Penghargaan National Board of Review ke-56 diumumkan pada 17 Desember 1984.

1. A Passage to India
2. Paris, Texas
3. The Killing Fields
4. Places in the Heart
5. Mass Appeal
6. Country
7. A Soldier's Story
8. Birdy
9. Careful, He Might Hear You
10. Under the Volcano

1. A Sunday in the Country
2. Carmen
3. A Love in Germany
4. The Fourth Man
5. The Basileus Quartet

National Board of Review of Motion Pictures:: Awards for 1984