The 83rd Awards of the National Board of Review honored the best in film for 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
Winners
Best Film:
- Hugo
Best Director:
- Martin Scorsese – Hugo
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 Animated Feature:
- Rango
Best Foreign Film:
- A Separation
Best Documentary:
- Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory
Best Ensemble Cast:
- The Help
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
Spotlight Award for Best Directorial Debut:
- J. C. Chandor – Margin Call
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
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