2008 79th Annual National Board of Review Awards
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: Penelope Cruz, Vicky Cristina Barcelona
Best Original Screenplay: Nick Schenk, Gran Torino
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire and Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Best Ensemble Cast: Doubt
Best Foreign Language Film: Mongol
Best Documentary: Man On Wire
Best Animated Feature: Wall-E
Top Ten Films (In alphabetical order):
Burn After Reading
Changeling
The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Defiance
Frost/Nixon
Gran Torino
Milk
Wall-E
The Wrestler
Top Five Foreign Films (In alphabetical order)
Edge of Heaven
Let the Right One In
Roman de Guerre
A Secret
Waltz With Bashir
Special Awards
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: Viola Davis, Doubt
Directorial Debut: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Spotlight Award: Melissa Leo, Frozen River and Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
William K. Everson Award For Film History: Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris
The BVLGARI Award for NBR Freedom of Expression: Trumbo
Top Independent Films: Frozen River, In Bruges, In Search of a Midnight Kiss, Mr. Foe, Rachel Getting Married, Snow Angels, Son of Rambow, Wendy and Lucy, Vicky Cristina Barcelona, The Visitor
Top Five Documentaries: American Teen, The Betrayal (Nerakhoon), Dear Zachary, Encounters at the End of the World, Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired
2007 78th Annual National Board of Review Awards
Best Film: No Country For Old Men
Best Director: Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd
Best Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away From Her
Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Original Screenplay (tie): Diablo Cody, Juno and Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
Best Ensemble Cast: No Country For Old Men
Best Foreign Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Documentary: Body of War
Best Animated Feature: Ratatouille
Top Ten Films (In alphabetical order):
The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bucket List
Into The Wild
Juno
The Kite Runner
Lars and the Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Sweeney Todd
Top Five Foreign Films (In alphabetical order):
4 Months, 3 Weeks and 2 Days
The Band's Visit
The Counterfeiters
La Vie en Rose
Lust, Caution
Special Awards
Career Achievement: Michael Douglas
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: Emile Hirsch, Into The Wild
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: Ellen Page, Juno
Best Directorial Debut: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
William K. Everson Film History Award: Robert Osbourne
Career Achievement in Cinematography: Roger Deakins
The BVLGARI Award for NBR Freedom of Expression: The Great Debaters and Persepolis
Top Independent Films: Away From Her, Great World of Sound, Honeydripper, In The Valley of Elah, A Mighty Heart, The Namesake, Once, The Savages, Starting Out in the Evening, Waitress
Top Five Documentaries:
Darfur Now, In the Shadow of the Moon, Nanking, Taxi to the Darkside, Toots
2006 77th Annual National Board of Review Awards
The Ten Best Movies (in alphabetical order)
Babel
Blood Diamond
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Flags of Our Fathers
The History Boys
Letters from Iwo Jima < winner >
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes on a Scandal
The Painted Veil
The Five Best Foreign Movies (in alphabetical order)
Curse Of The Golden Flower
Days of Glory
Pan's Labyrinth
Volver < winner >
Water
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitacker, 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 Adapted Screenplay: The Painted Veil, Ron Nyswaner
Best Original Screenplay: Stranger Than Fiction, Zach Helm
Best Ensemble: The Departed
