Oscar Shakeup Already?! A Most Violent Year Named Best Picture by National Board of Review—and Check Out the Snubs!

The Theory of Everything and Foxcatcher were among the notable Best Picture nomination snubs, while Julianne Moore scored another honor for Still Alice

As awards season officially gets underway, so far...we have almost nothing to go on other than...well, Julianne Moore...for the most part.

The Still Alice star picked up her second Best Actress win in as many days for her role as a professor with early onset Alzheimer's in Still Alice, today's honor coming from the National Board of Review, which chooses individual winners and a list of the year's 10 best films.

But instead of Boyhood, which was deemed tops by the New York Film Critics Circle, or Birdman, named Best Feature Film at the 2014 Gotham Independent Film Awards last night (which also crowned Moore), the NBR went with the gritty drama A Most Violent Year.

The film, which won't be in theaters for the masses to see until Dec. 31, stars the NBR's pick for Best Supporting Actress Jessica Chastain and Oscar Isaac (who tied Birdman star Michael Keaton as the pick for Best Actor) as an ambitious couple trying to get by and thrive in New York City circa 1981, which is on record as one of the Big Apple's most trying years in the crime department.

But while the NBR isn't exactly a harbinger of things to come (they picked Best Picture Oscar nominee but not winner Her as their top film last year), what this means is there is no one critical favorite yet. And there were some very noticeable snubs from the board's list of nominees for Best Picture, including The Theory of Everything, Foxcatcher, Interstellar, Selma and St. Vincent.

Surprised that some of those didn't make the cut in favor of The Lego Movie (which, of course was great) and Gone Girl (which may not have been quite as great in hindsight)?

Here is the complete list of the 2014 National Board of Review winners, to be doled out Jan. 6 in a ceremony at Cipriani Wall Street:

Best Picture: A Most Violent Year

Best Director: Clint Eastwood, American Sniper

Best Actor: (tie) Oscar Isaac, A Most Violent Year, and Michael Keaton, Birdman

Best Actress: Julianne Moore, Still Alice

Best Supporting Actor: Edward Norton, Birdman

Best Supporting Actress: Jessica Chastain, A Most Violent Year

Best Original Screenplay: Phil Lord and Christopher Miller, The Lego Movie

Best Adapted Screenplay: Paul Thomas Anderson, Inherent Vice

Best Ensemble: Fury

Best Animated Feature: How to Train Your Dragon 2

Best Foreign Language Film: Wild Tales

Best Documentary: Life Itself

Spotlight Award: Chris Rock, for writing, directing and starring in Top Fice

Breakthrough Performance: Jack O'Connell, Starred Up and Unbroken

Debut Director: Gillian Robespierre, Obvious Child

William K. Everson Film History Award: Scott Eyman

Freedom of Expression: Rosewater and Selma

Best Picture Nominees: (alphabetical)

American Sniper
Birdman
Boyhood
Fury
Gone Girl
The Imitation Game
Inherent Vice
The Lego Movie
Nightcrawler
Unbroken

Best Foreign Language Film nominees:

Force Majeure
Gett: The Trial of Vivian Amsalem
Leviathan
Two Days One Night
We Are the Best!

Best Documentary nominees:

Art and Craft
Jodorowsky's Dune
Keep On Keepin' On
The Kill Team
Last Days in Vietnam

Best Independent Films:

Blue Ruin
Locke
A Most Wanted Man
Mr. Turner
Obvious Child
The Skeleton Twins
Snowpiercer
Stand Clear of the Closing Doors
Starred Up
Still Alice