The 2016 NBP Film Awards: Part 7

By Matt Neglia

As heard last week on The Next Best Picture Podcast, we unveiled Part 7 of our annual NBP Film Awards which will conclude next week on the Next Best Picture Podcast. For the seventh week of the awards we revealed our picks for "Best Documentary," "Best Foreign Language Film," "Best Adapted Screenplay," "Best Original Screenplay" & "Best Director."

Click below to see the winners from the Next Best Picture team and let us know in the comments some of your picks and thoughts.

BEST DOCUMENTARY

MATT'S PICKS
Winner: "13th"
Runner Up: "Weiner"

MIKE'S PICKS
Winner: "Weiner"
Runner Up: "OJ: Made In America"

MICHAEL'S PICKS
Winner: "OJ: Made In America"
Runner Up: "Weiner"

KRISTEN'S PICKS
Winner: "Southwest Of Salem: The Story Of The San Antonio Four"
Runner Up: "Holy Hell"

WILLS'S PICKS
Winner: "Gleason"
Runner Up: "13th"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

MATT'S PICKS
Winner: "The Handmaiden"
Runner Up: "Toni Erdmann"

MIKE'S PICKS
Winner: "Train To Busan"
Runner Up: N/A due to lack of options

MICHAEL'S PICKS
Winner: "Toni Erdmann"
Runner Up: "Elle"

KRISTEN'S PICKS
Winner: None due to only seeing "Elle"
Runner Up: None due to only seeing "Elle"

WILLS'S PICKS
Winner: "Elle"
Runner Up: "Train To Busan"

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

MATT'S PICKS
1. "Moonlight"
2. "Silence"
3. "Arrival"
4. "Patriot's Day"
5. "Nocturnal Animals"

MIKE'S PICKS
1. "Fences"
2. "Indignation"
3. "A Monster Calls"
4. "Love & Friendship"
5. "Snowden"

MICHAEL'S PICKS
1. "Fences"
2. "Indignation"
3. "Love & Friendship"
4. "Hidden Figures"
5. "Moonlight"

KRISTEN'S PICKS
1. "Nocturnal Animals"
2. "Hidden Figures"
3. "Fences"
4. "Live By Night"
5. "Assassin's Creed"

WILLS'S PICKS
1. "Moonlight"
2. "Love & Friendship"
3. "Indignation"
4. "Lion"
5. "Arrival"

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

MATT'S PICKS
1. "Manchester By The Sea"
2. "Swiss Army Man"
3. "The Lobster"
4. "Hell Or High Water"
5. "Zootopia"

MIKE'S PICKS
1. "Manchester By The Sea"
2. "La La Land"
3. "The Edge Of Seventeen"
4. "Zootopia"
5. "Everybody Wants Some!!"

MICHAEL'S PICKS
1. "Manchester By The Sea"
2.  "Hail, Caesar!"
3. "20th Century Women"
4. "Zootopia"
5. "La La Land"

KRISTEN'S PICKS
1. "America Honey"
2. "The Edge Of Seventeen"
3. "The Neon Demon"
4. "The Nice Guys"
5. "Hail, Caesar!"

WILLS'S PICKS
1. "Manchester By The Sea"
2. "Captain Fantastic"
3. "The Nice Guys"
4. "Everybody Wants Some!!"
5. "Zootopia"

BEST DIRECTOR

MATT'S PICKS
1. Barry Jenkins - "Moonlight"
2. Martin Scorsese - "Silence"
3. Denis Villeneuve - "Arrival"
4. Damien Chazelle - "La La Land"
5. Pablo Larrain - "Jackie"

MIKE'S PICKS
1. Damien Chazelle - "La La Land"
2. Kenneth Lonergan - "Manchester By The Sea"
3. Peter Berg - "Patriot's Day"
4. Andrea Arnold - "America Honey"
5. Martin Scorsese - "Silence"

MICHAEL'S PICKS
1. Damien Chazelle - "La La Land" 
2. Joel Coen & Ethan Coen - "Hail, Caesar!"
3. Denis Villeneuve - "Arrival"
4. Barry Jenkins - "Moonlight"
5. James Schamus - "Indignation"

KRISTEN'S PICKS
1. Ava DuVernay - "13th"
2. Tom Ford - "Nocturnal Animals"
3. Andrea Arnold - "America Honey"
4. Nicola Winding Refn - "The Neon Demon"
5. Mira Nair - "Queen Of Katwe"

WILLS'S PICKS
1. Robert Eggars - "The Witch"
2. Damien Chazelle - "La La Land"
3. Denis Villeneuve - "Arrival"
4. Barry Jenkins - "Moonlight"
5. Trey Edward Shults - "Krisha"

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