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The 78th National Board of Review Awards, honoring the best in film for 2006, were given on 6 December 2006.

Top 10 films

1. Letters from Iwo Jima (Iwo Jima kara no tegami)
2. Babel
3. Blood Diamond
4. The Departed (Academy Award for Best Picture)
5. The Devil Wears Prada
6. Flags of Our Fathers
7. The History Boys
8. Little Miss Sunshine
9. Notes on a Scandal
10. The Painted Veil

Top Foreign Films

• Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia)
• Days of Glory (Indigènes)
• Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
• To Return (Volver)
• Water

Top Five Documentaries

• An Inconvenient Truth
• 51 Birch Street
• Iraq in Fragments
• Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
• Wordplay

Top Independent Films

• Akeelah and the Bee
• Bobby
• Catch a Fire
• Copying Beethoven
• A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
• Half Nelson
• The Illusionist
• Lonesome Jim
• Sherrybaby
• 10 Items or Less
• Thank You For Smoking

Winners

• Best Film:
  • Iwo Jima kara no tegami (Letters from Iwo Jima)
• Best Foreign Language film:
  • Volver (To Return), Spain
• Best Actor:
  • Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
• Best Actress:
  • Helen Mirren - The Queen
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration
• Best Acting by an Ensemble:
  • The Departed
• Breakthrough Male Performances:
  • Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
• Breakthrough Female Performances (tie):
  • Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
  • Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
• Best Director:
  • Martin Scorsese - The Departed
• Best Directorial Debut:
  • Jason Reitman - Thank You For Smoking
• Best Animated Feature:
  • Cars
• Best Documentary Feature:
  • An Inconvenient Truth
• Best Screenplay - Adapted:
  • The Painted Veil - Ron Nyswaner
• Best Screenplay - Original:
  • Stranger Than Fiction - Zach Helm
• Freedom of Expression Award:
  • Water and World Trade Center
• Career Achievement Award:
  • Eli Wallach
• Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing:
  • Jonathan Demme
• William K. Everson Award for Film History:
  • Donald Krim
• Career Award for Producing
  • Irwin Winkler

External links

• National Board of Review of Motion Pictures :: Awards for 2006