National Board of Review Winners Announced!
Winners will be announced somewhere between 12:00pm and 2:00pm Eastern time. We’ll be bringing you the winners here. Make sure to include your own predictions of who’s going to get an Oscar boost today and read my predictions to the awards here.
WINNERS
Best Film: ZERO DARK THIRTY
Best Director: Kathryn Bigelow, ZERO DARK THIRTY
Best Actor: Bradley Cooper, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Best Actress: Jessica Chastain, ZERO DARK THIRTY
Best Supporting Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, DJANGO UNCHAINED
Best Supporting Actress: Ann Dowd, COMPLIANCE
Best Original Screenplay: Rian Johnson, LOOPER
Best Adapted Screenplay: David O. Russell, SILVER LININGS PLAYBOOK
Best Animated Feature: WRECK-IT RALPH
Special Achievement in Filmmaking: Ben Affleck, ARGO
Breakthrough Actor: Tom Holland, THE IMPOSSIBLE
Breakthrough Actress: Quvenzhané Wallis, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
Best Directorial Debut: Benh Zeitlin, BEASTS OF THE SOUTHERN WILD
Best Foreign Language Film: AMOUR
Best Documentary: SEARCHING FOR SUGARMAN
William K. Everson Film History Award: 50 YEARS OF BOND FILMS
Best Ensemble: LES MISÉRABLES
Spotlight Award: John Goodman (ARGO, FLIGHT, PARANORMAN, TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE)
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: CENTRAL PARK FIVE
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: PROMISED LAND
Top Films
- “Argo”
- “Beasts of the Southern Wild”
- “Django Unchained”
- “Les Miserables
- “Lincoln”
- “The Perks of Being a Wallflower”
- “Promised Land”
- “Silver Linings Playbook”
Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order)
- “Barbara”
- “The Intouchables”
- “The Kid with a Bike
- “No”
- “War Witch”
Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)
- “Ai Weiwie: Never Sorry”
- “Detropia”
- “The Gatekeepers”
- “The Invisible War”
- “Only the Young”
Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)
- “Arbitrage”
- “Bernie”
- “Compliance”
- “End of Watch”
- “Hello I Must Be Going”
- “Little Birds”
- “Moonrise Kingdom”
- “On the Road”
- “Quartet”
- “Sleepwalk with Me”
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Phill
December 5, 2012 at 11:45 am
Is there a way to watch it? Like a stream or something?
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Clayton Davis
December 5, 2012 at 12:10 pm
Nah. Just simple web stuff. Hopefully they don’t take as long as NYFCC
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Dan
December 5, 2012 at 1:43 pm
Yeah, that was ridonkulous.
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vidmayer
December 5, 2012 at 12:02 pm
My predictions:
Picture: The Master
Director: Ben Affleck
Leading actor: Phoenix
Leading actress: Lawrence
Supporting actor: P. S. Hoffman
Supporting actress: Hathaway
Original screenplay: Zero dark thirty
Adapted Screenplay: Cloud atlas
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UBourgeois
December 5, 2012 at 2:11 pm
I guess they’re not keeping to the timetable then.
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Evan Paul Gritter
December 5, 2012 at 2:21 pm
Zero dark thirty!!!!
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Calvin
December 5, 2012 at 2:31 pm
They completely left Lincoln out? Bradley Cooper? Bigelow is going to win AGAIN for very similar movies (I haven’t watched 0D30 and I don’t like spoilers, so, sorry if I’m wrong)? No Hathaway? I’m starting to get concerned…
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Greg
December 5, 2012 at 2:33 pm
Yes me too… Bradley Cooper over Jennifer Lawrence? No Anne Hathaway? And Kathryn Bigelow is an overrated director in my opinion
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Rohit Ramachandran
December 5, 2012 at 2:37 pm
Looper over Django Unchained. Good fuckin joke.
