Awards -- NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW Winners!!!

The first big announcement of the year, and a few nice surprises here.

Loving...the love for (500) Days, Up, and Star Trek.
Surprised...to not see Nine or Precious (!!!) on their top list
Disappointed...that A Serious Man took original screenplay. I love the Coens, but didn't like this one.

2009 National Board of Review Winners

Top Films
(500) Days of Summer
An Education
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Star Trek
Up
Up in the Air (BEST PICTURE)
Where the Wild Things Are

Best Director
Clint Eastwood "Invictus"

Best Actor
George Clooney "Up in the Air" (tie)
Morgan Freeman "Invictus" (tie)

Best Actress
Carey Mulligan "An Education"

Best Supporting Actor
Woody Harrelson "The Messenger"

Best Supporting Actress
Anna Kendrick "Up in the Air"

Best Ensemble Cast
It's Complicated

Best Original Screenplay
"A Serious Man" -- Joel Coen & Ethan Coen

Best Adapted Screenplay
"Up in the Air" -- Jason Reitman & Sheldon Turner

Best Animated Feature
Up

Breakthrough Performance (Male)
Jeremy Renner "The Hurt Locker"

Breakthrough Performance (Female)
Gabourey Sidibe "Precious"

Best Directorial Debut (Spotlight Award)
Duncan Jones "Moon" (tie)
Oren Moverman "The Messenger" (tie)
Marc Webb "(500) Days of Summer" (tie)

Top Foreign Films
The Maid
A Prophet (BEST FOREIGN FILM)
Revance
Song of Sparrows
Three Monkeys
The White Ribbon

Top Documentary Films
Burma Vj: Reporting From A Closed Country
The Cove (BEST DOCUMENTARY)
Crude
Food, Inc.
Good Hair
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Top Ten Independent Films
Amreeka
District 9
Goodbye Solo
Humpday
In the Loop
Julia
Me and Orson Welles
Moon
Sugar
Two Lovers

Special Filmmaking Acheivement Award
Wes Anderson "The Fantastic Mr. Fox"

William K. Everson Film History Award
Jean Picker Firstenberg

NBR Freedom of Express
Burma Vj: Reporting From A Closed Country
Invictus
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellseberg and the Pentagon Papers