National Society of Film Critics crowned their year end best – and Guillermo Del Toro's Pan's Labyrinth was voted as best picture. The critics' group (critics mostly based in L.A and NYC) also gave a merited best director award to Paul Greengrass for U93. Here is the complete list of winners:
Best Film – Pan's Labyrinth
Best Director – Paul Greengrass (United 93)
Best Actor – Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
Best Actress – Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Best Supporting Actor – Mark Wahlberg – (The Departed)
Best Supporting Actress – Meryl Streep (A Prairie Home Companion/The Devil Wears Prada)
Best Screenplay – Peter Morgan (The Queen)
Best Cinematography – Emmanuel Lubezki (Children of Men)
Best Nonfiction – An Inconvenient Truth
Best Experimental – Inland Empire
Film Heritage Award: Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film “Army of Shadows“