Best Animated Feature: Cars
Top Five Documentaries: An Inconvenient Truth, (and, in alphabetical order) 51 Birch Street, Iraq In Fragments, Shut Up & Sing, Wordplay
Special Awards
Career Achievement: Eli Wallach
Breakthrough Performance Actor: Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Breakthrough Performance Actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls & Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Directorial Debut: Jason Reitman, Thank You For Smoking
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing: Jonathan Demme
William K. Everson Award for Film History : Donald Krim
Career Achievement - Producing: Irwin Winkler
Freedom of Expression Award: Water & World Trade Center
Special Mention for Excellence in Filmmaking: Akeelah and the Bee, Bobby, Catch a Fire, Copying Beethoven, A Guide to Recognizing your Saints, Half Nelson, The Illusionist, Lonesome Jim, Sherrybaby, 10 Items or Less, Thank You For Smoking
2005 76th Annual National Board of Review Awards
The Ten Best Movies (in alphabetical order)
Brokeback Mountain
Capote
Crash
Good Night and Good Luck < winner >
History of Violence
Match Point
Memoirs of a Geisha
Munich
Syriana
Walk the Line
The Five Best Foreign Movies (in alphabetical order)
2046
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress
Downfall
Paradise Now < winner >
Walk on Water
Best Director: Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
Best Actor: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Capote
Best Actress: Felicity Huffman, Transamerica
Best Supporting Actor: Jake Gyllenhaal, Brokeback Mountain
Best Supporting Actress: Gong Li, Memoirs of a Geisha
Best Adapted Screenplay: Syriana, Stephen Gaghan
Best Original Screenplay: The Squid and the Whale, Noah Baumbach
Best Ensemble: Mrs. Henderson Presents
Best Animated Feature: Tim Burton's Corpse Bride
Top Five Documentaries: March of the Penguins, Ballets Russes, Grizzly Man, Mad Hot Ballroom, Murderball
Special Awards
Career Achievement: Jane Fonda
Breakthrough Performance Actor: Terrence Howard, Crash, Get Rich or Die Tryin' and Hustle & Flow
Breakthrough Performance Actress: Q'Orianka Kilcher, The New World
Directorial Debut: Julian Fellowes, Separate Lies
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing: David Cronenberg
William K. Everson Award for Film History : George Feltenstein
Career Achievement - Music Composition: Howard Shore
Special Mention for Excellence in Filmmaking: Breakfast on Pluto, Cape of Good Hope, The Dying Gaul, Everything Is Illuminated, Hustle & Flow, Junebug, Layer Cake, Lord of War, Nine Lives, The Thing About My Folks, The Upside of Anger
2004 75th Annual National Board of Review Awards
NBR's Top 10 Movies for 2004
1. Finding Neverland
2. The Aviator
3. Closer
4. Million Dollar Baby
5. Sideways
6. Kinsey
7. Vera Drake
8. Ray
9. Collateral
10. Hotel Rwanda
Top 5 Foreign Movies
1. The Sea Inside
2. Bad Education
3. Maria Full of Grace
4. Les Choristes
5. The Motorcycle Diaries
Best Director: Michael Mann, Collateral
Best Actor: Jamie Fox, Ray
Best Actress: Annette Bening, Being Julia
Best Supporting Actor: Thomas Haden Church, Sideways
Best Supporting Actress: Laura Linney, Kinsey
Best Adapted Screenplay: Sideways, Alexander Payne and Jim Taylor
Best Original Screenplay: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Charlie Kaufman
Outstanding Production Design: House of Flying Daggers, Tingxiao Huo
Outstanding Film Music Composition: Finding Neverland, Jan A. P. Kaczmarek
Best Ensemble: Closer
Best Documentary: Born into Brothels
Best Animated Feature: The Incredibles
Top Five Documentaries: Born into Brothels, Z Channel: A Magnificent Obsession, Paper Clips, Supersize Me, The Story of the Weeping Camel
Special Awards
Career Achievement: Jeff Bridges
Breakthrough Performances: Topher Grace, In Good Company and P.S. & Emmy Rossum, The Phantom of the Opera
