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National Board of Review have unveiled their 2018 winners and the results are… about as middle of the road as one can get. Picking up Best Film was Green Book, while Viggo Mortensen also nabbed Best Actor. A Star is Born was also a big winner, earning Best Director for Bradley Cooper, Best Actress for Lady Gaga, and Best Supporting Actor for Sam Elliott. Elsewhere, If Beale Street Could Talk and First Reformed earned honors, while The Ballad of Buster Scruggs, Roma, and Can You Ever Forgive Me? were among more of the best films of the year picks.

Far less embarrassing were last night’s winners for the Gotham Awards, topped by The Rider, which we’ve also included below.

2018 National Board of Review Winners

Best Film: GREEN BOOK

Best Director: Bradley Cooper, A STAR IS BORN

Best Actor: Viggo Mortensen, GREEN BOOK

Best Actress: Lady Gaga, A STAR IS BORN

Best Supporting Actor: Sam Elliott, A STAR IS BORN

Best Supporting Actress: Regina King, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Best Original Screenplay: Paul Schrader, FIRST REFORMED

Best Adapted Screenplay: Barry Jenkins, IF BEALE STREET COULD TALK

Best Animated Feature: INCREDIBLES 2

Breakthrough Performance: Thomasin McKenzie, LEAVE NO TRACE

Best Directorial Debut: Bo Burnham, EIGHTH GRADE

Best Foreign Language Film: COLD WAR

Best Documentary: RBG

Best Ensemble: CRAZY RICH ASIANS

William K. Everson Film History Award: THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND and THEY’LL LOVE ME WHEN I’M DEAD

NBR Freedom of Expression Award: 22 JULY

NBR Freedom of Expression Award: ON HER SHOULDERS

Top Films (in alphabetical order)
The Ballad of Buster Scruggs
Black Panther
Can You Ever Forgive Me?
Eighth Grade
First Reformed
If Beale Street Could Talk
Mary Poppins Returns
A Quiet Place
Roma
A Star Is Born

Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order)
Burning
Custody
The Guilty
Happy as Lazzaro
Shoplifters

Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order)
Crime + Punishment
Free Solo
Minding the Gap
Three Identical Strangers
Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)
The Death of Stalin
Lean on Pete
Leave No Trace
Mid90s
The Old Man & the Gun
The Rider
Searching
Sorry to Bother You
We the Animals
You Were Never Really Here

2018 Gotham Award Winners

BEST FEATURE

The Rider

Chloé Zhao, director; Bert Hamelinck, Sacha Ben Harroche, Mollye Asher, Chloé Zhao, producers (Sony Pictures Classics)

AUDIENCE AWARD

Won’t You Be My Neighbor?

Morgan Neville, director; Morgan Neville, Caryn Capotosto, Nicholas Ma, producers (Focus Features)

BEST DOCUMENTARY

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

RaMell Ross, director; RaMell Ross, Joslyn Barnes, Su Kim, producers (The Cinema Guild)

BINGHAM RAY BREAKTHROUGH DIRECTOR AWARD

Bo Burnham for Eighth Grade (A24)

BEST SCREENPLAY

First Reformed, Paul Schrader (A24)

BEST ACTOR

Ethan Hawke in First Reformed (A24)

BEST ACTRESS*

Toni Collette in Hereditary (A24)

BREAKTHROUGH ACTOR

Elsie Fisher in Eighth Grade (A24)

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