
| 1986 | Dianne Wiest | Hannah and Her Sisters ≈ | [a] |
| 2018 | Regina King | If Beale Street Could Talk ≈ | |
| 2023 | Da'Vine Joy Randolph | The Holdovers ≈ | [72] [73] [74] [75] |
National Board of Review for Best Screenplay began in 1998.
| Year | Writers | Film | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2004 | Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor | Sideways ≈ | |
| 2005 | Noah Baumbach | The Squid and the Whale ≠ |
| Year | Film | Director | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1989 | Roger & Me | Michael Moore | |
| 1994 | Hoop Dreams | Steve James | |
| 1995 | Crumb | Terry Zwigoff | |
| 1999 | Buena Vista Social Club ≠ | Wim Wenders | |
| 2008 | Man on Wire ≈ | James Marsh | |
| 2020 | Time ≠ | Garrett Bradley |
These films won three out of four awards from the "Big Four" American film critics.
| Year | Film | LAFCA | NBR | NSFC | NYFCC | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Nashville ≠ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1976 | All the President's Men ≠ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1983 | Terms of Endearment ≈ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1990 | Goodfellas ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction ≠ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2009 | The Hurt Locker ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | [76] |
| 2021 | Drive My Car ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | [77] |
| 2022 | Tár ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | [76] |
| Year | Director | Film | LAFCA | NBR | NSFC | NYFCC | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Robert Altman | Nashville ≠ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1990 | Martin Scorsese | Goodfellas ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2005 | Ang Lee | Brokeback Mountain ≈ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2009 | Kathryn Bigelow | The Hurt Locker ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2014 | Richard Linklater | Boyhood ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2020 | Chloé Zhao | Nomadland ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2025 | Paul Thomas Anderson | One Battle After Another | Yes | Yes | Yes | No |
| Year | Actor | Film | LAFCA | NBR | NSFC | NYFCC | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Jack Nicholson | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest ≈ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1976 | Robert De Niro | Taxi Driver ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1978 | Jon Voight | Coming Home ≈ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1979 | Dustin Hoffman | Kramer vs. Kramer ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1980 | Robert De Niro | Raging Bull ≈ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1981 | Burt Lancaster | Atlantic City ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1982 | Ben Kingsley | Gandhi ≈ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1986 | Bob Hoskins | Mona Lisa ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1989 | Daniel Day-Lewis | My Left Foot ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2000 | Russell Crowe | The Insider ≠ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2003 | Bill Murray | Lost in Translation ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2005 | Philip Seymour Hoffman | Capote ≈ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2007 | Daniel Day-Lewis | There Will Be Blood ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2008 | Sean Penn | Milk ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2018 | Ethan Hawke | First Reformed | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | Casey Affleck | Manchester by the Sea ≈ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2019 | Antonio Banderas | Pain and Glory ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2022 | Colin Farrell | The Banshees of Inisherin ≠ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Year | Actress | Film | LAFCA | NBR | NSFC | NYFCC | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | Isabelle Adjani | The Story of Adele H. ≠ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1976 | Liv Ullmann | Face to Face ≠ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1978 | Ingrid Bergman | Autumn Sonata ≠ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1983 | Shirley MacLaine | Terms of Endearment ≈ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1987 | Holly Hunter | Broadcast News ≠ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2004 | Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2007 | Julie Christie | Away from Her ≠ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2008 | Sally Hawkins | Happy-Go-Lucky | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2013 | Cate Blanchett | Blue Jasmine ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | Isabelle Huppert | Elle ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2022 | Cate Blanchett | Tár ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | [76] |
| 2024 | Marianne Jean-Baptiste | Hard Truths | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2025 | Rose Byrne | If I Had Legs I'd Kick You | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| Year | Actor | Film | LAFCA | NBR | NSFC | NYFCC | Ref(s) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1987 | Morgan Freeman | Street Smart ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1980 | Joe Pesci | Raging Bull ≠ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1992 | Gene Hackman | Unforgiven ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1994 | Martin Landau | Ed Wood ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1998 | Bill Murray | Rushmore | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2004 | Thomas Haden Church | Sideways ≠ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2009 | Christoph Waltz | Inglourious Basterds ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2014 | J.K. Simmons | Whiplash ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | Mahershala Ali | Moonlight ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2022 | Ke Huy Quan | Everything Everywhere All at Once ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | [76] |
