National Board of Review WINNERS - FUCK YOU EASTWOOD!

So yesterday, I ALMOST put The Devil Wears Prada into the top 10 and Stranger Than Fiction for Screenplay. DAMN IT DAMN IT DAMN IT.

Nevertheless, go THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA, MR. RACHEL MCADAMS, HELEN MIRREN, CATHERINE O'HARA, THE DIXIE CHICKS and THE DEPARTED. I love you all very much.


Best Film: Letters From Iwo Jima
Best Director: MARTIN SCORSESE - The Departed
Best Actor: FOREST WHITAKER - The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: HELEN MIRREN - The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: DJIMON HOUNSOU - Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress: CATHERINE O'HARA - For Your Consideration
Best Foreign Film: VOLVER
Best Documentary: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Best Animated Feature: CARS
Best Ensemble Cast: THE DEPARTED
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: RYAN GOSLING - Half Nelson
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: JENNIFER HUDSON - Dreamgirls & RINKO KIKUCHI - Babel

Best Directorial Debut: JASON REITMAN - Thank You for Smoking
Best Original Screenplay: ZACH HELM - Stranger Than Fiction
Best Adapted Screenplay: RON NYSWANER - The Painted Veil


Top Ten Films:
(and, in alphabetical order)

BABEL
BLOOD DIAMOND
THE DEPARTED
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
FLAGS OF OUR FATHERS
THE HISTORY BOYS
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
NOTES ON A SCANDAL
THE PAINTED VEIL

Top Five Foreign Films:
CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER
DAYS OF GLORY
PAN'S LABYRINTH
VOLVER
WATER

Top Five Documentary Films
51 BIRCH STREET
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS
SHUT UP & SING
WORDPLAY

Top Independent Films
AKEELAH AND THE BEE
BOBBY
CATCH A FIRE
COPYING BEETHOVEN
A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS
HALF NELSON
THE ILLUSIONIST
LONESOME JIM
SHERRYBABY
10 ITEMS OR LESS
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING


Career Achievement - ELI WALLACH
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing - JONATHAN DEMME
Career Achievement in Producing - IRWIN WINKLER
William K. Everson Film History Award - DONALD KRIM
The BVLGARI Award for NBR Freedom of Expression - WATER and WORLD TRADE CENTER


How does World Trade Center get a Freedom of Expression Award? UGH!

No Dreamgirls or The Queen in the top 10. HOLY SHIT!

Where's United 93 and A Prairie Home Companion?