The 86th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2014, were announced on December 2, 2014.^[1]

Top 10 Films

Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:

• A Most Violent Year
• American Sniper
• Birdman
• Boyhood
• Fury
• Gone Girl
• The Imitation Game
• Inherent Vice
• The Lego Movie
• Nightcrawler
• Unbroken

Top Foreign Films

• Force Majeure
• Gett: The Trial of Viviane Amsalem
• Leviathan
• Two Days, One Night
• We Are the Best!

Top Documentaries

• Art and Craft
• Jodorowsky's Dune
• Keep On Keepin' On
• The Kill Team
• Last Days in Vietnam

Top Independent Films

• 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

Winners

Best Film:

• A Most Violent Year

Best Director:

• Clint Eastwood, American Sniper

Best Actor (tie):

• Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year
• Michael Keaton, Birdman

Best Actress:

• Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Best Supporting Actor:

• Edward Norton, Birdman

Best Supporting Actress:

• Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year

Best Original Screenplay:

• Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, The Lego Movie

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice

Best Animated Feature:

• How to Train Your Dragon 2

Breakthrough Performance:

• Jack O'Connell, Starred Up and Unbroken

Best Directorial Debut:

• Gillian Robespierre, Obvious Child

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Wild Tales

Best Documentary:

• Life Itself

William K. Everson Film History Award:

• Scott Eyman

Best Ensemble:

• Fury

Spotlight Award:

• Chris Rock for writing, directing, and starring Top Five.

NBR Freedom of Expression:

• Rosewater
• Selma