The National Board of Review, that elusive group of academic elites and film enthusiasts that have been around as long as the Oscars, has revealed their winners for 2017. The Post emerged as a potentially huge Oscar contender, winning Best Film, Best Actor for Tom Hanks and Best Actress for Meryl Streep. It was also a good showing for Get Out and Lady Bird, getting three mentions apiece. Also of note, presumed contenders The Shape of Water and Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri are nowhere to be found.
It is important to note that this doesn’t make The Post an Oscar frontrunner. No movie has won Best Film here and gone on to win Best Picture at the Oscars since 2008’s Slumdog Millionaire. Similarly, the acting winners aren’t necessarily indicative of frontrunner status. But they do provide a bit of momentum for some of the smaller films in the race to potentially get in with the big guns.
Here’s the full list of National Board of Review winners for 2017:
Best Film: The Post
Top 10 Films (which excludes the Best Film winner):
Baby Driver
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Downsizing
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
Logan
Phantom Thread
Best Director: Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird
Best Actor: Tom Hanks as Ben Bradlee in The Post
Best Actress: Meryl Streep as Kay Graham in The Post
Best Supporting Actor: Willem Dafoe as Bobby Hicks in The Florida Project
Best Supporting Actress: Laurie Metcalf as Marion McPherson in Lady Bird
Breakthrough Performance: Timothée Chalamet as Elio Perlman in Call Me by Your Name
Best Original Screenplay: Phantom Thread – Paul Thomas Anderson
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Disaster Artist – Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber
Best Directorial Debut: Jordan Peele – Get Out
Best Ensemble: Get Out
Best Animated Feature: Coco
Best Documentary: Jane
Top 5 Documentaries (excluding Best Documentary winner):
Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
Brimstone & Glory
Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
Faces Places
Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS
Best Foreign Language Film: Foxtrot
Top 5 Foreign Language Films (excluding Best Foreign Language Film winner):
A Fantastic Woman
Frantz
Loveless
The Square
Summer 1993
Top 10 Independent Films:
Beatriz at Dinner
Brigsby Bear
A Ghost Story
Lady Macbeth
Logan Lucky
Loving Vincent
Menashe
Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
Patti Cake$
Wind River
Spotlight Award: Wonder Woman – Patti Jenkins & Gal Gadot
NBR Freedom of Expression: First They Kill My Father and Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992