Spike Jonze’s new film, Her, was a big hit with the National Board of Review, which selected the film for Best Picture and Best Director. Yet, it was Fruitvale Station that managed to pick up the most awards with three, including Best Supporting Actress, Best Breakthrough Actor and Best Directorial Debut. So far, only two categories have been unanimous among the two groups that have announced so far. The Wind Rises picks up its second Best Animated Film award and Stories We Tell wins a second Documentary prize. This trend isn’t likely to hold, but it’s interesting to see a complete lack of consensus this year with no one rallying around either of the presumed front-runners 12 Years a Slave and Gravity.

Award Tallies

(3) Fruitvale Station
(2) Her, Nebraska

The Awards

Best Picture

Her

Best Animated Film

The Wind Rises

Best Director

Spike Jonze – Her

Best Actor

Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Best Actress

Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

Best Supporting Actor

Will Forte – Nebraska

Best Supporting Actress

Octavia Spencer – Fruitvale Station

Best Original Screenplay

Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Adapted Screenplay

The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Foreign Film

The Past

Best Documentary

Stories We Tell

Best Ensemble

Prisoners

Best Breakthrough Actor

Michael B. Jordan – Fruitvale Station

Best Breakthrough Actress

Adele Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Color

Best Directorial Debut

Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station

Freedom of Expression

Wadjda

Spotlight Award

Career Collaboration of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio

William K. Everson Film History Award

George Stevens Jr.

Creative Innovation in Filmmaking Award

Gravity

Top Films of 2012

• 12 Years a Slave
• Fruitvale Station
• Gravity
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Lone Survivor
• Nebraska
• Prisoners
• Saving Mr. Banks
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The Wolf of Wall Street

Top Independent Films of 2012

• Ain’t Them Bodies Saints
• Dallas Buyers Club
• In a World…
• Mother of George
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Mud
• The Place Beyond the Pines
• Short Term 12
• Sightseers
• The Spectacular Now

Top Foreign Films of 2012

• Beyond the Hills
• Gloria
• The Grandmaster
• A Hijacking
• The Hunt

Top Documentaries of 2012

• 20 Feet from Stardom
• The Act of Killing
• After Tiller
• Casting By
• The Square

National Board of Review Data

Year Founded: December 24, 1908
First Awards: 1929 (85)