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 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 |
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