The National Board of Review has declared its prestigious award winners for 2020, and Spike Lee's Da 5 Bloods has topped their Best Film list. The war drama also takes their prizes for Best Director and Best Ensemble, while late supporting star Chadwick Boseman is honoured as 2020's NBR Icon. Twitter is abuzz with the surprise news that The Trial of the Chicago 7, which many had predicted to win Best Film from the NBR, has missed out on even a mention among their Top 10 Films. And Brits triumph in the leading acting categories, with Promising Young Woman's Carey Mulligan and Sound of Metal's Riz Ahmed both winning.
Best Film
Da 5 Bloods
Top Films
First Cow
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Midnight Sky
Minari
News of the World
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Soul
Sound of Metal
Best Director
Spike Lee (Da 5 Bloods)
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan (Promising Young Woman)
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed (Sound of Metal)
Best Supporting Actress
Youn Yuh Jung (Minari)
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Raci (Sound of Metal)
Best Original Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung (Minari)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Luke Davies and Paul Greengrass (News of the World)
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Joshua James Richards (Nomadland)
Best Ensemble
Da 5 Bloods
Best Animated Feature
Soul
Best Documentary
Time
Top Films
All In: The Fight for Democracy
Boys State
Dick Johnson Is Dead
Miss Americana
The Truffle Hunters
Best Foreign Language Film
La Llorona
Top Films
Apples
Collective
Dear Comrades
The Mole Agent
Night of the Kings
Top Independent Film
The Climb
Driveways
Farewell Amor
Miss Juneteenth
The Nest
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Outpost
Relic
Saint Frances
Wolfwalkers
Best Directorial Debut
Channing Godfrey Peoples (Miss Juneteenth)
Breakthrough Performance Award
Sidney Flanigan (Never Rarely Sometimes Always)
NBR Freedom of Expression Award
One Night in Miami
NBR Icon Award
Chadwick Boseman
NBR Spotlight Award
Radha Blank for writing, directing, producing and starring in The Forty-Year-Old Version