92nd NBR Awards
Best Film: Da 5 Bloods
The 92nd National Board of Review Awards , honoring the best in film for 2020, were announced on January 26, 2021. [1] [2] [3]
Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:
Best Film:
Best Director:
Best Actor:
Best Actress:
Best Supporting Actor:
Best Supporting Actress:
Best Original Screenplay:
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Best Animated Feature:
Breakthrough Performance:
Best Directorial Debut:
Best Foreign Language Film:
Best Documentary:
Best Ensemble:
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography:
NBR Freedom of Expression:
NBR Icon Award:
The New York Film Critics Online (NYFCO) is an organization co-founded by Harvey S. Karten and Prairie Miller in 2000, composed of Internet film critics based in New York City. The group meets once a year, in December, for voting on its annual NYFCO Awards. Prairie Miller, Avi Offer and Karen Benardello are the members of NYFCO's Governing Committee.
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Minari is a 2020 American drama film written and directed by Lee Isaac Chung. It stars Steven Yeun, Han Ye-ri, Alan Kim, Noel Kate Cho, Youn Yuh-jung, and Will Patton. A semi-autobiographical take on Chung's upbringing, the plot follows a family of South Korean immigrants who try to make it in the rural United States during the 1980s.
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