The National Board of Review today announced it selections for Bests in a number of categories. National Board of Review is a group made up of film educators and other professionals with no official ties to the film industry. Inclusion in the NBR selections can help set the expectations for the awards season and top 10 lists that follow.
Best Film: Letters From Iwo Jima, Clint Eastwood, Producer
Best Director: Martin Scorsese for The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker in The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren in The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Djimon Hounsou for "Blood Diamond"
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine O'Hara for "For Your Consideration" .
Breakthrough Performance By An Actor: Ryan Gosling
Breakthrough Performance By An Actress: Tie: Jennifer Hudson and Rinko Kikuchi
Best Original Screenplay: Zach Helm for Stranger Than Fiction"
Best Adapted Screenplay: Ron Nyswaner for The Painted Veil.
Best Directorial Debut: Jason Reitman for Thank You for Smoking.
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Animated Feature: Cars
Top Ten Films:
Letters From Iwo Jima
The Departed
Blood Diamond
The Painted Veil
Flags of Our Fathers
The History Boys
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes on a Scandal
Devil Wears Prada
Babel
Shortlist of Best Foreign Films:
Curse of the Golden Flower
Days of Glory
Pan's Labyrinth
Water
Shortlist of Best Documentaries:
51 Birch Street
Iraq in Fragments,"
Shut Up and Sing
Wordplay
Top Independent Films:
Akeelah and the Bee
Bobby
Catch a Fire
Copying Beethoven
A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
Half Nelson
The Illusionist
Lonesome Jim
Sherrybaby
10 Items or Less
Thank You for Smoking
And a good time was had by all.
JWil Books
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