National Board of Review Awards 2013

85th NBR Awards
Best Film: Her

The 85th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2013, were announced on December 4, 2013. ^[1]

Top 10 Films

Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:

Her

• 12 Years a Slave
• Fruitvale Station
• Gravity
• Inside Llewyn Davis
• Lone Survivor
• Nebraska
• Prisoners
• Saving Mr. Banks
• The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
• The Wolf of Wall Street

Winners

Best Film:

• Her

Best Director:

• Spike Jonze – Her

Best Actor:

• Bruce Dern – Nebraska

Best Actress:

• Emma Thompson – Saving Mr. Banks

Best Supporting Actor:

• Will Forte – Nebraska

Best Supporting Actress:

• Octavia Spencer – Fruitvale Station

Best Original Screenplay:

• Joel and Ethan Coen – Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Terence Winter – The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Animated Feature:

• The Wind Rises

Best Foreign Language Film:

• The Past

Best Documentary:

• Stories We Tell

Best Ensemble:

• Prisoners

Breakthrough Actor:

• Michael B. Jordan – Fruitvale Station

Breakthrough Actress:

• Adèle Exarchopoulos – Blue Is the Warmest Colour

Best Directorial Debut:

• Ryan Coogler – Fruitvale Station

Creative Innovation in Filmmaking:

• Gravity

William K. Everson Film History Award:

• George Stevens Jr.

Spotlight Award:

• Career collaboration of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio

NBR Freedom of Expression:

• Wadjda

Top Foreign Films

The Past

• Beyond the Hills
• Gloria
• The Grandmaster
• A Hijacking
• The Hunt

Top Documentaries

Stories We Tell

• 20 Feet from Stardom
• The Act of Killing
• After Tiller
• Casting By
• The Square

Top Independent Films

• Ain't Them Bodies Saints
• Dallas Buyers Club
• In a World...
• Mother of George
• Much Ado About Nothing
• Mud
• The Place Beyond the Pines
• Short Term 12
• Sightseers
• The Spectacular Now

References

1. "2013 Archives". National Board of Review. Retrieved 2025-04-03.