2022 National Board of Review Award Winners

Keith NoakesDecember 8, 2022n/a8 min

Read our complete list of the winners of the National Board of Review annual awards:

Best Film: Top Gun: Maverick 

Best DirectorSteven Spielberg, The Fabelmans

Best ActorColin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best ActressMichelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once

Best Supporting ActorBrendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Supporting ActressJanelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Original ScreenplayMartin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Adapted ScreenplayEdward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, All Quiet on the Western Front

Breakthrough Performance Danielle Deadwyler, Till

Breakthrough Performance: Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans

Best Directorial Debut: Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

Best Animated Feature:  Marcel the Shell With Shoes On

Best International FilmClose

Best DocumentarySr. 

Best EnsembleWomen Talking

Outstanding Achievement in CinematographyClaudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick 

NBR Freedom of Expression Awards:
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Argentina, 1985 

Top Films (in alphabetical order):
Aftersun
Avatar: The Way of Water 
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
RRR
Till
The Woman King 
Women Talking 

Top 5 International Films (in alphabetical order):
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985 
Decision to Leave 
EO 
Saint Omer 

Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order):
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All That Breathes
Descendant 
Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Wildcat 

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order):
Armageddon Time
Emily the Criminal 
The Eternal Daughter 
Funny Pages 
The Inspection 
Living 
A Love Song
Nanny 
The Wonder 
To Leslie 

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