National Board of Review

1975 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerOne Flew Over the Cuckoo's NestJack NicholsonA criminal pleads insanity and is admitted to a mental institution, where he rebels against the oppressive nurse and rallies up the scared patients.Amazon

1974 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerThe ConversationGene HackmanA 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 Actor WinnerSerpicoAl PacinoAn honest New York cop named Frank Serpico blows the whistle on rampant corruption in the force only to have his comrades turn against him.AmazonThe Iceman ComethRobert RyanA salesman with a sudden passion for reform has an idea to sell to his barfly buddies: throw away your pipe dreams. The drunkards, living in a flophouse above a saloon, resent the idea.Amazon

1972 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerThe French ConnectionGene HackmanA pair of NYC cops in the Narcotics Bureau stumble onto a drug smuggling job with a French connection.AmazonThe Ruling ClassPeter O'TooleA member of the House of Lords dies, leaving his estate to his son. Unfortunately, his son thinks he is Jesus Christ. The other, somewhat more respectable, members of their family plot to steal the estate from him. Murder and mayhem ensue.Amazon

1971 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerPattonGeorge C. ScottThe World War II phase of the career of controversial American general George S. Patton.Amazon

1970 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerGoodbye, Mr. ChipsPeter O'TooleA shy, withdrawn English schoolteacher falls for a flashy showgirl.Amazon

1969 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerCharlyCliff RobertsonAn intellectually disabled man undergoes an experiment that gives him the intelligence of a genius.Amazon

1968 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerFar from the Madding CrowdPeter FinchBathsheba Everdene, a willful, flirtatious, young woman, unexpectedly inherits a large farm and is romantically pursued by three very different men.Amazon

1967 National Board of Review - Best Actor WinnerA Man for All SeasonsPaul ScofieldThe 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 Actor WinnerCat BallouLee MarvinA young schoolteacher turns into an outlaw to avenge her murdered father.Amazon