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