In a development that is about as surprising as this morning’s sunrise, Steven Spielberg’s The Post appears to be garnering overwhelmingly positive reactions since it debuted to the US press last week.
Anticipation for the Spotlight style journalistic expose can now be cranked up a notch with the news that the National Board of Review have awarded it their Best Film of 2017 accolade. Stars Tom Hanks and Meryl Streep were also given acting gongs for the potential Oscar botherer.
Other notable awards were dished out to Willem Dafoe, Best Supporting Actor for The Florida Project, Greta Gerwig was awarded Best Director for Lady Bird, and Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot were the popular recipients of The Spotlight Award for Wonder Woman. The full list of winners are below:
Best film: The Post
Best director: Greta Gerwig, Lady Bird
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 original screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, Phantom Thread
Best adapted screenplay: Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, The Disaster Artist
Best animated feature: Coco
Breakthrough performance: Timothée Chalamet, Call Me by Your Name
Best directorial debut: Jordan Peele, Get Out
Best foreign language film: Foxtrot
Best documentary: Jane
Best ensemble: Get Out
Spotlight Award: Wonder Woman, Patty Jenkins and Gal Gadot
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: First They Killed My Father
NBR Freedom of Expression Award: Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982-1992
Top Films
Baby Driver
Call Me by Your Name
The Disaster Artist
Downsizing
Dunkirk
The Florida Project
Get Out
Lady Bird
Logan
Phantom Thread
Top 5 Foreign-Language Films
A Fantastic Woman
Frantz
Loveless
Summer 1993
The Square
Top 5 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 Independent Films
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
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Steven Spielberg directs Meryl Streep and Tom Hanks in The Post, a thrilling drama about the unlikely partnership between The Washington Post’s Katharine Graham (Streep), the first female publisher of a major American newspaper, and editor Ben Bradlee (Hanks), as they race to catch up with The New York Times to expose a massive cover-up of government secrets that spanned three decades and four U.S. Presidents. The two must overcome their differences as they risk their careers – and their very freedom – to help bring long-buried truths to light.
The Post is set for a limited release in the States on December 22nd followed by a wide release on January 12th and is set to hit UK cinemas on January 9th.
