The prestigious National Society of Film Critics announced their winners earlier today where a few surprises graced the awards.

BEST PICTURE: LADY BIRD (41)
Runners-up: GET OUT (39) PHANTOM THREAD (28)

BEST DIRECTOR: Greta Gerwig, LADY BIRD (37)
Runners-up (tie): Paul Thomas Anderson, PHANTOM THREAD, and Jordan Peele, GET OUT (36)

BEST ACTOR: Daniel Kaluuya, GET OUT (44)
Runners-up: Daniel Day-Lewis, PHANTOM THREAD (34) Timothée Chalamet, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME (24)

BEST ACTRESS: Sally Hawkins, THE SHAPE OF WATER and MAUDIE (49)
Runners-up: 2. Saoirse Ronan, LADY BIRD (44) 3. Cynthia Nixon, A QUIET PASSION, and Frances McDormand, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (24)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Willem Dafoe, THE FLORIDA PROJECT (62)
Runners-up: Michael Stuhlbarg, CALL ME BY YOUR NAME, THE SHAPE OF WATER and THE POST (25) Sam Rockwell, THREE BILLBOARDS OUTSIDE EBBING, MISSOURI (23)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Laurie Metcalf, LADY BIRD (74)
Runners-up: 2. Lesley Manville, PHANTOM THREAD (36) 3. Allison Janney, I, TONYA (24)

BEST SCREENPLAY: Greta Gerwig, LADY BIRD (50)
Runners-up: Jordan Peele, GET OUT (49) Paul Thomas Anderson, PHANTOM THREAD (31)

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins, BLADE RUNNER 2049 (40)
Runners-up: Hoyte van Hoytema, DUNKIRK (39) Alexis Zabe, THE FLORIDA PROJECT (36)

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: GRADUATION (35)
Runners-up: FACES PLACES (30) BPM (BEATS PER MINUTE) (29)

BEST NON-FICTION FILM: FACES PLACES (70)
Runners-up: EX LIBRIS: THE NEW YORK PUBLIC LIBRARY (34) DAWSON CITY: FROZEN TIME (32)

Special Citation for a Film Awaiting U.S. Distribution: Agnieszka Holland's SPOOR

BEST EXPERIMENTAL FILM: Ben Russell's GOOD LUCK

FILM HERITAGE AWARD: "One Way or Another: Black Women's Cinema 1970-1991," BAMcinématek

FILM HERITAGE AWARD: Dan Talbot for his pioneering work as an exhibitor and distributor in bringing worldwide cinema to the United States

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| MOTION PICTURE | DIRECTOR |
| LEAD ACTOR | LEAD ACTRESS | SUPPORTING ACTOR | SUPPORTING ACTRESS | 
| ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY | ADAPTED SCREENPLAY | ANIMATED FEATURE |
| PRODUCTION DESIGN | CINEMATOGRAPHY | COSTUME DESIGN | FILM EDITING | MAKEUP & HAIRSTYLING | SOUND MIXING | SOUND EDITING | VISUAL EFFECTS |
| ORIGINAL SCORE | ORIGINAL SONG |
| FOREIGN LANGUAGE | DOCUMENTARY FEATURE |
| ANIMATED SHORT | DOCUMENTARY SHORT | LIVE ACTION SHORT |

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