Wednesday, December 5, 2007

National Board of Review: Winners

Here are the winners (major kudos to Brian for the "Bourne" prediction):

Best Film: No Country for Old Men
Best Director: Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
Best Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton
Best Actress: Julie Christie, Away from Her
Best Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
Best Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gone
Best Foreign Film: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Best Documentary: Body of War
Best Animated Feature: Ratatouille
Best Ensemble Cast: No Country for Old Men
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: Ellen Page, Juno
Best Directorial Debut: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
Best Original Screenplay: (TIE) Diablo Cody, Juno and Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

...and the Top Ten:
The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford
Atonement
The Bourne Ultimatum
The Bucket List
Into The Wild
Juno
The Kite Runner
Lars And The Real Girl
Michael Clayton
Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Top Five Foreign Films:
4 Months, 3 Weeks, 2 Days
The Band's Visit
The Counterfeiters
La Vie en Rose
Lust Caution

Top Five Documentaries:
Darfur Now
In the Shadow of the Moon
Nanking
Taxi to the Darkside
Toots

Top Ten Independent Films:
Away from Her
Great World of Sound
Honeydripper
In the Valley of Elah
A Mighty Heart
The Namesake
Once
The Savages
Starting Out in the Evening
Waitress

The official list is here.

Three words: Take that, Tapley!

1 comment:

jonathan said...

ive been an avid reader of this blog and sadly i haven't watch no country yet, i really want to!!