The 42nd New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 30 January 1977, honored the best filmmaking of 1976.^[1]

Winners

• Best Actor:
  • Robert De Niro - Taxi Driver
  • Runners-up: David Carradine - Bound for Glory and Robert Duvall - Network and The Seven-Per-Cent Solution
• Best Actress:
  • Liv Ullmann - Face to Face (Ansikte mot ansikte)
  • Runners-up: Faye Dunaway - Network and Sissy Spacek - Carrie
• Best Director:
  • Alan J. Pakula - All the President's Men
  • Runners-up: Martin Scorsese - Taxi Driver and Lina Wertmüller - Seven Beauties
• Best Film:
  • All the President's Men
  • Runners-up: Network and Seven Beauties
• Best Screenplay:
  • Paddy Chayefsky - Network
  • Runners-up: Harold Pinter - The Last Tycoon and Lina Wertmüller - Seven Beauties
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Jason Robards - All the President's Men
  • Runners-up: Harvey Keitel - Taxi Driver and Richard Pryor - Silver Streak
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Talia Shire - Rocky
  • Runners-up: Jodie Foster - Taxi Driver and Marie-France Pisier - Cousin Cousine