National Board of Review Awards 2017

The 89th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2017, were announced on November 28, 2017.^[1]

Top 10 Films

Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:

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

Top Foreign Films

• Foxtrot^[2]
• A Fantastic Woman
• Frantz
• Loveless
• The Square
• Summer 1993

Top Documentaries

• Jane^[3]
• 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 Independent Films

• Beatriz at Dinner
• Brigsby Bear
• A Ghost Story
• Lady Macbeth
• Logan Lucky
• Loving Vincent
• Menashe
• Norman
• Patti Cake$
• Wind River

Winners

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 and 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:

• First They Killed My Father
• Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992

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