Film Awards By Year

1991 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBoyz n the HoodFollows the lives of three young males living in the Crenshaw ghetto of Los Angeles, dissecting questions of race, relationships, violence and future prospects.AmazonBugsyThe story of how Benjamin "Bugsy" Siegel started Las Vegas.AmazonDead AgainA woman who has lost her memory is taken in by a Los Angeles orphanage, and a private eye is enlisted to track down her identity, but he soon finds that he might have a past life connection to her that endangers their lives.AmazonFrankie and JohnnyJohnny has just been released from prison, and gets a job in a café beside waitress Frankie. Frankie is a bit of a loner, but Johnny is determined their romance will blossom.AmazonGrand CanyonThe fates of several people are intertwining ra...

1990 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerAvalonA Polish-Jewish family comes to the USA at the beginning of the Twentieth Century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.AmazonAwakeningsThe victims of an encephalitis epidemic many years ago have been catatonic ever since, but now a new drug offers the prospect of reviving them.AmazonDances with WolvesLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.AmazonGoodfellasThe story of Henry Hill and his life in the mob, covering his relationship with his wife Karen Hill and his mob partners Jimmy Conway and Tommy DeVito in the Italian-American crime syndicate.AmazonH...

1989 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBorn on the Fourth of JulyThe biography of Ron Kovic. Paralyzed in the Vietnam war, he becomes an anti-war and pro-human rights political activist after feeling betrayed by the country he fought for.AmazonCrimes and MisdemeanorsAn ophthalmologist's mistress threatens to reveal their affair to his wife while a married documentary filmmaker is infatuated with another woman.AmazonDead Poets SocietyEnglish teacher John Keating inspires his students to look at poetry with a different perspective of authentic knowledge and feelings.AmazonDriving Miss DaisyAn old Jewish woman and her African-American chauffeur in the American South have a relationship that grows and improves over the years.AmazonField of DreamsAn Iowa corn farmer, hearing voices...

1988 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBigAfter wishing to be made big, a teenage boy wakes the next morning to find himself mysteriously in the body of an adult.AmazonDangerous LiaisonsA scheming widow and her manipulative ex-lover make a bet regarding the corruption of a recently married woman.AmazonGorillas in the MistThe story of Dian Fossey, a scientist who came to Africa to study the vanishing mountain gorillas, and later fought to protect them.AmazonMidnight RunAn accountant is chased by bounty hunters, the F.B.I., and the Mafia after jumping bail.AmazonMississippi BurningTwo F.B.I. Agents with wildly different styles arrive in Mississippi to investigate the disappearance of some civil rights activists.AmazonRunning on EmptyThe eldest son of a fugitive family comes of a...

1987 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBroadcast NewsTake two rival television reporters: one handsome, one talented, both male. Add one Producer, female. Mix well, and watch the sparks fly.AmazonCry FreedomSouth African journalist Donald Woods is forced to flee the country, after attempting to investigate the death in custody of his friend, the black activist Steve Biko.AmazonEmpire of the SunA young English boy struggles to survive under Japanese occupation during World War II.AmazonFatal AttractionA married man's one-night stand comes back to haunt him when that lover begins to stalk him and his family.AmazonFull Metal JacketA pragmatic U.S. Marine observes the dehumanizing effects the Vietnam War has on his fellow recruits from their brutal boot camp training to the bloody...

1986 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Room with a ViewIn a Florence pensione circa 1900 with English guests, George Emerson (Julian Sands) and his dad (Denholm Elliott) offer their rooms with views to Lucy Honeychurch (Helena Bonham Carter) and her chaperone, Charlotte Bartlett (Dame Maggie Smith). Lucy and GAmazonChildren of a Lesser GodA new speech teacher at a school for the deaf falls in love with the janitor, a deaf woman speechless by choice.AmazonHannah and Her SistersBetween two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.AmazonMy Beautiful LaundretteAn ambitious Pakistani Briton and his white boyfriend strive for success and hope when they open...

1985 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBack to the FutureMarty McFly, a 17-year-old high school student, is accidentally sent thirty years into the past in a time-traveling DeLorean invented by his close friend, the eccentric scientist Doc Brown.AmazonBlood SimpleA rich but jealous man hires a private investigator to kill his cheating wife and her new man. But, when blood is involved, nothing is simple.AmazonDreamchildExploring the somewhat darker and more mysterious side of the Lewis Carroll's classic book, the movie follows Alice Liddell (the book's inspiration) as an old woman who is haunted by the ...AmazonKiss of the Spider WomanA gay man and a political prisoner are together in a prison. The gay man narrates the stories of two fake movies and his own life.AmazonOut of Af...

1984 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Passage to IndiaCultural mistrust and false accusations doom a friendship in British colonial India between an Indian doctor, an Englishwoman engaged to marry a city magistrate, and an English educator.AmazonA Soldier's StoryAn African American officer investigates a murder in a racially charged situation in World War II.AmazonBirdyAfter two friends return home from the Vietnam War one becomes mentally unstable and obsesses with becoming a bird.AmazonCareful, He Might Hear YouHis mother dead, PS lives in Sydney with working-class Aunt Lila and Uncle George. When he's six or eight, his posh Aunt Vanessa descends from England. Named a co-guardian by PS's feckless,...AmazonCountryGilbert Ivy and his wife Jewell are farmers. They seem to be...

1983 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBetrayalPinter's semi-autobiographical play examining the surprise attraction, shy first steps, gradual flowering, and treasonous deception of a woman's extramarital affair with her husband's best ...AmazonCross CreekIn 1930's Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editor and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes The Yearling, a classic of American literature.AmazonEducating RitaIn Liverpool , twenty-seven year-old hairdresser Rita decides to complete her basic education before having children as desired by her husband Denny. She joins a literature course in an ...AmazonLocal HeroAn American oil company sends a man to Scotland to buy up an entire vil...

1982 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerAn Officer and a GentlemanA young man must complete his work at a Navy Officer Candidate School to become an aviator, with the help of a tough Gunnery Sergeant and his new girlfriend.AmazonE.T. the Extra-TerrestrialA troubled child summons the courage to help a friendly alien escape Earth and return to his home world.AmazonGandhiMohandas K. Gandhi's character is fully explained as a man of nonviolence. Through his patience, he is able to drive the British out of the subcontinent. And the stubborn nature of Jinnah and his commitment towards Pakistan is portrayed.AmazonMissingWhen an idealistic American writer disappears during the Chilean coup d'état in September 1973, his wife and father try to find him.AmazonMoonlightingA Polish contract...