Film Awards

1972 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerThe French ConnectionGene HackmanA pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.AmazonThe Ruling ClassPeter O'TooleA member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.Amazon

1971 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerPattonGeorge C. ScottThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Amazon

1970 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerGoodbye, Mr. ChipsPeter O'TooleA shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.Amazon

1969 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerCharlyCliff RobertsonAn intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.Amazon

1968 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerFar from the Madding CrowdPeter FinchBathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.Amazon

1967 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerA Man for All SeasonsPaul ScofieldThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.Amazon

1966 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerCat BallouLee MarvinA young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.Amazon

1964 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerZorba the GreekAnthony QuinnAn uptight English writer travelling to Crete, on a matter of business, finds his life changed forever when he meets the gregarious Alexis Zorba.Amazon

1963 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerCleopatraRex HarrisonQueen Cleopatra VII of Egypt experiences both triumph and tragedy as she attempts to resist the imperial ambitions of Rome.Amazon

1962 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerLong Day's Journey Into NightJason RobardsOver the course of one day in August 1912, the family of retired actor James Tyrone grapples with the morphine addiction of his wife Mary, the illness of their youngest son Edmund and the ...Amazon