The National Board of Review has selected A24’s Manchester By The Sea as its Best Film, with star Casey Affleck landing Best Actors honors. The film took four honors total including Best Director for Kenneth Lonergan and Breakthrough Actor for Lucas Hedges.

Moonlight, which won Best Picture last night at the Gotham Awards, won Best Director today for Barry Jenkins and Best Supporting Actress for Naomie Harris. Amy Adams won Best Actress for Arrival, which was also named to the board’s annual list of of top 10 films of the year.

Here is the complete list of winners:

Best Film
Manchester by the Sea

Best Director
Barry Jenkins, Moonlight

Best Actor
Casey Affleck, Manchester by the Sea

Best Actress
Amy Adams, Arrival

Best Supporting Actor
Jeff Bridges, Hell or High Water

Best Supporting Actress
Naomie Harris, Moonlight

Best Original Screenplay
Kenneth Lonergan, Manchester by the Sea

Best Adapted Screenplay
Jay Cocks and Martin Scorsese, Silence

Best Animated Feature
Kubo and the Two Strings

Breakthrough Performance (Male)
Lucas Hedges, Manchester by the Sea

Breakthrough Performance (Female)
Royalty Hightower, The Fits

Best Directorial Debut
Trey Edward Shults, Krisha

Best Foreign Language Film
The Salesman

Best Documentary
O.J.: Made in America

Best Ensemble
Hidden Figures

Spotlight Award
Creative Collaboration of Peter Berg and Mark Wahlberg

NBR Freedom of Expression Award
Cameraperson

Top Films

Arrival

Hacksaw Ridge

Hail, Caesar!

Hell or High Water

Hidden Figures

La La Land

Moonlight

Patriot’s Day

Silence

Sully

Top 5 Foreign Language Films

Elle

The Handmaiden

Julieta

Land of Mine

Neruda

Top 5 Documentaries

De Palma

The Eagle Huntress

Gleason

Life, Animated

Miss Sharon Jones!

Top 10 Independent Films

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

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