Film Awards By Year – Page 392

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2007 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Independent Films

2007 National Board of Review – Top Independent Films Winner and Nominees

2007 National Board of Review - Top Independent Films WinnerA Mighty HeartMariane Pearl embarks on a frantic search to locate her journalist husband, Daniel, when he goes missing in Pakistan.AmazonAway from HerA man coping with the institutionalization of his wife because of Alzheimer's disease faces an epiphany when she transfers her affections to another man, Aubrey, a wheelchair-bound mute who also is a patient at the nursing home.AmazonGreat World of SoundWhen a man answers an advertisement to train as a record producer, he's excited by the prospect of signing undiscovered musicians, only to discover his new job isn't all it's cracked up to be.AmazonHoneydripper1950. Rural Alabama. Cotton harvest. It's a make-or-break weekend for the Honeydripper Lounge and its owner, piano player Tyro...

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2006 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Independent Films

2006 National Board of Review – Top Independent Films Winner and Nominees

2006 National Board of Review - Top Independent Films Winner10 Items or LessAn actor (Freeman) prepping for an upcoming role meets a quirky grocery clerk (Vega), and the pair hit the road to show one another their respective worlds.AmazonA Guide to Recognizing Your SaintsThe movie is a coming-of-age drama about a boy growing up in Astoria, New York during the 1980s. As his friends end up dead, on drugs, or in prison. He comes to believe he has been saved from their fates by various so-called saints.AmazonAkeelah and the BeeA young girl from South Los Angeles tries to make it to the National Spelling Bee.AmazonBobbyThe story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F. Kennedy, who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, California, and ...

18Apr

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2019 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2019 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2019 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films Winner1917April 6th, 1917. As a regiment assembles to wage war deep in enemy territory, two soldiers are assigned to race against time and deliver a message that will stop 1,600 men from walking straight into a deadly trap.AmazonDolemite Is My NameEddie Murphy portrays real-life legend Rudy Ray Moore, a comedy and rap pioneer who proved naysayers wrong when his hilarious, obscene, kung-fu fighting alter ego, Dolemite, became a 1970s Blaxploitation phenomenon.AmazonFord v FerrariAmerican car designer Carroll Shelby and driver Ken Miles battle corporate interference, the laws of physics and their own personal demons to build a revolutionary race car for Ford and challenge Ferrari at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 1966.AmazonJojo RabbitA young boy in ...

18Apr

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2018 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2018 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2018 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Quiet PlaceIn a post-apocalyptic world, a family is forced to live in silence while hiding from monsters with ultra-sensitive hearing.AmazonA Star Is BornA musician helps a young singer find fame as age and alcoholism send his own career into a downward spiral.AmazonBlack PantherT'Challa, heir to the hidden but advanced kingdom of Wakanda, must step forward to lead his people into a new future and must confront a challenger from his country's past.AmazonCan You Ever Forgive Me?When Lee Israel falls out of step with current tastes, she turns her art form to deception.AmazonEighth GradeAn introverted teenage girl tries to survive the last week of her disastrous eighth grade year before leaving to start high school.AmazonFirst ReformedA mi...

18Apr

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2017 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2017 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2017 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBaby DriverAfter being coerced into working for a crime boss, a young getaway driver finds himself taking part in a heist doomed to fail.AmazonCall Me by Your NameIn 1980s Italy, a romance blossoms between a seventeen-year-old student and the older man hired as his father's research assistant.AmazonDownsizingA social satire in which a man realizes he would have a better life if he were to shrink himself to five inches tall, allowing him to live in wealth and splendor.AmazonDunkirkAllied soldiers from Belgium, the British Empire, and France are surrounded by the German Army, and evacuated during a fierce battle in World War II.AmazonGet OutA young African-American visits his white girlfriend's parents for the weekend, where his simmering u...

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2016 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2016 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2016 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerArrivalA linguist works with the military to communicate with alien lifeforms after twelve mysterious spacecraft appear around the world.AmazonHacksaw RidgeWorld War II American Army Medic Desmond T. Doss, who served during the Battle of Okinawa, refuses to kill people, and becomes the first man in American history to receive the Medal of Honor without firing a shot.AmazonHail, Caesar!A Hollywood fixer in the 1950s works to keep the studio's stars in line.AmazonHell or High WaterA divorced father and his ex-con older brother resort to a desperate scheme in order to save their family's ranch in West Texas.AmazonHidden FiguresThe story of a team of female African-American mathematicians who served a vital role in NASA during the early years...

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2015 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2015 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2015 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBridge of SpiesDuring the Cold War, an American lawyer is recruited to defend an arrested Soviet spy in court, and then help the CIA facilitate an exchange of the spy for the Soviet captured American U2 spy plane pilot, Francis Gary Powers.AmazonCreedThe former World Heavyweight Champion Rocky Balboa serves as a trainer and mentor to Adonis Johnson, the son of his late friend and former rival Apollo Creed.AmazonInside OutAfter young Riley is uprooted from her Midwest life and moved to San Francisco, her emotions - Joy, Fear, Anger, Disgust and Sadness - conflict on how best to navigate a new city, house, and school.AmazonRoomHeld captive for 7 years in an enclosed space, a woman and her young son finally gain their freedom, allowing the b...

18Apr

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2014 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2014 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2014 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerAmerican SniperNavy S.E.A.L. sniper Chris Kyle's (Bradley Cooper's) pinpoint accuracy saves countless lives on the battlefield and turns him into a legend. Back home to his wife and kids after four tours of duty, however, Chris finds that it is the war he can't leave behAmazonBirdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)A washed-up superhero actor attempts to revive his fading career by writing, directing, and starring in a Broadway production.AmazonBoyhoodThe life of Mason, from early childhood to his arrival at college.AmazonFuryA grizzled tank commander makes tough decisions as he and his crew fight their way across Germany in April, 1945.AmazonGone GirlWith his wife's disappearance having become the focus of an intense media circus,...

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2013 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2013 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2013 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films Winner12 Years a SlaveIn the antebellum United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.AmazonFruitvale StationThe story of Oscar Grant III, a 22-year-old Bay Area resident, who crosses paths with friends, enemies, family, and strangers on the last day of 2008.AmazonGravityTwo astronauts work together to survive after an accident leaves them stranded in space.AmazonInside Llewyn DavisA week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.AmazonLone SurvivorMarcus Luttrell and his team set out on a mission to capture or kill notorious Taliban leader Ahmad Shah, in late June 2005. Marcus and his team are left to fight for their lives in one of the mos...

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2012 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review, Top Ten Films

2012 National Board of Review – Top Ten Films Winner and Nominees

2012 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerArgoActing under the cover of a Hollywood producer scouting a location for a science fiction film, a CIA agent launches a dangerous operation to rescue six Americans in Tehran during the U.S. hostage crisis in Iran in 1979.AmazonBeasts of the Southern WildFaced with both her hot-tempered father's fading health and melting ice-caps that flood her ramshackle bayou community and unleash ancient aurochs, six-year-old Hushpuppy must learn the ways of courage and love.AmazonDjango UnchainedWith the help of a German bounty hunter, a freed slave sets out to rescue his wife from a brutal Mississippi plantation owner.AmazonLes MisérablesIn 19th-century France, Jean Valjean, who for decades has been hunted by the ruthless policeman Javert after brea...