# 2009-2010 Kickoff to Awards season!

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A lot of people consider the National Board of Review to be the somewhat semi-official kickoff to awards season, so here are the winners. Yay Carey!!!

**Best Film:** Up In The Air

**Best Director:** Clint Eastwood, Invictus

**Best Actor:**  
Morgan Freeman, Invictus  
George Clooney, Up In The Air (tie)

**Best Actress:** Carey Mulligan, An Education

**Best Supporting Actor:** Woody Harrelson, The Messenger

**Best Supporting Actress:** Anna Kendrick, Up In The Air

**Best Foreign Film:** A Prophet

**Best Documentary:** The Cove

**Best Animated Feature:** Up

**Best Ensemble Cast:** It’s Complicated

**Breakthrough Performance by an Actor:** Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker

**Breakthrough Performance by an Actress:** Gabourey Sidibe, Precious

**Spotlight Award for Best Directorial Debut:**  
Duncan Jones, Moon,  
Oren Moverman, The Messenger  
Marc Webb, 500 Days of Summer (tie)

**Best Original Screenplay:** Joel & Ethan Coen, A Serious Man

**Best Adapted Screenplay:** Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air

**Special Filmmaking Achievement Award:** Wes Anderson, The Fantastic Mr. Fox

**William K. Everson Film History Award:** Jean Picker Firstenberg

**NBR Freedom of Expression:** Burma Vj: Reporting From A Closed Country, Invictus, The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellseberg And The Pentagon Papers

**Top Eleven Films (In alphabetical order):**  
An Education  
(500) Days Of Summer  
The Hurt Locker  
Inglourious Basterds  
Invictus  
The Messenger  
A Serious Man  
Star Trek  
Up  
Up In The Air  
Where The Wild Things Are  
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Top Ten Independent Films (In alphabetical order):\*\*  
Amreeka  
District 9  
Goodbye Solo  
Humpday  
In The Loop  
Julia  
Me And Orson Welles  
Moon  
Sugar  
Two Lovers

**Top Six Foreign Films (In alphabetical order):**  
The Maid  
A Prophet  
Revanche  
Song Of Sparrows  
Three Monkeys  
The White Ribbon

# **Top Six Documentary Films (In alphabetical order):** Burma Vj: Reporting From A Closed Country The Cove Crude Food, Inc. Good Hair The Most Dangerous Man In America: Daniel Ellsberg And The Pentagon Papers

Here are the [nominees for the Independent Spirit Awards](http://us.imdb.com/features/rto/2010/isa).