78th NBR Awards January 9, 2007
Best Film: Letters from Iwo Jima The 78th National Board of Review Awards, awarded to the best in film for 2006, were presented by the National Board of Review on 9 January 2007.
Top 10 Films In alphabetical order:
Babel Blood Diamond The Departed The Devil Wears Prada Flags of Our Fathers The History Boys Letters from Iwo Jima Little Miss Sunshine Notes on a Scandal The Painted Veil
Winners
Best Film: Letters from Iwo Jima
Best Director: Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren – The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Djimon Hounsou – Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine O'Hara – For Your Consideration
Best Screenplay – Original: Zach Helm – Stranger Than Fiction
Best Screenplay – Adapted: Ron Nyswaner – The Painted Veil
Best Animated Feature: Cars
Best Foreign Language Film: Volver, Spain
Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Acting by an Ensemble: The Departed
Breakthrough Male Performances: Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson
Breakthrough Female Performances (tie): Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls Rinko Kikuchi – Babel
Best Directorial Debut: Jason Reitman - Thank You For Smoking
Career Achievement Award: Eli Wallach
Career Award for Producing: Irwin Winkler
William K. Everson Award for Film History: Donald Krim
Freedom of Expression Award: Water World Trade Center
Top Foreign Films Curse of the Golden Flower Days of Glory Pan's Labyrinth Volver Water
Top Documentaries An Inconvenient Truth 51 Birch Street Iraq in Fragments Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing Wordplay
Top Independent Films 10 Items or Less Akeelah and the Bee Bobby Catch a Fire Copying Beethoven A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints Half Nelson The Illusionist Lonesome Jim Sherrybaby Thank You for Smoking
References