The National Board of Review, once the semi-official opener of the year's awards season, is these days less prominently positioned in the awards calendar, but no less influential in the race. This year, they've made some quintessentially NBR choices - if you know their tastes, picks like Top Gun: Maverick for Best Film, Steven Spielberg for Best Director, and All Quiet on the Western Front for Best Adapted Screenplay won't surprise you at all. Although some of their Best Film Top 10 (which, including Top Gun, is really a Top 11) probably won't transfer over to the Academy's own ten nominees for its top award, there aren't any real surprises there either, and it's good to see three movies by female directors on the list. They join three sequels, with Top Gun accompanied by Avatar: The Way of Water and Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Check out all the 2022 NBR awards winners below.
Best Film
Top Gun: Maverick
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
Best Director
Steven Spielberg (The Fabelmans)
Best Actress
Michelle Yeoh (Everything Everywhere All at Once)
Best Actor
Colin Farrell (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Best Supporting Actress
Janelle Monae (Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery)
Best Supporting Actor
Brendan Gleeson (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Best Original Screenplay
Martin McDonagh (The Banshees of Inisherin)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson and Ian Stokell (All Quiet on the Western Front)
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Claudio Miranda (Top Gun: Maverick)
Best Ensemble
Women Talking
Best Animated Feature
Marcel the Shell with Shoes On
Best Documentary
Sr.
All That Breathes
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Descendant
Turn Every Page - The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Wildcat
Best International Film
Close
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985
Decision to Leave
EO
Saint Omer
Best Independent Film
Armageddon Time
Emily the Criminal
The Eternal Daughter
Funny Pages
The Inspection
Living
A Love Song
Nanny
To Leslie
The Wonder
Best Directorial Debut
Charlotte Wells (Aftersun)
Breakthrough Performance Award
Danielle Deadwyler (Till)
Gabriel LaBelle (The Fabelmans)
NBR Freedom of Expression Award
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
Argentina, 1985