1981 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

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The 47th New York Film Critics Circle Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1981. The winners were announced on 21 December 1981 and the awards were given on 31 January 1982.

Winners

Best Actor:

Burt Lancaster - Atlantic City

Runners-up: Henry Fonda - On Golden Pond and Robert Duvall - True Confessions

Best Actress:

Glenda Jackson - Stevie

Runners-up: Faye Dunaway - Mommie Dearest and Diane Keaton - Reds

Best Cinematography:

David Watkin - Chariots of Fire

Best Director:

Sidney Lumet - Prince of the City

Runners-up: Louis Malle - Atlantic City, Hugh Hudson - Chariots of Fire and Warren Beatty - Reds

Best Film:

Reds

Runners-up: Prince of the City, Atlantic City and Chariots of Fire

Best Foreign Language Film:

Pixote (Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco) • Brazil

Runners-up: Man of Iron (Człowiek z żelaza) • Poland, Man of Marble (Człowiek z marmuru) • Poland and The Last Metro (Le dernier métro) • France

Best Screenplay:

John Guare - Atlantic City

Runners-up: Sidney Lumet and Jay Presson Allen - Prince of the City, Dennis Potter - Pennies from Heaven and Steve Gordon - Arthur

Best Supporting Actor:

John Gielgud - Arthur

Runners-up: Jack Nicholson - Reds, Jerry Orbach - Prince of the City and Howard E. Rollins Jr. - Ragtime

Best Supporting Actress:

Mona Washbourne - Stevie

Runners-up: Marília Pêra - Pixote (Pixote: a Lei do Mais Fraco) and Maureen Stapleton - Reds

Special Awards:

Andrzej Wajda

Krzysztof Zanussi

Abel Gance's Napoléon

References

1981 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Wikipedia

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