2022 National Board of Review (NBR): ‘Top Gun: Maverick’ named Best Film

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The National Board of Review (NBR) has selected the year’s biggest blockbuster Top Gun: Maverick as the best film of 2022, the group announced on Thursday.

NBR’s most recent best film winners Paul Thomas Anderson’s Licorice Pizza, Martin Scorsese’s The Irishman, Peter Farrelly’s Green Book and George Miller’s Mad Max: Fury Road all went on to earn Best Picture Oscar nominations with Green Book taking home the top Academy Award.

In the last 30 years, most winners of NBR’s best film have gone on to receive an Oscar nomination for Best Picture. The exceptions being 2020’s Da 5 Bloods, 2014’s A Most Violent Year, 2000’s Quills and 1998’s Gods and Monsters.

It was a good day for The Banshees of Inisherin, which won three awards plus a Top 10 placement. The film earned wins for Colin Farrell in Best Actor, Supporting Actor for Brendan Gleeson and Original Screenplay for director Martin McDonaugh. Michelle Yeoh picked up Best Actress for Everything Everywhere All At Once, while Janelle Monáe was named Best Supporting Actress for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery. Both films landed Top 10 placements as well.

Joining those films as NBR’s Top 10 of 2022 were: Aftersun, Avatar: The Way of Water, The Fabelmans, RRR, Till, The Woman King and Women Talking. Aftersun also took a Directorial Debut win for Charlotte Wells, The Fabelmans won Best Director for Steven Spielberg and Breakthrough Performance for star Gabriel LaBelle.

Last year’s top NBR winners Will Smith (Best Actor for King Richard), Encanto (Animated Feature) and Summer of Soul (Documentary) went on to win Oscars in their respective categories. King Richard‘s Aunjanue Ellis (Supporting Actress) and Belfast‘s Ciarán Hinds (Supporting Actor) were among those to translate their NBR wins into Oscar nominations.

The National Board of Review awards gala will take place on January 8, 2023 at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City and hosted by Willie Geist of NBC News’ Sunday TODAY and MSNBC’s Morning Joe.

Here is the full list of 2022 NBR winners.

Best Film: Top Gun: Maverick 

Best DirectorSteven Spielberg, The Fabelmans 

Best ActorColin Farrell, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best ActressMichelle Yeoh, Everything Everywhere All at Once 

Best Supporting ActorBrendan Gleeson, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Supporting ActressJanelle Monáe, Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery

Best Original ScreenplayMartin McDonagh, The Banshees of Inisherin

Best Adapted ScreenplayEdward Berger, Lesley Paterson, Ian Stokell, All Quiet on the Western Front

Breakthrough Performance Danielle Deadwyler, Till 

Breakthrough Performance: Gabriel LaBelle, The Fabelmans

Best Directorial Debut: Charlotte Wells, Aftersun

Best Animated Feature:  Marcel the Shell With Shoes On 

Best International FilmClose

Best DocumentarySr. 

Best EnsembleWomen Talking 

Outstanding Achievement in CinematographyClaudio Miranda, Top Gun: Maverick 

NBR Freedom of Expression Awards:

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

Argentina, 1985 

Top Films (in alphabetical order):

Aftersun 

Avatar: The Way of Water 

The Banshees of Inisherin

Everything Everywhere All at Once 

The Fabelmans

Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery 

RRR

Till 

The Woman King 

Women Talking 

Top 5 International Films (in alphabetical order):

All Quiet on the Western Front

Argentina, 1985 

Decision to Leave 

EO 

Saint Omer 

Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order):

All the Beauty and the Bloodshed

All That Breathes

Descendant 

Turn Every Page – The Adventures of Robert Caro and Robert Gottlieb

Wildcat 

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order):

Armageddon Time

Emily the Criminal 

The Eternal Daughter 

Funny Pages 

The Inspection 

Living 

A Love Song

Nanny 

The Wonder 

To Leslie 

Erik Anderson

Erik Anderson is the founder/owner and Editor-in-Chief of AwardsWatch and has always loved all things Oscar, having watched the Academy Awards since he was in single digits; making lists, rankings and predictions throughout the show. This led him down the path to obsessing about awards. Much later, he found himself in film school and the film forums of GoldDerby, and then migrated over to the former Oscarwatch (now AwardsDaily), before breaking off to create AwardsWatch in 2013. He is a Rotten Tomatoes-approved critic, accredited by the Cannes Film Festival, Telluride Film Festival, Toronto International Film Festival and more, is a member of the International Cinephile Society (ICS), The Society of LGBTQ Entertainment Critics (GALECA), Critics Choice Association (CCA), San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle (SFBAFCC) and the International Press Academy. Among his many achieved goals with AwardsWatch, he has given a platform to underrepresented writers and critics and supplied them with access to film festivals and the industry and calls the Bay Area his home where he lives with his husband and son.

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