85th NBR Awards
Best Film:
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The 85th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in
film
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2013
2013 was the first year since 1987 to contain four unique digits (a span of 26 years).
2013 was designated as:
*International Year of Water Cooperation
*International Year of Quinoa
Events
January
* January 5 – 2013 Craig, Alask ...
, were announced on December 4, 2013.
Top 10 Films
Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:
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Her
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Her, HER or H.E.R. may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media Music Performers
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12 Years a Slave
''Twelve Years a Slave'' is an 1853 memoir and slave narrative by Solomon Northup as told to and written by David Wilson. Northup, a black man who was born free in New York state, details himself being tricked to go to Washington, D.C., whe ...
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Fruitvale Station''
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Gravity
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Inside Llewyn Davis
''Inside Llewyn Davis'' () is a 2013 period black comedy drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1961, the film follows one week in the life of Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac in his breakthrough ...
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Lone Survivor''
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Nebraska
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Prisoners''
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Saving Mr. Banks''
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The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
"The Secret Life of Walter Mitty" (1939) is a short story by James Thurber. The most famous of Thurber's stories, it first appeared in ''The New Yorker'' on March 18, 1939, and was first collected in his book ''My World and Welcome to It'' ( Ha ...
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The Wolf of Wall Street''
Winners
Best Film:
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Her
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Best Director:
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Spike Jonze
Adam Spiegel (born October 22, 1969), known professionally as Spike Jonze (), is an American Filmmaking, filmmaker, actor, musician, and photographer. His work includes films, commercials, music videos, skateboard videos and television.
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Her
Her is the objective and possessive form of the English-language feminine pronoun she.
Her, HER or H.E.R. may also refer to:
Arts, entertainment and media Music Performers
* H.E.R. (born 1997), American singer
* HIM (Finnish band), once kn ...
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Best Actor:
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Bruce Dern
Bruce MacLeish Dern (born June 4, 1936) is an American actor. He has received several accolades, including the Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actor and the Silver Bear for Best Actor. He was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Suppo ...
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Nebraska
Nebraska ( ) is a landlocked U.S. state, state in the Midwestern United States, Midwestern region of the United States. It borders South Dakota to the north; Iowa to the east and Missouri to the southeast, both across the Missouri River; Ka ...
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Best Actress:
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Emma Thompson
Dame Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is a British actress and screenwriter. Emma Thompson on screen and stage, Her work spans over four decades of screen and stage, and List of awards and nominations received by Emma Thompson, her accola ...
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Saving Mr. Banks''
Best Supporting Actor:
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Will Forte – ''
Nebraska
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Best Supporting Actress:
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Octavia Spencer
Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy ...
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Fruitvale Station''
Best Original Screenplay:
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Joel and Ethan Coen – ''
Inside Llewyn Davis
''Inside Llewyn Davis'' () is a 2013 period black comedy drama film written, directed, produced, and edited by Joel and Ethan Coen. Set in 1961, the film follows one week in the life of Llewyn Davis, played by Oscar Isaac in his breakthrough ...
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Best Adapted Screenplay:
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Terence Winter
Terence Patrick Winter (born October 2, 1960) is an American writer and producer of television and film. He was the creator, writer, and executive producer of the HBO television series '' Boardwalk Empire'' (2010–2014). Before creating ''Boar ...
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The Wolf of Wall Street''
Best Animated Feature:
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The Wind Rises''
Best Foreign Language Film:
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The Past''
Best Documentary:
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Stories We Tell''
Best Ensemble:
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Prisoners''
Breakthrough Actor:
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Michael B. Jordan
Michael Bakari Jordan ( ; born February 9, 1987) is an American actor, producer and director. He is best known for his film roles in '' Fruitvale Station'' (2013), ''Creed'' (2015), ''Black Panther'' (2018), '' Black Panther: Wakanda Forever'' ...
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Fruitvale Station''
Breakthrough Actress:
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Adèle Exarchopoulos
Adèle Exarchopoulos (; born 22 November 1993) is a French actress. She had her career breakthrough starring as Adèle in the romance '' Blue Is the Warmest Colour'' (2013). At the 2013 Cannes Film Festival, she became the youngest person in the ...
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Blue Is the Warmest Colour
''Blue Is the Warmest Colour'' (; ) is a 2013 romantic drama film co-written, co-produced, and directed by Abdellatif Kechiche and starring Léa Seydoux and Adèle Exarchopoulos. The film follows Adèle (Exarchopoulos), a French teenager, who d ...
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Best Directorial Debut:
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Ryan Coogler
Ryan Coogler (born May 23, 1986) is an American film director, producer, and screenwriter. He is a recipient of ten NAACP Image Awards and four Black Reel Awards, and has been nominated for two Academy Awards, a Golden Globe Awards, Golden Globe ...
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Fruitvale Station''
Creative Innovation in Filmmaking:
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Gravity
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William K. Everson Film History Award:
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George Stevens Jr.
Spotlight Award:
*Career collaboration of
Martin Scorsese
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and
Leonardo DiCaprio
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NBR Freedom of Expression:
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Wadjda''
Top Foreign Films
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The Past''
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Beyond the Hills''
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Gloria''
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The Grandmaster''
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A Hijacking
''A Hijacking'' () is a 2012 Danish thriller film written and directed by Tobias Lindholm about a ship hijacking. Pilou Asbæk and Søren Malling star as a cook taken hostage and the CEO that attempts to negotiate for his release, respectiv ...
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The Hunt''
Top Documentaries
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Stories We Tell''
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20 Feet from Stardom
''20 Feet from Stardom'' is a 2013 American documentary film directed by Morgan Neville and produced by Gil Friesen, a music industry executive whose curiosity to know more about the lives of background singers inspired the making of the film ...
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The Act of Killing''
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After Tiller''
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Casting By''
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The Square''
Top Independent Films
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Ain't Them Bodies Saints''
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Dallas Buyers Club
''Dallas Buyers Club'' is a 2013 American biographical drama film written by Craig Borten and Melisa Wallack, and directed by Jean-Marc Vallée. The film tells the story of Ron Woodroof (Matthew McConaughey), a cowboy diagnosed with AIDS in ...
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In a World...''
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Mother of George''
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Much Ado About Nothing
''Much Ado About Nothing'' is a Shakespearean comedy, comedy by William Shakespeare thought to have been written in 1598 and 1599.See textual notes to ''Much Ado About Nothing'' in ''The Norton Shakespeare'' (W. W. Norton & Company, 1997 ) p. ...
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Mud
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The Place Beyond the Pines
''The Place Beyond the Pines'' is a 2012 American Epic film, epic Crime film, crime drama film directed by Derek Cianfrance with a screenplay by Cianfrance, Ben Coccio and Darius Marder from a story by Cianfrance and Coccio. The film tells thre ...
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Short Term 12''
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Sightseers
''Sightseers'' is a 2012 British black comedy film directed by Ben Wheatley and written by and starring Alice Lowe and Steve Oram.
Sightseers was selected to be screened in the Directors' Fortnight section at the 2012 Cannes Film Festival on ...
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The Spectacular Now
''The Spectacular Now'' is a 2013 American coming-of-age romantic drama film directed by James Ponsoldt, from a screenplay written by Scott Neustadter and Michael H. Weber, based on the 2008 novel of the same name by Tim Tharp. It stars Mile ...
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References
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