2017 National Board of Review Award Winners

November 29, 2017n/a4 min

The National Board of Review (NBR) recently announced their 2017 Film Winners.

BEST FILM
The Post

BEST DIRECTOR
Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
Jordan Peele, Get Out

BEST CAST ENSEMBLE
Get Out

BEST ACTOR
Tom Hanks, The Post

BEST ACTRESS
Meryl Streep, The Post

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
Coco, Disney/Pixar

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
Timothée Chalamet,  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 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
Foxtrot (Sony Classics, Israel)

TOP FOREIGN FILMS
A Fantastic Woman
Frantz
Loveless
Summer 1993
The Square

SPOTLIGHT AWARD
Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and actress Gal Gadot

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION 
TIE: John Ridley’s Let it Fall: Los Angeles, 1982-1992 and Angelina Jolie’s First They Killed My Father

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Jane (Nat Geo)

TOP FIVE DOCUMENTARIES
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

TOP 10 MOVIES
Baby Driver
Call Me By Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Downsizing
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
Logan
Phantom Thread

TOP 10 INDEPENDENT MOVIES
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

The National Board of Review Awards Gala, hosted by Willie Geist, will take place on Tuesday, January 9, 2018.