The86thNational Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for2014, were announced on December 2, 2014.^[1]

Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:

A Most Violent Year

• American Sniper
• Birdman
• Boyhood
• Fury
• Gone Girl
• The Imitation Game
• Inherent Vice
• The Lego Movie
• Nightcrawler
• Unbroken

Best Film:

• A Most Violent Year

Best Director:

• Clint Eastwood –American Sniper

Best Actor (tie):

• Oscar Isaac –A Most Violent Year
• Michael Keaton –Birdman

Best Actress:

• Julianne Moore –Still Alice

Best Supporting Actor:

• Edward Norton –Birdman

Best Supporting Actress:

• Jessica Chastain –A Most Violent Year

Best Original Screenplay:

• Phil Lord and Christopher Miller –The Lego Movie

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Paul Thomas Anderson –Inherent Vice

Best Animated Feature:

• How to Train Your Dragon 2

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Wild Tales

Best Documentary:

• Life Itself

Best Ensemble:

• Fury

Breakthrough Performance:

• Jack O'Connell –Starred Up andUnbroken

Best Directorial Debut:

• Gillian Robespierre –Obvious Child

William K. Everson Film History Award:

• Scott Eyman

Spotlight Award:

• Chris Rock for writing, directing, and starringTop Five

NBR Freedom of Expression:

• Rosewater
• Selma

Wild Tales

• Force Majeure
• Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
• Leviathan
• Two Days, One Night
• We Are the Best!

Life Itself

• Art and Craft
• Jodorowsky's Dune
• Keep On Keepin' On
• The Kill Team
• Last Days in Vietnam

• Blue Ruin
• Locke
• A Most Wanted Man
• Mr. Turner
• Obvious Child
• The Skeleton Twins
• Snowpiercer
• Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
• Starred Up
• Still Alice

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