The 35th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 6 January 2001, honored the best in film for 2000.^[1]

Winners

Best Picture

1. Yi Yi
2. Traffic
3. The House of Mirth

Best Director

1. Steven Soderbergh – Traffic and Erin Brockovich
2. Edward Yang – Yi Yi
3. Ang Lee – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)

Best Actor

1. Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls
2. Mark Ruffalo – You Can Count on Me
3. Tom Hanks – Cast Away

Best Actress

1. Laura Linney – You Can Count on Me
2. Gillian Anderson – The House of Mirth
3. Ellen Burstyn – Requiem for a Dream

Best Supporting Actor

1. Benicio del Toro – Traffic
2. Fred Willard – Best in Show
3. Willem Dafoe – Shadow of the Vampire

Best Supporting Actress

1. Elaine May – Small Time Crooks
2. Frances McDormand – Almost Famous and Wonder Boys
3. Marcia Gay Harden – Pollock

Best Screenplay

1. Kenneth Lonergan – You Can Count on Me
2. Steve Kloves – Wonder Boys
3. Stephen Gaghan – Traffic

Best Cinematography

1. Agnès Godard – Beau Travail
2. Peter Pau – Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)
2. Steven Soderbergh – Traffic

Best Non-Fiction Film

1. The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
2. Dark Days
3. The Original Kings of Comedy

Experimental Film Award

• The Heart of the World

Film Heritage Award

• The National Film Preservation Foundation for "Treasures from American Film Archives," its four-DVD anthology of 50 films, "for preserving and propagating a body of films of cultural and historical significance, with an emphasis on non-Hollywood films."

Special Citation

• Michelangelo Antonioni