'Mad Max: Fury Road' Named Best Film by National Board of Review
The group revealed its picks for 2015’s best on Tuesday.
By Hilary Lewis
The National Board of Review on Tuesday revealed its 2015 film awards, naming Mad Max: Fury Road as the best film.
The honors will be presented at a Jan. 5 gala at New York’s Cipriani 42nd Street, hosted, as they were last year, by Today co-host Willie Geist.
The NBR awards are voted on by a select group of knowledgeable film enthusiasts, professionals, academics, young filmmakers and students.
Last year, NBR selected A Most Violent Year as its best film, but the J.C. Chandor-directed movie about New York in 1981 was completely snubbed by the Oscars. The year before, NBR selected Spike Jonze’s Her as its best film. The movie only won one Oscar, for best original screenplay. Past NBR best film winners include Zero Dark Thirty (2012), Hugo (2011), The Social Network (2010), and Up in the Air (2009).
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A complete list of this year’s winners follows.
Best Film: Mad Max: Fury Road
Best Director: Ridley Scott – The Martian
Best Actor: Matt Damon – The Martian
Best Actress: Brie Larson – Room
Best Supporting Actor: Sylvester Stallone – Creed
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Jason Leigh – The Hateful Eight
Best Original Screenplay: Quentin Tarantino – The Hateful Eight
Best Adapted Screenplay: Drew Goddard – The Martian
Best Animated Feature: Inside Out
Breakthrough Performance: Abraham Attah – Beasts of No Nation & Jacob Tremblay – Room
Best Directorial Debut: Jonas Carpignano – Mediterranea
Best Foreign Language Film: Son of Saul
Best Documentary: Amy
William K. Everson Film History Award: Cecilia De Mille Presley
Best Ensemble: The Big Short
Spotlight Award: Sicario for Outstanding Collaborative Vision
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Beasts of No Nation & Mustang
Top Films:
Bridge of Spies
Creed
The Hateful Eight
Inside Out
The Martian
Room
Sicario
Spotlight
Straight Outta Compton
Top 5 Foreign Language Films:
Goodnight Mommy
Mediterranea
Phoenix
The Second Mother
The Tribe
Top 5 Documentaries:
Best of Enemies
The Black Panthers: Vanguard of the Revolution
The Diplomat
Listen to Me Marlon
The Look of Silence
Top 10 Independent Films:
‘71
45 Years
Cop Car
Ex Machina
Grandma
It Follows
James White
Mississippi Grind
Welcome to Me
While We’re Young