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vidmayer
December 5, 2012 at 2:38 pm
Well that came out weird… Complete omission of the master… It’s early in the season and the NBR is usually “wrong” but I do like the boost for Bradley Cooper
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JamDenTel
December 5, 2012 at 2:57 pm
Well, I’m not surprised by what we got. Perks of Being A Wallflower was the outlier (there’s always one), which is cool with me, and I’m glad to see Django here, but the omission of The Master is odd and…Looper for Original Screenplay? I don’t really see it. I’m also a bit dubious about Promised Land, but we’ll see.
I’m predicting Zero Dark Thirty for Best Picture.
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Dan K
December 5, 2012 at 3:01 pm
God I am so f***ing happy for Leo. I told y’all don’t rule him out yet!!
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Massimo
December 5, 2012 at 3:01 pm
All around solid selection of winners. Very Happy for “Zero Dark”, Quvenzhané Wallis, Looper and Leo.
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Zooey
December 5, 2012 at 3:12 pm
Now LA will do everything they could to appear the most sophisticated critics’ group. They love to be contrary. I believe THE MASTER could really win big time there, with Phoenix, Seymour Hoffman, directing, cinematography, music and picture. And of course Emmanuelle Riva.
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Joey Magidson
December 5, 2012 at 3:14 pm
Some interesting surprises…
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steve
December 5, 2012 at 3:26 pm
And there’s Ann Dowd…
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George
December 5, 2012 at 3:28 pm
Strange to see Looper win original screenplay when competing with the big boys like Boal and Tarantino.
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Dylan A
December 5, 2012 at 3:37 pm
I love these winners! ZDT, Bradley Cooper I completely agree with, happy for Leo and Ann Dowd. Compliance was a great film! And the push for Looper and Jessica Chastain is great too!
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Kevin
December 5, 2012 at 3:50 pm
Hope Quvenzhané Wallis’ oscar chances have increased now! I know she won’t win, but I would love for her to have a nomination!
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Clayton Davis
December 5, 2012 at 3:56 pm
She’s vulnerable but I wouldn’t be surprised if she made it. She needs Globe and Critics Choice.
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Josh P.
December 5, 2012 at 4:12 pm
I wish I had the courage to predict Ann Dowd winning, but I did post a comment earlier saying that she would have a real chance at staying in this race with a win from the NBR. It only solidifies the argument that she could become this year’s Jacki Weaver, who received the same award for “Animal Kingdom” and then went on to be nominated (ironic since Weaver is also in a film this year). Interesting slate of choices, though I’m saddened by the shut-out for “The Master”. If this film misses LA too, then it’s chances are virtually non-existent. It needs the critics to push it through, but it looks like “Zero Dark Thirty” is going to be the critical darling instead.
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Mikael
December 5, 2012 at 5:03 pm
SO happy for Ann Dowd!!! LOVE IT!!!
Beasts of the Southern Wild not considered an Independent Film? And yet Arbitrage, Quartet and End of Watch are?
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Jonesy
December 5, 2012 at 5:32 pm
Wow clay your acting predictions were way off. But with some of these critics groups it’s hard to tell
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Clayton Davis
December 5, 2012 at 6:17 pm
LOL. I know. I called Chastain and Dowd was listed as my surprise. NBR is damn near impossible. Cooper’s win makes massive sense to me now.
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Lyle
December 5, 2012 at 6:26 pm
Alright, Wreck-It Ralf!
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carlos
December 5, 2012 at 10:30 pm
ALLELUJAH, Dicaprio won the award. And now the Oscar please.
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Tom
December 6, 2012 at 6:41 am
With New York and NBR, does this mean Hathaway’s not the Slam Dunk we think she is, or just an oversilght?
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Mikael
December 6, 2012 at 8:24 am
I think she´s going to win where it ‘really’ counts – globes, sag, bfca and, possibily, bafta…
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UBourgeois
December 6, 2012 at 1:44 pm
Could just be some backlash against the pre-ordained frontrunner. She’s still sitting pretty either way.
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Tom
December 6, 2012 at 9:13 am
That’s What I figured as well, I guess if she loses the Globe, then it could be a wide open race which will make it fun
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