NBR Kicks Off Oscar Season

The National Board of Review announced the best of 2009 winners today, the first of the season. Jason Reitman's Up in the Air, starring George Clooney, nabbed Best Picture, Best Actor (Clooney tied with Morgan Freeman for Invictus) and Best Supporting Actress (Anna Kendrick).

Unlike most critics awards, the NBR also includes the top ten films of the year and a handful of other awards.

Here are all the winners:



Best Picture
Up in the Air


Top 10 Films
An Education
(500) Days of Summer
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Star Trek
Up
Where the Wild Things Are


Best Director Clint Eastwood, Invictus
Best Actor George Clooney, Up in the Air, and Morgan Freeman, Invictus
Best Actress Carey Mulligan, An Education
Best Supporting Actor Woody Harrelson, The Messenger
Best Supporting Actress Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air
Best Original Screenplay Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man
Best Adapted Screenplay Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air
Breakthrough Actor Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker
Breakthrough Actress Gabourey Sidibe, Precious
Best Foreign-Language Film A Prophet


Top Five Foreign-Language Films
The Maid
Revanche
Song of Sparrows
Three Monkeys
The White Ribbon


Best Documentary The Cove


Top Five Documentaries
Burma VJ
CrudeFood, Inc.
Good Hair
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Best Animated Film Up


Best Ensemble Cast It’s Complicated


Best Directorial Debut Duncan Jones, Moon; Oren Moverman, The Messenger; Marc Webb, (500) Days of Summer


BVLGARI Award for Freedom of Expression Burma VJ, Invictus


Top 10 Independent Films
Amreeka
Goodbye Solo
Humpday
In the Loop
Julia
Me and Orson Welles
Moon
Sugar
Two Lovers