NATIONAL SOCIETY OF FILM CRITICS: Best Picture, 1966-2019

The National Society of Film Critics was founded in 1966 in order to promote the mutual interests of film-making and film criticism. Its membership is by election, and includes the critics of most major American newspapers and prominent online websites as well as critics from smaller/regional newspapers, free weeklies, major weekly magazines, specialized film journals, and freelance journalists.

The NSFC holds an annual meeting in early January to award the the best film-making of the previous year. There is no nomination process prior to the vote; every film which had a theatrical release in the U.S. in the previous year is...