Haaaaaahahahahahahahahaha just when we all thought Awards Season 2018-19 had half a shot at turning out to be a quasi-respectable one (what with the stellar Gotham winners from yesterday), along comes the National Board of Review to do what it does best - confirm its own irrelevance! Green Book, which won the People's Choice Award at TIFF but has come under a stream of highly damaging criticism in recent days, wins both the NBR's Best Film award and Best Actor for its n-word-spouting, third-party-supporting lead Viggo Mortensen. Many were expecting A Star Is Born to win in those categories - it's a Warner Bros. release, and the NBR famously (suspiciously?) reveres WB - but it more than made up for those losses with three other major wins. Take a look at the full roster of winners and honorees below:
Best Film
Green Book
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
Best Director
Bradley Cooper (A Star Is Born)
Best Actress
Lady Gaga (A Star Is Born)
Best Actor
Viggo Mortensen (Green Book)
Best Supporting Actress
Regina King (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Best Supporting Actor
Sam Elliott (A Star Is Born)
Best Original Screenplay
Paul Schrader (First Reformed)
Best Adapted Screenplay
Barry Jenkins (If Beale Street Could Talk)
Best Ensemble Cast
Crazy Rich Asians
Best Animated Feature
Incredibles 2
Best Documentary
RBG
Crime + Punishment
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Three Identical Strangers
Won't You Be My Neighbour?
Best Foreign Language Film
Cold War
Burning
Custody
The Guilty
Happy as Lazzaro
Shoplifters
Best Independent Film
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
Best Directorial Debut
Bo Burnham (Eighth Grade)
Best Breakthrough Performance
Thomasin Harcourt McKenzie (Leave No Trace)
NBR Freedom of Expression Award
22 July
On Her Shoulders
William K. Everson Film History Award
The Other Side of the Wind
They'll Love Me When I'm Dead