National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director
The National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director is an annual award given by National Society of Film Critics to honor the best film director of the year.
Current recipient: Jonathan Glazer
Blow-Up is a 1966 psychological mystery film directed by Michelangelo Antonioni, co-written by Antonioni and Tonino Guerra and produced by Carlo Ponti. It is Antonioni's first entirely English-language film and stars David Hemmings, Vanessa Redgrave and Sarah Miles. Also featured was 1960s model Veruschka. The plot was inspired by Argentine writer Julio Cortázar's 1959 short story "Las babas del diablo".
Theatrical release poster
Place of murder – Maryon Park, London
An example of a rare 'Chinese Eye' Silver Cloud III DHC as used in the film