The National Board of Review, a group of academic elites and film enthusiasts that has handing out awards since 1930, unveiled their winners for the best in film of 2018. Green Book was the big winner here, winning Best Film and Best Actor for Viggo Mortensen, though A Star Is Born did pick up four major wins, including Best Director for Bradley Cooper, Best Actress for Lady Gaga, Best Supporting Actor for Sam Elliott and a spot in the Top 10 Films list.
As always, we should note that no Best Film winner here has gone on to win Best Picture at the Oscars since Slumdog Millionaire in 2008. So Green Book‘s win doesn’t necessarily make it the new Oscar frontrunner, though it will certainly keep it in the conversation as the major awards groups go to vote in the next few months.
Here’s the full list of National Board of Review winners for 2018:
Best Film
Green Book
Top 10 Films (which excludes the Best Film winner)
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
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
Breakthrough Performance
Thomasin McKenzie — Leave No Trace
Best Original Screenplay
First Reformed – Paul Schrader
Best Adapted Screenplay
If Beale Street Could Talk – Barry Jenkins
Best Directorial Debut
Bo Burnham – Eighth Grade
Best Ensemble
Crazy Rich Asians
Best Animated Feature
Incredibles 2
Best Documentary
RBG
Top 5 Documentaries (excluding Best Documentary winner)
Crime + Punishment
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?
Best Foreign Language Film
Cold War
Top 5 Foreign Language Films (excluding Best Foreign Language Film winner)
Burning
Custody
The Guilty
Happy as Lazzaro
Shoplifters
Top 10 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
NBR Freedom of Expression
22 July
On Her Shoulders