The National Board of Review has just announced their picks for 2019... and Martin Scorsese's The Irishman was named the Best Film of 2019! It's a major win for the mob epic, a movie that was absent from the early awards list since it doesn't qualify as an independent production (Gotham Awards and Independent Spirit Awards are just for indies) - but it has just started the awards season with a big stan!
Are Renee Zellweger (Judy) and Brad Pitt (Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood) going to sweep all the awards? Both are considered to be the clear frontrunners in their respective categories, but NBR Awards aren't a trustful predictor of the Oscar wins (or even the nods in some years). Let's have a look at the Best Actress category: from the 9 NBR winners since 2010 (Zelweger is excluded of course), 4 missed a Best Actress nom, 3 got nominations and 2 won the Oscar. If go back to the 2000's, every NBR Best Actress winner landed an Oscar nomination, with 3 winning it.
For Best Supporting Actor NBR winners in the last decade, only 2 missed an Oscar nod and 2 won the Oscar. If we have a look at the 2000's, all the NBR Best Supporting Actor winners got Oscar nominated and 2 won.
As for Adam Sandler's chances in Best Actor race for Uncut Gems, I've my doubts, but it's clear the National Board of Review loved the Safdies' latest movie, since they've also awarded it with Best Original Screenplay. Richard Jewell also got some major love here, but it was no surprise for me since the NBR has always loved Clint Eastwood's movies (as I mentioned in a AwardsDaily post by Sasha Stone and in the GoldDerby forum) - but Best Supporting Actress NBR winners don't have a nice record when it comes to Oscar matches (category Kathy Bates won for Richard Jewell).
Personally, I want to highlight the win of Parasite in Best Foreign Film, the inclusion of Ford v. Ferrari, Marriage Story, Jojo Rabbit or Waves in the TOP 10 Films of the Year and, of course, having The Peanut Butter Falcon in the TOP 10 Independent Films of the Year!
BEST FILM: The Irishman
BEST DIRECTOR: Quentin Tarantino, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
BEST ACTOR: Adam Sandler, Uncut Gems
BEST ACTRESS: Renée Zellweger, Judy
BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Brad Pitt, Once Upon a Time... in Hollywood
BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Kathy Bates, Richard Jewell
BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Josh Safdie, Benny Safdie & Ronald Bronstein, Uncut Gems
BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Steven Zaillian, The Irishman
BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE: Paul Walter Hauser, Richard Jewell
BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT: Melina Matsoukas, Queen & Slim
BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: How To Train Your Dragon: The Hidden World
BEST FOREIGN FILM: Parasite
BEST DOCUMENTARY: Maiden
BEST ENSEMBLE: Knives Out
OUTSTANDING ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins, 1917
NBR ICON AWARD: Martin Scorsese, Robert De Niro and Al Pacino
NBR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD: For Sama
NBR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION AWARD: Just Mercy
TOP 10 FILMS (in alphabetical order)
- 1917
- Dolemite is My Name
- Ford v. Ferrari
- Jojo Rabbit
- Knives Out
- Marriage Story
- Once Upon a Time…in Hollywood
- Richard Jewell
- Uncut Gems
- Waves
TOP 5 FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILMS (in alphabetical order)
- Atlantics
- Invisible Life
- Pain and Glory
- Portrait of a Lady on Fire
- Transit
TOP 5 DOCUMENTARIES (in alphabetical order)
- American Factory
- Apollo 11
- The Black Godfather
- Rolling Thunder Revue: A Bob Dylan Story by Martin Scorsese
- Wrestle
TOP 10 INDEPENDENT FILMS (in alphabetical order)
- The Farewell
- Give Me Liberty
- A Hidden Life
- Judy
- The Last Black Man in San Francisco
- Midsommar
- The Nightingale
- The Peanut Butter Falcon
- The Souvenir
- Wild Rose
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