The National Board Of Review (NBR) has announced their winners representing the best in cinema for 2024. The New York-based group is over 100 years old and consists of unknown voting members who are filmmakers, professionals, and academics. The winners for their Best Picture prize from the last fifteen years (or since when the Academy expanded the Best Picture lineup) were “Up In The Air,” “The Social Network,” “Hugo,” “Zero Dark Thirty,” “Her,” “A Most Violent Year,” “Mad Max: Fury Road,” “Manchester By The Sea,” “The Post,” “Green Book,” “The Irishman,” “Da 5 Bloods,” “Licorice Pizza,” “Top Gun: Maverick” & “Killers Of The Flower Moon” with only one of those going on to win Best Picture, the first time since 2008’s winner, “Slumdog Millionaire.” While this group doesn’t have the best track record when it comes to predicting the Best Picture winner, they’re still a fun group to mull over, and their top 10 list is used by many to compare with the AFI Top 10 list to figure out where the Best Picture consensus currently lies. With that said, here are this year’s winners:
Best Film: “Wicked”
Best Director: Jon M. Chu – “Wicked”
Best Actor: Daniel Craig – “Queer”
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman – “Babygirl”
Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin – “A Real Pain”
Best Supporting Actress: Elle Fanning – “A Complete Unknown”
Best Original Screenplay: “Hard Truths” – Mike Leigh
Best Adapted Screenplay: “Sing Sing” — Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar
Breakthrough Performance: Mikey Madison – “Anora”
Best Directorial Debut: India Donaldson – “Good One”
Best Animated Feature: “Flow”
Best International Film: “The Seed of the Sacred Fig”
Best Documentary: “Sugarcane”
Best Ensemble: “Conclave”
NBR Freedom of Expression: “No Other Land”
NBR Spotlight Award: Creative Collaboration of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande
Outstanding Achievement in Stunt Artistry: “Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: “Nosferatu” — Jarin Blaschke
Top 10 Films (in alphabetical order):
“Anora”
“Babygirl”
“A Complete Unknown”
“Conclave”
“Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga”
“Gladiator II”
“Juror No. 2”
“Queer”
“A Real Pain”
“Sing Sing”
Top 5 International Films (in alphabetical order):
“All We Imagine as Light”
“The Girl with the Needle”
“I’m Still Here”
“Santosh”
“Universal Language”
Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order):
“Black Box Diaries”
“Dahomey”
“Look Into My Eyes”
“Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story”
“Will & Harper”
Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order):
“Bird”
“A Different Man”
“Didi”
“Ghostlight”
“Good One”
“Hard Truths”
“His Three Daughters”
“Love Lies Bleeding”
“My Old Ass”
“Thelma”
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