80th NBR Awards January 14, 2009
Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire The 80th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2008, were given on 12 January 2009.
Top 10 Films Slumdog Millionaire Burn After Reading Changeling The Curious Case of Benjamin Button The Dark Knight Defiance Frost/Nixon Gran Torino Milk WALL-E The Wrestler
Winners Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: David Fincher – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Actor: Clint Eastwood – Gran Torino
Best Actress: Anne Hathaway – Rachel Getting Married
Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin – Milk
Best Supporting Actress: Penélope Cruz – Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Screenplay – Original: Nick Schenk – Gran Torino
Best Screenplay – Adapted (tie): Simon Beaufoy – Slumdog Millionaire Eric Roth – The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Animated Feature: WALL-E
Best Foreign Language Film: Mongol, Mongolia
Best Documentary Feature: Man on Wire
Best Cast: Doubt
Breakthrough Male Performances: Dev Patel – Slumdog Millionaire
Breakthrough Female Performances: Viola Davis – Doubt
Best Directorial Debut: Courtney Hunt – Frozen River
Spotlight Award: Melissa Leo – Frozen River Richard Jenkins – The Visitor
William K. Everson Award for Film History: Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris
Freedom of Expression Award: Trumbo
Top Foreign Films Mongol, Mongolia The Edge of Heaven Let the Right One In Roman de Gare A Secret Waltz with Bashir
Top Documentaries Man on Wire American Teen The Betrayal – Nerakhoon Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father Encounters at the End of the World Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
Top Independent Films Frozen River In Bruges In Search of a Midnight Kiss Hallam Foe Rachel Getting Married Snow Angels Son of Rambow Vicky Cristina Barcelona The Visitor Wendy and Lucy
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