Best Film
Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
Runners-up (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
Best Foreign Film
Volver by Pedro Almodóvar
Runners-up (in alphabetical order)
Indigènes / Days of Glory, El laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth, Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia / Curse of the Golden Flower, Water
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 Acting by an Ensemble
The Departed
Best Adapted Screenplay
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil
Best Original Screenplay
Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction
Best Directorial Debut
Jason Reitman, Thank You for Smoking
Best Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth by Davis Guggenheim
Runners-up (in alphabetical order)
51 Birch Street, Iraq in Fragments, Shut Up & Sing, Wordplay
Best Animated Feature
Cars by John Lasseter
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
Breakthrough Performance – Male
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Breakthrough Performance – Female (tie)
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls and Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
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 Deepa Mehta and World Trade Center by Oliver Stone
National Board of Review Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008 2009
Interesting that they were the ones who got the ball rolling for Clint Eastwood's Letter from Iwo Jima. I wonder if that movie would have gotten an Oscar nomination if those people at the National Board of Review hadn't chosen it as their best picture of 2006.