Awards season is already shaping up to be a “spread the wealth” kind of year with no individual movie really dominating multiple categories. And who comes out on top come Oscar® night is anyone’s guess at this point in the campaign. But the National Board of Review has made its choices for the best of 2011 with “Hugo” being named Best Film of the Year. The film’s director, Martin Scorsese, was awarded Best Director. ”Michael Clayton” co-stars George Clooney and Tilda Swinton were given Best Actor and Actress honors for “The Descendants” and “We Need To Talk About Kevin” respectively.
The National Board of Review also awards a list of the top ten best features and independent films of the year. Here is the full list of winners:
Best Film: Hugo
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, Hugo
Best Actor: George Clooney, The Descendants
Best Actress: Tilda Swinton, We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Supporting Actor: Christopher Plummer, Beginners
Best Supporting Actress: Shailene Woodley, The Descendants
Best Original Screenplay: Will Reiser, 50/50
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alexander Payne and Nat Faxon & Jim Rash , The Descendants
Best Animated Feature: Rango
Breakthrough Performance: Felicity Jones, Like Crazy
Breakthrough Performance: Rooney Mara, The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Debut Director: J.C. Chandor, Margin Call
Best Ensemble: The Help
Spotlight Award: Michael Fassbender (A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class)
NBR Freedom of Expression: Crime After Crime
NBR Freedom of Expression: Pariah
Best Foreign Language Film: A Separation
Best Documentary: Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Special Achievement in Filmmaking: The Harry Potter Franchise – A Distinguished Translation from Book to Film
TOP FILMS (in alphabetical order)
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 2
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
The Tree of Life
War Horse
FIVE BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILMS (in alphabetical order)
13 Assassins
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Footnote
Le Havre
Point Blank
FIVE BEST DOCUMENTARIES (in alphabetical order)
Born to be Wild
Buck
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Project Nim
Senna
TOP TEN INDEPENDENT FILMS (in alphabetical order)
50/50
Another Earth
Beginners
A Better Life
Cedar Rapids
Margin Call
Shame
Take Shelter
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Win Win
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