National Board of Review Awards 2000
The 72nd National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in filmmaking in 2000, were announced on 6 December 2000 and given on 16 January 2001.
Top 10 films
- Quills
- Traffic
- Croupier
- You Can Count on Me
- Billy Elliot
- Before Night Falls
- Gladiator
- Wonder Boys
- Sunshine
- ''Dancer in the Dark''
Top Foreign Films
Winners
- Best Film:
- *Quills
- Best Foreign Language Film:
- *Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Taiwan/Hong Kong/United States/P.R. China
- Best Actor:
- *Javier Bardem – Before Night Falls
- Best Actress:
- *Julia Roberts – Erin Brockovich
- Best Supporting Actor:
- *Joaquin Phoenix – Gladiator
- Best Supporting Actress:
- *Lupe Ontiveros – Chuck & Buck
- Breakthrough Performance – Male:
- *Jamie Bell – Billy Elliot
- Breakthrough Performance – Female:
- *Michelle Rodríguez – Girlfight
- Best Acting by and Ensemble:
- *State and Main
- Best Director:
- *Steven Soderbergh – Erin Brockovich and Traffic
- Best Screenplay:
- *All the Pretty Horses – Ted Tally
- Best Documentary Feature:
- *The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg
- Best Animated Feature:
- *Chicken Run
- Career Achievement Award:
- *Ellen Burstyn
- Special Filmmaking Achievement:
- *Kenneth Lonergan – You Can Count on Me
- Outstanding Production Design:
- *Arthur Max – Gladiator
- Career Achievement – Music Composition:
- *Ennio Morricone
- William K. Everson Award for Film History:
- *Roger Gottlieb and Robert Kimball, Reading Lyrics
- Special Citations:
- *Björk – Outstanding Dramatic Music Performance, Dancer in the Dark
- *Dekalog, Outstanding Cinematic Series
- Freedom of Expression:
- *A Time for Drunken Horses
- *Bamboozled
- *Before Night Falls
- *The Circle
- *Kadosh
- *Quills
- *Sound and Fury
- *The Visit
- Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking:
- *American Psycho
- *Best in Show
- *Chuck & Buck
- *Girlfight
- *Hamlet
- *Nurse Betty
- *Requiem for a Dream
- *Shower
- *Snatch
- *''Two Family House''