78th National Board of Review Awards (2006)

Top 10 Films (Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year):

	Letters from Iwo Jima
	Babel
	Blood Diamond
	The Departed
	The Devil Wears Prada
	Flags of Our Fathers
	The History Boys
	Little Miss Sunshine
	Notes on a Scandal
	The Painted Veil

Best Film:

Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Director:

Martin Scorsese - The Departed

Best Acting by an Ensemble:

The Departed

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 Screenplay - Original:

Zach Helm - Stranger Than Fiction

Best Screenplay - Adapted:

Ron Nyswaner - The Painted Veil

Best Foreign Language Film:

Volver, Spain

Best Documentary Feature:

An Inconvenient Truth

Best Animated Feature:

Cars

Best Directorial Debut:

Jason Reitman - Thank You For Smoking

Breakthrough Male Performances:

Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson

Breakthrough Female Performances (tie):

	Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
	Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

Career Achievement Award:

Eli Wallach

Career Award for Producing:

Irwin Winkler

William K. Everson Award for Film History:

Donald Krim

Freedom of Expression Award:

	Water
	World Trade Center

Top Foreign Films:

	Volver
	Curse of the Golden Flower
	Days of Glory
	Pan's Labyrinth
	Water

Top Documentaries:

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

Top Independent Films:

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