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National Board of Review 2013 winners

The National Board of Review announced their this year's choices and there are surprising winners in the top categories. The most shocking thing is not seeing 12 Years a Slave getting an individual prize (no Best Film, no Best Director, no Best Actor, nothing), but at least it is part of their annual TOP 10 Films list, unlike American Hustle and Captain Phillips (considered major Best Picture players) which got completely snubed. The National Board of Review isn't good to predict Oscar winners, but its choices tend to become Oscar nominees or major Oscar players.
So, who's the big winner? Spike Jonze's love story, Her, which took home Best Film and Best Director (shocking!), turning into a major Oscar contender most prediction folks were "kind of" ignoring. Just have a look:
BEST FILM
  • Her

BEST DIRECTOR
  • Spike Jonze for Her

BEST ACTOR
  • Bruce Dern for Nebraska

BEST ACTRESS
  • Emma Thompson for Saving Mr. Banks

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
  • Will Forte for Nebraska

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
  • Octavia Spencer for Fruitvale Station

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
  • Joel Coen and Ethan Coen for Inside Llewyn Davis

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
  • Terence Winter for The Wolf of Wall Street

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE
  • The Wind Rises

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE
  • Michael B. Jordan for Fruitvale Station
  • Adele Exarchopoulos for Blue Is The Warmest Color

BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT
  • Ryan Coogler for Fruitvale Station

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM
  • The Past

BEST DOCUMENTARY
  • Stories We Tell

WILLIAM K. EVERSON FILM HISTORY AWARD
  • George Stevens, Jr.

BEST ENSEMBLE
  • Prisoners

SPOTLIGHT AWARD
  • Career Collaboration of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio

NBR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD
  • Wadjda

CREATIVE INNOVATION IN FILMMAKING AWARD
  • Gravity

TOP 10 FILMS (in alphabetical order)
  • 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 5 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS (in alphabetical order)
  • Beyond the Hills
  • Gloria
  • The Grandmaster
  • A Highjacking
  • The Hunt

 TOP 5 DOCUMENTARIES (in alphabetical order)
  • 20 Feet From Stardom
  • The Act of Killing
  • After Tiller
  • Casting By
  • The Square

TOP 10 INDEPENDENT FILMS (in alphabetical order)
  • Ain't Them Bodies Saints
  • Dallas Buyers Club
  • In a Wolrd...
  • Mother of George
  • Much Ado About Nothing
  • Mud
  • The Place Beyond the Pines
  • Short Term 12
  • Sightseers
  • The Spectacular Now


Things just got really interesting, specially considering how different the National Board of Review's choices are from the the NYFCC Award winners'. LAFCA Awards are tomorrow... Oscar races sounds like fun, right now!

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