The National Board of Review Award for Best Film is one of the awards given to either the director or producer of a film by the American National Board of Review.
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| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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| 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 |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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| 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 |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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| 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 |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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| 1960 | Sons and Lovers | Jack Cardiff |
| 1961 | Question 7 | Stuart Rosenberg |
| 1962 | The Longest Day | Ken Annakin, Andrew Marton, Gerd Oswald and Bernhard Wicki |
| 1963 | Tom Jones | Tony Richardson |
| 1964 | Becket | Peter Glenville |
| 1965 | The Eleanor Roosevelt Story | Richard 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 |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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| 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 |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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| 1980 | Ordinary People | Robert Redford |
| 1981 | Chariots of Fire | Hugh Hudson |
| Reds | Warren Beatty | |
| 1982 | Gandhi | Richard Attenborough |
| 1983 | Betrayal | David Hugh 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 |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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| 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 |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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| 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 | Ethan and Joel Coen |
| 2008 | Slumdog Millionaire | Danny Boyle |
| 2009 | Up in the Air | Jason Reitman |
| Year | Winner | Director(s) |
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| 2010 | The Social Network | David Fincher |
| 2011 | Hugo | Martin Scorsese |
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