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| A Most Violent Year director J.C. Chandor at Steve James' Best Documentary Life Itself premiere. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze |
The US National Board of Review announced J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year as this year's Best Film with Jessica Chastain as Best Supporting Actress and Oscar Isaac sharing Best Actor honors with Michael Keaton in Alejandro González Iñárritu's Birdman Or The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance. Clint Eastwood is awarded Best Director for American Sniper. Julianne Moore was named Best Actress in Richard Glatzer and Wash Westmoreland's Still Alice. Breakthrough Performance goes to Jack O’Connell for his roles in David Mackenzie's Starred Up and Angelina Jolie's Unbroken. Paul Thomas Anderson won Best Adapted Screenplay for Inherent Vice, the first adaptation of a Thomas Pynchon novel. Birdman's Edward Norton gets Best Supporting Actor.
The National Board of Review Awards Gala will take place on January 6, 2015
Here are this year's US National Board of Review Award Winners:
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| Best Supporting Actress Jessica Chastain for J.C. Chandor's A Most Violent Year. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze |
Best Film
Best Director- Clint Eastwood, American Sniper
- Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year
- Michael Keaton, Birdman
- Julianne Moore, Still Alice
- Edward Norton, Birdman
- Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year
- Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, The Lego Movie
- Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice
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| Best Documentary Life Itself director Steve James. Photo: Anne-Katrin Titze |
Breakthrough Performance
- Jack O’Connell, Starred Up and Unbroken
- Gillian Robespierre, Obvious Child
- Life Itself
- Scott Eyman
- Chris Rock for writing, directing, and starring in Top Five
