The 19th National Society of Film Critics Awards, given on 3 January 1985, honored the best filmmaking of 1984.^[1][2]

• Stranger Than Paradise
• Runner-up: A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne)

• Robert Bresson – L'Argent
• Runner-up: Bertrand Tavernier – A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne)

• Steve Martin – All of Me
• Runner-up: Albert Finney – Under the Volcano

• Vanessa Redgrave – The Bostonians
• Runner-up: Kathleen Turner – Romancing the Stone

• John Malkovich – Places in the Heart and The Killing Fields
• Runner-up: Ralph Richardson – Greystoke: The Legend of Tarzan, Lord of the Apes

• Melanie Griffith – Body Double
• Runner-up: Peggy Ashcroft – A Passage to India

• Lowell Ganz, Babaloo Mandel and Bruce Jay Friedman – Splash
• Runner-up: Bertrand Tavernier and Colo Tavernier – A Sunday in the Country (Un dimanche à la campagne)

• Chris Menges – Comfort and Joy and The Killing Fields

• Stop Making Sense

• Past Awards