The National Board of Review Award for Best Film is one of the annual awards given (since 1932) by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures. [1]
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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1932 | I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ‡ | Mervyn LeRoy |
1933 | Topaze § | Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast |
1934 | It Happened One Night † | Frank Capra |
1935 | The Informer ‡ | John Ford |
1936 | Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ‡ | Frank Capra |
1937 | Night Must Fall § | Richard Thorpe |
1938 | The Citadel ‡ | King Vidor |
1939 | Confessions of a Nazi Spy § | Anatole Litvak |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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1940 | The Grapes of Wrath ‡ | John Ford |
1941 | Citizen Kane ‡ | Orson Welles |
1942 | In Which We Serve ‡ | Noël Coward and David Lean |
1943 | The Ox-Bow Incident ‡ | William A. Wellman |
1944 | None But the Lonely Heart § | Clifford Odets |
1945 | The True Glory § | Carol Reed |
1946 | Henry V ‡ | Laurence Olivier |
1947 | Monsieur Verdoux § | Charlie Chaplin |
1948 | Paisan (Paisà) | Roberto Rossellini |
1949 | Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) | Vittorio De Sica |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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1950 | Sunset Boulevard ‡ | Billy Wilder |
1951 | A Place in the Sun ‡ | George Stevens |
1952 | The Quiet Man ‡ | John Ford |
1953 | Julius Caesar ‡ | Joseph L. Mankiewicz |
1954 | On the Waterfront † | Elia Kazan |
1955 | Marty † | Delbert Mann |
1956 | Around the World in 80 Days † | Michael Anderson |
1957 | The Bridge on the River Kwai † | David Lean |
1958 | The Old Man and the Sea § | John Sturges |
1959 | The Nun's Story ‡ | Fred Zinnemann |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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1960 | Sons and Lovers ‡ | Jack Cardiff |
1961 | Question 7 § | Stuart Rosenberg |
1962 | The Longest Day ‡ | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, and Bernhard Wicki |
1963 | Tom Jones † | Tony Richardson |
1964 | Becket ‡ | Peter Glenville |
1965 | The Eleanor Roosevelt Story § | Rick Kaplan |
1966 | A Man for All Seasons † | Fred Zinnemann |
1967 | Far from the Madding Crowd § | John Schlesinger |
1968 | The Shoes of the Fisherman § | Michael Anderson |
1969 | They Shoot Horses, Don't They? § | Sydney Pollack |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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1970 | Patton † | Franklin J. Schaffner |
1971 | Macbeth § | Roman Polanski |
1972 | Cabaret ‡ | Bob Fosse |
1973 | The Sting † | George Roy Hill |
1974 | The Conversation ‡ | Francis Ford Coppola |
1975 | Barry Lyndon ‡ | Stanley Kubrick |
Nashville ‡ | Robert Altman | |
1976 | All the President's Men ‡ | Alan J. Pakula |
1977 | The Turning Point ‡ | Herbert Ross |
1978 | Days of Heaven § | Terrence Malick |
1979 | Manhattan § | Woody Allen |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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1980 | Ordinary People † | Robert Redford |
1981 | Chariots of Fire † | Hugh Hudson |
Reds ‡ | Warren Beatty | |
1982 | Gandhi † | Richard Attenborough |
1983 | Betrayal § | David Jones |
Terms of Endearment † | James L. Brooks | |
1984 | A Passage to India ‡ | David Lean |
1985 | The Color Purple ‡ | Steven Spielberg |
1986 | A Room with a View ‡ | James Ivory |
1987 | Empire of the Sun § | Steven Spielberg |
1988 | Mississippi Burning ‡ | Alan Parker |
1989 | Driving Miss Daisy † | Bruce Beresford |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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1990 | Dances with Wolves † | Kevin Costner |
1991 | The Silence of the Lambs † | Jonathan Demme |
1992 | Howards End ‡ | James Ivory |
1993 | Schindler's List † | Steven Spielberg |
1994 | Forrest Gump † | Robert Zemeckis |
Pulp Fiction ‡ | Quentin Tarantino | |
1995 | Sense and Sensibility ‡ | Ang Lee |
1996 | Shine ‡ | Scott Hicks |
1997 | L.A. Confidential ‡ | Curtis Hanson |
1998 | Gods and Monsters § | Bill Condon |
1999 | American Beauty † | Sam Mendes |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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2000 | Quills § | Philip Kaufman |
2001 | Moulin Rouge! ‡ | Baz Luhrmann |
2002 | The Hours ‡ | Stephen Daldry |
2003 | Mystic River ‡ | Clint Eastwood |
2004 | Finding Neverland ‡ | Marc Forster |
2005 | Good Night, and Good Luck. ‡ | George Clooney |
2006 | Letters from Iwo Jima ‡ | Clint Eastwood |
2007 | No Country for Old Men † | Joel Coen and Ethan Coen |
2008 | Slumdog Millionaire † | Danny Boyle |
2009 | Up in the Air ‡ | Jason Reitman |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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2010 | The Social Network ‡ | David Fincher |
2011 | Hugo ‡ | Martin Scorsese |
2012 | Zero Dark Thirty ‡ | Kathryn Bigelow |
2013 | Her ‡ | Spike Jonze |
2014 | A Most Violent Year § | J. C. Chandor |
2015 | Mad Max: Fury Road ‡ | George Miller |
2016 | Manchester by the Sea ‡ | Kenneth Lonergan |
2017 | The Post ‡ | Steven Spielberg |
2018 | Green Book † | Peter Farrelly [2] |
2019 | The Irishman ‡ | Martin Scorsese [3] |
Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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2020 | Da 5 Bloods [4] § | Spike Lee |
2021 | Licorice Pizza ‡ [5] | Paul Thomas Anderson |
2022 | Top Gun: Maverick ‡ [6] | Joseph Kosinski |
2023 | Killers of the Flower Moon ‡ [7] | Martin Scorsese |
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