Click through each award to see the full list of nominees and winners!
2019 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Irishman
2018 National Board of Review – Best Film
Green Book
2017 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Post
2016 National Board of Review – Best Film
Manchester by the Sea
2015 National Board of Review – Best Film
Mad Max: Fury Road
2014 National Board of Review – Best Film
A Most Violent Year
2013 National Board of Review – Best Film
Her
2012 National Board of Review – Best Film
Zero Dark Thirty
2011 National Board of Review – Best Film
Hugo
2010 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Social Network
2009 National Board of Review – Best Film
Up in the Air
2008 National Board of Review – Best Film
Slumdog Millionaire
2007 National Board of Review – Best Film
No Country for Old Men
2006 National Board of Review – Best Film
Letters from Iwo Jima
2005 National Board of Review – Best Film
Good Night, and Good Luck.
2004 National Board of Review – Best Film
Finding Neverland
2003 National Board of Review – Best Film
Mystic River
2002 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Hours
2001 National Board of Review – Best Film
Moulin Rouge!
2000 National Board of Review – Best Film
Quills
1999 National Board of Review – Best Film
American Beauty
1998 National Board of Review – Best Film
Gods and Monsters
1997 National Board of Review – Best Film
L.A. Confidential
1996 National Board of Review – Best Film
Shine
1995 National Board of Review – Best Film
Sense and Sensibility
1994 National Board of Review – Best Film
Forrest Gump
1993 National Board of Review – Best Film
Schindler’s List
1992 National Board of Review – Best Film
Howards End
1991 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Silence of the Lambs
1990 National Board of Review – Best Film
Dances with Wolves
1989 National Board of Review – Best Film
Driving Miss Daisy
1988 National Board of Review – Best Film
Mississippi Burning
1987 National Board of Review – Best Film
Empire of the Sun
1986 National Board of Review – Best Film
A Room with a View
1985 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Color Purple
1984 National Board of Review – Best Film
A Passage to India
1983 National Board of Review – Best Film
Betrayal
1982 National Board of Review – Best Film
Gandhi
1981 National Board of Review – Best Film
Chariots of Fire
1980 National Board of Review – Best Film
Ordinary People
1979 National Board of Review – Best Film
Manhattan
1978 National Board of Review – Best Film
Days of Heaven
1977 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Turning Point
1976 National Board of Review – Best Film
All the President’s Men
1975 National Board of Review – Best Film
Barry Lyndon
1974 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Conversation
1973 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Sting
1972 National Board of Review – Best Film
Macbeth
1971 National Board of Review – Best Film
Patton
1970 National Board of Review – Best Film
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They?
1969 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Shoes of the Fisherman
1968 National Board of Review – Best Film
Far from the Madding Crowd
1967 National Board of Review – Best Film
A Man for All Seasons
1966 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
1964 National Board of Review – Best Film
Becket
1963 National Board of Review – Best Film
Tom Jones
1962 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Longest Day
1961 National Board of Review – Best Film
Question 7
1960 National Board of Review – Best Film
Sons and Lovers
1959 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Nun’s Story
1958 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Old Man and the Sea
1957 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Bridge on the River Kwai
1956 National Board of Review – Best Film
Around the World in 80 Days
1955 National Board of Review – Best Film
Marty
1954 National Board of Review – Best Film
On the Waterfront
1953 National Board of Review – Best Film
Julius Caesar
1952 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Quiet Man
1951 National Board of Review – Best Film
A Place in the Sun
1950 National Board of Review – Best Film
Sunset Blvd.
1949 National Board of Review – Best Film
Bicycle Thieves
1948 National Board of Review – Best Film
Paisan
1947 National Board of Review – Best Film
Monsieur Verdoux
1946 National Board of Review – Best Film
Henry V
1945 National Board of Review – Best Film
The True Glory
1944 National Board of Review – Best Film
None But the Lonely Heart
1943 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Ox-Bow Incident
1942 National Board of Review – Best Film
In Which We Serve
1941 National Board of Review – Best Film
Citizen Kane
1940 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Grapes of Wrath
1939 National Board of Review – Best Film
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
1938 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Citadel
1937 National Board of Review – Best Film
Night Must Fall
1936 National Board of Review – Best Film
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town
1935 National Board of Review – Best Film
The Informer
1934 National Board of Review – Best Film
It Happened One Night
1933 National Board of Review – Best Film
Topaze
1932 National Board of Review – Best Film
