The 53rd National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 5 January 2019, honored the best in film for 2018.^[1][2][3]

Winners are listed in boldface along with the runner-up positions and counts from the final round:

1. The Rider (44)
2. Roma (41)
3. Burning (27)

1. Alfonso Cuarón – Roma (60)
2. Lee Chang-dong – Burning (22)
3. Chloé Zhao – The Rider (22)

1. Ethan Hawke – First Reformed (58)
2. Willem Dafoe – At Eternity's Gate (30)
3. Ben Foster – Leave No Trace (25)
4. John C. Reilly – The Sisters Brothers and Stan & Ollie (25)

1. Olivia Colman – The Favourite (36)
2. Regina Hall – Support the Girls (33)
3. Melissa McCarthy – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (27)

1. Steven Yeun – Burning (40)
2. Richard E. Grant – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (35)
3. Brian Tyree Henry – If Beale Street Could Talk, Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, and Widows (32)

1. Regina King – If Beale Street Could Talk (47)
2. Elizabeth Debicki – Widows (37)
3. Emma Stone – The Favourite (24)

1. Armando Iannucci, David Schneider, and Ian Martin – The Death of Stalin (47)
2. Nicole Holofcener and Jeff Whitty – Can You Ever Forgive Me? (27)
3. Deborah Davis and Tony McNamara – The Favourite (24)

1. Alfonso Cuarón – Roma (70)
2. James Laxton – If Beale Street Could Talk (26)
3. Łukasz Żal – Cold War (24)

1. Roma – Alfonso Cuarón (44)
2. Cold War – Paweł Pawlikowski (34)
3. Burning – Lee Chang-dong (30)
4. Shoplifters – Hirokazu Kore-eda (30)

1. Minding the Gap – Bing Liu (35)
2. Shirkers – Sandi Tan (31)
3. Amazing Grace – Sydney Pollack (24)

• Museum of Modern Art for restoring Ernst Lubitsch's 1923 film Rosita.
• "The team of producers, editors, restorers, technicians, and cineastes who labored for decades to bring Orson Welles's The Other Side of the Wind to completion for a new generation of movie lovers."^[1]

• A Family Tour, a film awaiting American distribution

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