78th NBR Awards

January 9, 2007

Best Film:
Letters from Iwo Jima

The 78th National Board of Review Awards, awarded to the best in film for 2006, were presented by the National Board of Review on 9 January 2007.

Winners

Best Film:^[1]
- Iwo Jima kara no tegami (Letters from Iwo Jima)
Best Foreign Language film:^[1]
- Volver (To Return), Spain
Best Actor:^[1]
- Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress:^[1]
- Helen Mirren - The Queen
Best Supporting Actor:^[1]
- Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress:^[1]
- Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration
Best Acting by an Ensemble:^[1]
- The Departed
Breakthrough Male Performances:^[1]
- Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Breakthrough Female Performances (tie):^[1]
- Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
- Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
Best Director:^[1]
- Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Best Directorial Debut:^[1]
- Jason Reitman - Thank You For Smoking
Best Animated Feature:^[1]
- Cars
Best Documentary Feature:^[1]
- An Inconvenient Truth
Best Screenplay - Adapted:^[1]
- The Painted Veil - Ron Nyswaner
Best Screenplay - Original:^[1]
- Stranger Than Fiction - Zach Helm
Freedom of Expression Award:^[1]
- Water and World Trade Center
Career Achievement Award:^[1]
- Eli Wallach
William K. Everson Award for Film History:^[1]
- Donald Krim
Career Award for Producing:^[1]
- Irwin Winkler

Top 10 films

In alphabetical order:^[1]

In alphabetical order:^[1]

In alphabetical order:^[1]

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