The award pools continue their need for speed, as the National Board of Review packed Hollywood in its Best Picture and Best Director picks for 2022. Billion-dollar blockbuster “Top Gun: Maverick” took home the Best Picture award and Steven Spielberg won Best Director for his heartbreaking ode to his childhood in “The Fabelmans.”
Michelle Yeoh continues her hot streak with a Best Actress win for “Everything Everywhere All at Once,” as does Colin Farrell with Best Actor honors for Martin McDonagh’s “The Banshees of Inisherin” (the director took the award for Best Actor). original script), but his co-star Brendan Gleeson gained traction at the awards with a Best Supporting Actor nomination, and “Glass Onion” standout Janelle Monáe bursts into the awards conversation with her remarkably twisted turn in the sequel. “Knives Out” by Rian Johnson.
This marks the first time a blockbuster movie has taken the top prize since 2015’s “Mad Max: Fury Road.” The National Board of Review is a New York-based organization made up of what it describes as “movie enthusiasts , filmmakers, professionals and academics of various ages and backgrounds”. In its first 77 years, its winning film won the Best Picture Oscar 24 times, though the two groups have met just three times this century.
Below is a full list of 2022 award winners, announced by the National Board of Review:
The best movie: “Top Gun: Maverick”
best director: steven Spielberg, “The Fabelmans”
best Actor: Colin Farrell, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Best actress: Michelle Yeoh, “Everything Everywhere, Everything at Once”
Best Supporting Actor: Brendan Gleeson, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Best Supporting Actress: Janelle Monáe, “Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
Best Original Screenplay: Martin McDonagh, “The Banshees of Inisherin”
Best Adapted Screenplay: Edward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, “All Quiet on the Western Front”
breakthrough performance: Danielle Deadwyler, “Until”
breakthrough performance: Gabriel LaBelle, “The Fabelmans”
Best Directorial Debut: Charlotte Wells, “After the Sun”
Best Animated Feature: “Marcel the shell with his shoes on”
best international film: “Close”
best documentary: “Mr.”
best set: “Women Talking”
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, “Top Gun: Maverick”
NBR Freedom of Expression Awards:
“All the beauty and the bloodshed”
“Argentina, 1985”
Best Movies (in alphabetical order):
“After the sun”
“Avatar: The Path of Water”
“The Banshees of Inisherin”
“Everything everywhere, all at once”
“The Fabelmans”
“Crystal Onion: A Knives Out Mystery”
“RRR”
“Until”
“The King Woman”
“Women Talking”
Top 5 International Films (in alphabetical order):
“All Quiet on the West Front”
“Argentina, 1985”
“Decision to leave”
“EO”
“Saint Omer”
The 5 best documentaries (in alphabetical order):
“All the beauty and the bloodshed”
“Everything That Breathes”
“Descendant”
“Turn Every Page: The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb”
“Wildcat”
The 10 Best Independent Films (In Alphabetical Order):
“Time of Armageddon”
“Emily the Criminal”
“The Eternal Daughter”
“Funny Pages”
“The inspection”
“To live”
“A love song”
“Baby sister”
“The wonder”
“To Leslie”
The NBR Awards gala is scheduled for Sunday, January 8, 2023 in New York.
Additional reporting by Steve Pond