{"id":215274,"date":"2026-01-03T19:20:08","date_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:20:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215274\/"},"modified":"2026-01-03T19:20:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-03T19:20:08","slug":"2026-national-society-of-film-critics-winners-list","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/215274\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 National Society\u00a0of Film Critics Winners List"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe National Society of Film Critics is voting on its top picks for the best in film from the past year.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tFounded in 1966, and made up of more than 60 critics from prominent outlets across the country, annual votes on the organization\u2019s categories include best picture, director, actor, actress, supporting actor and actress, screenplay and cinematography. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tVoting is conducted via a weighted ballot system. On the first ballot, members vote for their top three choices, with the first choice getting three points, second choice getting two points and third choice getting one point. The nominee that receives the most points and appears on the majority of ballots wins. If no winner is declared on the first ballot, the category goes to a second ballot and voting continues with as many rounds as needed until a nominee scores the most points and appears on the majority of ballots.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLast year, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/2025-national-society-of-film-critics-winners-list-1236099219\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-news\/2025-national-society-of-film-critics-winners-list-1236099219\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Nickel Boys won best picture<\/a>, with Hard Truths, A Real Pain and All We Imagine as Light each receiving two awards.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tWinners will be announced as they\u2019re updated live. Refresh for the latest.<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Picture<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Director<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Actor<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Actress<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Supporting Actor<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Supporting Actress<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Screenplay<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Cinematography<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Nonfiction Film<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Film Not in the English Language<\/p>\n<p>\tBest Experimental Film<\/p>\n<p>\tFilm Heritage Award<\/p>\n<p>\tFilm Heritage Award<\/p>\n<p>\tSpecial Award for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The National Society of Film Critics is voting on its top picks for the best in film from&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":215275,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[10779,156,409,111,139,69],"class_list":{"0":"post-215274","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-movies","8":"tag-awards","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-movies","11":"tag-new-zealand","12":"tag-newzealand","13":"tag-nz"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215274","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=215274"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/215274\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/215275"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=215274"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=215274"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=215274"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}