80th National Board of Review Awards (2008)

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

	Slumdog Millionaire
	Burn After Reading
	Changeling
	The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
	The Dark Knight
	Defiance
	Frost/Nixon
	Gran Torino
	Milk
	WALL-E
	The Wrestler

Best Film:

Slumdog Millionaire

Best Director:

David Fincher - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Cast:

Doubt

Best Actor:

Clint Eastwood - Gran Torino

Best Actress:

Anne Hathaway - Rachel Getting Married

Best Supporting Actor:

Josh Brolin - Milk

Best Supporting Actress:

Penélope Cruz - Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Best Screenplay - Original:

Nick Schenk - Gran Torino

Best Screenplay - Adapted (tie):

	Simon Beaufoy - Slumdog Millionaire
	Eric Roth - The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Best Foreign Language Film:

Mongol, Mongolia

Best Documentary Feature:

Man on Wire

Best Animated Feature:

WALL-E

Best Directorial Debut:

Courtney Hunt - Frozen River

Breakthrough Male Performances:

Dev Patel - Slumdog Millionaire

Breakthrough Female Performances:

Viola Davis - Doubt

Spotlight Award:

	Melissa Leo - Frozen River
	Richard Jenkins - The Visitor

William K. Everson Award for Film History:

Molly Haskell and Andrew Sarris

Freedom of Expression Award:

Trumbo

Top Foreign Films:

	Mongol, Mongolia
	The Edge of Heaven
	Let the Right One In
	Roman de Gare
	A Secret
	Waltz with Bashir

Top Documentaries:

	Man on Wire
	American Teen
	The Betrayal - Nerakhoon
	Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father
	Encounters at the End of the World
	Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired

Top Independent Films:

	Frozen River
	In Bruges
	In Search of a Midnight Kiss
	Hallam Foe
	Rachel Getting Married
	Snow Angels
	Son of Rambow
	Vicky Cristina Barcelona
	The Visitor
	Wendy and Lucy