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New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Film

by mariojuarezm • Created 3 years ago • Modified 3 years ago
The New York Film Critics Circle (NYFCC) is an American film critic organization founded in 1935 by Wanda Hale from the New York Daily News. Its membership includes over 30 film critics from New York-based daily and weekly newspapers, magazines, online publications. In December of each year, the organization meets to vote on the New York Film Critics Circle Awards.
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  • Margot Grahame and Victor McLaglen in The Informer (1935)

    1. The Informer

    19351h 31mApproved65Metascore
    7.4 (7.6K)
    In 1922, an Irish rebel informs on his friend, then feels doom closing in.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsVictor McLaglenHeather AngelPreston Foster
  • Gary Cooper and Jean Arthur in Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)

    2. Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

    19361h 55mApproved
    7.8 (24K)
    A unassuming greeting card poet from a small town in Vermont heads to New York City upon inheriting a massive fortune and is immediately hounded by those who wish to take advantage of him.
    DirectorFrank CapraStarsGary CooperJean ArthurGeorge Bancroft
  • Paul Muni in The Life of Emile Zola (1937)

    3. The Life of Emile Zola

    19371h 56mApproved
    7.1 (9.6K)
    The biopic of the famous French muckraking writer and his involvement in fighting the injustice of the Dreyfus Affair.
    DirectorWilliam DieterleStarsPaul MuniGale SondergaardJoseph Schildkraut
  • The Citadel (1938)

    4. The Citadel

    19381h 50mApproved
    7.0 (2.5K)
    An enthusiastic young doctor happily embarks on his career, but it isn't long before he finds out what being a doctor really entails.
    DirectorKing VidorStarsRobert DonatRosalind RussellRalph Richardson
  • Wuthering Heights (1939)

    5. Wuthering Heights

    19391h 44mApproved
    7.5 (21K)
    A servant in the house of Wuthering Heights tells a traveler the unfortunate tale of lovers Cathy and Heathcliff.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMerle OberonLaurence OlivierDavid Niven
  • Henry Fonda, John Carradine, Jane Darwell, Dorris Bowdon, Frank Darien, and Russell Simpson in The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

    6. The Grapes of Wrath

    19402h 9mApproved96Metascore
    8.1 (105K)
    An Oklahoma family, driven off their farm by the poverty and hopelessness of the Dust Bowl, joins the westward migration to California, suffering the misfortunes of the homeless in the Great Depression.
    DirectorJohn FordStarsHenry FondaJane DarwellJohn Carradine
  • Orson Welles, Dorothy Comingore, and Ruth Warrick in Citizen Kane (1941)

    7. Citizen Kane

    19411h 59mPG100Metascore
    8.3 (482K)
    Following the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance: 'Rosebud.'
    DirectorOrson WellesStarsOrson WellesJoseph CottenDorothy Comingore
  • Noël Coward in In Which We Serve (1942)

    8. In Which We Serve

    19421h 55mNot Rated
    7.2 (6.8K)
    This "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.
    DirectorsNoël CowardDavid LeanStarsNoël CowardJohn MillsBernard Miles
  • Bette Davis and Paul Lukas in Watch on the Rhine (1943)

    9. Watch on the Rhine

    19431h 54mApproved68Metascore
    7.1 (5.3K)
    A German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family, but a Romanian count complicates their plans.
    DirectorsHerman ShumlinHal MohrStarsBette DavisPaul LukasGeraldine Fitzgerald
  • Bing Crosby, Barry Fitzgerald, and Risë Stevens in Going My Way (1944)

    10. Going My Way

    19442h 6mApproved90Metascore
    7.0 (14K)
    When young Father O'Malley arrives at St. Dominic's, old Father Fitzgibbon doesn't think much of his new assistant.
    DirectorLeo McCareyStarsBing CrosbyBarry FitzgeraldFrank McHugh
  • Ray Milland, Doris Dowling, Phillip Terry, and Jane Wyman in The Lost Weekend (1945)

    11. The Lost Weekend

    19451h 41mApproved
    7.9 (42K)
    The desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.
    DirectorBilly WilderStarsRay MillandJane WymanPhillip Terry
  • Dana Andrews, Myrna Loy, Fredric March, Virginia Mayo, and Teresa Wright in The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

    12. The Best Years of Our Lives

    19462h 50mApproved93Metascore
    8.1 (75K)
    Three World War II veterans, two of them traumatized or disabled, return home to the American midwest to discover that they and their families have been irreparably changed.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsMyrna LoyDana AndrewsFredric March
  • Gregory Peck, John Garfield, and Dorothy McGuire in Gentleman's Agreement (1947)

    13. Gentleman's Agreement

    19471h 58mApproved
    7.2 (19K)
    A reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.
    DirectorElia KazanStarsGregory PeckDorothy McGuireJohn Garfield
  • Humphrey Bogart, Tim Holt, and Walter Huston in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

