83rd National Board of Review Awards (2011)
Top 10 Films (Films listed alphabetically except top, which is ranked as Best Film of the Year):
Hugo
The Artist
The Descendants
Drive
The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - Part 2
The Ides of March
J. Edgar
The Tree of Life
War Horse
Best Film:
Hugo
Best Director:
Martin Scorsese - Hugo
Best Ensemble Cast:
The Help
Best Actor:
George Clooney - The Descendants
Best Actress:
Tilda Swinton - We Need to Talk About Kevin
Best Supporting Actor:
Christopher Plummer - Beginners
Best Supporting Actress:
Shailene Woodley - The Descendants
Best Original Screenplay:
Will Reiser - 50/50
Best Adapted Screenplay:
Nat Faxon & Alexander Payne & Jim Rash - The Descendants
Best Foreign Film:
A Separation
Best Documentary:
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Best Animated Feature:
Rango
Spotlight Award for Best Directorial Debut:
J. C. Chandor - Margin Call
Breakthrough Performance:
Felicity Jones - Like Crazy
Rooney Mara - The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo
Spotlight Award:
Michael Fassbender - A Dangerous Method, Jane Eyre, Shame, X-Men: First Class
Special Filmmaking Achievement Award:
The Harry Potter franchise, for "a distinguished translation from Book to Film"
NBR Freedom of Expression:
Crime After Crime
Pariah
Top Foreign Films:
A Separation
13 Assassins
Elite Squad: The Enemy Within
Footnote
Le Havre
Point Blank
Top Documentaries:
Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Born to Be Wild
Buck
George Harrison: Living in the Material World
Project Nim
Senna
Top Independent Films:
50/50
Another Earth
Beginners
A Better Life
Cedar Rapids
Margin Call
Shame
Take Shelter
We Need To Talk About Kevin
Win Win