National Society of Film Critics Awards 1978

13th NSFC Awards

January 4, 1979

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Best Film:
Get Out Your Handkerchiefs

The 13th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1979, honored the best filmmaking of 1978.

Winners

Best Picture:

1. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs)
2. The Deer Hunter
2. An Unmarried Woman
4. Days of Heaven

Best Director:

1. Terrence Malick – Days of Heaven
2. Bertrand Blier – Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs)
3. Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter

Best Actor:

1. Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story
2. Jon Voight – Coming Home
3. Nick Nolte – Who'll Stop the Rain
4. Michael Caine – California Suite
5. Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter

Best Actress:

1. Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)
2. Jane Fonda – Coming Home, Comes a Horseman and California Suite
3. Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman
4. Maggie Smith – California Suite

Best Supporting Actor:

1. Richard Farnsworth – Comes a Horseman
1. Robert Morley – Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
3. Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter
4. Barry Bostwick – Movie Movie

Best Supporting Actress:

1. Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter
2. Maureen Stapleton – Interiors
3. Maggie Smith – California Suite

Best Screenplay:

1. Paul Mazursky – An Unmarried Woman
2. Bertrand Blier – Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs)
3. Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller – Movie Movie
4. W. D. Richter – Invasion of the Body Snatchers
5. Woody Allen – Interiors

Best Cinematography:

• Néstor Almendros – Days of Heaven

Special Citation:

• The Battle of Chile (La batalla de Chile)

External links

• Past Awards

References

• Bergman Winner of Critics' Award The Phoenix
• Critics Cite 'Get Out Your Handkerchiefs'; A Special Citation The New York Times