Limited to: Feature films that have screened commercially during the calendar year
Categories: best picture and best foreign (or foreign-language) film used on the chart.  Award categories and definitions have varied over the years
Type of honor: annual, 1966-present
Selected by: members of the NSFC, who write for "national" publications, most of whom are based in New York or Los Angeles.
Announced: late December or early January

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