National Board of Review Awards 2013

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The 85th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2013, were announced on December 4, 2013.

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

• Her
• 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

• Beyond the Hills
• Gloria
• The Grandmaster
• A Hijacking
• The Hunt

• 20 Feet from Stardom
• The Act of Killing
• After Tiller
• Casting By
• The Square

• 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

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

Creative Innovation in Filmmaking:

• Gravity

Breakthrough Actor:

• Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station

Breakthrough Actress:

• Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Colour

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:

• Wadjda