National Board of Review Awards 2018

The 90th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2018, were announced on November 27, 2018.^[1]

Top 10 Films

Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:

• Green Book
• The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
• Black Panther
• Can You Ever Forgive Me?
• Eighth Grade
• First Reformed
• If Beale Street Could Talk
• Mary Poppins Returns
• A Quiet Place
• Roma
• A Star Is Born

Top Foreign Films

• Cold War^[2]
• Burning
• Custody
• The Guilty
• Happy as Lazzaro
• Shoplifters

Top Documentaries

• RBG^[3]
• Crime + Punishment
• Free Solo
• Minding the Gap
• Three Identical Strangers
• Won't You Be My Neighbor?

Top Independent Films

• The Death of Stalin
• Lean on Pete
• Leave No Trace
• Mid90s
• The Old Man & the Gun
• The Rider
• Searching
• Sorry to Bother You
• We the Animals
• You Were Never Really Here

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Winners

Best Film:

• Green Book

Best Director:

• Bradley Cooper, A Star Is Born

Best Actor:

• Viggo Mortensen, Green Book

Best Actress:

• Lady Gaga, A Star Is Born

Best Supporting Actor:

• Sam Elliott, A Star Is Born

Best Supporting Actress:

• Regina King, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Original Screenplay:

• Paul Schrader, First Reformed

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk

Best Animated Feature:

• Incredibles 2

Breakthrough Performance:

• Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace

Best Directorial Debut:

• Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Cold War

Best Documentary:

• RBG

Best Ensemble:

• Crazy Rich Asians

William K. Everson Film History Award:

• The Other Side of the Wind and They'll Love Me When I'm Dead

NBR Freedom of Expression:

• 22 July
• On Her Shoulders

References