National Board of Review: Top Ten Independent Films

The following is a list of the Top 10 Independent Films chosen annually by the National Board of Review of Motion Pictures, beginning in 2006.

Lists

2000s

• 2006:
  • 10 Items or Less
  • Akeelah and the Bee
  • Bobby
  • Catch a Fire
  • Copying Beethoven
  • A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
  • Half Nelson
  • The Illusionist
  • Lonesome Jim
  • Sherrybaby
  • Thank You for Smoking

• 2007:
  • Away from Her
  • Great World of Sound
  • Honeydripper
  • In the Valley of Elah
  • A Mighty Heart
  • The Namesake
  • Once
  • The Savages
  • Starting Out in the Evening
  • Waitress

• 2008:
  • Frozen River
  • In Bruges
  • In Search of a Midnight Kiss
  • Mister Foe
  • Rachel Getting Married
  • Snow Angels
  • Son of Rambow
  • Wendy and Lucy
  • Vicky Cristina Barcelona
  • The Visitor

• 2009:
  • Amreeka
  • District 9
  • Goodbye Solo
  • Humpday
  • In the Loop
  • Julia
  • Me and Orson Welles
  • Moon
  • Sugar
  • Two Lovers

2010s

• 2010:
  • Animal Kingdom
  • Buried
  • Fish Tank
  • The Ghost Writer
  • Greenberg
  • Let Me In
  • Monsters
  • Please Give
  • Somewhere
  • Youth in Revolt

• 2011:
  • 50/50
  • Another Earth
  • Beginners
  • A Better Life
  • Cedar Rapids
  • Margin Call
  • Shame
  • Take Shelter
  • We Need To Talk About Kevin
  • Win Win

• 2012:
  • Arbitrage
  • Bernie
  • Compliance
  • End of Watch
  • Hello I Must Be Going
  • Little Birds
  • Moonrise Kingdom
  • On the Road
  • Quartet
  • Sleepwalk with Me

• 2013:
  • 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

• 2014:
  • Blue Ruin
  • Locke
  • A Most Wanted Man
  • Mr. Turner
  • Obvious Child
  • The Skeleton Twins
  • Snowpiercer
  • Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
  • Starred Up
  • Still Alice

• 2015:
  • '71
  • 45 Years
  • Cop Car
  • Ex Machina
  • Grandma
  • It Follows
  • James White
  • Mississippi Grind
  • Welcome to Me
  • While We’re Young

• 2016:
  • 20th Century Women
  • Captain Fantastic
  • Creative Control
  • Eye in the Sky
  • The Fits
  • Green Room
  • Hello, My Name Is Doris
  • Krisha
  • Morris from America
  • Sing Street

• 2017:
  • Beatriz at Dinner
  • Brigsby Bear
  • A Ghost Story
  • Lady Macbeth
  • Logan Lucky
  • Loving Vincent
  • Menashe
  • Norman
  • Patti Cake$
  • Wind River

• 2018:
  • The Death of Stalin
  • Lean on Pete
  • Leave No Trace
  • Mid90s
  • The Old Man & the Gun
  • The Rider
  • Searching
  • Sorry to Bother You
  • We the Animals
  • You Were Never Really Here

• 2019:
  • The Farewell
  • Give Me Liberty
  • A Hidden Life
  • Judy
  • The Last Black Man in San Francisco
  • Midsommar
  • The Nightingale
  • The Peanut Butter Falcon
  • The Souvenir
  • Wild Rose

2020s

• 2020:
  • The Climb
  • Driveways
  • Farewell Amor
  • Miss Juneteenth
  • The Nest
  • Never Rarely Sometimes Always
  • The Outpost
  • Relic
  • Saint Frances
  • Wolfwalkers

• 2021:
  • The Card Counter
  • C'mon C'mon
  • CODA
  • The Green Knight
  • Holler
  • Jockey
  • Old Henry
  • Pig
  • Shiva Baby
  • The Souvenir Part II

• 2022:
  • Armageddon Time
  • Emily the Criminal
  • The Eternal Daughter
  • Funny Pages
  • The Inspection
  • Living
  • A Love Song
  • Nanny
  • To Leslie
  • The Wonder

• 2023:
  • All Dirt Roads Taste of Salt
  • All of Us Strangers
  • BlackBerry
  • Earth Mama
  • Flora and Son
  • The Persian Version
  • Scrapper
  • Showing Up
  • Theater Camp
  • A Thousand and One

• 2024:
  • Bird
  • A Different Man
  • Dìdi
  • Ghostlight
  • Good One
  • Hard Truths
  • His Three Daughters
  • Love Lies Bleeding
  • My Old Ass
  • Thelma

External links

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures: Top 10 Independent Films