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Post National Board of Review predictions
To be announced next week.


Here are last year's winners:

Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire

Top 10 (not ranked):

Burn After Reading
Changeling
The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
The Dark Knight
Defiance
Frost/Nixon
Gran Torino
Milk
WALL-E
The Wrestler


Best Foreign Language Film: Mongol

Top 5 foreign language films (not ranked):

The Edge of Heaven
Let the Right One In
Waltz with Bashir
Roman de Gare
A Secret

Best Director: David Fincher (The Curious Case of Benjamin Button)

Best Actor: Clint Eastwood (Gran Torino)

Best Actress: Anne Hathaway (Rachel Getting Married)

Best Supporting Actor: Josh Brolin (Milk)

Best Supporting Actress: Penelope Cruz (Vicky Cristina Barcelona)

Best Ensemble Cast: Doubt

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: Dev Patel (Slumdog Millionaire)

Breaktrhough Performance by an Actress: Viola Davis (Doubt)

Best Original Screenplay: Gran Torino

Best Adapted Screenplay: TIE Slumdog Millionaire/The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best animated film: WALL-E

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Post Re: National Board of Review predictions
My predictions:


Best Film: Precious

Top 10

Up in the Air
Invictus
Nine
The Lovely Bones
A Serious Man
The Hurt Locker
Star Trek
Inglourious Basterds
Julie & Julia
An Education

Remember none of the LOTR flicks or King Kong made their Top 10, thus I'm leaving out Avatar.


Best Director: Quentin Tarantino (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Actor: George Clooney (Up in the Air)

Best Actress: Meryl Streep (Julie & Julia)

Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick (Up in the Air)

Best Cast Ensemble: Nine

Best Original Screenplay: A Serious Man

Best Adapted Screenplay: Up in the Air

Best Animated Film: Up

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Post Re: National Board of Review predictions
Best Film An Education

Top 10

Bright Star
The Hurt Locker
Invictus
The Lovely Bones
Nine
Precious: Based on the Novel 'Push' by Sapphire
The Road
A Single Man
Star Trek
Up in the Air

Best Director Peter Jackson (The Lovely Bones)

Best Actor George Clooney (Up in the Air)

Best Actress Carey Mulligan (An Education)

Best Supporting Actor Christoph Waltz (Inglourious Basterds)

Best Supporting Actress Mo'Nique (Precious)

Best Cast Ensemble Precious

Best Original Screenplay The Hurt Locker

Best Adapted Screenplay An Education

Best Animated Film Up

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