National Board of Review: Top Ten Independent Films

The following is a list of the Top 10 Independent Films chosen annually by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, beginning in 2006.

Lists

2000s

2006: 10 Items or Less Akeelah and the Bee Bobby Catch a Fire Copying Beethoven A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Half Nelson The Illusionist Lonesome Jim Sherrybaby Thank You for Smoking

2007: Away from Her Great World of Sound Honeydripper In the Valley of Elah A Mighty Heart The Namesake Once The Savages Starting Out in the Evening Waitress

2008: Frozen River In Bruges In Search of a Midnight Kiss Mister Foe Rachel Getting Married Snow Angels Son of Rambow Wendy and Lucy Vicky Cristina Barcelona The Visitor

2009: Amreeka District 9 Goodbye Solo Humpday In the Loop Julia Me and Orson Welles Moon Sugar Two Lovers

2010s

2010: Animal Kingdom Buried Fish Tank The Ghost Writer Greenberg Let Me In Monsters Please Give Somewhere Youth in Revolt

2011: 50/50 Another Earth Beginners A Better Life Cedar Rapids Margin Call Shame Take Shelter We Need To Talk About Kevin Win Win

2012: Arbitrage Bernie Compliance End of Watch Hello I Must Be Going Little Birds Moonrise Kingdom On the Road Quartet Sleepwalk with Me

2013: 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

2014: 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

2015: '71 45 Years Cop Car Ex Machina Grandma It Follows James White Mississippi Grind Welcome to Me While We’re Young

2016: 20th Century Women Captain Fantastic Creative Control Eye in the Sky The Fits Green Room Hello, My Name Is Doris Krisha Morris from America Sing Street

2017:[1] Beatriz at Dinner Brigsby Bear A Ghost Story Lady Macbeth Logan Lucky Loving Vincent Menashe Norman: The Moderate Rise and Tragic Fall of a New York Fixer Patti Cake$ Wind River

2018:[2] The Death of Stalin Lean on Pete Leave No Trace Mid90s The Old Man & the Gun The Rider Searching Sorry to Bother You We the Animals You Were Never Really Here

2019:[3] The Farewell Give Me Liberty A Hidden Life Judy The Last Black Man in San Francisco Midsommar The Nightingale The Peanut Butter Falcon The Souvenir Wild Rose

2020s

2020:[4] The Climb Driveways Farewell Amor Miss Juneteenth The Nest Never Rarely Sometimes Always The Outpost Relic Saint Frances Wolfwalkers

References

1. National Board of Review best film of 2017 announced|EW.com
2. National Board of Review Names 'Green Book' Best Film of 2018 - Variety
3. National Board of Review 2019 Winners|IndieWire
4. 2021 National Board of Review Winners and Analysis - Variety

External links

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures: Top 10 Independent Films