National Board of Review Awards 2006

78th NBR Awards

Best Film:
Letters from Iwo Jima

• Best Film:^[1]
  • Iwo Jima kara no tegami (Letters from Iwo Jima)
• Best Foreign Language film:^[1]
  • Volver (To Return), Spain
• Best Actor:^[1]
  • Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
• Best Actress:^[1]
  • Helen Mirren - The Queen
• Best Supporting Actor:^[1]
  • Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
• Best Supporting Actress:^[1]
  • Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration
• Best Acting by an Ensemble:^[1]
  • The Departed
• Breakthrough Male Performances:^[1]
  • Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
• Breakthrough Female Performances (tie):^[1]
  • Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
  • Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
• Best Director:^[1]
  • Martin Scorsese - The Departed
• Best Directorial Debut:^[1]
  • Jason Reitman - Thank You For Smoking
• Best Animated Feature:^[1]
  • Cars
• Best Documentary Feature:^[1]
  • An Inconvenient Truth
• Best Screenplay - Adapted:^[1]
  • The Painted Veil - Ron Nyswaner
• Best Screenplay - Original:^[1]
  • Stranger Than Fiction - Zach Helm
• Freedom of Expression Award:^[1]
  • Water and World Trade Center
• Career Achievement Award:^[1]
  • Eli Wallach
• William K. Everson Award for Film History:^[1]
  • Donald Krim
• Career Award for Producing:^[1]
  • Irwin Winkler

• Babel
• Blood Diamond
• The Departed
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Flags of Our Fathers
• The History Boys
• Letters from Iwo Jima (Iwo Jima kara no tegami)
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Notes on a Scandal
• The Painted Veil

• 10 Items or Less
• Akeelah and the Bee
• Bobby
• Catch a Fire
• Copying Beethoven
• A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
• Half Nelson
• The Illusionist
• Lonesome Jim
• Sherrybaby
• Thank You for Smoking