National Board of Review Awards 2006 explained

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.

Winners

• Best Film:
  • Iwo Jima kara no tegami (Letters from Iwo Jima)
• Best Foreign Language film:
  • Volver (To Return), Spain
• 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 Acting by an Ensemble:
  • The Departed
• Breakthrough Male Performances:
  • Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
• Breakthrough Female Performances (tie):
  • Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
  • Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
• Best Director:
  • Martin Scorsese - The Departed
• Best Directorial Debut:
  • Jason Reitman - Thank You For Smoking
• Best Animated Feature:
  • Cars
• Best Documentary Feature:
  • An Inconvenient Truth
• Best Screenplay - Adapted:
  • The Painted Veil - Ron Nyswaner
• Best Screenplay - Original:
  • Stranger Than Fiction - Zach Helm
• Freedom of Expression Award:
  • Water and World Trade Center
• Career Achievement Award:
  • Eli Wallach
• William K. Everson Award for Film History:
  • Donald Krim
• Career Award for Producing:
  • Irwin Winkler

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 (Iwo Jima kara no tegami)
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Notes on a Scandal
• The Painted Veil

Top Independent Films

In alphabetical order:

• 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

Top Foreign Films

In alphabetical order:

• Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia)
• Days of Glory (Indigènes)
• Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
• To Return (Volver)
• Water

Top Five Documentaries

In alphabetical order:

• An Inconvenient Truth
• 51 Birch Street
• Iraq in Fragments
• Wordplay