NBR Awards name ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ best film

By Jake Coyle
Published December 5, 2012 9:04pm ET
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NBR Awards name ‘Zero Dark Thirty’ best film
This undated publicity film image provided by Columbia Pictures shows Jessica Chastain in a scene from "Zero Dark Thirty." The National Board of Review has named Kathryn Bigelow's Osama bin Laden docudrama “Zero Dark Thirty” the best film of the year. The film took three awards from the National Board of Review, which also named Bigelow best director and the film's star, Jessica Chastain, best actress. (AP Photo/Columbia Pictures, Jonathan Olley) | Jonathan Olley

NEW YORK (AP) — Kathryn Bigelow’s “Zero Dark Thirty” continued to gather awards momentum as the National Board of Review named the Osama bin Laden hunt docudrama the best film of the year.

The board is the second notable group to name “Zero Dark Thirty” best film, following the New York Film Critics Circle. The two early awards suggest the film may be the Academy Awards frontrunner, four years after Bigelow’s “The Hurt Locker” triumphed at the Oscars.

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