National Board of Review Names Green Book Best Film of 2018

The Oscar season is in full effect as the National Board of Review has named Green Book 2018’s best film. The win should kick off the film’s Oscar run. In addition to Green Book receiving the top honor, Viggo Mortensen also took home Best Actor.

The latest winners will be recognized during a January 8th gala at New York’s Cipriani 42nd Street, hosted, as they were last year, by NBC News’ Willie Geist.

The full list of this year’s NBR winners follows below:

Best film: Green Book
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
Best original screenplay: Paul Schrader, First Reformed
Best adapted screenplay: Barry Jenkins, If Beale Street Could Talk
Best animated feature: Incredibles 2
Breakthrough performance: Thomasin McKenzie, Leave No Trace
Best directorial debut: Bo Burnham, Eighth Grade
Best foreign-language film: Cold War
Best documentary: RBG
Best ensemble: Crazy Rich Asians
William K. Everson Film History Award: The Other Side of the Wind and They’ll Love Me When I’m Dead
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: 22 July
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: On Her Shoulders

Top films (in alphabetical order)

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

Top 5 foreign-language films (in alphabetical order)

Burning
Custody
The Guilty
Happy as Lazzaro
Shoplifters

Top 5 documentaries (in alphabetical order)

Crime + Punishment
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Top 10 independent films (in alphabetical order)

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


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