Top Gun: Maverick Declared Best Film by National Board of Review

Joseph Kosinski’s Top Gun: Maverick has been declared Best Film by the National Board of Review (NBR). The film also earned a win for Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography for Claudio Miranda. Elsewhere, Martin McDonagh’s The Banshees of Inisherin picked up three prizes for Best Actor for Colin Farrell, Best Supporting Actor for Brendan Gleeson, and Best Original Screenplay for McDonagh, while Steven Spielberg was named Best Director for The Fabelmans. Full list of winners below.

Best Film
Top Gun: Maverick

Top Films (in alphabetical order):
Aftersun 
Avatar: The Way of Water 
The Banshees of Inisherin
Everything Everywhere All at Once 
The Fabelmans
Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 
RRR
Till 
The Woman King 
Women Talking 

Top 5 International Films (in alphabetical order):
All Quiet on the Western Front
Argentina, 1985 
Decision to Leave 
EO 
Saint Omer 

Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order):
All the Beauty and the Bloodshed
All That Breathes
Descendant 
Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb
Wildcat 

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order):
Armageddon Time
Emily the Criminal 
The Eternal Daughter 
Funny Pages 
The Inspection 
Living 
A Love Song
Nanny 
The Wonder 
To Leslie 

Best Director: Steven Spielberg, The Fabelmans 

Best Actor: Colin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Actress: Michelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All 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, Till and Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans

Best Directorial Debut: Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

Best Animated Feature: Marcel the Shell With Shoes On 

Best International Film: Close

Best Documentary: Sr.

Best Ensemble: Women Talking 

Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Claudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick 

NBR Freedom of Expression Awards: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed and Argentina, 1985 


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Author: Doug Jamieson

From musicals to horror and everything in between, Doug has an eclectic taste in films. Both a champion of independent cinema and a defender of more mainstream fare, he prefers to find an equal balance between two worlds often at odds with each other. A film critic by trade but a film fan at heart, Doug also writes for his own website The Jam Report, and Australia’s the AU review.