The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures

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Awards for 1995:

Best Acting By An Ensemble
The Usual Suspects, presented to Gabriel Byrne, Kevin Spacey, and Chazz Palminteri by Ben Gazzara

Best Actor
Nicolas Cage, Leaving Las Vegas, presented by Andrew Bergman

Best Actress
Emma Thompson, Sense & Sensibility, presented to Bernadette Peters by Ellen Burstyn

Best Director
Ang Lee, Sense & Sensibility, presented by Arthur Penn

Best Documentary
Crumb, presented to Dianne Hanson by Gary Trudeau

Best Film
Sense & Sensibility, presented to Lindsay Doran by Alan Pakula

Best Film Made For Cable TV
The Boys of St. Vincents, presented to Henry Czerny by Kate Nelligan

Best Foreign Language Film
Shanghai Triad, presented to Michael Barker by Michael Radford

Best Screenplay
Betty Comden and Adolph Green - Career Achievement, presented by Sir Andre Previn

Best Supporting Actor
Kevin Spacey, The Usual Suspects, presented by Gabriel Byrne

Best Supporting Actress
Mira Sorvino, Mighty Aphrodite, presented by Harvey Keitel

Billy Wilder Award For Excellence In Directing
Stanley Donen, presented by Martin Scorsese

Breakthrough Performance - Female
Alicia Silverstone, Clueless, presented by Lewis Frumkes

Career Achievement Award
James Earl Jones, presented by Sidney Poitier

Freedom Of Expression
Zhang Yimou, presented to Michael Barker by Inez Glucksman

Special Achievement in Filmmaking
Mel Gibson, Braveheart, presented by Rene Russo

Top Foreign Films
Shanghi Triad, Les Misérables, Il Postino, Farinelli, Lamerica

Top Ten Films
Sense and Sensibility, Apollo 13, Carrington, Leaving Las Vegas, The American President, Mightly Aphrodite, Smoke, Persuasion, Braveheart, The Usual Suspects

 

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