NYFCC Awards - Best Film
The New York Film Critics Circle is an organization of film reviewers from New York-based publications that exists to honour excellence in U.S. and world cinema.
Founded in 1935, the Circle's membership includes critics from daily newspapers, weekly newspapers and magazines. Every year in December the organization meets in New York to vote on awards for the previous calendar year's films. Below are past winners for "Best Film".
Reds (1981)
7.5/10
Director: Warren Beatty
Starring: Diane Keaton, Edward Herrmann, Jack Nicholson, Paul Sorvino, Warren Beatty, Maur...
Academy Award-winning director Warren Beatty's acclaimed epic, based on actual events, tells the story of John Reed (Beatty), American Communist, jour... Read more
Ordinary People (1980)
7.8/10
Director: Robert Redford
Starring: Donald Sutherland, Judd Hirsch, Mary Tyler Moore, Timothy Hutton
An intense examination of a family being torn apart by tragedy and tension, 'Ordinary People' won four Academy Awards including Best Picture and Direc... Read more
Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)
7.8/10
Director: Robert Benton
Starring: Dustin Hoffman, Jane Alexander, Meryl Streep
Dustin Hoffman must become a single parent when Meryl Streep walks out on their marriage and their young son. A terrific male weepie where Hoffman lea... Read more
The Deer Hunter ( Blu-ray ) (1978)
8.1/10
Director: Michael Cimino
Starring: Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale
Winner of five Oscars, this harrowing indictment of war from director Michael Cimino stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage as three... Read more
The Deer Hunter (1978)
8.1/10
Director: Michael Cimino
Starring: Robert De Niro, Meryl Streep, John Savage, John Cazale, Christopher Walken
Winner of five Oscars, this harrowing indictment of war from director Michael Cimino stars Robert De Niro, Christopher Walken and John Savage as three... Read more
Annie Hall (1977)
8/10
Director: Woody Allen
Starring: Woody Allen, Diane Keaton, Tony Roberts, Paul Simon, Carol Kane, Shelley Duvall,...
One of Woody Allen's most well-loved and funniest films, with Diane Keaton as the ditsy sometime object of Woody's neurotic affections. Originally co... Read more
All the President's Men (1976)
8/10
Director: Alan J Pakula
Starring: Robert Redford, Dustin Hoffman, Jack Warden, Martin Balsam, Hal Holbrook, Jason...
In the Watergate Building, lights go on and four burglars are caught in the act. That night triggered revelations that drove a U.S. President from off... Read more
Nashville (1975)
7.8/10
Director: Robert Altman
Starring: Henry Gibson, Karen Black, Keith Carradine, Lily Tomlin, Ronee Blakley, Geraldin...
One of the '70's most acclaimed films is an audacious, moving and hilarious look at 24 characters involved in a political rally in the music capital o... Read more
Amarcord (1974)
7.8/10
Director: Federico Fellini
Starring: Magali Noel, Bruno Zanin, Pupella Maggio
The title is from the Italian for "I remember" and that is what Director Fellini does in this heartfelt autobiographical drama. The life and times of... Read more
Day For Night (1973)
8.1/10
Director: Francois Truffaut
Starring: Jacqueline Bisset, Jean-Pierre Aumont, Valentina Cortese, Jean-Pierre Leaud, Ale...
The leading lady is recovering from a nervous breakdown, another performer is soused on the set, trade unions threaten to walk, shooting must somehow... Read more