National Board of Review 2017 winners list

Well, National Board of Review has just announced its winners of the 2017 edition. And guess what? "Surprise, suprise!", Steven Spielberg's The Post got the top prize and Greta Gerwig took home Best Director for her directorial debut Lady Bird. Highlights for Timothée Chalamet who won Breakthrough Performance for Call Me By Your Name and Wonder Woman for having its director and leading star (Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot) taking home the Spotlight Award. And I would not ignore having Loving Vincent (an animated feature) between the TOP 10 Independent Films and Angelina Jolie's First They Killed My Father getting a Freedom of Expression prize (which can be relevant when it comes voting for the Academy Award for Best Foreign Picture).

Here's the complete list of winners:

BEST FILM

• The Post

BEST DIRECTOR

• Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird

BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT

• Jordan Peele, Get Out

BEST CAST ENSEMBLE

• Get Out

BEST ACTOR

• Tom Hanks, The Post

BEST ACTRESS

• Meryl Streep, The Post

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• Willem Dafoe, The Florida Project

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• Laurie Metcalf, Lady Bird

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

• Coco

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE

• Timothée Chalamet,  Call Me By Your Name

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• Phantom Thread, Paul Thomas Anderson

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• The Disaster Artist, Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

• Foxtrot

TOP FOREIGN FILMS

• A Fantastic Woman
• Frantz
• Loveless
• Summer 1993
• The Square

SPOTLIGHT AWARD

• Wonder Woman director Patty Jenkins and actress Gal Gadot

FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION (tie)

• John Ridley - Let it Fall: Los Angeles, 1982-1992
• Angelina Jolie - First They Killed My Father

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• Jane

TOP FIVE DOCUMENTARIES

• Abacus: Small Enough to Jail
• Brimstone & Glory
• Eric Clapton: Life in 12 Bars
• Faces Places
• Hell on Earth: The Fall of Syria and the Rise of ISIS

TOP 10 MOVIES

• Baby Driver
• Call Me By Your Name
• The Disaster Artist
• Downsizing
• Dunkirk
• The Florida Project
• Get Out
• Lady Bird
• Logan
• Phantom Thread

TOP 10 INDEPENDENT MOVIES

• 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