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Re: NBR Winners

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:23 pm
by Eric
I never thought I'd live to see the day when I respected the National Board of Review's choice approximately 3,937 times as much as the NYFCC's.

Re: NBR Winners

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:23 pm
by Mister Tee
Best Film: HER

Best Director: Spike Jonze, HER

Best Actor: Bruce Dern, NEBRASKA

Best Actress: Emma Thompson, SAVING MR. BANKS

Best Supporting Actor: Will Forte, NEBRASKA

Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, FRUITVALE STATION

Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside LLEWYN Davis

Best Adapted Screenplay: Terence Winter, THE Wolf of Wall Street

Best Animated Feature: The Wind Rises

Breakthrough Performance: Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station
Breakthrough Performance: Adele Exarchopoulos, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR

Best Directorial Debut: Ryan Coogler, Fruitvale Station

Best Foreign Language Film: THE PAST

Best Documentary: Stories We Tell

William K. Everson Film History Award: George Stevens, Jr.

Best Ensemble: PRISONERS

Spotlight Award: Career Collaboration of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio

NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Wadjda

Creative Innovation in Filmmaking Award: Gravity



Top Films

(in alphabetical order)
12 YEARS A SLAVE
Fruitvale Station
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor
Nebraska
Prisoners
Saving Mr. Banks
The Secret Life of Walter MITTY
THE Wolf of Wall Street

Top 5 Foreign Language Films

(In Alphabetical Order)
Beyond the Hills
Gloria
The Grandmaster
A Hijacking
The Hunt



Top 5 Documentaries

(In Alphabetical Order)
20 Feet from Stardom
The Act of Killing
After Tiller
Casting By
The Square



Top 10 Independent Films

(In Alphabetical Order)

Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
Dallas Buyers Club
In a World…
Mother of George
Much Ado About Nothing
Mud
The Place Beyond the Pines
Short Term 12
Sightseers
The Spectacular Now

NBR Winners

Posted: Wed Dec 04, 2013 1:21 pm
by Mister Tee
More to come, but the (startling) headline from Variety:

"Her” nabbed the National Board of Review’s award for best film, and also scored the director award for helmer Spike Jonze.