The Spike Lee Cast Da 5 Bloods.
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Spike Lee’s Da 5 Bloods won some of the National Board of Review’s biggest awards today, as this year’s weird award season continues. Picking Best Picture, Best Director and Best Set, Lee’s newest film led the group with three awards, followed by Metal sound and Minari with two. Riz Ahmed (Metal sound) and Carey Mulligan (Promising young woman) won Best Actor and Actress, respectively, while Chadwick Boseman was posthumously honored with the NBR Icon Award. Other Netflix favorites Mank and Black Bottom by Ma Rainey didn’t work, proving to be a very sad day for the streaming service, in fact. See the full list of 2020 winners below.
Best movie
Da 5 Bloods
Best director
Spike Lee, Da 5 Bloods
Best actor
Riz Ahmed, Metal sound
Best actress
Carey Mulligan, Promising young woman
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Raci, Metal sound
Best supporting actress
Youn Yuh-jung, Minari
Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Greengrass and Luke Davies, World News
Best Original Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung, Minari
Innovative performance
Sidney Flanigan, Never seldom sometimes always
Best directorial debut
Channing Godfrey Peoples, Miss Juneteenth
Best Animation
Soul
Best Foreign Film
La Llorona
Best Documentary
Time
NBR Icon Award
Chadwick Boseman
NBR Freedom of Expression Award
One night in Miami …
NBR Spotlight Award
Radha Blank, The forty-year-old version
Best Set
Da 5 Bloods
Notable achievement in cinematography
Joshua James Richards, Nomadland
Main films (in alphabetical order)
First cow
The forty-year-old version
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Midnight Sky
Minari
World News
Nomadland
Promising young woman
Soul
Metal sound
The top 5 foreign language films (in alphabetical order)
Apples
Collective
Dear Comrades
The Mole Agent
Night of kings
The 5 best documentaries (in alphabetical order)
All In: The struggle for democracy
Boys State
Dick Johnson is dead
American Miss
The Truffle Hunters
The 10 best independent films (in alphabetical order)
The climb
Sidewalks
Goodbye Love
Miss Juneteenth
The nest
Never seldom sometimes always
The Outpost
Relic
San Francisco
Wolfwalkers
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