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The National Society of Film Critics or NSFC is an American film critic organization. Most of its "national" publications are based in New York or Los Angeles. The organization is renowned for their highbrow tastes, and its annual awards is one of the most prestigious film critics awards in the United States. However, in past years, many of their Best Picture winners are foreign films, and they rarely match with the Academy Awards (they only agreed with the Oscar for four times in the past 40 years). On the other hand, they are also among the most well respected professional film critics groups in North America, and the United States representative in the FIPRESCI (International Federation of Film Critics, comprised of the national organizations of professional film critics and film journalists from around the world. It has members in more than 50 countries worldwide).

The society has published an ongoing series of anthologies of articles including:

• The X List: A Guide to the Movies That Turn Us On, Edited by Jami Bernard, Da Capo Press, 2005
• The A List: 100 Essential Films, Edited by Jay Carr, Da Capo Press, 2002
• Flesh and Blood: On Sex, Violence, and Censorship, Edited by Peter Keough, Mercury House, 1995
• They Went Thataway: Redefining Film Genres, Edited by Richard T. Jameson, Mercury House, 1994
• Love and Hisses: Sound Off On the Hottest Movie Controversies, Edited by Peter Rainer, Mercury House, 1992
• Foreign Affairs: A Guide to Foreign Films, Edited by Kathy Shulz Huffhines, Mercury House, 1991
• Produced and Abandoned: The Best Films You've Never Seen, Edited by Mike Sragow, Mercury House, 1990
• The National Society of Film Critics on the Movie Star, Edited by Elizabeth Weiss, Penguin, 1981
• The National Society of Film Critics on Movie Comedy, Edited by Stuart Byron and Elizabeth Weiss, Penguin, 1977

• National Society of Film Critics Awards 2000
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• National Society of Film Critics Awards 2004
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• National Society of Film Critics Awards 2006

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