Film Awards

1951 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerFourteen HoursRichard BasehartAn unhappy man threatens suicide by standing on the ledge of a high-rise building for 14 hours.Amazon

1950 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerKind Hearts and CoronetsAlec GuinnessA distant poor relative of the Duke of D'Ascoyne plots to inherit the title by murdering the eight other heirs who stand ahead of him in the line of succession.Amazon

1949 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerThe HeiressRalph RichardsonA young naive woman falls for a handsome young man who her emotionally abusive father suspects is a fortune hunter.Amazon

1948 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerThe Treasure of the Sierra MadreWalter HustonTwo Americans searching for work in Mexico convince an old prospector to help them mine for gold in the Sierra Madre Mountains.Amazon

1947 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerMourning Becomes ElectraMichael RedgraveEugene O'Neill's updated version of the Oresteia. In New England, after the American Civil War, a war-weary Agamemnon, Ezra Mannon comes home to his unhappy wife (Christine) and loving ...Amazon

1946 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerHenry VLaurence OlivierIn the midst of the Hundred Years' War, the young King Henry V of England embarks on the conquest of France in 1415.Amazon

1945 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerThe Lost WeekendRay MillandThe desperate life of a chronic alcoholic is followed through a four-day drinking bout.Amazon

1944 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerGaslightIngrid BergmanYears after her aunt was murdered in her home, a young woman moves back into the house with her new husband. However, he has a secret that he will do anything to protect, even if it means driving his wife insane.AmazonGoing My WayBing CrosbyFather Charles O'Malley, a young priest at a financially failing Church in a tough neighborhood, gains support and inspires his superior.AmazonHail the Conquering HeroEddie BrackenWoodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home.AmazonHail the Conquering HeroFranklin PangbornWoodrow is discharged from the military for hay fever, but fabricates receiving a heroic honorable discharge before returning home...

1943 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerHappy LandHarry MorganIn a typical American Midwestern city, Hartfield, Iowa, Lew Marsh (Don Ameche) is the owner of a drugstore. Everyone knows Lew and knew his grandfather, old "Gramp" Marsh (Harry Carey), who...AmazonThe Cross of LorraineCedric HardwickeA group of French soldiers during WWII are captured by Nazis troops and sent to a military prison. There they will have to make use of his best resources to keep alive... and sane, while at the same time scheming a way out.AmazonWatch on the RhinePaul LukasA German-born engineer, his American wife and their children travel from Mexico to the United States to visit her family but their plans are complicated by a Romanian count.Amazon

1942 National Board of Review - Best Actor Winner49th ParallelAnton WalbrookA World War II U-boat crew are stranded in northern Canada. To avoid internment, they must make their way to the border and get into the still-neutral U.S.AmazonAcross the PacificSydney GreenstreetIn December 1941, ex-army captain Rick Leland boards a Japanese ship heading to Asia via the Panama Canal where his Japanese hosts show interest in the American defense plans for the canal zone.AmazonFor Me and My GalGene KellyTwo vaudeville performers fall in love, but find their relationship tested by the arrival of WWI.AmazonH.M. Pulham, Esq.Charles CoburnA man who lived his life as he was was told he should, not as he would have chosen to, is brought out of his shell by a beautiful young woman.AmazonH.M. Pulham, Esq.R...