National Board of Review Awards 2000

Film award edition

72nd NBR Awards

December 6, 2000

Best Film:
Quills

The 72nd National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2000, were announced on 6 December 2000 and given on 16 January 2001.

Top 10 films

Quills
Traffic
Croupier
You Can Count on Me
Billy Elliot
Before Night Falls
Gladiator
Wonder Boys
Sunshine
Dancer in the Dark

Top Foreign Films

Winners

Best Film:
- Quills
Best Foreign Language Film:
- Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Taiwan/Hong Kong/United States/P.R. China
Best Actor:
- Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls
Best Actress:
- Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
Best Supporting Actor:
- Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator
Best Supporting Actress:
- Lupe Ontiveros - Chuck & Buck
Breakthrough Performance - Male:
- Jamie Bell - Billy Elliot
Breakthrough Performance - Female:
- Michelle Rodríguez - Girlfight
Best Acting by and Ensemble:
- State and Main
Best Director:
- Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich and Traffic
Best Screenplay:
- All the Pretty Horses - Ted Tally
Best Documentary Feature:
- The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
Best Animated Feature:
- Chicken Run
Career Achievement Award:
- Ellen Burstyn
Special Filmmaking Achievement:
- Kenneth Lonergan - You Can Count on Me
Outstanding Production Design:
- Arthur Max - Gladiator
Career Achievement - Music Composition:
- Ennio Morricone
William K. Everson Award for Film History:
- Roger Gottlieb and Robert Kimball, Reading Lyrics
Special Citations:
- Björk - Outstanding Dramatic Music Performance, Dancer in the Dark
- Dekalog, Outstanding Cinematic Series
Freedom of Expression:
- A Time for Drunken Horses
- Bamboozled
- Before Night Falls
- The Circle
- Kadosh
- Quills
- Sound and Fury
- The Visit
Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking:
- American Psycho
- Best in Show
- Chuck & Buck
- Girlfight
- Hamlet
- Nurse Betty
- Requiem for a Dream
- Shower
- Snatch
- Two Family House