The 57th National Society of Film Critics Awards held on January 7, 2023, found their winners as a result of the online voting with the participation of 54 members. TÁR and the Colin Farrell led The Banshees of Inisherin, which left their mark on the award season, were prominent pictures at the ceremony once again.

Returning to the big screen after 15 years, director Todd Field’s drama TÁR won Best Picture and Best Screenplay, and Cate Blanchett, the film’s lead, won Best Actress. Colin Farrell, the leading actor in The Banshees of Inisherin, which is expected to accompany TÁR in the 2023 Oscar race, took home the Best Actor award, while Kerry Condon won Best Supporting Actress.

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Surprisingly, the winner of the Best Director prize was Charlotte Wells with her debut film Aftersun, starring Paul Mescal. The Best Supporting Actor prize went to Ke Huy Quan, star of Everything Everywhere All at Once. He is the most-awarded actor this award season, with over 20 wins.

The National Society of Film Critics dedicated the awards to Sheila Benson, an American journalist and film critic. She served as a film critic for the Los Angeles Times from 1981 to 1991. The National Society of Film Critics said in a statement:

The full list of winners from the 2023 National Society of Film Critics Awards can be found below:

‘‘We dedicate our awards to Sheila Benson, an esteemed Society member and the warmest, most gracious of colleagues. As film critic for the Los Angeles Times and other publications, she wrote about movies with infectious joy and enviable skill. We miss her dearly.’’

BEST PICTURE

  1. TÁR

  2. Aftersun

  3. No Bears

BEST DIRECTOR

  1. Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

  2. Park Chan-wook, Decision to Leave

  3. Jafar Panahi, No Bears

BEST ACTRESS

  1. Cate Blanchett, TÁR

  2. Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

  3. Tilda Swinton, The Eternal Daughter, and Michelle Williams, The Fabelmans

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

  1. Kerry Condon, The Banshees of Inisherin

  2. Nina Hoss, TÁR (43 points)

  3. Dolly de Leon, Triangle of Sadness

BEST ACTOR

  1. Colin Farrell, After Yang and The Banshees of Inisherin

  2. Paul Mescal, Aftersun

  3. Bill Nighy, Living

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

  1. Ke Huy Quan, Everything Everywhere All at Once

  2. Brian Tyree Henry, Causeway

  3. Barry Keoghan, The Banshees of Inisherin

BEST SCREENPLAY

  1. Todd Field, TÁR

  2. Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

  3. James Gray, Armageddon Time

BEST FILM NOT IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE

  1. EO

  2. No Bears

  3. Decision to Leave

BEST NONFICTION FILM

  1. All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

  2. Descendant

  3. All That Breathes

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

  1. Michał Dymek, EO

  2. Hoyte van Hoytema, Nope

  3. Kim Ji-yong, Decision to Leave

A voting meeting was held with a weighted voting system.