| 72nd National Board of Review Awards (2000) |
| Top 10 films: |
| 1. Quills | |
| 2. Traffic | |
| 3. Croupier | |
| 4. You Can Count on Me | |
| 5. Billy Elliot | |
| 6. Before Night Falls | |
| 7. Gladiator | |
| 8. Wonder Boys | |
| 9. Sunshine | |
| 10. Dancer in the Dark |
| Best Film: |
| Quills |
| Best Director: |
| Steven Soderbergh - Erin Brockovich and Traffic |
| Best Acting by and Ensemble: |
| State and Main |
| Best Actor: |
| Javier Bardem - Before Night Falls |
| Best Actress: |
| Julia Roberts - Erin Brockovich |
| Best Supporting Actor: |
| Joaquin Phoenix - Gladiator |
| Best Supporting Actress: |
| Lupe Ontiveros - Chuck & Buck |
| Best Screenplay: |
| All the Pretty Horses - Ted Tally |
| Outstanding Production Design: |
| Arthur Max - Gladiator |
| Best Foreign Language Film: |
| Wo hu cang long (Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon), Taiwan/Hong Kong/United States/P.R. China |
| Best Documentary Feature: |
| The Life and Times of Hank Greenberg |
| Best Animated Feature: |
| Chicken Run |
| Breakthrough Performance - Male: |
| Jamie Bell - Billy Elliot |
| Breakthrough Performance - Female: |
| Michelle Rodríguez - Girlfight |
| Career Achievement Award: |
| Ellen Burstyn |
| Special Filmmaking Achievement: |
| Kenneth Lonergan - You Can Count on Me |
| Career Achievement - Music Composition: |
| Ennio Morricone |
| William K. Everson Award for Film History: |
| Roger Gottlieb and Robert Kimball, Reading Lyrics |
| Special Citations: |
| Björk - Outstanding Dramatic Music Performance, Dancer in the Dark | |
| Dekalog, Outstanding Cinematic Series |
| Freedom of Expression: |
| A Time for Drunken Horses | |
| Bamboozled | |
| Before Night Falls | |
| The Circle | |
| Kadosh | |
| Quills | |
| Sound and Fury | |
| The Visit |
| Top Foreign Films: |
| 1. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon | |
| 2. Butterfly | |
| 3. A Time for Drunken Horses | |
| 4. Malèna | |
| 5. Girl on the Bridge |
| Special Recognition for Excellence in Filmmaking: |
| American Psycho | |
| Best in Show | |
| Chuck & Buck | |
| Girlfight | |
| Hamlet | |
| Nurse Betty | |
| Requiem for a Dreamv | |
| Shower | |
| Snatch | |
| Two Family House |