These are the results of the National Society of Film Critics vote for its 2002 awards. I've included the number of points each winner and the two runners-up have received, but please note that these are points, NOT the number of critics who voted for each award. The NSFC employs a weighted ballot system (3pts. for your first choice, 2pts. for your second, 1 pt. for your third) PLUS the winner must appear on a plurality of the ballots cast. At the bottom of the list, two special awards appear.

Best Picture
1. The Pianist (29 pts.)
2. Y tu mama tambien (19 pts.)
3. Talk to Her (12 pts.)

Best director:
1. Roman Polanski (31 pts.)
2. Pedro Almodovar (20 pts.)
3. Alfonoso Cuaron (19 pts.)

Best Foreign Film
1. Y tu mama tambien (55 pts.)
2. Talk to Her (47 pts.)
3. Time Out (37 pts.)

Best Actress
1. Diane Lane (Unfaithful) (29 pts.)
2. Tie: Maggie Gyllenhall (Secretary) & Isabelle Huppert (The Piano Teacher) (14 pts.)

Best Supporting Actress
1. Patricia Clarkson (Far From Heaven) (24 pts.)
2. Fiona Shaw (24 pts.) (not enough ballots)
3. Kathy Bates (About Schmidt) (15 pts.)

Best Actor
1. Adrian Brody (The Pianist) (28 pts.)
2. Michael Caine (The Quiet American) (22 pts.)
3. Aurelien Recoing (Time Out) (16 pts.)

Best Supporting Actor
1. Christopher Walken (Catch Me if You Can) (28 pts.)
2. Chris Cooper (Adaptation) (26 pts.)
3. Alan Arkin (13 Conversations About...) (13 pts.)

Non-Fiction Film
1. Standing in the Shadows of Motown (22 pts.)
2. The Cockettes (15pts.)
3. Tie: Domestic Violence and The Kid Stays in the Picture (13 pts.)

Best Screenplay
1. The Pianist (Ronald Harwood) (29 pts.)
2. About Schmidt (Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor) (15 pts.)
3. Y tu mama tambien (Cuaron brothers) (14 pts.)

Best cinematography
1. Far From Heaven (Ed Lachman) (51 pts.)
2. The Pianist (Pawel Edelman) (20 pts.)
3. Punch-Drunk Love (Robert Elswit) (18 pts.)

The National Society of Film Critics presents a special citation to the UCLA Film and Television Archives for its long-lived and heroic work in film preservation, restoration, and resurrection, including its recent rehabilitation of rehearsal and test footage from Charles Laughton's Night of the Hunter.

The National Society of Film Critics presents its 2002 Film Heritage Award to Kino International for its theatrical release of the restored long version of Fritz Lang's Metropolis and is DVD releases of Lang's Nibelungen and the special boxed set of classic D.W. Griffith silent features and shorts.