Best Original Screenplay

2012 National Board of Review - Best Original Screenplay WinnerLooperRian JohnsonIn 2074, when the mob wants to get rid of someone, the target is sent into the past, where a hired gun awaits - someone like Joe - who one day learns the mob wants to 'close the loop' by sending back Joe's future self for assassination.Amazon

2013 National Board of Review - Best Original Screenplay WinnerInside Llewyn DavisJoel CoenA week in the life of a young singer as he navigates the Greenwich Village folk scene of 1961.Amazon

2014 National Board of Review - Best Original Screenplay WinnerThe Lego MoviePhil LordAn ordinary LEGO construction worker, thought to be the prophesied as "special", is recruited to join a quest to stop an evil tyrant from gluing the LEGO universe into eternal stasis.Amazon

2015 National Board of Review - Best Original Screenplay WinnerThe Hateful EightQuentin TarantinoIn the dead of a Wyoming winter, a bounty hunter and his prisoner find shelter in a cabin currently inhabited by a collection of nefarious characters.Amazon

2016 National Board of Review - Best Original Screenplay WinnerManchester by the SeaKenneth LonerganA depressed uncle is asked to take care of his teenage nephew after the boy's father dies.Amazon

2017 National Board of Review - Best Original Screenplay WinnerPhantom ThreadPaul Thomas AndersonSet in 1950s London, Reynolds Woodcock is a renowned dressmaker whose fastidious life is disrupted by a young, strong-willed woman, Alma, who becomes his muse and lover.Amazon

2018 National Board of Review - Best Original Screenplay WinnerFirst ReformedPaul SchraderA minister of a small congregation in upstate New York grapples with mounting despair brought on by tragedy, worldly concerns and a tormented past.Amazon