1979 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Winners

• Best Actor:
• *Dustin Hoffman - Kramer vs. Kramer
• *Runners-up: Peter Sellers - Being There and Nick Nolte - North Dallas Forty
• Best Actress:
• *Sally Field - Norma Rae
• *Runners-up: Bette Midler - The Rose and Hanna Schygulla - The Marriage of Maria Braun
• Best Director:
• *Woody Allen - Manhattan
• *Runners-up: Robert Benton - Kramer vs. Kramer and Bob Fosse - All That Jazz
• Best Film:
• *Kramer vs. Kramer
• *Runners-up: Breaking Away and Manhattan
• Best Foreign Language Film:
• *The Tree of Wooden Clogs • Italy
• *Runners-up: La Cage aux Folles • France/Italy, Peppermint Soda • France and Soldier of Orange • Netherlands/Belgium
• Best Screenplay:
• *Steve Tesich - Breaking Away
• *Runners-up: Woody Allen and Marshall Brickman - Manhattan and Jerzy Kosinski - Being There
• Best Supporting Actor:
• *Melvyn Douglas - Being There
• *Runners-up: Frederic Forrest - The Rose and James Woods - The Onion Field
• Best Supporting Actress:
• *Meryl Streep - Kramer vs. Kramer and The Seduction of Joe Tynan
• *Runners-up: Jane Alexander - Kramer vs. Kramer and Barbara Barrie - Breaking Away