National Board of Review

To help keep tabs of Awards Season, I will be posting some of the more minor precursors as well as the major ones such as the Globes and Critics’ Choice. One awards show that has already announced its winners is the National Board of Review, with the nominees and winners announced on the 6th December. The ceremony itself is to be held on 11th January. NBR have a pretty poor correlation with the Academy when it comes to winners (only 3 have aligned since 2000), but their pick for best film usually gets at least a Best Picture nomination.

National Board of Review:

Top 10 Films

Winner: Killers of the Flower Moon

• Barbie
• The Boy and the Heron
• Ferrari
• The Holdovers
• The Iron Claw
• Maestro
• Oppenheimer
• Past Lives
• Poor Things

Top 5 International Films

Winner: Anatomy of a Fall (France)

• Fallen Leaves (Finland)
• La chimera (Italy)
• The Teachers’ Lounge (Germany)
• Totem (Mexico)
• The Zone of Interest (United Kingdom)

Top 5 Documentaries

Winner: Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

• 20 Days in Mariupol
• 32 Sounds
• The Eternal Memory
• The Pigeon Tunnel
• A Still Small Voice

Top 10 Independent Films

• All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
• All of Us Strangers
• BlackBerry
• Earth Mama
• Flora and Son
• The Persian Version
• Scrapper
• Showing Up
• Theater Camp
• A Thousand and One

Best Director: Martin Scorsese (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Best Actor: Paul Giamatti (The Holdovers)

Best Actress: Lily Gladstone (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Best Supporting Actor: Mark Ruffalo (Poor Things)

Best Supporting Actress: Da’Vine Joy Randolph (The Holdovers)

Best Original Screenplay: David Hemingson (The Holdovers)

Best Adapted Screenplay: Tony McNamara (Poor Things)

Best Animated Feature: Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse

Breakthrough Performance: Teyana Taylor (A Thousand and One)

Best Directional Debut: Celine Song (Past Lives)

Best Ensemble: The Iron Claw

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Rodrigo Prieto (Killers of the Flower Moon)

Outstanding Achievement in Stunt Artistry: Chad Stahelski, Stephen Dunlevy & Scott Rodgers (John Wick: Chapter 4)