National Board of Review - 2009 NBR Awards

National Board of Review - 2009 NBR Awards

National Board of Review (NBR)
NBR Awards (81st)
Nominations: N/A
Awards: January 12, 2010

Below are the nominations & winners for the 81st Annual NBR Awards.

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Best Picture
WINNER "Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures) Montecito Picture Company

Top Ten Films
"An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics) BBC
"(500) Days of Summer" (Fox Searchlight) Watermark
"The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment) Kingsgate Films, First Light Production, Voltage Pictures
"Inglourious Basterds" (Weinstein Co.) A Band Apart, Zehnte Babelsberg
"Invictus" (Warner Bros.) Malpaso Company, Mace Neufeld Productions, Revelations Entertainment
"The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
"A Serious Man" (Focus Features) Working Title
"Star Trek" (Paramount Pictures) Bad Robot
"Up" (Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney) Pixar Animation Studios
"Where the Wild Things Are" (Warner Bros.) Playtone, Wild Things

Best Foreign Film
WINNER "A Prophet (Un Prophète)" (Sony Pictures Classics) France

Top Five Foreign Films
"The Maid" (AP Manana) Chile
"Revanche" (Janus Films) A Prisma Film/Fernseh Production, Austria
"The Song of Sparrows" (Regent Releasing)
"Three Monkeys" (Zeitgeist)
"The White Ribbon" (Sony Pictures Classics) Germany

Best Documentary
WINNER "The Cove" (Roadside Attractions)

Top Five Documentaries
"Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
"Crude" (First Run Features)
"Food, Inc." (Magnolia Pictures)
"Good Hair" (Roadside Attractions)
"The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"

Top Independent Films
"Amreeka" (National Geographic)
"District 9" (Screen Gems, Sony Pictures Entertainment) WingNut Films
"Goodbye Solo" (Roadside Attractions)
"Humpday" (Magnolia Pictures)
"In the Loop" (IFC Films) BBC
"Julia" (Magnolia Pictures)
"Me and Orson Welles" (Freestyle Releasing LLC) Detour Film Production, CinemaNX
"Moon" (Sony Pictures Classics)
"Sugar" (Sony Pictures Classics)
"Two Lovers" (Magnolia Pictures) 2929 Productions, Tempesta Films

Best Actor
WINNER George Clooney in "Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures)
WINNER Morgan Freeman in "Invictus" (Warner Bros.)

Best Actress
WINNER Carey Mulligan in "An Education" (Sony Pictures Classics)

Best Supporting Actor
WINNER Woody Harrelson in "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures)

Best Supporting Actress
WINNER Anna Kendrick in "Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures)

Best Ensemble
WINNER "It's Complicated" (Universal Pictures) Waverly Films, Scott Rudin Productions

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor
WINNER Jeremy Renner in "The Hurt Locker" (Summit Media, Summit Entertainment)

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress
WINNER Gabourey Sidibe in "Precious: Based on the Novel Push by Sapphire" (Lionsgate Films)

Best Director
WINNER "Invictus" (Warner Bros.) Clint Eastwood

Spotlight Award for Best Directorial Debut
WINNER "Moon" (Sony Pictures Classics) Duncan Jones
WINNER "The Messenger" (Oscilloscope Pictures) Oren Moverman
WINNER "(500) Days of Summer" (Fox Searchlight) Marc Webb

Best Adapted Screenplay
WINNER "Up in the Air" (Paramount Pictures) Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner

Best Original Screenplay
WINNER "A Serious Man" (Focus Features) Joel Coen and Ethan Coen

Best Animated Feature
WINNER "Up" (Pixar Animation Studios, Walt Disney) Pixar Animation Studios

Special Filmmaking Achievement Award
WINNER "Fantastic Mr. Fox" (20th Century Fox) Wes Anderson

William K. Everson Award for Film History
WINNER Jean Picker Firstenberg

Freedom of Expression Award
WINNER "Burma VJ: Reporting From a Closed Country" (Oscilloscope Pictures)
WINNER "Invictus" (Warner Bros.) Malpaso Company, Mace Neufeld Productions, Revelations Entertainment
WINNER "The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers"

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