Film Awards By Year

1950 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerAll About EveAn ingénue insinuates herself into the lives of an established but aging stage actress and her circle of theater friends.AmazonCyrano de BergeracThe charismatic swordsman-poet helps another woo the woman he loves in this straightforward version of the play.AmazonEdge of DoomA mentally unbalanced young man kills a priest. One of the priest's colleagues sets out to find the killer.AmazonNo Way OutA black doctor is assigned to treat two white racist suspects who are brothers, and when one dies, it causes tension that could start a race riot.AmazonPanic in the StreetsA doctor and a policeman in New Orleans have only 48 hours to locate a killer infected with pneumonic plague.AmazonStage FrightA struggling actress tries to help a f...

1949 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Letter to Three WivesA letter is addressed to three wives from their "best friend" Addie Ross, announcing that she is running away with one of their husbands...but she does not say which one.AmazonBicycle ThievesIn post-war Italy, a working-class man's bicycle is stolen. He and his son set out to find it.AmazonDevil in the FleshDuring World War I, the star-crossed affair of an underage French student with a woman engaged to a soldier.AmazonGermany Year ZeroA young German boy faces the problems of the tough life in the immediate post WWII Berlin.AmazonHome of the BraveDuring WW2, a reconnaissance platoon is sent to map out a Japanese-held island but racial tensions arise between the white soldiers and the only black member of the group.A...

1948 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerDay of WrathThe young wife of an aging priest falls in love with his son amidst the horror of a merciless witch hunt in 17th century Denmark.AmazonHamletPrince Hamlet struggles over whether or not he should kill his uncle, whom he suspects has murdered his father, the former King.AmazonJoan of ArcThe abbreviated life of the 15th Century French heroine.AmazonJohnny BelindaIn post-war Cape Breton, a doctor's efforts to tutor a deaf/mute woman are undermined when she is raped, and the resulting pregnancy causes scandal to swirl.AmazonLouisiana StoryThe idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil well drilling near his home.AmazonPaisanThe language barrier has tragic...

1947 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerBoomerang!The true story of a prosecutor's fight to prove the innocence of a man accused of a notorious murder.AmazonCrossfireA man is murdered, apparently by one of a group of demobilized soldiers he met in a bar. But which one? And why?AmazonGentleman's AgreementA reporter pretends to be Jewish in order to cover a story on anti-Semitism, and personally discovers the true depths of bigotry and hatred.AmazonGreat ExpectationsA humble orphan suddenly becomes a gentleman with the help of an unknown benefactor.AmazonIt's a Wonderful LifeAn angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.AmazonMonsieur VerdouxA suave but cynical man supports his famil...

1946 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Walk in the SunDuring WWII, a platoon of American soldiers trudge through the Italian countryside in search of a bridge they have been ordered to blow up, encountering danger and destruction along the way.AmazonAnna and the King of SiamIn 1862, a young Englishwoman becomes royal tutor in Siam and befriends the King.AmazonBrief EncounterMeeting a stranger in a railway station, a woman is tempted to cheat on her husband.AmazonHenry VIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.AmazonIt Happened at the InnIn a french lost village an old woman is killed and her savings stolen. Several members of her family, all called:"Goupi-...", are suspected.AmazonMy Darling Clementin...

1945 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerA Tree Grows in BrooklynEncouraged by her idealistic if luckless father, a bright and imaginative young woman comes of age in a Brooklyn tenement during the early 1900s.AmazonStory of G.I. JoeDuring WW2, Pulitzer prize winner and war correspondent Ernie Pyle joins the army and writes articles about his comrades in his daily columns.AmazonThe ClockIn 1945, during a 48-hour leave, a soldier accidentally meets a girl at Pennsylvania Station and spends his leave with her, eventually falling in love with the lovely New Yorker.AmazonThe Fighting LadyThe film follows the WWII exploits of the Essex-class aircraft carrier USS Yorktown (CV-10) (unidentified in the film), in its first major operations following its commissioning in 1943. ...AmazonTh...

1944 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerGoing My WayFather Charles O'Malley, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior.AmazonHail the Conquering HeroWoodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.AmazonLifeboatSeveral survivors of a torpedoed merchant ship in World War II find themselves in the same lifeboat with one of the U-boat men who sunk it.AmazonMeet Me in St. LouisIn the year leading up to the 1904 St. Louis World's Fair, the four Smith daughters learn lessons of life and love, even as they prepare for a reluctant move to New York.AmazonNone But the Lonely HeartWhen an itinerant reluctantly returns home to help his sic...

1943 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerAir ForceThe crew of an Air Force bomber arrives in Pearl Harbor in the aftermath of the Japanese attack and is sent on to Manila to help with the defense of the Philippines.AmazonBataanIn 1942, in the Bataan peninsula of the Philippines, a ragtag American unit commanded by Sergeant Bill Dane attempts to blow-up a bridge in order to slow the Japanese advance.AmazonCasablancaA cynical American expatriate struggles to decide whether or not he should help his former lover and her fugitive husband escape French Morocco.AmazonHoly MatrimonyFrom Arnold Bennett's novel "Buried Alive". An artist returning from years abroad takes the identity of his dead valet to escape the attentions of the press.AmazonLassie Come HomeAfter her destitute family i...

1942 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerIn Which We ServeThis "story of a ship", the British destroyer H.M.S. Torrin, is told in flashbacks by survivors as they cling to a life raft.AmazonJourney for MargaretAn American newspaperman and his wife, caught in the London blitz, lose their unborn child in an air raid. Outraged, they visit a shelter for homeless children where they fall in love with ...AmazonMrs. MiniverA British family struggles to survive the first months of World War II.AmazonOne of Our Aircraft Is MissingWhen Nazi anti-aircraft fire damages a British bomber, its crew bails out and seeks help from the Dutch underground.AmazonSullivan's TravelsA director of escapist films goes on the road as a hobo to learn about life, which gives him a rude awakening.AmazonThe Maj...

1941 National Board of Review - Top Ten Films WinnerCitizen KaneFollowing the death of publishing tycoon Charles Foster Kane, reporters scramble to uncover the meaning of his final utterance; 'Rosebud'.AmazonDumboRidiculed because of his enormous ears, a young circus elephant is assisted by a mouse to achieve his full potential.AmazonHere Comes Mr. JordanBoxer Joe Pendleton dies 50 years too soon due to a heavenly mistake, and is given a new life as a millionaire playboy.AmazonHigh SierraAfter being released from prison, notorious thief Roy Earle is hired by his old boss to help a group of inexperienced criminals plan and carry out the robbery of a California resort.AmazonHow Green Was My ValleyAt the turn of the century in a Welsh mining village, the Morgans, he stern, she gentle, raise c...