NBR Winners (2013 films)

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

Breakthrough Performance


Michael B. Jordan, FRUITVALE STATION

Breakthrough Performance


Adele Exarchopoulos, BLUE IS THE WARMEST COLOR

Best Directorial Debut


Ryan Coogler, FRUITVALE STATION

Best Foreign Language Film


THE PAST

Best Documentary


STORIES WE TELL

William K. Everson Film History Award


George Stevens, Jr.

Best Ensemble


PRISONERS

Spotlight Award


Career Collaboration of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio

NBR Freedom of Expression Award


WADJDA

Creative Innovation in Filmmaking Award


GRAVITY

Top Films


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

Top 5 Foreign Language Films


BEYOND THE HILLS


GLORIA


THE GRANDMASTER


A HIGHJACKING


THE HUNT

Top 5 Documentaries

20 FEET FROM STARDOM


THE ACT OF KILLING


AFTER TILLER


CASTING BY


THE SQUARE

Top 10 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

Directors Guild (2011 films) WINNERS

Best Director

Alexander Payne - The Descendants

David Fincher - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Martin Scorsese - Hugo

Michel Hazanavicius - The Artist

Woody Allen - Midnight in Paris

Feature Documentary


James Marsh, Project Nim

Drama Series


Patty Jenkins, The Killing, “Pilot” (AMC)

Comedy Series


Robert B. Weide, Curb Your Enthusiasm, “Palestinian Chicken” (HBO)

Movies for Television and Miniseries


Jon Cassar, The Kennedys (Reelz Channel)

Reality Series


Neil P. Degroot, The Biggest Loser, “Episode #1115” (NBC)

Musical/Variety Series


Glenn Weiss, 65th Annual Tony Awards (CBS)

Daytime Serials


William Ludel, General Hospital, “Intervention” (ABC)

Children’s Programs


Amy Schatz, A Child’s Garden of Poetry (HBO)

NBR Winners (2011 films)

Best Film: Hugo

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo

Best Actor: George Clooney, The Descendants

Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners

Best Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, The Descendants

Best Original Screenplay: Will Reiser, 50/50

Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash, The Descendants

Best Animated Feature: Rango

Breakthrough Performance: Felicity Jones, Like Crazy

Breakthrough Performance: Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Debut Director: J.C. Chandor, Margin Call

Best Ensemble: The Help

Spotlight Award: Michael Fassbender (A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class)

NBR Freedom of Expression: Crime After Crime

NBR Freedom of Expression: Pariah

Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation

Best Documentary: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Special Achievement in Filmmaking: The Harry Potter Franchise - A Distinguished Translation from Book to Film

Top Films
(in alphabetical order):

"The Artist"
"The Descendants"
"Drive"
"The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo"
"Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2"
"The Ides of March"
"J. Edgar"
"Tree of Life"
"War Horse"

Top 5 Foreign Language Films
(In Alphabetical Order):

"13 Assassins"
"Elite Squad: The Enemy Within"
"Footnote"
"Le Havre"
"Point Blank"

Top 5 Documentaries
(In Alphabetical Order):

"Born to be Wild"
"Buck"
"George Harrison: Living in the Material World"
"Project Nim"
"Senna"

Top 10 Independent Films
(In Alphabetical Order):

"50/50"
"Another Earth"
"Beginners"
"A Better Life"
"Cedar Rapids"
"Margin Call"
"Shame"
"Take Shelter"
"We Need To Talk About Kevin"
"Win Win"

Candid of the Week

Directors Ron Howard, Steven Spielberg, Martin Scorsese,

Brian De Palma, Robert Zemeckis, and Francis Ford Coppola help George Lucas celebrate his 50th birthday.

Los Angeles, 2004

... and you thought your birthday parties were cool!

and the Oscar Goes to...

and the Oscar Goes to...

You Say It's Your Birthday!

Happy 54th Birthday, Steven Spielberg!!!!!

on the set of "Jaws", 1975

with Henry Thomas on the set of "E.T: The Extra-Terrestrial", 1982

with Harrison Ford in India filming

"Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom", 1984

with Whoopi Goldberg on the set of "The Color Purple", 1985

with a very young Christian Bale on the

set of "Empire of the Sun", 1987

dealing with one of the smaller dinosaurs, "Jurassic Park", 1993

with Liam Neeson on, one of his best

films, "Schindler's List", 1993

winning two Oscars for "Schindler's List", 1994

with Tom Cruise and Samantha Morton

on the set of "Minority Report", 2002

Along with Francis Ford Coppola and George Lucas, Spielberg presented

Martin Scorsese with a long-deserved Best Director Oscar, 2007