UP IN THE AIR wins Best Picture at NBR

[Michael Bennett]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 3:00pm

National Board of Review announced their year end best today (they are one of the first critics groups to do so).

Good news for UP IN THE AIR and Clint Eastwood's INVICTUS.

They weren't feeling the love for NINE or PRECIOUS which were completely cut out, except for a Best Promising Newcomer Award.

Also MIA - THE LOVELY BONES, AVATAR and CRAZY HEART...


Best Film:
Up In The Air

Top Eleven Films (In alphabetical order):
An Education
(500) Days Of Summer
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Star Trek
Up
Up In The Air
Where The Wild Things Are

Best Director:
Clint Eastwood, Invictus

Best Actor:
Morgan Freeman, Invictus and George Clooney, Up In The Air (tie)

Best Actress:
Carey Mulligan, An Education

Best Supporting Actor:
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

Best Supporting Actress:
Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air

Best Foreign Film:
A Prophet

Best Documentary:
The Cove

Best Animated Feature:
Up

Best Ensemble Cast:
Itâ??s Complicated

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor:
Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress:
Gabourey Sidibe, Precious

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

Best Original Screenplay:
Joel & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air

Special Filmmaking Achievement Award:
Wes Anderson, The Fantastic Mr. Fox

William K. Everson Film History Award:
Jean Picker Firstenberg

NBR Freedom of Expression:
Burma Vj: Reporting From A Closed Country,
Invictus,
The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellseberg And The Pentagon Papers

Top Ten Independent Films (In alphabetical order):
Amreeka
District 9
Goodbye Solo
Humpday
In The Loop
Julia
Me And Orson Welles
Moon
Sugar
Two Lovers

Top Six Foreign Films (In alphabetical order):
The Maid
A Prophet
Revanche
Song Of Sparrows
Three Monkeys
The White Ribbon

Top Six Documentary Films (In alphabetical order):
Burma Vj: Reporting From A Closed Country
The Cove
Crude
Food, Inc.
Good Hair
The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers


NBR Updated On: 12/3/09 at 03:00 PM

[Unknown User]

Posted: 12/3/09 at 3:07pm

So Zombieland got completely screwed???

[Pgenre]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 4:12pm

Isn't this the committee that nominated the RENT movie in 05?

Whatever. They're a joke. And that list proves it.

And could UP IN THE AIR look any more mid-00s snide and Clooney any smarmier? Pass, though Reitman is certainly talented. That being said, if he gets an Oscar before PTA I'm gonna scream.

P

[ray-andallthatjazz86]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 5:23pm

I thought WHERE THE WILD THINGS ARE was probably one of the most pointless movies I saw all year. I'd stop dozing off whenever I'd hear Lauren Ambrose's voice, but otherwise, I thought it was one of the most boring movies I've seen. And what an annoying kid!
And I really don't get the STAR TREK love.
I also find it shocking that they fell for Morgan Freeman as Nelson Mandela.
I guess I'm happy for Carey Mulligan and Anna Kendrick. Does this mean anything for the Best Leading Actress race? I imagine Mulligan is the frontrunner at this point.

[gustof777]

Posted: 12/4/09 at 5:55pm

where is A Single Man??