National Board of Review Awards 2000



72nd NBR Awards December 6, 2000

Best Film:  Quills  The 72nd National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2000, were announced on 6 December 2000 and given on 16 January 2001.

Top 10 films

 * 1) Quills
 * 2) Traffic
 * 3) Croupier
 * 4) You Can Count on Me
 * 5) Billy Elliot
 * 6) Before Night Falls
 * 7) Gladiator
 * 8) Wonder Boys
 * 9) Sunshine
 * 10) Dancer in the Dark

Top Foreign Films

 * 1) Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon
 * 2) Butterfly
 * 3) A Time for Drunken Horses
 * 4) Malèna
 * 5) Girl on the Bridge

Winners

 * Best Film:
 * Quills
 * Best Foreign Language Film:
 * Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Taiwan/Hong Kong/United States/P.R. China
 * Best Actor:
 * Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls
 * Best Actress:
 * Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich
 * Best Supporting Actor:
 * Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator
 * Best Supporting Actress:
 * Lupe Ontiveros - Chuck & Buck
 * Breakthrough Performance - Male:
 * Jamie Bell - Billy Elliot
 * Breakthrough Performance - Female:
 * Michelle Rodríguez - Girlfight
 * Best Acting by and Ensemble:
 * State and Main
 * Best Director:
 * Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich and Traffic
 * Best Screenplay:
 * All the Pretty Horses - Ted Tally
 * Best Documentary Feature:
 * The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
 * Best Animated Feature:
 * Chicken Run
 * Career Achievement Award:
 * Ellen Burstyn
 * Special Filmmaking Achievement:
 * Kenneth Lonergan - You Can Count on Me
 * Outstanding Production Design:
 * Arthur Max - Gladiator
 * Career Achievement - Music Composition:
 * Ennio Morricone
 * William K. Everson Award for Film History:
 * Roger Gottlieb and Robert Kimball, Reading Lyrics
 * Special Citations:
 * Björk - Outstanding Dramatic Music Performance, Dancer in the Dark
 * Dekalog, Outstanding Cinematic Series
 * Freedom of Expression:
 * A Time for Drunken Horses
 * Bamboozled
 * Before Night Falls
 * The Circle
 * Kadosh
 * Quills
 * Sound and Fury
 * The Visit
 * Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking:
 * American Psycho
 * Best in Show
 * Chuck & Buck
 * Girlfight
 * Hamlet
 * Nurse Betty
 * Requiem for a Dream
 * Shower
 * Snatch
 * Two Family House