National Board of Review Award for Best Picture

Winners
Titles in bold indicate films that won the Academy Award for Best Picture. Titles with an asterisk (*) indicate films that were nominated for the Academy Award for Best Picture, but did not win.
 * 1932 - I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang*
 * 1933 - Topaze
 * 1934 - It Happened One Night
 * 1935 - The Informer*
 * 1936 - Mr. Deeds Goes to Town*
 * 1937 - Night Must Fall
 * 1938 - The Citadel
 * 1939 - Confessions of a Nazi Spy
 * 1940 - The Grapes of Wrath*
 * 1941 - Citizen Kane*
 * 1942 - In Which We Serve*
 * 1943 - The Ox-Bow Incident*
 * 1944 - None But the Lonely Heart
 * 1945 - The True Glory
 * 1946 - Henry V*
 * 1947 - Monsieur Verdoux
 * 1948 - Paisan
 * 1949 - Bicycle Thieves
 * 1950 - Sunset Boulevard*
 * 1951 - A Place in the Sun*
 * 1952 - The Quiet Man*
 * 1953 - Julius Caesar*
 * 1954 - On the Waterfront
 * 1955 - Marty
 * 1956 - Around the World in 80 Days
 * 1957 - The Bridge on the River Kwai
 * 1958 - The Old Man and the Sea
 * 1959 - The Nun's Story*
 * 1960 - Sons and Lovers*
 * 1961 - Question 7
 * 1962 - The Longest Day*
 * 1963 - Tom Jones
 * 1964 - Becket*
 * 1965 - The Eleanor Roosevelt Story
 * 1966 - A Man for All Seasons
 * 1967 - Far from the Madding Crowd
 * 1968 - The Shoes of the Fisherman
 * 1969 - They Shoot Horses, Don't They?
 * 1970 - Patton 
 * 1971 - Macbeth
 * 1972 - Cabaret*
 * 1973 - The Sting
 * 1974 - The Conversation*
 * 1975 - Barry Lyndon* / Nashville*
 * 1976 - All the President's Men*
 * 1977 - The Turning Point*
 * 1978 - Days of Heaven
 * 1979 - Manhattan
 * 1980 - Ordinary People
 * 1981 - Chariots of Fire / Reds*
 * 1982 - Gandhi
 * 1983 - Terms of Endearment / Betrayal
 * 1984 - A Passage to India*
 * 1985 - The Color Purple*
 * 1986 - A Room with a View*
 * 1987 - Empire of the Sun
 * 1988 - Mississippi Burning*
 * 1989 - Driving Miss Daisy
 * 1990 - Dances with Wolves
 * 1991 - The Silence of the Lambs
 * 1992 - Howards End*
 * 1993 - Schindler's List
 * 1994 - Forrest Gump / Pulp Fiction*
 * 1995 - Sense and Sensibility
 * 1996 - Shine
 * 1997 - L.A. Confidential*
 * 1998 - Gods and Monsters
 * 1999 - American Beauty
 * 2000 - Quills
 * 2001 - Moulin Rouge!*
 * 2002 - The Hours*
 * 2003 - Mystic River*
 * 2004 - Finding Neverland*
 * 2005 - Good Night, and Good Luck.*
 * 2006 - Letters from Iwo Jima*
 * 2007 - No Country for Old Men
 * 2008 - Slumdog Millionaire
 * 2009 - Up in the Air*
 * 2010 - The Social Network*
 * 2011 - Hugo*
 * 2012 - Zero Dark Thirty*
 * 2013 - Her*
 * 2014 - A Most Violent Year
 * 2015 - Mad Max: Fury Road*
 * 2016 - Manchester by the Sea*
 * 2017 - The Post*
 * 2018 - Green Book