NBR Throws Out First BEST OF 2006 List

By Wind(up)bird December 7, 2006 6:09 AM

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For the last five years, the NBR's top ten films list have failed to included the pic that goes on to win best picture at the Academy Awards. ?Their batting average is off, but that's not why top ten lists matter, right?

NBR's Best of 2006 Awards

Best Film
Letters From Iwo Jima

Top Ten Films
(and, in alphabetical order)
Letters From Iwo Jima
Babel
Blood Diamond
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Flags Of Our Fathers
The History Boys
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes On A Scandal
The Painted Veil

Best Foreign Film
Volver

Top Five Foreign Films
(and, in alphabetical order)
Curse Of The Golden Flower
Days Of Glory
Pan's Labyrinth
Volver
Water

Top Five Documentaries
(and, in alphabetical order)
An Inconvenient Truth
51 Birch Street
Iraq In Fragments
Shut Up & Sing
Wordplay

Top Independent Films
(in alphabetical order)
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

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 Performance - Male
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson

Breakthrough Performance - Female
(tie) Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls and Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Directorial Debut
Jason Reitman, Thank You For Smoking

Best Adapted Screenplay
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil

Best Original Screenplay
Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction

Best Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth

Best Animated Feature
Cars

Career Achievement Award
Eli Wallach

Billy Wilder Award For Excellence In Directing
Jonathan Demme

William K. Everson Award For Film History
Donald Krim

Career Achievement in Producing
Irwin Winkler

The Bvlgari Award for NBR Freedom of Expression
Water and World Trade Center

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