NEW YORK — Boston made a great showing with voters at the 50th annual meeting of the National 
Society of Film Critics at Lincoln Center.

“Spotlight,” the Boston-shot drama about the Boston Catholic Archdiocese pedophile priest scandal and how it was exposed in an award-winning series by The Boston Globe in the early 2000s, took the group’s Best Picture prize.

The film also took the screenplay award, and “Spotlight” director Tom McCarthy was runner-up in the Best Director category. That award went to Todd Haynes, director of the 1950s lesbian romance “Carol,” starring Cate Blanchett and Rooney Mara as the film’s lovers. “Carol,” shot by Edward Lachmann in super 16mm to add to the film’s dreamy, period look, took the Best Cinematography award. Both films are expected to do well at the Oscars.

The acting awards represent a mix of the young and the not-so-young. Michael B. Jordan won Best Actor for his role in director Ryan Coogler’s “Rocky” reboot “Creed,” playing the son of Rocky’s original rival Apollo Creed, an important award for the young actor leading up to Oscar season. Jordan also appeared, to great acclaim, in Coogler’s 2013 film “Fruitvale Station.” Sylvester Stallone, Jordan’s “Creed” co-star, placed third for Best Supporting Actor. Englishman Mark Rylance took that award for his supporting role in Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies,” playing unflappable Soviet-era spy Rudolph Abel. Kristen Stewart, who made her name in the enormously popular “Twilight” series, won Best Supporting Actress for her role in “Clouds of Sils Maria.” Stewart also took France’s Cesar Award earlier for the same performance. The enchanting Charlotte Rampling, whose previous credits include “Georgy Girl,” “The Damned” and “The Night Porter,” won for “45 Years,” a film about a woman who discovers that her husband of almost half a century may still be in love with a woman who died long ago.

“Amy,” Asif Kapadia’s documentary about the late troubled R&B singer Amy Winehouse, took the Best Documentary award. The film is notable for the way Kapadia took existing footage and assembled it into a coherent, touching presentation, and is expected to be a major contender in the documentary category at the Academy Awards.