19th NSFC Awards

January 3, 1985

---- Best Film:
Stranger Than Paradise

The 19th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1985, honored the best filmmaking of

1984 Events January * January 1 – The Bornean Sultanate of Brunei gains full independence from the United Kingdom, having become a British protectorate in 1888. * January 7 – Brunei becomes the sixth member of the Association of Southeas ...

Winners

Best Picture

*'' Stranger Than Paradise'' *Runner-up: '' A Sunday in the Country'' (''Un dimanche à la campagne'')

Best Director

Robert Bresson Robert Bresson (; 25 September 1901 – 18 December 1999) was a French film director. Known for his ascetic approach, Bresson contributed notably to the art of cinema; his non-professional actors, ellipses, and sparse use of scoring have l ...

– ''

L'Argent ''L'Argent'' ("Money") is the eighteenth novel in the '' Rougon-Macquart'' series by Émile Zola. It was serialized in the periodical ''Gil Blas'' beginning in November 1890 before being published in novel form by Charpentier et Fasquelle in March ...

'' *Runner-up:

Bertrand Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier (25 April 1941 – 25 March 2021) was a French director, screenwriter, actor and producer. Life and career Tavernier was born in Lyon, France, the son of Geneviève (née Dumond) and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, s ...

– '' A Sunday in the Country'' (''Un dimanche à la campagne'')

Best Actor

Steve Martin Stephen Glenn Martin (born August 14, 1945) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and musician. He has won five Grammy Awards, a Primetime Emmy Award, and was awarded an Honorary Academy Award in 2013. Additionally, he was nominate ...

– '' All of Me'' *Runner-up: Albert Finney – ''

Under the Volcano ''Under the Volcano'' is a novel by English writer Malcolm Lowry (1909–1957) published in 1947. The novel tells the story of Geoffrey Firmin, an alcoholic British consul in the Mexican city of Quauhnahuac, on the Day of the Dead in Novemb ...

Best Actress

Vanessa Redgrave Dame Vanessa Redgrave (born 30 January 1937) is an English actress and activist. Throughout her career spanning over seven decades, Redgrave has garnered numerous accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Television Award, tw ...

– ''

The Bostonians ''The Bostonians'' is a novel by Henry James, first published as a serial in '' The Century Magazine'' in 1885–1886 and then as a book in 1886. This bittersweet tragicomedy centres on an odd triangle of characters: Basil Ransom, a political c ...

'' *Runner-up: Kathleen Turner – ''

Romancing the Stone ''Romancing the Stone'' is a 1984 action-adventure romantic comedy film directed by Robert Zemeckis, written by Diane Thomas and produced by Michael Douglas, who also starred in the film. The film co-stars Kathleen Turner and Danny DeVito. The f ...

Best Supporting Actor

*John Malkovich – ''Places in the Heart'' and ''The Killing Fields (film), The Killing Fields'' *Runner-up: Ralph Richardson – ''Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes''

Best Supporting Actress

*Melanie Griffith – ''Body Double'' *Runner-up: Peggy Ashcroft – ''A Passage to India (film), A Passage to India''

Best Screenplay

*Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman – ''Splash (film), Splash'' *Runner-up:

and Colo Tavernier O'Hagan, Colo Tavernier – '' A Sunday in the Country'' (''Un dimanche à la campagne'')

Best Cinematography

*Chris Menges – ''Comfort and Joy (1984 film), Comfort and Joy'' and ''The Killing Fields (film), The Killing Fields''

Best Documentary

*''Stop Making Sense''

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Past Awards
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