The National Board of Review has spoken and the Oscar season has truly begun!
Here’s what won:
Best Picture: The Post
Best Director: Greta Gerwig for Lady Bird
Best Actor: Tom Hanks in The Post
Best Actress: Meryl Streep in The Post
Best Supporting Actor: Willem DaFoe in The Florida Project
Best Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf in Lady Bird
Best Original Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson for Phantom Thread
Best Adapted Screenplay: Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber for The Disaster Artist
Best Animated Feature: Coco
Best Documentary Feature: Jane
Best Foreign Language Film: Foxtrot
Best Ensemble: Get Out
Breakthrough Performer: Timothée Chalamet in Call Me By Your Name
Best Directorial Debut: Jordan Peele for Get Out
NBR Spotlight Award: Gal Gadot and Patty Jenkins for their collaboration on Wonder Woman
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: First They Killed My Father and Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992
Top 10 Films of 2017 (in alphabetical Order):
- Baby Driver
- Call Me By Your Name
- The Disaster Artist
- Downsizing
- Dunkirk
- The Florida Project
- Get Out
- Lady Bird
- Logan
- Phantom Thread
Top 10 Independent Films of 2017:
- Beatriz at Dinner
- Brigsby Bear
- A Ghost Story
- Lady MacBeth
- Logan Lucky
- Loving Vincent
- Menashae
- Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
- Patti Cake$
- Wind River
Top 5 Documentaries:
- Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
- Brimstone & Glory
- Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
- Faces Places
- Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of Isis
Top 5 Foreign Language Films:
- A Fantastic Woman
- Franzt
- Loveless
- Summer 1993
- The Square