Thursday December 7, 2006 1:48 am
NBR Picks the Best Films of ‘06
Earlier today, The National Board of Review (NBR), a nonprofit organization, announced its top film awards for 2006. For nearly a century, NBR has been supporting film as entertainment and art, and is still the first critical body to declare its annual awards. The winners, selected from 270 of this year’s films, are as follows:
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
Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Foreign Film:Volver
Best Documentary:An Inconvenient Truth
Best Animated Feature:Cars
Best Ensemble Cast:The Departed
Breakthrough Performance – Male:Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Breakthrough Performance – Female: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls and Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Jason Reitman, Thank You For Smoking
Best Original Screenplay:Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction
Best Adapted Screenplay:Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil
These awards often foreshadow similar results come Oscar night, so keep an eye on these early predictions. For a full list of winners, visit the NBR website.
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