Awards for 2008

NBR Award

Best Film

WINNER

Slumdog Millionaire

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor

WINNER

Slumdog Millionaire: Dev Patel

Best Actor

WINNER

Gran Torino: Clint Eastwood

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress

WINNER

Doubt: Viola Davis

Best Actress

WINNER

Rachel Getting Married: Anne Hathaway

Best Supporting Actor

WINNER

Milk: Josh Brolin

Best Supporting Actress

WINNER

Vicky Cristina Barcelona: Penélope Cruz

Best Director

WINNER

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: David Fincher

Best Directorial Debut

WINNER

Frozen River: Courtney Hunt

Best Original Screenplay

WINNER

Gran Torino: Nick Schenk

Best Adapted Screenplay

WINNERS

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button: Eric Roth

Slumdog Millionaire: Simon Beaufoy

Best Documentary

WINNER

Man on Wire

Best Foreign Language Film

WINNER

Mongol
Kazakhstan/Russia/Mongolia/Germany.

Top Five Foreign Films

WINNERS

Roman de gare

Un secret

Auf der anderen Seite

Låt den rätte komma in

Vals Im Bashir

Best Acting by an Ensemble

WINNER

Doubt: Philip Seymour Hoffman, Meryl Streep, Viola Davis, Amy Adams

Top Ten Films

WINNERS

The Dark Knight

Frost/Nixon

Milk

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

Defiance

Gran Torino

The Wrestler

Burn After Reading

Changeling

WALL·E

Best Animated Feature

WINNER

WALL·E

Top Independent Films

WINNERS

Snow Angels

Son of Rambow

The Visitor

Frozen River

Vicky Cristina Barcelona

Hallam Foe

Rachel Getting Married

In Search of a Midnight Kiss

Wendy and Lucy

In Bruges

Top Five Documentaries

WINNERS

Encounters at the End of the World

American Teen

The Betrayal - Nerakhoon

Dear Zachary: A Letter to a Son About His Father

Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired