Todd Field’s Tár won Best Film at the recently announced National Society of Film Critics, completing a rare hat-trick of wins from Los Angeles Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Circle this awards season where it also won Best Film. Apart from this, actors Cate Blanchett and Ke Huy Quan took home best lead actress and supporting actor trophies from these three award bodies respectively.
Ahead of the Academy Awards, these critics circle awards play a major role in establishing the frontrunners in some of the major categories. Todd Field’s Tár, continued its strong run at the critics circle awards by collecting Best Film at all the three major critics awards- National Society of Film Critics, Los Angeles Film Critics Association and New York Film Critics Circle. Additionally, it won Best Screenplay for Todd Field, whereas star Cate Blanchett with the Lead Actress Award and Nina Hoss came as the runner-up in Supporting Actress category.
Some of the previous films in recent years who have achieved this feat of winning Best Film at all the three critics awards are Ryûsuke Hamaguchi’s Drive My Car (2021), David Fincher’s The Social Network (2010) and Kathryn Bigelow’s The Hurt Locker (2009). All these films went on to score big at the Academy Awards, being nominated for both Best Picture and Best Director.
