20th NSFC Awards

January 3, 1986

---- Best Film:
Ran

The 20th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1986, honored the best filmmaking of

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Winners

Best Picture

1. ''

Ran Ran, RaN and ran may refer to: Arts and entertainment * ''Ran'' (film), a 1985 film directed by Akira Kurosawa * "Ran" (song), a 2013 Japanese song by Luna Sea * '' Ran Online'', a 2004 MMORPG (massively multiplayer online role playing game) * ...

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2. '' Prizzi's Honor''
2. '' The Purple Rose of Cairo''

Best Director

John Huston John Marcellus Huston ( ; August 5, 1906 – August 28, 1987) was an American film director, screenwriter, actor and visual artist. He wrote the screenplays for most of the 37 feature films he directed, many of which are today considered ...

– '' Prizzi's Honor''
2. Akira Kurosawa – ''

Best Actor

1. Jack Nicholson – '' Prizzi's Honor''
2. William Hurt – '' Kiss of the Spider Woman''

Best Actress

1. Vanessa Redgrave – '' Wetherby''
2. Jessica Lange – '' Sweet Dreams''
3. Norma Aleandro – '' The Official Story'' (''La historia oficial'')

Best Supporting Actor

1. John Gielgud – '' Plenty'' and '' The Shooting Party''
2. William Hickey – '' Prizzi's Honor''
3. Ian Holm – '' Wetherby'', '' Brazil'' and '' Dance with a Stranger''
4. Klaus Maria Brandauer – '' Out of Africa''

Best Supporting Actress

Anjelica Huston Anjelica Huston ( ; born July 8, 1951) is an American actress and director. Known for often portraying eccentric and distinctive characters, she has received multiple accolades, including an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award, as well as no ...

– '' Prizzi's Honor''
2.

Mieko Harada is a Japanese actress from Tokyo. She has played various roles in many motion pictures, television shows and television dramas since her debut in 1974. Career Harada most notably portrayed Lady Kaede in Akira Kurosawa's 1985 film ''Ran'', and ...

– ''

Best Screenplay

Albert Brooks Albert Brooks (born Albert Lawrence Einstein ; July 22, 1947) is an American actor and filmmaker. He received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actor for 1987's '' Broadcast News'' and was widely praised for his performance as a ...

and

Monica Johnson Monica Johnson (February 21, 1946 – November 1, 2010) was an American screenwriter whose film credits included ''Mother'', ''Lost in America'', '' Modern Romance'', '' Jekyll and Hyde... Together Again'' and '' The Muse''. Her television credi ...

– '' Lost in America''
2. Woody Allen – '' The Purple Rose of Cairo''
3. Terry Gilliam,

Tom Stoppard Sir Tom Stoppard (born , 3 July 1937) is a Czech born British playwright and screenwriter. He has written for film, radio, stage, and television, finding prominence with plays. His work covers the themes of human rights, censorship, and politi ...

and Charles McKeown – '' Brazil''
3. Richard Condon and Janet Roach – '' Prizzi's Honor''

Best Cinematography

1. Takao Saito, Masaharu Ueda and Asakazu Nakai – ''

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2. Kiyoshi Hasegawa – ''

The Makioka Sisters is a novel by Japanese writer Jun'ichirō Tanizaki that was serialized from 1943 to 1948. It follows the lives of the wealthy Makioka family of Osaka from the autumn of 1936 to April 1941, focusing on the family's attempts to find a husband fo ...

'' (''Sasame-yuki'')
3. Michael Ballhaus – '' After Hours''

Best Documentary

1. ''

Shoah The Holocaust, also known as the Shoah, was the genocide of European Jews during World War II. Between 1941 and 1945, Nazi Germany and its collaborators systematically murdered some six million Jews across German-occupied Europe; ar ...

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2. ''

28 Up The ''Up'' series of documentary films follows the lives of ten males and four females in England beginning in 1964, when they were seven years old. The first film was titled ''Seven Up!'', with later films adjusting the number in the title t ...

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3. ''

Streetwise Streetwise may refer to: Knowledgeable *Streetwise, possessing knowledge of youth culture, also called "street" *Streetwise, possessing know-how (practical knowledge), as opposed to ivory tower or book knowledge, knowledge on how to succeed throu ...

References

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Past Awards
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