NBR Freedom of Expression

Freedom of Expression Award is an annual award given by the National Board of Review since 1995.

List of winners

1995: Zhang Yimou
1996: The People vs. Larry Flynt
1997: Red Corner
1998: Bernardo Bertolucci
1999: ''The Insider''
2000s
2000: Bamboozled, Before Night Falls, The Circle, Kadosh, Quills, Sound and Fury, A Time for Drunken Horses, The Visit
2001: Baran, Jung in the Land of the Mujaheddin, Kandahar
2002: Ararat, Bloody Sunday, The Grey Zone, Rabbit-Proof Fence
2003: Capturing the Friedmans, Dirty Pretty Things, The Magdalene Sisters, September 11
2004: Fahrenheit 9/11, The Passion of the Christ, Conspiracy of Silence
2005: Innocent Voices, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till
2006: Water, World Trade Center
2007: The Great Debaters, Persepolis
2008: Trumbo
2009: Burma VJ, Invictus, ''The Most Dangerous Man in America''
2010s
2010: Fair Game, Conviction, Howl
2011: Crime After Crime, Pariah
2012: The Central Park Five, Promised Land
2013: Wadjda
2014: Rosewater, Selma
2015: Beasts of No Nation, Mustang
2016: Cameraperson
2017: First They Killed My Father, Let It Fall: Los Angeles 1982–1992
2018: 22 July, On Her Shoulders
2019: For Sama, ''Just Mercy''
2020s
2020: One Night in Miami
2021: Flee
2022: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Argentina, 1985
2023: No film was selected
2024: No Other Land
2025: ''Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk''