MOVIES - Jan. 9, 1990

Critics Pick ‘Drugstore Cowboy’: Gus Van Sant’s “Drugstore Cowboy,” an independently made picture about a group of doped-up youths who roam the 1970s Northwest looting pharmacies and hospitals for drugs, was named best picture of 1989 Sunday by the National Society of Film Critics. Van Sant was named best director and the film’s script, adapted by Van Sant and Daniel Yost from a novel by James Fogle, was selected by the group as the year’s best screenplay. Daniel Day-Lewis, who had already won awards from Los Angeles and New York critics groups for his performance as the severely crippled Irish poet Christy Brown in “My Left Foot,” was named best actor by the National Society, as well, and Michelle Pfeiffer was voted best actress for her work as a lounge chanteuse in “The Fabulous Baker Boys.” Beau Bridges, from “The Fabulous Baker Boys” was named best supporting actor while Anjelica Huston, the concentration camp survivor in “Enemies, A Love Story,” won the award for supporting actress. Michael Balhaus’ work on “The Fabulous Baker Boys” won for cinematography and Michael Moore’s controversial “Roger & Me,” a sardonic look at the effects of auto plant closings in Flint, Mich., was named best documentary.