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WINNERS LIST:

Best Film: Slumdog Millionaire
Best Director: David Fincher, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
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 Foreign Language Film: Mongol
Best Documentary: Man on Wire
Best Animated Feature: Wall-E
Best Ensemble Cast: Doubt
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: Dev Patel, Slumdog Millionaire
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: Viola Davis, Doubt
Best Directorial Debut: Courtney Hunt, Frozen River
Best Original Screenplay: Nick Schenk, Gran Torino
Best Adapted Screenplay: Simon Beaufoy, Slumdog Millionaire and Eric Roth, The Curious Case of Benjamin Button
Spotlight Award: Melissa Leo, Frozen River and Richard Jenkins, The Visitor
The BVLGARI Award for NBR Freedom of Expression: Trumbo

Top Ten Films:

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


Top Five Foreign Language Films:

Edge of Heaven
Let the Right One In
Roman de Guerre
A Secret
Waltz with Bashir


Top Five Documentary Films:

American Teen
The Betrayal (Nerakhoon)
Dear Zachary
Encounters at the End of the World
Roman Polanski: Wanted & Desired

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Congratulations, Primetime Emmy Winners!

Comedy Series: 30 ROCK
Drama Series: MAD MEN
Lead Actor in a Comedy Series: Alec Baldwin, 30 ROCK
Lead Actress in a Comedy Series: Toni Collette, UNITED STATES OF TARA
Lead Actor in a Drama Series: Bryan Cranston, BREAKING BAD
Lead Actress in a Drama Series: Glenn Close, DAMAGES
Guest Actress in a Comedy Series: Tina Fey, SATURDAY NIGHT LIVE
Guest Actress in a Drama Series: Ellen Burstyn, LAW & ORDER: SPECIAL VICTIMS UNIT
 
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No Kate Winslet for a win in Lead or Supporting? GARBAGE!! That makes me mad.

Hooray for Josh Brolin!! I hope he gets an Oscar nod.
 
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I think Winslet and Blanchett really needed to make this list!! I dont think Winslet will get 2 Oscar noms. What a pity!!
 
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Some more predictions. My predictions as to the 2009 National Board of Review winners...

Best Picture: "Bright Star"
Best Director: Jane Campion- "Bright Star"
Best Actor: Morgan Freeman- "Invictus"
Best Actress: Meryl Streep- "Julie & Julia"
Best Supporting Actor: Christoph Waltz- "Inglorious Basterds"
Best Supporting Actress: Mo'Nique- "Precious"
Best Adapted Screenplay: "An Education"
Best Original Screenplay: "Bright Star"
Best Animated Film: "Up"
Best Foreign Language Film: "A Prophet"

Top Ten:
"Amelia"
"Bright Star"
"An Education"
"The Hurt Locker"
"The Lovely Bones"
"Nine"
"Precious"
"The Road"
"A Serious Man"
"Shutter Island"

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