NBR – Best Film

List of winners and nominees for the National Board of Review - Best Film!

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2019 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Irishman

2018 National Board of Review – Best Film

Green Book

2017 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Post

2016 National Board of Review – Best Film

Manchester by the Sea

2015 National Board of Review – Best Film

Mad Max: Fury Road

2014 National Board of Review – Best Film

A Most Violent Year

2013 National Board of Review – Best Film

Her

2012 National Board of Review – Best Film

Zero Dark Thirty

2011 National Board of Review – Best Film

Hugo

2010 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Social Network

2009 National Board of Review – Best Film

Up in the Air

2008 National Board of Review – Best Film

Slumdog Millionaire

2007 National Board of Review – Best Film

No Country for Old Men

2006 National Board of Review – Best Film

Letters from Iwo Jima

2005 National Board of Review – Best Film

Good Night, and Good Luck.

2004 National Board of Review – Best Film

Finding Neverland

2003 National Board of Review – Best Film

Mystic River

2002 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Hours

2001 National Board of Review – Best Film

Moulin Rouge!

2000 National Board of Review – Best Film

Quills

1999 National Board of Review – Best Film

American Beauty

1998 National Board of Review – Best Film

Gods and Monsters

1997 National Board of Review – Best Film

L.A. Confidential

1996 National Board of Review – Best Film

Shine

1995 National Board of Review – Best Film

Sense and Sensibility

1994 National Board of Review – Best Film

Forrest Gump

1993 National Board of Review – Best Film

Schindler’s List

1992 National Board of Review – Best Film

Howards End

1991 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Silence of the Lambs

1990 National Board of Review – Best Film

Dances with Wolves

1989 National Board of Review – Best Film

Driving Miss Daisy

1988 National Board of Review – Best Film

Mississippi Burning

1987 National Board of Review – Best Film

Empire of the Sun

1986 National Board of Review – Best Film

A Room with a View

1985 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Color Purple

1984 National Board of Review – Best Film

A Passage to India

1983 National Board of Review – Best Film

Betrayal

1982 National Board of Review – Best Film

Gandhi

1981 National Board of Review – Best Film

Chariots of Fire

1980 National Board of Review – Best Film

Ordinary People

1979 National Board of Review – Best Film

Manhattan

1978 National Board of Review – Best Film

Days of Heaven

1977 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Turning Point

1976 National Board of Review – Best Film

All the President’s Men

1975 National Board of Review – Best Film

Barry Lyndon

1974 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Conversation

1973 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Sting

1972 National Board of Review – Best Film

Macbeth

1971 National Board of Review – Best Film

Patton

1970 National Board of Review – Best Film

They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?

1969 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Shoes of the Fisherman

1968 National Board of Review – Best Film

Far from the Madding Crowd

1967 National Board of Review – Best Film

A Man for All Seasons

1966 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Eleanor Roosevelt Story

1964 National Board of Review – Best Film

Becket

1963 National Board of Review – Best Film

Tom Jones

1962 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Longest Day

1961 National Board of Review – Best Film

Question 7

1960 National Board of Review – Best Film

Sons and Lovers

1959 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Nun’s Story

1958 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Old Man and the Sea

1957 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Bridge on the River Kwai

1956 National Board of Review – Best Film

Around the World in 80 Days

1955 National Board of Review – Best Film

Marty

1954 National Board of Review – Best Film

On the Waterfront

1953 National Board of Review – Best Film

Julius Caesar

1952 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Quiet Man

1951 National Board of Review – Best Film

A Place in the Sun

1950 National Board of Review – Best Film

Sunset Blvd.

1949 National Board of Review – Best Film

Bicycle Thieves

1948 National Board of Review – Best Film

Paisan

1947 National Board of Review – Best Film

Monsieur Verdoux

1946 National Board of Review – Best Film

Henry V

1945 National Board of Review – Best Film

The True Glory

1944 National Board of Review – Best Film

None But the Lonely Heart

1943 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Ox-Bow Incident

1942 National Board of Review – Best Film

In Which We Serve

1941 National Board of Review – Best Film

Citizen Kane

1940 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Grapes of Wrath

1939 National Board of Review – Best Film

Confessions of a Nazi Spy

1938 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Citadel

1937 National Board of Review – Best Film

Night Must Fall

1936 National Board of Review – Best Film

Mr. Deeds Goes to Town

1935 National Board of Review – Best Film

The Informer

1934 National Board of Review – Best Film

It Happened One Night

1933 National Board of Review – Best Film

Topaze

1932 National Board of Review – Best Film

I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang