Steven Spielberg’s drama The Post was the big winner from the National Board of Review. The film, which only recently had its embargo dropped, is shaping up to be the prominent political drama of the year and could be the eventual Best Picture winner, though the National Board of Review doesn’t have the best track record in that regard. Slumdog Millionaire, in 2008, was the last NBR Best Film winner to go on to the Oscar for Best Picture. No Country for Old Men the year before and American Beauty in 1999 were the only films in the last 20 years to duplicate the feat. That said, it serves as a prominent win and could bolster its chances at other critics awards. Streep, Hanks, Dafoe, and Metcalf are now all confirmed to be in the race for acting prizes. Matter of fact, there is only one winner in this bunch that doesn’t seem as assured of an Oscar nomination and that’s The Disaster Artist in Adapted Screenplay.

Award Tallies

(3) The Post
(2) Get Out, Lady Bird

The Awards

Best Picture

The Post

Best Animated Film

Coco

Best Director

Greta Gerwig – Lady Bird

Best Actor

Tom Hanks – The Post

Best Actress

Meryl Streep – The Post

Best Supporting Actor

Willem Dafoe – The Florida Project

Best Supporting Actress

Laurie Metcalf – Lady Bird

Best Original Screenplay

Phantom Thread

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Disaster Artist

Best Foreign Film

Foxtrot

Best Documentary

Jane

Best Ensemble

Get Out

Best Breakthrough Performance

Timothée Chalamet – Call Me By Your Name

Best Directorial Debut

Jordan Peele – Get Out

Freedom of Expression

First They Killed My Father
Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992

Spotlight Award

Wonder Woman – Patty Jenkins & Gal Gadot

Top Films of 2012

• Baby Driver
• Call Me By Your Name
• The Disaster Artist
• Downsizing
• Dunkirk
• The Florida Project
• Get Out
• Lady Bird
• Logan
• Phantom Thread
• The Post

Top Independent Films of 2012

• Beatriz at Dinner
• Brigsby Bear
• A Ghost Story
• Lady Macbeth
• Logan Lucky
• Loving Vincent
• Menashe
• Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer
• Patti Cake$
• Wind River

Top Foreign Films of 2012

• A Fantastic Woman
• Foxtrot
• Franz
• Loveless
• Summer 1993
• The Square

Top Documentaries of 2012

• Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
• Brimstone & Glory
• Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
• Faces Places
• Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of Isis
• Jane

National Board of Review Data

Year Founded: December 24, 1908
First Awards: 1929 (89)