NBR Freedom of Expression

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

List of winners

1990s

• 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^[1]
• 2005: Innocent Voices, The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till^[2]
• 2006: Water, World Trade Center
• 2007: The Great Debaters, Persepolis^[3]
• 2008: Trumbo^[4]
• 2009: Burma VJ, Invictus, The Most Dangerous Man in America

2010s

• 2010: Fair Game, Conviction, Howl^[5]
• 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^[6]
• 2018: 22 July, On Her Shoulders^[7]
• 2019: For Sama, Just Mercy^[8]

2020s

• 2020: One Night in Miami^[9]
• 2021: Flee^[10]
• 2022: All the Beauty and the Bloodshed, Argentina, 1985^[11]
• 2023: No film was selected^[12]
• 2024: No Other Land^[13][14]