Oscar Forecast: "Up in the Air" Wins Best Picture From NBR

The National Board of Review, who always shoots out the gate first with the year-end best pics, has named Up in the Air the best picture of the year. It gave that honor last year to eventual Oscar Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire, but it's been hit-or-miss in past years. Note that now the Academy has expanded its Best Pic nominees to 10, the Board of Review's top 10 might align a little more closely (though Precious and Nine, both predicted to make the list, are missing here). Here's its top awards:

Best Picture: Up in the Air

Top 10 Films:

An Education
(500) Days of Summer
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Star Trek
Up
Where the Wild Things Are

Best Director: Clint Eastwood, Invictus

Best Actor: George Clooney, Up in the Air, and Morgan Freeman, Invictus

Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, An Education

Best Supporting Actor: Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air

Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air

Breakthrough Actor: Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

Breakthrough Actress: Gabourey Sidibe, Precious

Best Foreign-Language Film: A Prophet

Top Five Foreign-Language Films:
The Maid
Revanche
Song of Sparrows
Three Monkeys
The White Ribbon

Best Documentary: The Cove

Top Five Documentaries:
Burma VJ
Crude
Food, Inc.
Good Hair
The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

Best Animated Film: Up

Best Ensemble Cast: It’s Complicated

Best Directorial Debut: Duncan Jones, Moon; Oren Moverman, The Messenger; Marc Webb, (500) Days of Summer

BVLGARI Award for Freedom of Expression: Burma VJ, Invictus

Top 10 Independent Films:

Amreeka
Goodbye Solo
Humpday
In the Loop
Julia
Me and Orson Welles
Moon
Sugar
Two Lovers

--Ellen

Comments

[joesen on November 01, 2010 at 12:11 AM]

The National Board of Review, who always shoots out the gate first with the year-end best pics, has named Up in the Air the best picture of the year. It gave that honor last year to eventual