The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films in Review. The winners were announced Dec. 4, 2002.
| Best Picture: | The Hours |
| Best Foreign Film: | Talk to Her (Spain) |
| Best Actor: | Campbell Scott, Roger Dodger |
| Best Actress: | Julianne Moore, Far from Heaven |
| Best Supporting Actor: | Chris Cooper, Adaptation |
| Best Supporting Actress: | Kathy Bates, About Schmidt |
| Best Ensemble: | Nicholas Nickleby |
| Breakthrough Performances: | Derek Luke, Antwone Fisher and Maggie Gyllenhaal Secretary |
| Best Director: | Phillip Noyce, The Quiet American and Rabbit-Proof Fence |
| Best Directorial Debut: | Rob Marshall, Chicago |
| Screenwriter of the Year: | Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation, Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, and Human Nature |
| Best Documentary: | Bowling for Columbine |
| Best Animated Feature: | Miyazaki's Spirited Away |
| Special Award for Visionary Cinematic Achievement: | George Lucas |
| Career Achievement Awards: | Elmer Bernstein, Conrad Hall, and Christopher Plummer |
| Humanitarian Award: | Sheila Nevins |
| William K. Everson Award for Film History: | Annette Insdorf, Indelible Shadows: Films and the Holocaust |
| Special Recognition of Films that Reflect the Freedom of Expression: | Ararat, Bloody Sunday, The Grey Zone, and Rabbit-Proof Fence |
| Special Mention for Excellence in Filmmaking: | Frailty, The Good Girl, The Guys, Heaven, Igby Goes Down, Max, Personal Velocity, Real Women Have Curves, Roger Dodger, Sunshine State, Tadpole, and Tully |
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