Jayro Bustamante is celebrating a big honor…
The National Board of Review has announced its award winners for 2020, with the 46-year-old Guatemalan film director and screenwriter earning a prize.
Bustamante’s La Llorona took home the award for Best Foreign Language Film.
La Llorona centers on an aging paranoid war criminal, protected by his faithful wife, who faces death while being haunted by the ghosts of his past.
Meanwhile, Maite Alberdi‘s The Mole Agent was named to the NBR‘s Top 5 Foreign Language Films list.
The film centers on an 83-year-old man who poses as a resident in a Chilean nursing home to see if he can find signs of abuse.
Here’s the full list of NBR winners:
Best Film
DA 5 BLOODS
Best Director
Spike Lee, DA 5 BLOODS
Best Actor
Riz Ahmed, SOUND OF METAL
Best Actress
Carey Mulligan, PROMISING YOUNG WOMAN
Best Supporting Actor
Paul Raci, SOUND OF METAL
Best Supporting Actress
Youn Yuh-jung, MINARI
Best Adapted Screenplay
Paul Greengrass & Luke Davies, NEWS OF THE WORLD
Best Original Screenplay
Lee Isaac Chung, MINARI
Breakthrough Performance
Sidney Flanigan, NEVER RARELY SOMETIMES ALWAYS
Best Directorial Debut
Channing Godfrey Peoples, MISS JUNETEENTH
Best Animated Feature
SOUL
Best Foreign Language 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 for writing, directing, producing and starring in THE FORTY-YEAR-OLD VERSION
Best Ensemble
DA 5 BLOODS
Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography
Joshua James Richards, NOMADLAND
Top Films
(in alphabetical order)
First Cow
The Forty-Year-Old Version
Judas and the Black Messiah
The Midnight Sky
Minari
News of the World
Nomadland
Promising Young Woman
Soul
Sound of Metal
Top 5 Foreign Language Films
(in alphabetical order)
Apples
Collective
Dear Comrades
The Mole Agent
Night of the Kings
Top 5 Documentaries
(in alphabetical order)
All In: The Fight for Democracy
Boys State
Dick Johnson is Dead
Miss Americana
The Truffle Hunters
Top 10 Independent Films
(in alphabetical order)
The Climb
Driveways
Farewell Amor
Miss Juneteenth
The Nest
Never Rarely Sometimes Always
The Outpost
Relic
Saint Frances
Wolfwalkers