Can The Post Pip Everyone At The Post?

Although not the biggest of the major awards bodies, the National Board of Review are first out of the gate with their winners, with late entry The Post leading the pack with wins for Best Film, as well as Actress for Streep and Actor for Hanks. Greta Gerwig denied Spielberg Best Director , taking that honour for her splendid Lady Bird, which also saw Laurie Metcalfe begin her awards season trail as Best Supporting. Elsewhere. Most of the potential players – Phantom Thread, Call Me By Your Name, Coco, Get Out, The Disaster Artist – were each (carefully) given some love. Unlike other bodies the NBR also announce their Top 10 of the year, and an additional indie Top 10 – though how the dreadful Brigsby Bear got in there is anyone’s guess!

Full list below – awards will actually be awarded in a ceremony on January 9

Best film: The Post
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: Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Best adapted screenplay:  Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
Best animated feature: Coco
Breakthrough performance: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Best directorial debut: Jordan Peele, Get Out
Best foreign language film: Foxtrot
Best documentary: Jane
Best ensemble: Get Out
Spotlight Award: Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: First They Killed My Father
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992

Top Films

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

Top 5 Foreign-Language Films

A Fantastic Woman
Frantz
Loveless
Summer 1993
The Square

Top 5 Documentaries

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

Top 10 Independent Films

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

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