Announces tomorrow. Last year's winners:

http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/2012/

So, what do you think for this year?

My prediction:

Best Film

12 Years a Slave

Best Director

Martin Scorsese (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Actor

Leonardo DiCaprio (The Wolf of Wall Street)

Best Actress

Cate Blanchett (Blue Jasmine)

Best Supporting Actor

James Gandolfini (Enough Said)

Best Supporting Actress

June Squibb (Nebraska)

Best Ensemble

American Hustle

Best Original Screenplay

American Hustle

Best Adapted Screenplay

12 Years a Slave

Best Animated Film

Frozen

Best Foreign Language Film

Blue is the Warmest Color

Remaining Top 10 Films

The Wolf of Wall Street
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Gravity
Captain Phillips
Saving Mr. Banks
Before Midnight
Rush
Prisoners

Top films
12 Years a Slave
American Hustle
Blue Jasmine
Captain Phillips
Her
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lee Daniels' The Butler
Saving Mr. Banks
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best film
Gravity

Best director
Alfonso Cuarón, Gravity

Best actor
Matthew McConaughey, Dallas Buyers Club

Best actress
Sandra Bullock, Gravity

Best supporting actor
Jared Leto, Dallas Buyers Club

Best supporting actress
Jennifer Lawrence, American Hustle

Best foreign language film
Blue Is the Warmest Color

Best animated feature
The Wind Rises

Best documentary
Stories We Tell

Best original screenplay
Her

Best adapted screenplay
12 Years a Slave

Best directorial debut
Fruitvale Station

Best ensemble
American Hustle

Breakthrough performance (actor)
Michael B. Jordan, Fruitvale Station

Breakthrough performance (actress)
Adèle Exarchopoulos, Blue Is the Warmest Color

Top 5 foreign language films
Gloria
The Great Beauty
The Hunt
The Past
Wadjda

Top 5 documentaries
20 Feet from Stardom
The Act of Killing
The Armstrong Lie
Blackfish
The Gatekeepers

Top 10 independent films
All Is Lost
Before Midnight
Blue Caprice
Enough Said
Frances Ha
Go for Sisters
Fruitvale Station
Nebraska
Short Term 12
The Spectacular Now

If there is a big surprise, I believe it will be Harrison Ford winning Best Supporting Actor.

Prisoners seems a good bet to be in the top 10. They love Warner Bros. and it was well-received.

I believe the Warner Bros. connection/love will benefit Gravity and Her most, but I would not be surprised to see Prisoners as well.

Seems like a long shot, but I'd be okay with it.

I predict these films will show up in their Top 10 list:

Inside Llewyn Davis
American Hustle
The Wolf of Wall Street
Captain Phillips
Nebraska
Her
Saving Mr Banks
12 Years a Slave
Gravity (winner)

The 10th spot will probably be an oddball choice since the NBR usually throws something like Looper, Where the Wild Things Are, Harry Potter 7.2, Shutter Island,The Bucket List, etc.
So I think something like The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, The Great Gatsby, or The Book Thief, can come up here. I'm gonna go with The Great Gatsby.

Other films I believe could show up on the top ten in a National Board of Review style twist:

The Heat
The Hunger Games: Catching Fire
Out of the Furnace
The Place Beyond the Pines
This Is the End

Her?

Not surprising. Very well-received film. And it is Warner Bros.

No Blue is the Warmest Color for foreign films, not even in the top 6. No American Hustle. And after two awards, Gravity has been shut out outside getting the top 10 mention, and 12 Years a Slave only got one award in directing. Pretty interesting start to the awards season.

Best Film
Her

Best Director
Spike Jonze
Her

Best Actor
Bruce Dern
Nebraska

Best Actress
Emma Thompson
Saving Mr. Banks

Best Supporting Actor
Will Forte
Nebraska

Best Supporting Actress
Octavia Spencer
Fruitvale Station

Best Foreign Language Film
The Past

Best Animated Feature
The Wind Rises

Best Documentary
Stories We Tell

Best Original Screenplay
Joel Coen Ethan Coen
Inside Llewyn Davis

Best Adapted Screenplay
Terence Winter
The Wolf of Wall Street

Best Directorial Debut
Ryan Coogler
Fruitvale Station

Best Ensemble
Prisoners

Breakthrough Performance (Female)
Adèle Exarchopoulos
Blue Is the Warmest Color

Breakthrough Performance (Male)
Michael B. Jordan
Fruitvale Station

William K. Everson Award for Film History
George Stevens Jr.

Creative Innovation in Filmmaking
Gravity

Spotlight Award
Career Collaboration of Martin Scorsese and Leonardo DiCaprio

NBR Freedom of Expression
Wadjda

Top Films (in alphabetical order)
12 Years a Slave
Fruitvale Station
Gravity
Inside Llewyn Davis
Lone Survivor
Nebraska
Prisoners
Saving Mr. Banks
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Wolf of Wall Street

Top 10 Independent Films (in alphabetical order)
Ain't Them Bodies Saints
Dallas Buyers Club
In a World…
Mother of George
Much Ado About Nothing
Mud
The Place Beyond the Pines
Short Term 12
Sightseers
The Spectacular Now

http://www.nationalboardofreview.org/award-years/2013/

So The Wind Rises and Stories We Tell are the only repeat winners for the first two critic groups.

LOL the NBR increasingly bring the crazy with each year.

Walter Mitty in the top 10 but no American Hustle? K.

Her is an interesting choice, though. I'm dying to see it.

Since they are so high on Nebraska, it is a shame they did not award June Squibb in Best Supporting Actress. She gives the film's best and most memorable performance.

Sad to see All Is Lost completely left out in the cold, not even earning a citation among the ten independent films.

Emma Thompson over Sandra Bullock and Cate Blanchett in Best Actress is a surprise. A welcome one, perhaps.

No love for Captain Phillips. Lone Survivor shows up.

well that kinda makes me excited for Her. No American Hustle though lol

Haven't seen most of these unfortunately. But I'm glad Phillips is nowhere to be seen. Hopefully it stays that way.

They got nothing really right last year, so I don't think it is too much of an indicator this year either.

Last year nothing turned out to be any indicator before the Globes.

Either way, Her winning is a huge surprise and makes it a likely BP nominee, which I am sure not many saw coming. Since 2001 every single of their Best Film winners has been nominated for BP at the Oscars.

Also, Lone Survivor is basically their "Promised Land" this year - a end-of-the-year entry with some pedigree that won't go anywhere Oscars-wise otherwise.

And they shut out Before Midnight completely too? Weird.