Film Terbaik (National Board of Review Award)

Pemenang

1930an

Tahun Pemenang Sutradara
1932 I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang ‡ Mervyn LeRoy
1933 Topaze § Harry d'Abbadie d'Arrast
1934 It Happened One Night † Frank Capra
1935 The Informer ‡ John Ford
1936 Mr. Deeds Goes to Town ‡ Frank Capra
1937 Night Must Fall § Richard Thorpe
1938 The Citadel ‡ King Vidor
1939 Confessions of a Nazi Spy § Anatole Litvak

1940an

Tahun Pemenang Sutradara
1940 The Grapes of Wrath ‡ John Ford
1941 Citizen Kane ‡ Orson Welles
1942 In Which We Serve ‡ Noël Coward and David Lean
1943 The Ox-Bow Incident ‡ William A. Wellman
1944 None But the Lonely Heart § Clifford Odets
1945 The True Glory § Carol Reed
1946 Henry V ‡ Laurence Olivier
1947 Monsieur Verdoux § Charlie Chaplin
1948 Paisan (Paisà) Roberto Rossellini
1949 Bicycle Thieves (Ladri di biciclette) Vittorio De Sica

1950an

Tahun Pemenang Sutradara
1950 Sunset Boulevard ‡ Billy Wilder
1951 A Place in the Sun ‡ George Stevens
1952 The Quiet Man ‡ John Ford
1953 Julius Caesar ‡ Joseph L. Mankiewicz
1954 On the Waterfront † Elia Kazan
1955 Marty † Delbert Mann
1956 Around the World in 80 Days † Michael Anderson
1957 The Bridge on the River Kwai † David Lean
1958 The Old Man and the Sea § John Sturges
1959 The Nun's Story ‡ Fred Zinnemann

1960an

Tahun Pemenang Sutradara
1960 Sons and Lovers ‡ Jack Cardiff
1961 Question 7 § Stuart Rosenberg
1962 The Longest Day ‡ Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald, dan Bernhard Wicki
1963 Tom Jones † Tony Richardson
1964 Becket ‡ Peter Glenville
1965 The Eleanor Roosevelt Story § Rick Kaplan
1966 A Man for All Seasons † Fred Zinnemann
1967 Far from the Madding Crowd § John Schlesinger
1968 The Shoes of the Fisherman § Michael Anderson
1969 They Shoot Horses, Don't They? § Sydney Pollack

1970an

Tahun Pemenang Sutradara
1970 Patton † Franklin J. Schaffner
1971 Macbeth § Roman Polanski
1972 Cabaret ‡ Bob Fosse
1973 The Sting † George Roy Hill
1974 The Conversation ‡ Francis Ford Coppola
1975 Barry Lyndon ‡ Stanley Kubrick
Nashville ‡ Robert Altman
1976 All the President's Men ‡ Alan J. Pakula
1977 The Turning Point ‡ Herbert Ross
1978 Days of Heaven § Terrence Malick
1979 Manhattan § Woody Allen

1980an

Tahun Pemenang Sutradara
1980 Ordinary People † Robert Redford
1981 Chariots of Fire † Hugh Hudson
Reds ‡ Warren Beatty
1982 Gandhi † Richard Attenborough
1983 Betrayal § David Jones
Terms of Endearment † James L. Brooks
1984 A Passage to India ‡ David Lean
1985 The Color Purple ‡ Steven Spielberg
1986 A Room with a View ‡ James Ivory
1987 Empire of the Sun § Steven Spielberg
1988 Mississippi Burning ‡ Alan Parker
1989 Driving Miss Daisy † Bruce Beresford

1990an

Tahun Pemenang Sutradara
1990 Dances with Wolves † Kevin Costner
1991 The Silence of the Lambs † Jonathan Demme
1992 Howards End ‡ James Ivory
1993 Schindler's List † Steven Spielberg
1994 Forrest Gump † Robert Zemeckis
Pulp Fiction ‡ Quentin Tarantino
1995 Sense and Sensibility ‡ Ang Lee
1996 Shine ‡ Scott Hicks
1997 L.A. Confidential ‡ Curtis Hanson
1998 Gods and Monsters § Bill Condon
1999 American Beauty † Sam Mendes

2000an

Tahun Pemenang Sutradara
2000 Quills § Philip Kaufman
2001 Moulin Rouge! ‡ Baz Luhrmann
2002 The Hours ‡ Stephen Daldry
2003 Mystic River ‡ Clint Eastwood
2004 Finding Neverland ‡ Marc Forster
2005 Good Night, and Good Luck. ‡ George Clooney
2006 Letters from Iwo Jima ‡ Clint Eastwood
2007 No Country for Old Men † Joel Coen and Ethan Coen
2008 Slumdog Millionaire † Danny Boyle
2009 Up in the Air ‡ Jason Reitman

2010an

Tahun Pemenang Sutradara
2010 The Social Network ‡ David Fincher
2011 Hugo ‡ Martin Scorsese
2012 Zero Dark Thirty ‡ Kathryn Bigelow
2013 Her ‡ Spike Jonze
2014 A Most Violent Year § J. C. Chandor
2015 Mad Max: Fury Road ‡ George Miller
2016 Manchester by the Sea ‡ Kenneth Lonergan
2017 The Post ‡ Steven Spielberg
2018 Green Book † Peter Farrelly