Spike Jonze's Her.
The National Board of Review weighed in with its top picks for 2013 with Spike Jonze's NYFF 51 Closing Night World Premiere Her winning both Best Film and Best Director. Alexander Payne's Nebraska, which also screened during the festival earlier this fall picked up two nods, including Best Actor for Bruce Dern and Best Supporting Actor for Will Forte. Adele Exarchopoulos took Breakthrough Performance for her role in Blue Is The Warmest Color, which also had its U.S. debut at the festival. And Inside Llewyn Davis picked up Best Original Screenplay (for Joel and Ethan Coen).
The Wind Rises took NBR's Best Animated Feature selection. The film also was the New York Film Critics Circle choice in the category yesterday. Both groups also chose Sarah Polley's Stories We Tell for Best Documentary. Sundance 2013 winner Fruitvale Station continues to make a strong showing with today's announcement. Octavia Specer was named Best Supporting Actress for her role in the film, while Michael B. Jordan was given the Breakthrough Performer nod. Jordan also won the Gotham Award in the category Monday night in Lower Manhattan. Fruitvale Station's director Ryan Coogler, meanwhile took the ogranization's Breakthrough Director prize, a category he also won at the Gotham Indepenent Film Awards.
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The full list of National Board of Review 2013 selections follow:
Best Film: Her
Best Director: Spike Jonze, Her
Best Actor: Bruce Dern, Nebraska
Best Actress: Emma Thompson, Saving Mr. Banks
Best Supporting Actor: Will Forte, Nebraska
Best Supporting Actress: Octavia Spencer, Fruitvale Station
Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, Inside Llewyn Davis
Best Adapted Screenplay: Terence Winter, The Wolf Of Wall Street
Best Animated Feature: The Wind Rises
Breakthrough Performance: Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station
Breakthrough Performance: Adele Exarchopoulos, Blue Is The Warmest Color
Best Directorial Debut: Ryan Coogler, 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 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 Hijacking
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 World…
Mother of George
Much Ado About Nothing
Mud
The Place Beyond the Pines
Short Term 12
Sightseers
The Spectacular Now