The 8th National Society of Film Critics Awards honored the best filmmaking of 1973. Voting by nineteen members of the society took place on 2 January 1974 and winners announced that day. Citations were presented to the winners in a ceremony on 20 January 1974. Both the voting and the ceremony occurred at the Algonquin Hotel in Midtown Manhattan.^[1][2]

Winners

Best Picture

• Day for Night (La nuit américaine)

Best Director

• François Truffaut – Day for Night (La nuit américaine)

Best Actor

• Marlon Brando – Last Tango in Paris (Ultimo tango a Parigi)

Best Actress

• Liv Ullmann – The New Land (Nybyggarna)

Best Supporting Actor

• Robert De Niro – Mean Streets

Best Supporting Actress

• Valentina Cortese – Day for Night (La nuit américaine)

Best Screenplay

• George Lucas, Gloria Katz and Willard Huyck – American Graffiti

Best Cinematography

• Vilmos Zsigmond – The Long Goodbye

Special Awards

• Tomás Gutiérrez Alea – Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del subdesarrollo)
• Daryl Duke
• Robert Ryan – The Iceman Cometh