Directorial Debut: Zach Braff, Garden State
Special Filmmaking Achievement: Clint Eastwood, for producing, directing, acting, and composing the score of Million Dollar Baby
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing: Milos Forman
William K. Everson Award for Film History : Richard Schickel
Producers Award: Jerry Bruckheimer
Special Recognition of Films that Reflect the Freedom of Expression: Fahrenheit 9/11, The Passion of the Christ, Conspiracy of Silence
Special Mention for Excellence in Filmmaking: The Assassination of Richard Nixon, Before Sunset, The Door in the Floor, Enduring Love, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Facing Windows, Garden State, A Home at the End of the World, Imaginary Heroes, Since Otar Left, Stage Beauty, Undertow, The Woodsman
2003 74th Annual National Board of Review Awards
NBR's Top 10 Movies for 2003
1. Mystic River
2. The Last Samurai
3. The Station Agent
4. 21 Grams
5. House of Sand and Fog
6. Lost in Translation
7. Cold Mountain
8. In America
9. Seabiscuit
10. Master and Commander
Top 5 Foreign Movies
1. Barbarian Invasions
2. Best of Youth
3. Monsieur Ibrahim
4. Autumn Spring
5. Man on the Train
Best Director: Edward Zwick, The Last Samurai
Best Actor: Sean Penn, Mystic River and 21 Grams
Best Actress: Diane Keaton, Something's Gotta Give
Best Supporting Actor: Alec Baldwin, The Cooler
Best Supporting Actress: Patricia Clarkson, Pieces of April and The Station Agent
Best Adapted Screenplay: Cold Mountain, Anthony Minghella
Best Original Screenplay: In America, Jim Sheridan, Naomi Sheridan and Kirsten Sheridan
Best Ensemble: The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
Best Animated Feature: Finding Nemo
Top Five Documentaries:
The Fog of War, Capturing the Friedmans, My Architect, Winged Migration, Spellbound
Special Awards
Career Achievement: Morgan Freeman, Hans Zimmer and John Toll
Breakthrough Performances: Paul Giamatti, American Splendor and Charlize Theron, Monster
Directorial Debut: Vadim Perelman, House of Sand and Fog
Film Made for Cable TV: Angels in America
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing: Norman Jewison
Special Filmmaking Achievement: Sofia Coppola, writer, director and producer of Lost in Translation
Sheila Nevins William K. Everson Award for Film History: Richard LaGravanese and Ted Demme for A Decade Under the Influence
Special Recognition of Films that Reflect the Freedom of Expression: Capturing the Friedmans, Dirty Pretty Things, The Magdalene Sisters, September 11
Special Mention for Excellence in Filmmaking: American Splendor, Bend It Like Beckham, The Cooler, Dirty Pretty Things, Girl With A Pearl Earring, Pieces of April, The Secret Lives of Dentists, Shattered Glass, The Statement, Thirteen, Whale Rider
2002 73rd Annual National Board of Review Awards
NBR's Top 10 Movies for 2002
1. The Hours
2. Chicago
3. Gangs of New York
4. The Quiet American
5. Adaptation
6. Rabbit-Proof Fence
7. The Pianist
8. Far From Heaven
9. Thirteen Conversations About One Thing
10. Frida
Top 5 Foreign Movies
1. Talk to Her
2. Y Tu Mama Tambien
3. 8 Women
4. City of God
5. El Crimen del Padre Amaro
Best Director: Phillip Noyce, The Quiet American and Rabbit- Proof Fence
Best Actor: Campbell Scott, Roger Dodger
Best Actress: Julianne Moore, Far From Heaven
Best Supporting Actor: Chris Cooper, Adaptation
Best Supporting Actress: Kathy Bates, About Schmidt
Screenwriter of the Year: Charlie Kaufman, Adaptation, Confessions
of a Dangerous Mind, Human Nature
Best Ensemble: Nicholas Nickleby
Best Documentary: Bowling for Columbine
Best Animated Feature: Miyazaki's Spirited Away
Special Awards
Career Achievement: Christopher Plummer, Elmer Bernstein and Conrad Hall
Breakthrough Performances: Derek Luke, Antwone Fisher and Maggie Gyllenhaal, Secretary
Directorial Debut: Rob Marshall, Chicago
Film Made for Cable TV: The Laramie Project
