National Board Of Review 2020 Winners Include Riz Ahmed, 'Da 5 Bloods,' Chadwick Boseman, And More

Another day, another awards body announcing their picks for the best movies and performances of the previous year. Today, the National Board of Review announced their 2020 winners, revealing a list that includes films like Da 5 Bloods, Soul, Minari, News of the World, and more, along with actors such as Riz Ahmed, Carey Mulligan, and the late Chadwick Boseman. See the full list of National Board of Review 2020 winners below.

As awards season ticks on it's clear there are certain titles that will continue to be at the forefront – titles like Minari, Da 5 Bloods, and Sound of Metal. Those films show up on the list of National Board of Review 2020 winners, but so do a few surprises. Perhaps the biggest surprise is George Clooney's The Midnight Sky, an utterly forgettable movie that received pretty ho-hum reviews (it's currently sitting at a rotten status on Rotten Tomatoes). Despite that, the NBR included it among its top films of the year. Here's the full list.

Top Films (in alphabetical order):

First Cow

The Forty-Year-Old Version

Judas and the Black Messiah

The Midnight Sky

Minari

News of the World

Nomadland

Promising Young Woman

Soul

Sound of Metal

Including News of the World on there seems strange, too. It's a better movie than Midnight Sky, and it's enjoyable. But "best of the year" status? That seems like a stretch. In other news, NBR announced specific awards for the following:

Best Film: DA 5 BLOODSBest Director: Spike Lee, DA 5 BLOODSBest Actor: Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METALBest Actress: Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMANBest Supporting Actor: Paul Raci, SOUND OF METALBest Supporting Actress: Youn Yuh-jung, MINARIBest Adapted Screenplay: Paul Greengrass & Luke Davies, NEWS OF THE WORLDBest Original Screenplay: Lee Isaac Chung, MINARIBreakthrough Performance: Sidney Flanigan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYSBest Directorial Debut: Channing Godfrey Peoples, MISS JUNETEENTHBest Animated Feature: SOULBest Foreign Language Film: LA LLORONABest Documentary: TIMENBR Icon Award: Chadwick BosemanNBR Freedom of Expression Award: ONE NIGHT IN MIAMINBR Spotlight Award: Radha Blank for writing, directing, producing and starring in THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSIONBest Ensemble: DA 5 BLOODSOutstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND

Then there are the foreign language winners:

Top 5 Foreign Language Films (in alphabetical order):

Apples

Collective

Dear Comrades

The Mole Agent

Night of the Kings

Followed by documentaries:

Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical order):

All In: The Fight for Democracy

Boys State

Dick Johnson is Dead

Miss Americana

The Truffle Hunters

And finally, independent films:

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order):

The Climb

Driveways

Farewell Amor

Miss Juneteenth

The Nest

Never Rarely Sometimes Always

The Outpost

Relic

Saint Frances

Wolfwalkers