    14. The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

    19482h 6mApproved98Metascore
    8.2 (137K)
    Two down-on-their-luck Americans searching for work in 1920s Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.
    DirectorJohn HustonStarsHumphrey BogartWalter HustonTim Holt
  • John Derek, Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridge, and Shepperd Strudwick in All the King's Men (1949)

    15. All the King's Men

    19491h 50mApproved
    7.4 (18K)
    The rise and fall of a grass-roots rural politician who eventually becomes mired in the sort of political corruption he vehemently railed against on his way to the governor's mansion.
    DirectorRobert RossenStarsBroderick CrawfordJohn IrelandJoanne Dru
  • All About Eve (1950)

    16. All About Eve

    19502h 18mApproved98Metascore
    8.2 (145K)
    A seemingly timid but secretly ruthless ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an aging Broadway star and her circle of theater friends.
    DirectorJoseph L. MankiewiczStarsBette DavisAnne BaxterGeorge Sanders
  • Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

    17. A Streetcar Named Desire

    19512h 2mApproved97Metascore
    7.9 (118K)
    Disturbed Blanche DuBois moves in with her sister in New Orleans and is tormented by her brutish brother-in-law while her reality crumbles around her.
    DirectorElia KazanStarsVivien LeighMarlon BrandoKim Hunter
  • Gary Cooper, Lloyd Bridges, Lee Van Cleef, Katy Jurado, Ian MacDonald, Robert J. Wilke, and Sheb Wooley in High Noon (1952)

    18. High Noon

    19521h 25mPG89Metascore
    7.9 (114K)
    A town Marshal, despite the disagreements of his newlywed bride and the townspeople around him, must face a gang of deadly killers alone at "high noon" when the gang leader, an outlaw he "sent up" years ago, arrives on the noon train.
    DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsGary CooperGrace KellyThomas Mitchell
  • Deborah Kerr, Burt Lancaster, Frank Sinatra, Ernest Borgnine, Montgomery Clift, and Donna Reed in From Here to Eternity (1953)

    19. From Here to Eternity

    19531h 58mApproved85Metascore
    7.6 (53K)
    At a U.S. Army base in 1941 Hawaii, a pugilistic private is cruelly punished for refusing to join his unit's boxing team. Meanwhile, his commanding officer's wife and top NCO are indulging in a torrid love affair.
    DirectorFred ZinnemannStarsBurt LancasterMontgomery CliftDeborah Kerr
  • Marlon Brando in On the Waterfront (1954)

    20. On the Waterfront

    19541h 48mApproved91Metascore
    8.1 (173K)
    An ex-prize fighter turned New Jersey longshoreman struggles to stand up to his corrupt union bosses, including his older brother, as he starts to connect with the grieving sister of one of the syndicate's victims.
    DirectorElia KazanStarsMarlon BrandoKarl MaldenLee J. Cobb
  • Ernest Borgnine and Betsy Blair in Marty (1955)

    21. Marty

    19551h 30mApproved82Metascore
    7.7 (29K)
    A middle-aged butcher and a school teacher who have given up on the idea of love meet at a dance and fall for each other.
    DirectorDelbert MannStarsErnest BorgnineBetsy BlairEsther Minciotti
  • David Niven and Cantinflas in Around the World in 80 Days (1956)

    22. Around the World in 80 Days

    19562h 55mG69Metascore
    6.7 (31K)
    A Victorian Englishman bets that with the new steamships and railways he can circumnavigate the globe in eighty days.
    DirectorsMichael AndersonJohn FarrowStarsDavid NivenCantinflasFinlay Currie
  • Alec Guinness, William Holden, Jack Hawkins, Sessue Hayakawa, Geoffrey Horne, and Ann Sears in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

    23. The Bridge on the River Kwai

    19572h 41mPG88Metascore
    8.1 (242K)
    British POWs are forced to build a railway bridge across the river Kwai for their Japanese captors in occupied Burma, not knowing that the allied forces are planning a daring commando raid through the jungle to destroy it.
    DirectorDavid LeanStarsWilliam HoldenAlec GuinnessJack Hawkins
  • Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier in The Defiant Ones (1958)

    24. The Defiant Ones

    19581h 36mApproved69Metascore
    7.6 (19K)
    Two chained-together escaped convicts, one white and one black, must learn to get along in order to elude capture.
    DirectorStanley KramerStarsTony CurtisSidney PoitierCara Williams
  • Ben-Hur (1959)

    25. Ben-Hur

    19593h 32mG90Metascore
    8.1 (264K)
    A Jewish prince is betrayed and sent into slavery by a Roman friend in 1st-century Jerusalem, but it's not long before he regains his freedom and comes back for revenge.
    DirectorWilliam WylerStarsCharlton HestonJack HawkinsStephen Boyd

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