William Dalrymple (historian)

The 46th National Board of Review Awards were announced on December 25, 1974.^[1]

1. The Conversation
2. Murder on the Orient Express
3. Chinatown
4. The Last Detail
5. Harry and Tonto
6. A Woman Under the Influence
7. Thieves Like Us
8. Lenny
9. Daisy Miller
10. The Three Musketeers

1. Amarcord
2. Lacombe Lucien
3. Scenes from a Marriage
4. The Phantom of Liberty
5. The Pedestrian

• Best Film:
  • The Conversation
• Best Foreign Film:
  • Amarcord
• Best Actor:
  • Gene Hackman - The Conversation
• Best Actress:
  • Gena Rowlands - A Woman Under the Influence
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Holger Löwenadler - Lacombe Lucien
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Valerie Perrine - Lenny
• Best Director:
  • Francis Ford Coppola - The Conversation
• Special Citation:
  • The Golden Voyage of Sinbad, Earthquake and The Towering Inferno, for outstanding special effects
  • Robert Youngson, for his 25-year work with tasteful and intelligent compilation of films
  • The Film Industry, for increasing care in subsidiary casting in many films

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 1974