Wednesday, May 6

Film Awards

2001 Awards, All Movie Awards, Breakthrough Performance, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review

2001 National Board of Review – Breakthrough Performance Winner and Nominees

2001 National Board of Review - Breakthrough Performance WinnerLife as a HouseHayden ChristensenWhen a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.AmazonMulholland DriveNaomi WattsAfter a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.Amazon
2000 Awards, All Movie Awards, Breakthrough Performance, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review

2000 National Board of Review – Breakthrough Performance Winner and Nominees

2000 National Board of Review - Breakthrough Performance WinnerBilly ElliotJamie BellA talented young boy becomes torn between his unexpected love of dance and the disintegration of his family.AmazonGirlfightMichelle RodriguezDiana, without her father knowing it, trains as a boxer and achieves impressive success, blazing new trails for female boxers.Amazon
1999 Awards, All Movie Awards, Breakthrough Performance, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review

1999 National Board of Review – Breakthrough Performance Winner and Nominees

1999 National Board of Review - Breakthrough Performance WinnerAmerican BeautyWes BentleyA sexually frustrated suburban father has a mid-life crisis after becoming infatuated with his daughter's best friend.AmazonBoys Don't CryHilary SwankA young man named Brandon Teena navigates love, life, and being transgender in rural Nebraska.Amazon
1998 Awards, All Movie Awards, Breakthrough Performance, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review

1998 National Board of Review – Breakthrough Performance Winner and Nominees

1998 National Board of Review - Breakthrough Performance WinnerPlaying by HeartAngelina JolieEleven articulate people work through affairs of the heart in Los Angeles.AmazonThe Hi-Lo CountryBilly CrudupTwo cowboys have their friendship tested when they fall for the same girl.Amazon
1997 Awards, All Movie Awards, Breakthrough Performance, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review

1997 National Board of Review – Breakthrough Performance Winner and Nominees

1997 National Board of Review - Breakthrough Performance WinnerRed CornerBai LingAn American attorney on business in China is wrongfully arrested and put on trial for murder, with a female defense lawyer from the country the only key to proving his innocence.Amazon
1996 Awards, All Movie Awards, Breakthrough Performance, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, National Board of Review

1996 National Board of Review – Breakthrough Performance Winner and Nominees

1996 National Board of Review - Breakthrough Performance WinnerJerry MaguireRenée ZellwegerWhen a sports agent has a moral epiphany and is fired for expressing it, he decides to put his new philosophy to the test as an independent agent with the only athlete who stays with him and his former secretary.Amazon
2019 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2019 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2019 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerFor SamaFOR SAMA is both an intimate and epic journey into the female experience of war.AmazonJust MercyWorld-renowned civil rights defense attorney Bryan Stevenson works to free a wrongly condemned death row prisoner.Amazon
2018 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2018 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2018 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award Winner44034A three-part story of Norway's worst terrorist attack in which over seventy people were killed. 22 July looks at the disaster itself, the survivors, Norway's political system and the lawyers who worked on this horrific case.AmazonOn Her ShouldersNadia Murad, a 23-year-old Yazidi, survived genocide and sexual slavery committed by ISIS. Repeating her story to the world, this ordinary girl finds herself thrust onto the international stage as the voice of her people.Amazon
2017 Awards, All Movie Awards, Film Awards, Film Awards By Year, Freedom of Expression Award, National Board of Review

2017 National Board of Review – Freedom of Expression Award Winner and Nominees

2017 National Board of Review - Freedom of Expression Award WinnerFirst They Killed My FatherCambodian author and human rights activist Loung Ung recounts the horrors she suffered as a child under the rule of the deadly Khmer Rouge.AmazonLet It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992An in-depth look at the culture of Los Angeles in the ten years leading up to the 1992 uprising that erupted after the verdict of police officers cleared of beating Rodney King.Amazon