National Board of Review Awards and Timothee Chalamet
Licorice Pizza, Will Smith hit Oscars footstep amidst 2021 National Board of Review winners
W Side Story star Rachel Zegler, King Richard, Belfast, The Tragedy of Macbeth, and more than built Oscar fizz with cardinal NBR victories amid a busy awards flavour calendar week.
Paul Thomas Anderson'southward Licorice Pizza and Reinaldo Marcus Green'due south King Richard offered up a delicious serve of awards flavour goodness among the National Board of Review list of the best films of 2021.
At the terminate of the busiest week of awards season thus far, the NBR named Licorice Pizza as the best of 2021 among its annual slate of year-end winners, which likewise included honors for King Richard's bandage and West Side Story's leading newcomer Rachel Zegler.
Among the acting winners were Will Smith, who won Best Actor for his portrayal of the moving picture's titular father to tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams, while Zegler earned her first ever major flick award for her leading turn in Steven Spielberg'due south critically lauded big-screen update of the Stephen Sondheim archetype.
Supporting trophies went to King Richard standout Aunjanue Ellis as the tennis stars' mother, as well equally Ciarán Hinds' piece of work in Kenneth Branagh's semi-autobiographical historical drama Belfast.
The NBR'due south picks join those of the Gotham Awards (which Maggie Gyllenhaal's The Lost Daughter steamrolled on Monday) and the New York Flick Critics Circle, which is fix to reveal its 2021 honour winners throughout the 24-hour interval on Friday.
National Lath of Review winners 'Licorice Pizza' for Best Motion-picture show, Will Smith for Best Actor in 'King Richard,' and Rachel Zegler for Best Actress in 'West Side Story.'
| Credit: MGM; Chiabella James/Warner Bros.; Niko Tavernise/20th Century Studios
Established in 1909 past theater owners fighting the revoking of exhibition licenses past New York City officials, the NBR is now comprised of film enthusiasts, academics, and other movie professionals working inside the industry. In recent years, it has evolved into a vital stepping stone (and visibility booster) on the path to potential Oscar glory for would-be contenders.
The group has boosted late-breaking projects into the race at large, like 2013's Her, 2015's Mad Max: Fury Road, and Riz Ahmed's NBR-winning functioning in Sound of Metallic just last year — all of which went on to generate Academy Awards oestrus.
Over the last xx years, just two of the NBR's superlative-film winners accept missed out on a All-time Picture Oscar nomination: 2014'sA Almost Violent Year and 2020'south Da five Bloods. Concluding year, NBR acting winners like Ahmed, Carey Mulligan (Promising Immature Woman), Paul Raci (Sound of Metal), and Supporting Extra Oscar winner Yuh-Jung Youn (Minari) all fabricated pit stops at the NBR prior to bagging Oscar attention.
See the total list of the 2021 National Board of Review winners below.
Best Film: Licorice Pizza
Best Director: Paul Thomas Anderson — Licorice Pizza
Best Role player: Volition Smith — Male monarch Richard
All-time Actress: Rachel Zegler — West Side Story
All-time Supporting Actor: Ciarán Hinds — Belfast
All-time Supporting Actress: Aunjanue Ellis — King Richard
Best Original Screenplay: Asghar Farhadi — A Hero
All-time Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen — The Tragedy of Macbeth
Quantum Performance: Alana Haim & Cooper Hoffman — Licorice Pizza
Best Directorial Debut: Michael Sarnoski — Pig
All-time Animated Feature: Encanto
Best Strange Linguistic communication Film: A Hero
Best Documentary: Summer of Soul
Best Ensemble: The Harder They Fall
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography: Bruno Delbonnel — The Tragedy of Macbeth
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Flee
Top Films (in alphabetical order)
Belfast
Don't Look Up
Dune
King Richard
The Terminal Duel
Nightmare Aisle
Red Rocket
The Tragedy of Macbeth
West Side Story
Height five Strange Language Films (in alphabetical society)
Benedetta
Lamb
Lingui, The Sacred Bonds
Titane
The Worst Person in the World
Top 5 Documentaries (in alphabetical gild)
Ascension
Attica
Abscond
The Rescue
Roadrunner: A Film Nearly Anthony Bourdain
Acme 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical guild)
The Carte du jour Counter
C'monday C'monday
CODA
The Green Knight
Holler
Jockey
Old Henry
Pig
Shiva Baby
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King Richard (2021 motion-picture show)
Will Smith stars in this biopic virtually the male parent of tennis legends Venus and Serena Williams.
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