Award Season 2006

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I figured we should have a thread about the big awards for the films of 2006 - some perdictions etc.

Ok, so we've got the Indie awards last month, now the National Board of Review winners announced today:

http://www.showbuzz.cbsnews.com/stor...n2235396.shtml

Below is a full list of the awards given by the National Board of Review:


Best film: "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"
Best supporting actress: 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 by an actor: Ryan Gosling, "Half Nelson"
Breakthrough performance by an actress: (2)
Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls" and Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"
Best directorial debut: Jason Reitman, "Thank You For Smoking"
Best original screenplay: Zach Helm, "Stranger Than Fiction"
Best adapted screenplay: Ron Nyswaner, "The Painted Veil"

Top 10 films:
"Letters From Iwo Jima"
(and, in alphabetical order)
"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"

Top 5 foreign films:
"Volver"
(and, in alphabetical order)
"Curse Of The Golden Flower"
"Days Of Glory"
"Pan's Labyrinth"
"Water"

Top 5 documentary films
"An Inconvenient Truth"
" (and, in alphabetical order)
"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

Career achievement: Eli Wallach
Billy Wilder award for excellence in directing: Jonathan Demme
Career achievement in producing: Irwin Winkler
William K. Everson film history award: Donald Krim
The Bvlgari award for freedom of expression: "Water" and "World Trade Center"