NBR Award winners

December 7th 2006, 12:00am

Awards season has kicked off, as it always does, with the National Board of Review’s handing out of accolades, and top prize went to LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA. Looks like Warner Bros. may have made the right decision in moving LETTERS up from February to a December 20th release after it appeared FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS wasn’t about to get as much as love as most originally assumed. Also, it’s nice to see that THANK YOU FOR SMOKING got some props (Best Directorial debut for Jason Reitman). Check out the full list of winners below…

Best Film

Letters From Iwo Jima

Top Ten Films

Letters From Iwo Jima, (and, 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

Breakthrough Performance – Male

Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson

Breakthrough Performance – Female

(2) Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls and Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Best Director

Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Directorial Debut

Jason Reitman, Thank You For Smoking

Best Adapted Screenplay

Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil

Best Original Screenplay

Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction

Best Documentary

An Inconvenient Truth

Best Animated Feature

Cars

Career Achievement Award

Eli Wallach

Billy Wilder Award For Excellence In Directing

Jonathan Demme

William K. Everson Award For Film History

Donald Krim