National Board of Review 2010

National Board of Review 2010 - winners

National Board of Review announced its winners a couple of days ago, stating what everybody already know: The Social Network is the most serious contender for the Academy Award of Best Picture. NBR Awards have been a good indicator of the Oscar in the way that rarely a NBR winner don't get an Oscar nod. So, take a look at the list:

Best Film: The Social Network
Best Director: David Fincher, The Social Network
Best Actor: Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Best Actress: Lesley Manville, Another Year
Best Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, The Fighter
Best Supporting Actress: Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Best Foreign Language Film: Of Gods and Men
Best Documentary: Waiting for “Superman”
Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 3
Best Ensemble Cast: The Town
Breakthrough Performance: Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Best Directorial Debut: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, Restrepo
Spotlight Award: Sylvain Chomet and Jacques Tati, The Illusionist
Best Original Screenplay: Chris Sparling, Buried
Best Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
Special Filmmaking Achievement Award: Sofia Coppola for writing, directing, and producing Somewhere
William K. Everson Film History Award: Leonard Maltin
Production Design Award: Dante Ferretti, Shutter Island
NBR Freedom of Expression: Fair Game, Conviction, Howl

NBR had also released its TOP 5/10 lists, where we can recognize some serious Oscar contenders:

Ten Best Films
(In alphabetical order)
- Another Year
- The Fighter
- Hereafter
- Inception
- The King’s Speech
- Shutter Island
- The Town
- Toy Story 3
- True Grit
- Winter’s Bone

Five Best Foreign-Language Films
(in alphabetical order)
- I Am Love
- Incendies
- Life, Above All
- Soul Kitchen
- White Material

Five Best Documentaries
(in alphabetical order)
- A Film Unfinished
- Inside Job
- Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
- Restrepo
- The Tillman Story

Top Ten Independent Films
(in alphabetical order)
- Animal Kingdom
- Buried
- Fish Tank
- The Ghost Writer
- Greenberg
- Let Me In
- Monsters
- Please Give
- Somewhere
- Youth in Revolt

Just my personal opinion: NBR made excelent choices this year in my opinion! It honoured some Oscar dark-horses that hardly would get the glory they deserve and gave them a big push to the awards season (I'm talking about movies like Buried, Let Me In and Fish Tank).
I'm very happy with all the choices in general (I'm not talking about having Hereafter in the 10 Best Films list instead of The Kids Are All Right (which was completly snubed, which is really sad and unbelievable), Black Swan, Rabbit Hole or Somewhere).

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