The National Board of Review is usually the first major precursor to release their results, but were beaten to the punch by the New York Film Critics Circle. This year, they went a little more populist than they have in the past and chose Top Gun: Maverick, a Best Picture nomination contender that may now have zero chance at the Oscar with this group’s anemic track record to support it. Best Picture is one of the best categories with most of NBR’s winners going on to get a Best Picture nomination. However, in the last 25 years, only four films have won Best Picture at the Oscars as well: 1999’s American Beauty, 2007’s No Country for Old Men, 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire, and 2018’s Green Book. They aren’t the best predictors of winners, but they do decently with nomination matchups.

Award Tallies

(3) The Banshees of Inisherin
(2) The Fabelmans, Top Gun: Maverick

The Awards

Best Picture

Top Gun: Maverick

Best Animated Film

Marcel the Shell with Shoes On

Best Director

Steven Spielberg – The Fabelmans

Best Actor

Colin Farrell – The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Actress

Michelle Yeoh – Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting Actor

Brendan Gleeson – The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Supporting Actress

Janelle Monáe – Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Original Screenplay

The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Adapted Screenplay

All Quiet on the Western Front

Best Cinematography

Top Gun: Maverick

Best Foreign Film

Close

Best Documentary

Sr.

Freedom of Expression

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Argentina, 1985

Best Directorial Debut

Charlotte Wells – Aftersun

Best Ensemble

Women Talking

Best Breakthrough Performance

Danielle Deadwyler – Till
Gabriel LaBelle – The Fabelmans

Icon Award

TBD

Top Films

• Aftersun
• Avatar: The Way of Water
• The Banshees of Inisherin
• Everything Everywhere All at Once
• The Fabelmans
• Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
• RRR
• Till
• Top Gun: Maverick
• The Woman King
• Women Talking

Top Independent Films

• Armageddon Time
• Emily the Criminal
• The Eternal Daughter
• Funny Pages
• The Inspection
• Living
• A Love Song
• Nanny
• The Wonder
• To Leslie

Top Foreign Films

• All Quiet on the Western Front
• Argentina, 1985
• Close
• Decision to Leave
• EO
• Saint Omer

Top Documentaries

• All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
• All That Breathes
• Descendant
• Gottlieb
• Sr.
• Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

National Board of Review Data

Year Founded: December 24, 1908
First Awards: 1929 (94)