| 2025 | Benicio del Toro | One Battle After Another | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| Year | Actress | Film | LAFCA | NBR | NSFC | NYFCC | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | Mary Steenburgen | Melvin and Howard ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1983 | Linda Hunt | The Year of Living Dangerously ≈ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1992 | Judy Davis | Husbands and Wives ≠ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 1994 | Dianne Wiest | Bullets Over Broadway ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2004 | Virginia Madsen | Sideways ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2007 | Amy Ryan | Gone Baby Gone ≠ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2008 | Penélope Cruz | Vicky Cristina Barcelona ≈ | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 2009 | Mo'Nique | Precious ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2011 | Jessica Chastain | Take Shelter | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| The Help ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |||
| The Tree of Life | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |||
| 2017 | Laurie Metcalf | Lady Bird ≠ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| Year | Writers | Film | LAFCA | NBR (Original and Adapted) | NSFC | NYFCC | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | Aaron Sorkin | The Social Network ≈ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2006 | Peter Morgan | The Queen ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2014 | Wes Anderson | The Grand Budapest Hotel ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | Kenneth Lonergan | Manchester by the Sea ≈ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| Year | Film | Director(s) | Country | LAFCA | NBR | NSFC | NYFCC | Oscar winner? | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1993 | Farewell My Concubine | Chen Kaige | | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | No | |
| 1999 | All About My Mother | Pedro Almodóvar | | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1994 | Three Colours: Red | Krzysztof Kieślowski | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Not nominated | |
| 1995 | Wild Reeds | André Téchiné | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Not nominated | |
| 2007 | 4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days | Cristian Mungiu | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Not nominated | |
| 2008 | Summer Hours | Olivier Assayas | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Not nominated | |
| 2010 | Carlos | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Not nominated | ||
| 2011 | A Separation | Asghar Farhadi | | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2013 | Blue Is the Warmest Colour | Abdellatif Kechiche | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Not nominated | |
| 2022 | EO | Jerzy Skolimowski | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Not nominated | |
| 2023 | Anatomy of a Fall | Justine Triet | | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | Not nominated | |
| 2024 | All We Imagine as Light | Payal Kapadia | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Not nominated | |
| 2025 | The Secret Agent | Kleber Mendonça Filho | | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | Pending | |
| Year | Film | LAFCA | NBR | NSFC | NYFCC | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | An Inconvenient Truth ≈ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2015 | Amy ≈ | Yes | Yes | Yes | No | |
| 2013 | Stories We Tell | Yes | Yes | No | Yes | |
| 1990 | Paris Is Burning | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1996 | When We Were Kings ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1998 | The Farm: Angola, USA ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2001 | The Gleaners and I | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2005 | Grizzly Man | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2007 | No End in Sight | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2011 | Cave of Forgotten Dreams | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2014 | Citizenfour ≈ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2017 | Faces Places ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2022 | All the Beauty and the Bloodshed ≠ | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2023 | Menus-Plaisirs – Les Troisgros | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2024 | No Other Land | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 1988 | The Thin Blue Line | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 1997 | Fast, Cheap & Out of Control | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2000 | The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg | No | Yes | Yes | Yes | |
| 2016 | O.J.: Made in America ≈ | No | Yes | Yes | Yes |
The National Board of Review Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography was introduced in 2019, won by Roger Deakins for 1917 .
| Year | Film | D.O.P | LAFCA | NBR | NSFC | NYFCC | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Portrait of a Lady on Fire | Claire Mathon | Yes | No | Yes | Yes | |
| 2024 | Nickel Boys | Jomo Fray | Yes | No | Yes | Yes |
Awards in the categories of Best Animated Film, Best Cinematography, and Best Screenplay are each only awarded by three of the four groups.
This lists the winners of all three of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Animated Film, National Board of Review Award for Best Animated Film, and New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Animated Film. In 2000, the National Board of Review Award for Best Animated Film was announced, won that year by Chicken Run from Aardman Animations. [78] National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Animated Film has yet to be introduced.
