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National Board of Review - 2008 NBR Awards

National Board of Review (NBR)
NBR Awards (80th)
Nominations: N/A
Awards: January 14, 2009

Below are the nominations & winners for the 80th Annual NBR Awards.

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Best Picture
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) A Celador Films, Film 4, Production

Top Ten Films
"Burn After Reading" (Focus Features) Working Title
"Changeling" (Universal) Relativity Media, Malpaso Productions
"The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) A Kennedy/Marshall Production
"The Dark Knight" (Warner Bros.) Syncopy
"Defiance" (Paramount Vantage) Bedford Falls Productions, Grosvenor Park Productions
"Frost/Nixon" (Universal) A Universal Pictures, Imagine Entertainment and Working Title Production
"Gran Torino" (Warner Bros.) Village Roadshow, Malpaso Productions
"Milk" (Focus Features) A Groundswell and Jinks/Cohen Company Production
"WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Pixar Animation Studios
"The Wrestler" (Fox Searchlight) Protozoa Pictures, Wild Bunch

Best Foreign Film
WINNER "Mongol" (Picturehouse) A Kinokompaniya CTB/Eurasia Film Production, Kazakhstan

Top Five Foreign Films
"The Edge of Heaven" (Strand) Germany, Italy, Turkey
"Let the Right One In (Låt den rätte komma in)" (Magnet Releasing) Sweden
"Roman de Gare" (Samuel Goldwyn Films)
"A Secret" (Strand Releasing) Canal+, France
"Waltz With Bashir" (Sony Pictures Classics) A Bridgit Folman Film Gang, Les Films D'Ici, Razor Films, Arte France, ITVS International Production, Israel/Germany/France/USA/Finland/Switzerland/Belgium/Australia

Best Documentary
WINNER "Man on Wire" (Magnolia Pictures) A Wall to Wall in association with Red Box Films

Top Five Documentaries
"American Teen" (Paramount Vantage) Quasiworld Entertainment, Firehouse Films
"The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)" (Cinema Guild) A Pandinlao Films and Image Entertainment Production
"Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father" (Oscilloscope Pictures) MSNBC Pictures
"Encounters at the End of the World" (ThinkFilm/Image Entertainment/Discovery Films) Creative Differences Productions
"Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired" (THINKFilm)

Top Independent Films
"Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics) Harwood Hunt Productions
"In Bruges" (Focus Features) Blue Print Pictures
"In Search of a Midnight Kiss" (IFC First Take)
"Mr. Foe"
"Rachel Getting Married" (Sony Pictures Classics) Clinica Estetico, Marc Platt Productions
"Snow Angels" (Warner Independent)
"Son of Rambow" (Paramount Vantage) Arte France Cinema, Hammer and Tongs
"Wendy and Lucy" (Oscilloscope Pictures) Glass Eye Pix, FilmScience
"Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company, MGM) Mediapro Pictures
"The Visitor" (Overture Films) Participant Productions

Best Actor
WINNER Clint Eastwood in "Gran Torino" (Warner Bros.)

Best Actress
WINNER Anne Hathaway in "Rachel Getting Married" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Supporting Actor
WINNER Josh Brolin in "Milk" (Focus Features)

Best Supporting Actress
WINNER Penelope Cruz in "Vicky Cristina Barcelona" (The Weinstein Company, MGM)

Best Ensemble
WINNER "Doubt" (Miramax) Scott Rudin Productions

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor
WINNER Dev Patel in "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent)

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress
WINNER Viola Davis in "Doubt" (Miramax)

Best Director
WINNER "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) David Fincher

Spotlight Award for Best Directorial Debut
WINNER "Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics) Courtney Hunt

Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER "Slumdog Millionaire" (Fox Searchlight, Warner Independent) Simon Beaufoy
WINNER "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button" (Paramount and Warner Bros.) Eric Roth

Spotlight Award
WINNER Melissa Leo in "Frozen River" (Sony Pictures Classics)
WINNER Richard Jenkins in "The Visitor" (Overture Films)

Best Original Screenplay
WINNER "Gran Torino" (Warner Bros.) Nick Schenk

Best Animated Feature
WINNER "WALL-E" (Walt Disney) Pixar Animation Studios

William K. Everson Award for Film History
WINNER Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris

Freedom of Expression Award
WINNER "Trumbo" (Samuel Goldwyn Films)

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