2006 National Board of Review Awards

Updated February 11, 2017 | Infoplease Staff

The National Board of Review includes teachers, actors, writers and movie-production workers. The organization publishes the magazine Films in Review. Find out which movies were given top honors in film?including Best Picture, Best Actor & Actress, and Best Director?for 2006.

Best Picture:	Letters from Iwo Jima
Best Foreign Language Film:	Volver (Spain)
Best Actor:	Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress:	Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor:	Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress:	Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Ensemble:	The Departed
Breakthrough Performances:	Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson; Rinko Kikuchi, Babel; and Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Best Director:	Martin Scorcese, The Departed
Best Directorial Debut:	Jason Reitman, Thank You for Smoking
Screenplay of the Year:	The Painted Veil (Best Adapted) and Stranger Than Fiction (Best Original)
Best Documentary:	An Inconvenient Truth
Best Animated Feature:	Cars
Career Achievement Award:	Eli Wallach and Irwin Winkler
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing:	Jonathan Demme
William K. Everson Award for Film History:	Donald Krim
Special Recognition of Films That Reflect Freedom of Expression:	Water and World Trade Center