Armie Hammer didn’t get any love for his “double” performance, but The National Board of Review picked The Social Network for Best Film, Best Director (David Fincher), Adapted Screenplay (Aaron Sorkin) and the big surprise, only because it isn’t being mentioned enough, Best Actor landed on Jesse Eisenberg’s lap.
Best Supporting Actor goes to Christian Bale for more than just his extreme weight-loss and if Mo’Nique taught us anything, it’s that it ain’t mandatory to do tons of sucking up for the big prize in February. Bale is the overwhelming favorite for this category. On the opposite side of the spectrum, Best Actress went to Lesley Manville – which now means she’ll mix up the cards in this category in other award organizations and it would be swell if Jacki Weaver, who played Mama Bear in David Michod’s Animal Kingdom, takes this Best Supporting and multiples it a couple of times over for an Oscar night presence. Here are the other winners:
Best Foreign Language Film: Of Gods and Men
Best Documentary: Waiting for “Superman”
Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 3
Best Ensemble Cast: The Town
Breakthrough Performance: Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Debut Directors: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, Restrepo
Spotlight Award: Sylvain Chomet and Jacques Tati, The Illusionist
Best Original Screenplay: Chris Sparling, Buried
Special Filmmaking Achievement Award: Sofia Coppola for writing, directing, and producing Somewhere
William K. Everson Film History Award: Leonard Maltin
NBR Freedom of Expression: Fair Game, Conviction, Howl
Production Design Award: Dante Ferretti, Shutter Island
Ten Best Films (in alphabetical order)
Another Year
The Fighter
Hereafter
Inception
The King’s Speech
Shutter Island
The Town
Toy Story 3
True Grit
Winter’s Bone
Five Best Foreign-Language Films
I Am Love
Incendies
Life, Above All
Soul Kitchen
White Material
Five Best Documentaries
A Film Unfinished
Inside Job
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Restrepo
The Tillman Story
Top Ten Independent Films:
Animal Kingdom
Buried
Fish Tank
The Ghost Writer
Greenberg
Let Me In
Monsters
Please Give
Somewhere
Youth in Revolt
