No Country for Old Men is the toast of National Board of Review

The first year-end critics awards is now in and though I may not recall how many times The National Board of Review's best film matches that of the Oscars, I'm thinking that No Country for Old Men is easily the hands on favorite. Curiously, I'm looking at the list below and only 2 films among all the winners were shown in theaters before the month of September – with only an animated Rat Pixar and Julie Christie's tour-de-force perf in Sarah Polley's Away From Her. The board had a lot of people supporting the Affleck brothers work this year – younger bro got recognition for his work in the Jesse James picture and Affleck Sr. got kudos for his directing skills in GBG. Below you'll find the complete list of winners commencing with Best Film.

No Country for Old Men 


Director: Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Actor: George Clooney, Michael Clayton

Actress:
Julie Christie, “Away From Her”

Supporting Actor: Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Supporting Actress: Amy Ryan, Gone, Baby, Gone

Foreign Film:  The Diving Bell and the Butterfly

Documentary:“Body Of War”

Animated Feature: Ratatouille

Ensemble Cast: No Country for Old Men

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: Emile Hirsch, Into the Wild

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: Ellen Page, Juno

Best Directorial Debut: Ben Affleck, Gone, Baby, Gone

Best Original Screenplay (tie):
Diablo Cody, Juno and Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl

Best Adapted Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, No Country for Old Men

NBR's top ten including NCFOM, in alphabetical order:

“The Assassination of Jesse James By The Coward Robert Ford”
“Atonement”
“The Bourne Ultimatum”
“The Bucket List”
“Into The Wild”
“Juno”
“The Kite Runner”
“Lars And The Real Girl”
“Michael Clayton”
“Sweeney Todd”