The National Board of Review, which is one the major Oscar precursors (though perhaps not as major as it once was), has announced its picks for the best of 2023!
Here are the winners:
Best Film — Killers of the Flower Moon
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
NBR Icon Award — Bradley Cooper
Best Original Screenplay — The Holdovers
Best Adapted Screenplay — Poor Things
Breakthrough Performance — Teyana Taylor, A Thousand and One
Best Directorial Debut — Celine Song, Past Lives
Best Animated Feature — Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
Best International Film — Anatomy of a Fall
Best Documentary — Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie
Best Ensemble — The Iron Claw
Outstanding Achievement in Stunt Artistry — John Wick 4
Outstanding Cinematography — Rodrigo Prieto for Barbie & Killers of the Flower Moon
Top 10 Films of 2023:
Barbie
The Boy and the Heron
Ferrari
The Holdovers
The Iron Claw
Killers of the Flower Moon
Maestro
Oppenheimer
Past Lives
Poor Things
Top 5 International Films:
La Chimera
Fallen Leaves
The Teachers’ Lounge
Totem
The Zone of Interest
Top Five Documentaries:
20 Days in Mariupol
32 Sounds
The Eternal Memory
The Pigeon Tunnel
A Still Small Voice
Top Ten Independent Films of 2023
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
Through the Shattered Lens 