The 13th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 4 January 1979, honored the best filmmaking of 1978.^[1][2]

Winners

Best Picture

1. Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs)
2. The Deer Hunter
2. An Unmarried Woman
4. Days of Heaven

Best Director

1. Terrence Malick – Days of Heaven
2. Bertrand Blier – Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs)
3. Michael Cimino – The Deer Hunter

Best Actor

1. Gary Busey – The Buddy Holly Story
2. Jon Voight – Coming Home
3. Nick Nolte – Who'll Stop the Rain
4. Michael Caine – California Suite
5. Robert De Niro – The Deer Hunter

Best Actress

1. Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata (Höstsonaten)
2. Jane Fonda – Coming Home, Comes a Horseman and California Suite
3. Jill Clayburgh – An Unmarried Woman
4. Maggie Smith – California Suite

Best Supporting Actor

1. Richard Farnsworth – Comes a Horseman
1. Robert Morley – Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe?
3. Christopher Walken – The Deer Hunter
4. Barry Bostwick – Movie Movie

Best Supporting Actress

1. Meryl Streep – The Deer Hunter
2. Maureen Stapleton – Interiors
3. Maggie Smith – California Suite

Best Screenplay

1. Paul Mazursky – An Unmarried Woman
2. Bertrand Blier – Get Out Your Handkerchiefs (Préparez vos mouchoirs)
3. Larry Gelbart and Sheldon Keller – Movie Movie
4. W.D. Richter – Invasion of the Body Snatchers
5. Woody Allen – Interiors

Best Cinematography

• Néstor Almendros – Days of Heaven

Special Citation

• The Battle of Chile (La batalla de Chile)