51st NSFC Awards
January 7, 2017
Best Film: Moonlight
The 51st National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 7 January 2017, honored the best in film for 2016.
Winners
Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:
Best Picture
Moonlight (54) Manchester by the Sea (39) La La Land (31)
Best Director
Barry Jenkins – Moonlight (53) Damien Chazelle – La La Land (37) Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea (23)
Best Actor
Casey Affleck – Manchester by the Sea (65) Denzel Washington – Fences (21) Adam Driver – Paterson (20)
Best Actress
Isabelle Huppert – Elle and Things to Come (55) Annette Bening – 20th Century Women (26) Sandra Hüller – Toni Erdmann (26)
Best Supporting Actor
Mahershala Ali – Moonlight (72) Jeff Bridges – Hell or High Water (18) Michael Shannon – Nocturnal Animals (14)
Best Supporting Actress
Michelle Williams – Manchester by the Sea (58) Lily Gladstone – Certain Women (45) Naomie Harris – Moonlight (25)
Best Screenplay
Kenneth Lonergan – Manchester by the Sea (61) Barry Jenkins – Moonlight (39) Taylor Sheridan – Hell or High Water (16)
Best Cinematography
James Laxton – Moonlight (52) Linus Sandgren – La La Land (27) Rodrigo Prieto – Silence (23)
Best Foreign Language Film
Toni Erdmann – Maren Ade (52) The Handmaiden – Park Chan-wook (26) Elle – Paul Verhoeven (19) Things to Come – Mia Hansen-Løve (19)
Best Non-Fiction Film
O.J.: Made in America – Ezra Edelman (64) I Am Not Your Negro – Raoul Peck (36) 13th – Ava DuVernay (20)