National Board of Review: Awards for Best Films

National Board of Review: Award for Best Film, 1932-2022

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was founded in New York City in 1909. Its mission is to endorse films of merit. In 1932, they began giving out annual awards determined by sending ballots out to more than 100 members in a select group of film enthusiasts, academics, and filmmakers in the 2022: Top Gun: Maverick 2021: Licorice Pizza 2020: Da 5 Bloods 2019: The Irishman 2018: Green Book 2017: The Post 2016: Manchester by the Sea 2015: Mad Max: Fury Road 2014: A Most Violent Year 2013: Her 2012: Zero Dark Thirty 2011: Hugo 2010: The Social Network 2009: Up in the Air 2008: Slumdog Millionaire 2007: No Country for Old Men 2006: Letters from Iwo Jima 2005: Good Night, and Good Luck 2004: Finding Neverland 2003: Mystic River 2002: The Hours 2001: Moulin Rouge! 2000: Quills 1999: American Beauty 1998: Gods and Monsters 1997: L.A. Confidential 1996: Shine 1995: Sense and Sensibility 1994: Forrest Gump / Pulp Fiction 1993: Schindler’s List 1992: Howards End 1991: The Silence of the Lambs 1990: Dances with Wolves 1989: Driving Miss Daisy 1988: Mississippi Burning 1987: Empire of the Sun 1986: A Room with a View 1985: The Color Purple 1984: A Passage to India 1983: Terms of Endearment / Betrayal 1982: Gandhi 1981: Chariots of Fire / Reds 1980: Ordinary People 1979: Manhattan 1978: Days of Heaven 1977: The Turning Point 1976: All the President’s Men 1975: Nashville / Barry Lyndon 1974: The Conversation 1973: The Sting 1972: Cabaret 1971: Macbeth 1970: Patton 1969: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? 1968: The Shoes of the Fisherman 1967: Far from the Madding Crowd 1966: A Man for All Seasons 1965: The Eleanor Roosevelt Story 1964: Becket 1963: Tom Jones 1962: The Longest Day 1961: Question 7 1960: Sons and Lovers 1959: The Nun’s Story 1958: The Old Man and the Sea 1957: The Bridge on the River Kwai 1956: Around the World in 80 Days 1955: Marty 1954: On the Waterfront 1953: Julius Caesar 1952: The Quiet Man 1951: A Place in the Sun 1950: Sunset Boulevard 1949: The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di Biciclette) 1948: Paisan (Paisà) 1947: Monsieur Verdoux 1946: Henry V 1945: The True Glory 1944: None But the Lonely Heart 1943: The Ox-Bow Incident 1942: In Which We Serve 1941: Citizen Kane 1940: The Grapes of Wrath 1939: Confessions of a Nazi Spy 1938: The Citadel 1937: Night Must Fall 1936: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town 1935: The Informer 1934: It Happened One Night 1933: Topaze 1932: I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang Resources: Dave’s Movie Database: Other Year-End Awards National Board of Review (official site) Wikipedia.org: National Board of Review Award for Best Film Originally posted 8/6/2019; last updated 12/8/2022.