National Board of Review Awards 2006

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<big>78th NBR Awards</big><br> <div style="padding-left: 15px"> January 9, 2007 </div>

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Best Film: <br> <big> Letters from Iwo Jima </big> </div> 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.

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
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Notes on a Scandal
• The Painted Veil

Winners

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 Screenplay – Original:

• Zach Helm – Stranger Than Fiction

Best Screenplay – Adapted:

• Ron Nyswaner – The Painted Veil

Best Animated Feature:

• Cars

Best Foreign Language Film:

• Volver, Spain

Best Documentary Feature:

• An Inconvenient Truth

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 Directorial Debut:

• Jason Reitman - Thank You For Smoking

Career Achievement Award:

• Eli Wallach

Career Award for Producing:

• Irwin Winkler

William K. Everson Award for Film History:

• Donald Krim

Freedom of Expression Award:

• Water
• World Trade Center

Top Foreign Films

• Curse of the Golden Flower
• Days of Glory
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Volver
• Water

Top Documentaries

• An Inconvenient Truth
• 51 Birch Street
• Iraq in Fragments
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• Wordplay

Top Independent Films

• 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

References