Best Film

1990 National Board of Review - Best Film WinnerDances with WolvesLieutenant John Dunbar, assigned to a remote western Civil War outpost, befriends wolves and Indians, making him an intolerable aberration in the military.Amazon

1991 National Board of Review - Best Film WinnerThe Silence of the LambsA young F.B.I. cadet must receive the help of an incarcerated and manipulative cannibal killer to help catch another serial killer, a madman who skins his victims.Amazon

1992 National Board of Review - Best Film WinnerHowards EndA businessman thwarts his wife's bequest of an estate to another woman.Amazon

1993 National Board of Review - Best Film WinnerSchindler's ListIn German-occupied Poland during World War II, industrialist Oskar Schindler gradually becomes concerned for his Jewish workforce after witnessing their persecution by the Nazis.Amazon

1994 National Board of Review - Best Film WinnerForrest GumpThe presidencies of Kennedy and Johnson, the events of Vietnam, Watergate, and other history unfold through the perspective of an Alabama man with an IQ of 75.AmazonPulp FictionThe lives of two mob hitmen, a boxer, a gangster and his wife, and a pair of diner bandits intertwine in four tales of violence and redemption.Amazon

1995 National Board of Review - Best Film WinnerSense and SensibilityRich Mr. Dashwood dies, leaving his second wife and her three daughters poor by the rules of inheritance. The two eldest daughters are the titular opposites.Amazon

1996 National Board of Review - Best Film WinnerShinePianist David Helfgott, driven by his father and teachers, has a breakdown. Years later he returns to the piano, to popular if not critical acclaim.Amazon