Last year, the National Board of Review honored Martin Scorsese’s “The Irishman” with its top prize for Best Film. The gangster drama went on to score 10 Academy Award nominations. Nearly every NBR winner for Best Film this decade has earned an Oscar nomination for Best Picture, including “The Post,” “Manchester by the Sea,” and “Mad Max: Fury Road.” NBR’s 2019 winner “Green Book” won the Best Picture Oscar.
Other 2019 NBR winners included Adam Sandler for Best Actor (“Uncut Gems”), Renee Zellweger for Best Actress (“Judy”), Brad Pitt for Best Supporting Actor (“Once Upon a Time in Hollywood”), and Kathy Bates for Best Supporting Actress (“Richard Jewell”). Pitt and Zellweger went on to win Oscars in their respective categories. The full list of 2020 National Board of Review winners is below. Best Film: DA 5 BLOODS Best Director: Spike Lee, DA 5 BLOODS Best Actor: Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN Best Supporting Actor: Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL Best Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Greengrass & Luke Davies, NEWS OF THE WORLD Best Original Screenplay: Lee Isaac Chung, MINARI Breakthrough Performance: Sidney Flanigan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS Best Directorial Debut: Channing Godfrey Peoples, MISS JUNETEENTH Best Animated Feature: SOUL Best Foreign Language Film: LA LLORONA Best Documentary: TIME NBR Icon Award: Chadwick Boseman NBR Freedom of Expression Award: ONE NIGHT IN MIAMI NBR Spotlight Award: Radha Blank for writing, directing, producing and starring in THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION Best Ensemble: DA 5 BLOODS Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND Top Films (in alphabetical order): First Cow The Forty-Year-Old Version Judas and the Black Messiah The Midnight Sky Minari News of the World Nomadland Promising Young Woman Soul Sound of Metal Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order): Apples Collective Dear Comrades The Mole Agent Night of the Kings Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order): All In: The Fight for Democracy Boys State Dick Johnson is Dead Miss Americana The Truffle Hunters
Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order): The Climb Driveways Farewell Amor Miss Juneteenth The Nest Never Rarely Sometimes Always The Outpost Relic Saint Frances Wolfwalkers Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! Sign up for our Email Newsletters here.