Spirited Away (2002), The Incredibles (2004) and Flow (2024) are the only three animated films to have won the Academy Award for Best Animated Feature.
| Year | Film | Director | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 | Chicken Run | Peter Lord and Nick Park | |
| 2002 | Spirited Away (Sen to Chihiro no Kamikakushi) ≈ | Hayao Miyazaki | |
| 2004 | The Incredibles ≈ | Brad Bird | |
| 2024 | Flow ≈ | Gints Zilbalodis |
This lists the winners of all three of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Cinematography, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Cinematography, and New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Cinematography from 1980 to 2018. The National Board of Review Award for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography was introduced in 2019.
| Year | Film | D.O.P | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1984 | The Killing Fields ≈ | Chris Menges | |
| 1988 | Wings of Desire (Der Himmel über Berlin) | Henri Alekan | |
| 1991 | Barton Fink | Roger Deakins | |
| 1993 | Schindler's List ≈ | Janusz Kamiński | |
| 1994 | Ed Wood | Stefan Czapsky | |
| 2002 | Far from Heaven ≠ | Edward Lachman | |
| 2009 | The White Ribbon (Das weisse Band) ≠ | Christian Berger | |
| 2011 | The Tree of Life ≠ | Emmanuel Lubezki | |
| 2016 | Moonlight ≠ | James Laxton | |
| 2018 | Roma ≈ | Alfonso Cuarón |
This lists the winners of all three of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award for Best Screenplay, National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Screenplay, and New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Screenplay from 1980 to 2018. The National Board of Review Award for Best Original and Adapted Screenplays were introduced in 2000 and 2002, respectively.
| Year | Film | Type | Writers | Ref/s |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1977 | Annie Hall ≈ | Original | Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman | |
| 1978 | An Unmarried Woman ≠ | Original | Paul Mazursky | |
| 1981 | Atlantic City ≠ | Original | John Guare | |
| 1982 | Tootsie ≠ | Original | Larry Gelbart and Murray Schisgal | |
| 1988 | Bull Durham ≠ | Original | Ron Shelton | |
| 1989 | Drugstore Cowboy | Original | Gus Van Sant and Daniel Yost | |
| 1993 | The Piano ≈ | Original | Jane Campion | |
| 1994 | Pulp Fiction ≈ | Original | Quentin Tarantino and Roger Avary | |
| 1997 | L.A. Confidential ≈ | Adapted | Brian Helgeland and Curtis Hanson | |
| 2000 | You Can Count on Me ≠ | Original | Kenneth Lonergan |
Only three films have won all four, all based on novels: Schindler's List , L.A. Confidential, and The Social Network . [79] Schindler's List is the only film also to have won the Academy Award for Best Picture, in addition of Golden Globe, BAFTA, and Producers Guild of America Award; all those for Best Picture category except the Critics' Choice.
Only nine people have won all four and of the three most prestigious annual awards (Oscar, Golden Globe, and BAFTA) for a single film: Emma Thompson (1992's Howards End ), Holly Hunter (1993's The Piano ), Quentin Tarantino (1994's Pulp Fiction ), [b] Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor (2004's Sideways ), Forest Whitaker (2006's The Last King of Scotland), Helen Mirren (2006's The Queen ), Da'Vine Joy Randolph (2023's The Holdovers ), and Kieran Culkin (2024's A Real Pain ); Whitaker, Mirren, Culkin, Randolph, Payne and Taylor are the only people in respective categories to swept all major award ceremonies in each, including Critic's Choice and Guild Awards.
Steven Soderbergh is the only director to have won all four while receiving the Academy Award for Best Director nominations in two films, Erin Brockovich and Traffic , which the latter won.
Man on Wire , for those one of six films have swept the critics' awards, is the only documentary film to win the Academy Award for Best Documentary Feature. [80]
Goodfellas , Schindler's List, L. A. Confidential, The Hurt Locker , The Social Network, Drive My Car , and Tár are the seven films in history selected the Best Film by the New York Film Critics Circle, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, and the National Society of Film Critics, named as such from the nation's top critics' groups, the so-called "trifecta". [81] Schindler's List and The Hurt Locker are also won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Drive My Car became the first Japanese and non-English-language film to be also selected. [77]