The 96th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2024, were announced on December 4, 2024. The musical fantasy Wicked, the first installment of a two-part adaptation of the stage musical of the same name, won the most awards with three: Best Film, Best Director (Jon M. Chu), and the NBR Spotlight Award for the creative collaboration of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande. It is also the first fantasy film to win Best Film at this event, as well as the first musical film to win the award since Moulin Rouge! (2001).
The annual awards gala was held on January 7, 2025, at Cipriani 42nd Street in New York City, hosted by television personality and journalist Willie Geist.
Top 10 Films Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:
Wicked Anora Babygirl A Complete Unknown Conclave Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga Gladiator II Juror #2 Queer A Real Pain Sing Sing
Winners Best Film: Wicked
Best Director: Jon M. Chu – Wicked
Best Actor: Daniel Craig – Queer
Best Actress: Nicole Kidman – Babygirl
Best Supporting Actor: Kieran Culkin – A Real Pain
Best Supporting Actress: Elle Fanning – A Complete Unknown
Best Original Screenplay: Mike Leigh – Hard Truths
Best Adapted Screenplay: Clint Bentley and Greg Kwedar – Sing Sing
Best Animated Feature: Flow
Breakthrough Performance: Mikey Madison – Anora
Best Directorial Debut: India Donaldson – Good One
Best International Film: The Seed of the Sacred Fig
Best Documentary: Sugarcane
Best Ensemble Cast: Conclave
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Jarin Blaschke – Nosferatu
Outstanding Achievement in Stunt Artistry: Furiosa: A Mad Max Saga
NBR Spotlight Award: Creative collaboration of Cynthia Erivo and Ariana Grande – Wicked
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: No Other Land
Top 5 International Films The Seed of the Sacred Fig (Iran)The NBR lists the Best International Film and runners-up alphabetically All We Imagine as Light (India) The Girl with the Needle (Denmark) I'm Still Here (Brazil) Santosh (UK) Universal Language (Canada)
Top 5 DocumentariesSugarcaneThe NBR lists the Best Documentary Film and runners-up alphabetically Black Box Diaries Dahomey Look into My Eyes Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story Will & Harper
Top 10 Independent Films Bird A Different Man Dìdi Ghostlight Good One Hard Truths His Three Daughters Love Lies Bleeding My Old Ass Thelma
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