‘It’s a heartbreaking movie with a lot of staying power,’ the US National Society of Film Critics said of Beijing-born filmmaker’s piece
The National Society of Film Critics on Saturday chose Chloe Zhao’s low-budget debut feature, The Rider, as best picture of 2018.
Director Alfonso Cuaron’s black-and-white Roma period piece set in modern Mexico won the most awards – as best picture runner-up, best foreign-language film and for best cinematography. Cuaron also got the award for best director.
The society of leading film critics voted for Olivia Colman as best actress in The Favourite and Ethan Hawke as best actor in First Reformed. The top accolade for best supporting actor went to Steve Yeun of Burning, while Regina King of If Beale Street Could Talk nabbed best supporting actress. About 40 of the society’s 64 members voted.
Best screenplay went to The Death of Stalin, and best non-fiction film to Minding the Gap, a documentary directed by Bing Liu about the complex friendship between three skateboarding young men, including himself, in their hometown of Rockford, Illinois.
