National Board of Review

1975 National Board of Review - Best Director WinnerBarry LyndonStanley KubrickAn Irish rogue wins the heart of a rich widow and assumes her dead husband's aristocratic position in 18th-century England.AmazonNashvilleRobert AltmanOver the course of a few hectic days, numerous interrelated people prepare for a political convention as secrets and lies are surfaced and revealed.Amazon

1974 National Board of Review - Best Director WinnerThe ConversationFrancis Ford CoppolaA paranoid, secretive surveillance expert has a crisis of conscience when he suspects that a couple, on whom he is spying, will be murdered.Amazon

1973 National Board of Review - Best Director WinnerCries & WhispersIngmar BergmanWhen a woman dying of cancer in early twentieth-century Sweden is visited by her two sisters, long-repressed feelings between the siblings rise to the surface.Amazon

1972 National Board of Review - Best Director WinnerCabaretBob FosseA female girlie club entertainer in Weimar Republic era Berlin romances two men while the Nazi Party rises to power around them.AmazonThe DevilsKen RussellIn 17th-century France, Father Urbain Grandier seeks to protect the city of Loudun from the corrupt establishment of Cardinal Richelieu. Hysteria occurs within the city when he is accused of witchcraft by a sexually repressed nun.Amazon

1971 National Board of Review - Best Director WinnerThe Wild ChildFrançois TruffautIn a French forest in 1798, a child is found who cannot walk, speak, read or write. A doctor becomes interested in the child and patiently attempts to civilize him.Amazon

1970 National Board of Review - Best Director WinnerTopazAlfred HitchcockA French Intelligence Agent becomes embroiled in the Cold War politics first with uncovering the events leading up to the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, and then back to France to break up an international Russian spy ring.Amazon

1969 National Board of Review - Best Director WinnerRomeo and JulietFranco ZeffirelliWhen two young members of feuding families meet, forbidden love ensues.Amazon

1968 National Board of Review - Best Director WinnerIn Cold BloodRichard BrooksAfter a botched robbery results in the brutal murder of a rural family, two drifters elude police, in the end coming to terms with their own mortality and the repercussions of their vile atrocity.Amazon

1967 National Board of Review - Best Director WinnerA Man for All SeasonsFred ZinnemannThe story of Sir Thomas More, who stood up to King Henry VIII when the King rejected the Roman Catholic Church to obtain a divorce and remarry.Amazon

1966 National Board of Review - Best Director WinnerDarlingJohn SchlesingerBeautiful, but amoral, model Diana Scott (Julie Christie) sleeps her way to the top of the London fashion scene at the height of the Swinging Sixties.Amazon