NEW YORK, NY - JANUARY 09: (L-R) Meryl Streep, Rita Wilson, Tina Fey, Allison Williams, and Julianna Margulies attend the The National Board Of Review Annual Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street on January 9, 2018 in New York City. (Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for National Board of Review)
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Photo by Kevin Mazur/Getty Images for National Board of Review

Today’s hottest actresses were out in full force at The National Board Of Review Annual Awards Gala at Cipriani 42nd Street celebrating excellence in filmmaking.

Categories included Best Picture, Best Director, Best Actor and Actress, Best Original and Adapted Screenplay, Breakthrough Performance, and Directorial Debut, as well as signature honors such as the Freedom of Expression, and the NBR Spotlight Award.

Hosted by Morning Joe’s and Today‘s Willie Geist, the event honored Best Director recipient, Greta Gerwig, Best Actor recipient, Tom Hanks, Best Actress recipient, Meryl Streep, Best Supporting Actor recipient, Willem Dafoe, Best Supporting Actress recipient, Laurie Metcalf, Best Screenplay recipient, Paul Thomas Anderson, Best Adapted Screenplay recipients, Scott Neustadter & Michael H. Weber, Best Breakthrough Performance recipient, Timothée Chalamet, Best Directorial Debut recipient, Jordan Peele, Freedom of Expression recipients John Ridley, and Angelina Jolie, Loung Ung, Best Animated Feature recipient, Lee Unkrich, Best Film recipients Steven Spielberg, Amy Pascal and Kristie Macosko Krieger, Best Documentary recipient Brett Morgen, Best Foreign Language Film recipient Samuel Maoz, Best Ensemble recipients Daniel Kaluuya, Allison Williams, Betty Gabriel, Stephen Root and LilRel Howery, and Spotlight Award recipients Patty Jenkins & Gal Gadot.

Presenters and additional attendees included Christiane Amanpour, Sean Baker, Gio Benitez, Jason Blum, Ken Burns, Eli Bush, Kate Capshaw, Stephen Colbert, Robert DeNiro, Tommy Didario, Tina Fey, Geoffrey Fletcher, Dave Franco, James Franco, Whoopi Goldberg, Grace Gummer, Armie Hammer, Liz Hannah, Isabelle Huppert, Tamara Jenkins, Julianna Margulies, Lupita Nyong’o, Saoirse Ronan, Harriet Sansom Harris, Josh Singer, Michael Stuhlbarg, Jim Taylor, Rita Wilson and more.