National Board of Review Awards 2006



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
 * Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
 * Wordplay