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Oscar Forecast: "Up in the Air" Wins Best Picture From NBR December 3, 2009 The National Board of Review, who always shoots out the gate first with the year-end best pics, has named Up in the Air the best picture of the year. It gave that honor last year to eventual Oscar Best Picture winner Slumdog Millionaire, but it's been hit-or-miss in past years. Note that now the Academy has expanded its Best Pic nominees to 10, the Board of Review's top 10 might align a little more closely (though Precious and Nine, both predicted to make the list, are missing here). Here's its top awards: Best Picture: Up in the Air Top 10 Films: An Education (500) Days of Summer The Hurt Locker Inglourious Basterds Invictus The Messenger A Serious Man Star Trek Up Where the Wild Things Are Best Director: Clint Eastwood, Invictus Best Actor: George Clooney, Up in the Air, and Morgan Freeman, Invictus Best Actress: Carey Mulligan, An Education Best Supporting Actor: Woody Harrelson, The Messenger Best Supporting Actress: Anna Kendrick, Up in the Air Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man Best Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up in the Air Breakthrough Actor: Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker Breakthrough Actress: Gabourey Sidibe, Precious Best Foreign-Language Film: A Prophet Top Five Foreign-Language Films: The Maid Revanche Song of Sparrows Three Monkeys The White Ribbon Best Documentary: The Cove Top Five Documentaries: Burma VJ Crude Food, Inc. Good Hair The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers Best Animated Film: Up Best Ensemble Cast: It’s Complicated Best Directorial Debut: Duncan Jones, Moon; Oren Moverman, The Messenger; Marc Webb, (500) Days of Summer BVLGARI Award for Freedom of Expression: Burma VJ, Invictus Top 10 Independent Films: Amreeka Goodbye Solo Humpday In the Loop Julia Me and Orson Welles Moon Sugar Two Lovers --Ellen Trailer Park: Mad French Genius Returns After 6 Years December 3, 2009 Well this is exciting news. Jean Pierre Jeunet - inventive, unique and kinda crazy director of modern classics (or at least - some of my favorite movies ever) Amelie , Delicatessen and The City of Lost Children - is back! After years of internet rumors that he was working... read more

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