1974 New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Best Actor: Jack Nicholson &nbsp; — Chinatown and The Last Detail Runners-up: Gene Hackman &nbsp; — The Conversation and Richard Dreyfuss &nbsp; — <a href="./The_Apprenticeship_of_Duddy_Kravitz_(film)" title="The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz (film)">The Apprenticeship of Duddy Kravitz
Best Actress: Liv Ullmann &nbsp; — Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) Runner-up: Gena Rowlands &nbsp; — A Woman Under the Influence
Best Director: Federico Fellini &nbsp; — Amarcord Runner-up: Ingmar Bergman &nbsp; — Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap)
Best Film: Amarcord Runners-up: Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) and The Godfather Part II
Best Screenplay: Ingmar Bergman &nbsp; — Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) Runners-up: Robert Towne &nbsp; — Chinatown and Francis Ford Coppola &nbsp; — The Conversation
Best Supporting Actor: Charles Boyer &nbsp; — Stavisky Runners-up: Robert De Niro &nbsp; — The Godfather Part II and Lee Strasberg &nbsp; — The Godfather Part II
Best Supporting Actress: Valerie Perrine &nbsp; — Lenny Runners-up: Bibi Andersson &nbsp; — Scenes from a Marriage (Scener ur ett äktenskap) and Madeline Kahn &nbsp; — Young Frankenstein
Special Award: Fabiano Canosa

The 40th New York Film Critics Circle Awards, 26 January 1975, honored the best filmmaking of 1974.^[1]^[2]