The National Board of Review's last three winners were 'Manchester By the Sea,' ''Mad Max: Fury Road' and 'A Most Violent Year.' Meryl Streep, Steven Spielberg and Tom Hanks (l-r) swept the National Board of Review film awards Image: picture-alliance/dpa/EPA Streep was named best actress and Hanks was voted best actor, setting the film up as an early front-runner for the Oscars. Starring Meryl Streep as the late Washington Post publisher Katharine Graham and Tom Hanks as late editor Ben Bradlee, 'The Post' on Monday was named the Best Film of 2017 by the National Board of Review, a New York-based group of academics, filmmakers and professionals. The film dramatizes the decisions by the New York Times and the Washington Post to publish the top-secret Pentagon Papers about the Vietnam War in the face of injunctions by the Nixon administration - a battle that went to the Supreme Court and ultimately lead to Nixon's impeachment. Read more: Donald Trump renews threats against press, hints at revoking TV licenses 'They are out there, and they need some good news.' 'Our intended audience are the people who have spent the last 13, 14 months thirsting and starving for the truth,' Spielberg said. 'I just felt that there was an urgency to reflect 19 because they were very terrifyingly similar,' the Oscar-winning director told a Hollywood audience after a screening of the film on Monday. His motivation was a need to highlight an alarming echo with the Trump presidency. In his latest film about the battle by newspapers to publish the leaked Pentagon Papers detailing the US government's misleading portrayal of the Vietnam War, director Steven Spielberg rushed to get the movie shot and released within a year.

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