Special Award for Visionary Cinematic Achievement: George Lucas
Special Filmmaking Achievement: George Clooney, Director, Producer, and Star of Confessions of a Dangerous Mind
Sheila Nevins William K. Everson Award for Film History; Annette Insdorf for her book, Indelible Shadows: Films and the Holocaust
Special Recognition of Films that Reflect the Freedom of Expression: Ararat, Bloody Sunday, The Grey Zone, Rabbit-Proof Fence
Special Mention for Excellence in Filmmaking: Frailty, The Good Girl, The Guys, Heaven, Igby Goes Down, Max, Personal Velocity, Real Women Have Curves, Roger Dodger, Sunshine State, Tadpole, Tully
2001 72nd Annual National Board of Review Awards
Best Picture, ranked in
order of preference:
1. Moulin Rouge
2. In
The Bedroom
3. Ocean’s
Eleven
4. Memento
5. Monster’s
Ball
6. Black
Hawk Down
7. The
Man Who Wasn’t There
8. A.I.Artificial
Intelligence
9. The
Pledge
10. Mulholland
Drive
Top five foreign-language
films:
1. Amores Perros
2. Behind
The Sun
3. Dark
Blue World
4. No
Man’s Land
5. Amelie
Best Director: Todd Field, In The Bedroom
Best Actor: Billy Bob Thornton, The Man Who Wasn’t There; Monster’s Ball; Bandits
Best Actress: Halle Berry, Monster’s Ball
Best Supporting Actor: Jim Broadbent, Moulin Rouge; Iris
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett, The Man Who Cried; Shipping News; The Lord Of The Rings
Best Screenplay: Rob Festinger & Todd Field, In The Bedroom
Best Acting Ensemble: Last Orders
Best Production Design: The Lord of the Rings
Best Documentary: The Endurance
Best Animated Feature: Shrek
Special Awards
Career Achievement Award: Jon Voight
Breakthrough Performances: Naomi Watts, Mulholland Drive & Haydn Christensen, Life As A House
Special Achievement in Filmmaking: Peter Jackson, The Lord Of The Rings: The Fellowship Of The Ring
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing: Steven Spielberg
Award for Directorial Debut: John Cameron Mitchell, Hedwig And The Angry Inch
William K. Everson Award for Film History: Martin Scorsese, My Voyage To Italy (Il Mio Viaggio In Italia)
Best Film made for Cable TV: Wit
Freedom of Expression: Baran, Jung (War) In The Land Of The Muhjaheddin, Kandahar
Special Mention for Excellence In Filmmaking: The Anniversary Party, The Deep End, Diamond Men, Ghost World, Happy Accidents, Iris, Lantana, L.I.E., Piņero, Sexy Beast
2000 71th Annual National Board of Review Awards
Top 10 Films of 2000
1. Quills
2. Traffic
3. Croupier
4. You Can Count on Me
5. Billy Elliot
6. Before Night Falls
7. Gladiator
8. Wonder Boys
9. Sunshine
10. Dancer in the Dark
Foreign Films:
1. Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon
2. Butterfly
3. A Time For Drunken Horses
4. Malena
5. Girl On The Bridge
Best Director: Steven Soderbergh, Traffic and Erin Brockovich
Best Actor: Javier Bardem, Before Night Falls
Best Actress: Julia Roberts, Erin Brockovich
Best Supporting Actor: Joaquin Phoenix, Gladiator, Quills, The Yards
Best Supporting Actress: Lupe Ontiveros, Chuck and Buck
Best Screenplay: Ted Tally, All the Pretty Horses
Best Ensemble: State And Main
Production Design: Arthur Max, Gladiator
Best Documentary: The Life And Times Of Hank Greenberg
Best Animation: Chicken Run
Special Awards
Career Achievement: Ellen Burstyn & Ennio Morricone
Breakthrough Performance: Michelle Rodriguez, Girlfight
Outstanding Young Actor: Jamie Bell, Billy Elliot
Musical Performance By An Actress: Bjork, Dancer in the Dark
Achievement In Foreign Film: Decalogue Series
Special Filmmaking Achievement: Kenneth Lonergan, You Can Count On Me
Special Recognition of Films that Reflect Freedom of Expression: A Time for Drunken Horses, Bamboozled, Before Night Falls, The Circle, Kadosh, Quills, Sound and Fury and The Visit.
Excellence In Filmmaking: American Psycho, Best In Show, Chuck & Buck, Girlfight, Hamlet, Nurse Betty, Requiem For A Dream, Shower, Snatch!, Two Family House