2009 National Board of Review Awards
Updated September 9, 2022 |
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 and artists were awarded top honors in film—including best picture, best actor and actress, and best director—for 2009.
| Best Picture: | Up In The Air |
| Best Foreign Language Film: | A Prophet |
| Best Actor: | George Clooney, Up In The Air 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 Ensemble Cast: | It's Complicated |
| Breakthrough Performance by an Actor | Jeremy Renner, The Hurt Locker |
| Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: | Gabourey Sidibe, Precious |
| Best Director: | Clint Eastwood, Invictus |
| Best Directorial Debut: | Courtney Hunt, Frozen River |
| Best Original Screenplay: | Joel and Ethan Coen, A Serious Man |
| Best Adapted Screenplay: | Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, Up In The Air |
| Best Documentary: | The Cove |
| Best Animated Feature: | UP |
| William K. Everson Award for Film History: | Jean Picker Firstenberg |
| Freedom of Expression: | Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country; Invictus; The Most Dangerous Man In America; Daniel Ellsberg and The Pentagon Press |
| Special Filmmaking Achievement: | Wes Anderson, The Fantastic Mr. Fox |
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