The 1st National Board of Review Awards were announced in 1929.

Top Ten Films

• Applause
• Broadway
• Bulldog Drummond
• The Case of Lena Smith
• Disraeli
• Hallelujah!
• The Letter
• The Love Parade
• Paris Bound
• The Valiant

Top Foreign Films

• Arsenal
• The Passion of Joan of Arc
• October: Ten Days That Shook the World
• Piccadilly
• Homecoming