National Board of Review Awards 2011

83rd NBR Awards
Best Film: Hugo

The 83rd Awards of the National Board of Review honored the best in film for 2011.

Top 10 Films

Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year:

Hugo

• The Artist
• The Descendants
• Drive
• The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
• Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2
• The Ides of March
• J. Edgar
• The Tree of Life
• War Horse

Winners

Best Film:

• Hugo

Best Director:

• Martin Scorsese – Hugo

Best Actor:

• George Clooney – The Descendants

Best Actress:

• Tilda Swinton – We Need to Talk About Kevin

Best Supporting Actor:

• Christopher Plummer – Beginners

Best Supporting Actress:

• Shailene Woodley – The Descendants

Best Original Screenplay:

• Will Reiser – 50/50

Best Adapted Screenplay:

• Nat Faxon & Alexander Payne & Jim Rash – The Descendants

Best Animated Feature:

• Rango

Best Foreign Film:

• A Separation

Best Documentary:

• Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

Best Ensemble Cast:

• The Help

Breakthrough Performance:

• Felicity Jones – Like Crazy
• Rooney Mara – The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo

Spotlight Award:

• Michael Fassbender – A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class

Spotlight Award for Best Directorial Debut:

• J. C. Chandor – Margin Call

Special Filmmaking Achievement Award:

• The Harry Potter franchise, for "a distinguished translation from Book to Film"

NBR Freedom of Expression:

• Crime After Crime
• Pariah

Top Foreign Films

A Separation

• 13 Assassins
• Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
• Footnote
• Le Havre
• Point Blank

Top Documentaries

Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory

• Born to Be Wild
• Buck
• George Harrison: Living in the Material World
• Project Nim
• Senna

Top Independent Films

• 50/50
• Another Earth
• Beginners
• A Better Life
• Cedar Rapids
• Margin Call
• Shame
• Take Shelter
• We Need To Talk About Kevin
• Win Win