Awards season is upon us, and one of the most influential critics’ groups has made its choices! The National Board of Review (NBR) announced its winners for the best in 2022 films, with Top Gun: Maverick awarded the coveted Best Film prize. NBR recognition is seen as a path to wider award season glory, particularly with the Academy Awards nomination race. The full winner’s list is below!
Best Film: Top Gun: Maverick
Best Director: Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans
Best Actor: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once
Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Supporting Actress: Janelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery
Best Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin
Best Adapted Screenplay: Edward 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 Film: Close from Belgium
Best Documentary: Sr.
Best Ensemble: Women Talking
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick
NBR Freedom of Expression Awards: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and 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 (Germany)
- Argentina, 1985 (Argentina)
- Decision to Leave (South Korea)
- EO (Poland)
- Saint Omer (France)
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
