
	NBR Award
	...Film - English...
	...Best Actor
	...Best Actress
	...Best Supporting Actor
	...Supporting Actress
	...Best Director
	...Foreign Language Film
	Career Achievement Award



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National Board of Review, USA: 1979

NBR Award

Date:	20 February 1980 (announced: 12 December)
Host:	Alan King (I)
Location:	Luchow's (restaurant), New York, New York, USA

Best Film - English Language


Winner:
	Manhattan (1979)

Best Actor


Winner:
	Being There (1979) - Peter Sellers

Best Actress


Winner:
	Norma Rae (1979) - Sally Field

Best Supporting Actor


Winner:
	Breaking Away (1979) - Paul Dooley

Best Supporting Actress


Winner:
	Manhattan (1979) - Meryl Streep - Also for Kramer vs. Kramer (1979) and Seduction of Joe Tynan, The (1979).

Best Director


Winner:
	Yanks (1979) - John Schlesinger (I)

Best Foreign Language Film


Winner:
	Cage aux folles, La (1978) - France/Italy.

Career Achievement Award


Awarded to:
	Myrna Loy