National Board of Review Awards

Best Director

Year Winner Recipients
2024 Wicked Jon M. Chu
2023 Killers of the Flower Moon Martin Scorsese
2022 The Fabelmans Steven Spielberg
2021 Licorice Pizza Paul Thomas Anderson
2020 Da 5 Bloods Spike Lee
2019 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Quentin Tarantino
2018 A Star Is Born Bradley Cooper
2017 Lady Bird Greta Gerwig
2016 Moonlight Barry Jenkins
2015 The Martian Ridley Scott
2014 American Sniper Clint Eastwood
2013 Her Spike Jonze
2012 Zero Dark Thirty Kathryn Bigelow
2011 Hugo Martin Scorsese
2010 The Social Network David Fincher

Best Actor

Year Winner Recipients
2024 Queer Daniel Craig
2023 The Holdovers Paul Giamatti
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin Colin Farrell
2021 King Richard Will Smith
2020 Sound of Metal Riz Ahmed
2019 Uncut Gems Adam Sandler
2018 Green Book Viggo Mortensen
2017 The Post Tom Hanks
2016 Manchester by the Sea Casey Affleck
2015 The Martian Matt Damon
2014 A Most Violent Year Oscar Isaac
2013 Nebraska Bruce Dern
2012 Silver Linings Playbook Bradley Cooper
2011 The Descendants George Clooney
2010 The Social Network Jesse Eisenberg

Best Actress

Year Winner Recipients
2024 Babygirl Nicole Kidman
2023 Killers of the Flower Moon Lily Gladstone
2022 Everything Everywhere All at Once Michelle Yeoh
2021 West Side Story Rachel Zegler
2020 Promising Young Woman Carey Mulligan
2019 Judy Renée Zellweger
2018 A Star Is Born Lady Gaga
2017 The Post Meryl Streep
2016 Arrival Amy Adams
2015 Room Brie Larson
2014 Still Alice Julianne Moore
2013 Saving Mr. Banks Emma Thompson
2012 Zero Dark Thirty Jessica Chastain
2011 We Need to Talk About Kevin Tilda Swinton
2010 Another Year Lesley Manville

Best Supporting Actor

Year Winner Recipients
2024 A Real Pain Kieran Culkin
2023 Poor Things Mark Ruffalo
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin Brendan Gleeson
2021 Belfast Ciarán Hinds
2020 Sound of Metal Paul Raci
2019 Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood Brad Pitt
2018 A Star Is Born Sam Elliott
2017 The Florida Project Willem Dafoe
2016 Hell or High Water Jeff Bridges
2015 Creed Sylvester Stallone
2014 Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance) Edward Norton
2013 Nebraska Will Forte
2012 Django Unchained Leonardo DiCaprio
2011 Beginners Christopher Plummer
2010 The Fighter Christian Bale

Best Supporting Actress

Year Winner Recipients
2024 A Complete Unknown Elle Fanning
2023 The Holdovers Da'Vine Joy Randolph
2022 Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery Janelle Monáe
2021 King Richard Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
2020 Minari Youn Yuh-jung
2019 Richard Jewell Kathy Bates
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk Regina King
2017 Lady Bird Laurie Metcalf
2016 Moonlight Naomie Harris
2015 The Hateful Eight Jennifer Jason Leigh
2014 A Most Violent Year Jessica Chastain
2013 Fruitvale Station Octavia Spencer
2012 Compliance Ann Dowd
2011 The Descendants Shailene Woodley
2010 Animal Kingdom Jacki Weaver

Best Original Screenplay

Year Winner Recipients
2024 Hard Truths Mike Leigh
2023 The Holdovers David Hemingson
2022 The Banshees of Inisherin Martin McDonagh
2021 Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy Asghar Farhadi
2020 Minari Lee Isaac Chung
2019 Uncut Gems Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie, Ronald Bronstein
2018 First Reformed Paul Schrader
2017 Phantom Thread Paul Thomas Anderson
2016 Manchester by the Sea Kenneth Lonergan
2015 The Hateful Eight Quentin Tarantino
2014 The Lego Movie Phil Lord, Christopher Miller
2013 Inside Llewyn Davis Joel Coen, Ethan Coen
2012 Looper Rian Johnson
2011 50/50 Will Reiser
2010 Buried Chris Sparling

Best Adapted Screenplay

Year Winner Recipients
2024 Sing Sing Clint Bentley, Greg Kwedar
2023 Poor Things Tony McNamara
2022 All Quiet on the Western Front Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell
2021 The Tragedy of Macbeth Joel Coen
2020 News of the World Paul Greengrass, Luke Davies
2019 The Irishman Steven Zaillian
2018 If Beale Street Could Talk Barry Jenkins
2017 The Disaster Artist Scott Neustadter, Michael H. Weber
2016 Silence Jay Cocks, Martin Scorsese
2015 The Martian Drew Goddard
2014 Inherent Vice Paul Thomas Anderson
2013 The Wolf of Wall Street Terence Winter
2012 Silver Linings Playbook David O. Russell
2011 The Descendants Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon, Jim Rash
2010 The Social Network Aaron Sorkin

Best Animated Feature

Year Winner Recipients
2024 Flow
2023 Spider-Man: Across the Spider-Verse
2022 Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
2021 Encanto
2020 Soul
2019 How to Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
2018 Incredibles 2
2017 Coco
2016 Kubo and the Two Strings
2015 Inside Out
2014 How to Train Your Dragon 2
2013 The Wind Rises
2012 Wreck-It Ralph
2011 Rango
2010 Toy Story 3

Best International Film

Year Winner Recipients
2024 The Seed of the Sacred Fig
2023 Anatomy of a Fall
2022 Close
2021 Dragon Ball GT: A Hero's Legacy
2020 La Llorona
2019 Parasite
2018 Cold War
2017 Foxtrot
2016 The Salesman
2015 Son of Saul
2014 Wild Tales
2013 The Past
2012 Amour
2011 A Separation
2010 Of Gods and Men

Best Ensemble

Year Winner Recipients
2024 Conclave
2021 The Harder They Fall
2020 Da 5 Bloods

Best Documentary

Year Winner Recipients
2023 Still: A Michael J. Fox Movie

Best Picture - Independent

Year Winner Recipients
2016 No winner (nominees only)
2015 No winner (nominees only)
2014 No winner (nominees only)