'Slumdog Millionaire' starts the award season with a bang

December 7, 5:56 PMLA Film ExaminerRebecca Ford

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"Slumdog Millionaire" clenches the first big award of the season as the National Board of Review releases their awards. Their selections are:

Best Film: "Slumdog Millionaire"

Top Ten Films: "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 Five Foreign Films : "Edge of Heaven," "Let the Right One In," "Roman de Gare," "A Secret," "Waltz with Bashir"

Best Documentary: "Man on Wire"

Top Five Documentaries (In alphabetical order): "American Teen," "The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)," "Dear Zachary," "Encounters at the End of the World," "Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired"

Top Independent Films (In alphabetical order): "Frozen River," "In Bruges," "In Search of a Midnight Kiss," "Mr. Foe," "Rachel Getting Married," "Snow Angels," "Son Of Rambow," "Wendy and Lucy," "Vicky Cristina Barcelona," "The Visitor"

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"

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: Viola Davis, "Doubt"

Best Director: David Fincher, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

Best Directorial Debut: Courtney Hunt, "Frozen River"

Best Original Screenplay: Nick Schenk, "Gran Torino"

Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, "Slumdog Millionaire" and Eric Roth, "The Curious Case of Benjamin Button"

Spotlight Award: Melissa Leo, "Frozen River" and Richard Jenkins, "The Visitor"

Best Animated Feature: "Wall-E"

The National Board of Review of Motion Pictures was established in 1901. Ballots are send out the the 125 members of the board, which include academics, film professionals and students in New York to determine the annual awards.