‘Manchester By The Sea’ takes National Board Of Review top prize

National Board of Review 2016 winners: Manchester By The Sea outshines Moonlight to take Best Film.

You can view the full National Board Of Review 2016 winners below.

While Moonlight may have devoured the majority of the top awards at Gotham earlier this week, Kenneth Lonergan’s Manchester By The Sea proved to be the top movie for the National Board Of Review. The film, which was highly praised at TIFF on these very pages, bagged the Best Film, Best Actor (for Casey Affleck), and Best Original Screenplay awards. Barry Jenkins did however pick up the Best Director honour for Moonlight.

Amy Adams won Best Actress for Arrival, while Jeff Bridges took supporting actor for Hell Or High Water, and Naomie Harris for best supporting actress for her outstanding turn in Moonlight.

This pretty much levels the field for the run for Best Film at the Oscars so far, with both Moonlight and Manchester By The Sea sharing top honours so far on the awards run. Casey Affleck looks like an absolute cert for the actor categories, but there’s a long way to go until February when the Academy Awards polish things off for the year.

Here are the National Board Of Review 2016 winners in full.

Best Film:  Manchester by the Sea

Best Director:  Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Best Actor:  Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea

Best Actress: Amy Adams, Arrival

Best Supporting Actor: Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water 

Best Supporting Actress:  Naomie Harris, Moonlight

Best Original Screenplay:  Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

Best Adapted Screenplay:  Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence

Best Animated Feature:  Kubo and the Two Strings

Breakthrough Performance (Male): Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea

Breakthrough Performance (Female): Royalty Hightower, The Fits

Best Directorial Debut:  Trey Edward Shults, Krisha

Best Foreign Language Film:  The Salesman

Best Documentary:  O.J.: Made in America

Best Ensemble:  Hidden Figures

Spotlight Award: Creative Collaboration of Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg

NBR Freedom of Expression Award:  Cameraperson