Film Awards

2012 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerSilver Linings PlaybookBradley CooperAfter a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.Amazon

2011 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerThe DescendantsGeorge ClooneyA land baron tries to reconnect with his two daughters after his wife is seriously injured in a boating accident.Amazon

2009 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerInvictusMorgan FreemanNelson Mandela, in his first term as President of South Africa, initiates a unique venture to unite the Apartheid-torn land: enlist the national rugby team on a mission to win the 1995 Rugby World Cup.AmazonUp in the AirGeorge ClooneyRyan Bingham enjoys living out of a suitcase for his job, travelling around the country firing people, but finds that lifestyle threatened by the presence of a potential love interest, and a new hire.Amazon

2008 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerGran TorinoClint EastwoodDisgruntled Korean War veteran Walt Kowalski sets out to reform his neighbor, Thao Lor, a Hmong teenager who tried to steal Kowalski's prized possession: a 1972 Gran Torino.Amazon

2007 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerMichael ClaytonGeorge ClooneyA law firm brings in its "fixer" to remedy the situation after a lawyer has a breakdown while representing a chemical company that he knows is guilty in a multibillion-dollar class action suit.Amazon

2006 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerThe Last King of ScotlandForest WhitakerBased on the events of the brutal Ugandan dictator Idi Amin's regime as seen by his personal physician during the 1970s.Amazon

2005 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerCapotePhilip Seymour HoffmanIn 1959, Truman Capote learns of the murder of a Kansas family and decides to write a book about the case. While researching for his novel In Cold Blood, Capote forms a relationship with one of the killers, Perry Smith, who is on death row.Amazon

2004 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerRayJamie FoxxThe story of the life and career of the legendary rhythm and blues musician Ray Charles, from his humble beginnings in the South, where he went blind at age seven, to his meteoric rise to stardom during the 1950s and 1960s.Amazon

2003 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerMystic RiverSean PennThe lives of three men who were childhood friends are shattered when one of them has a family tragedy.Amazon