The National Board of Review has named Disney/Pixar’s Toy Story 3 as one of the top ten best movies of the year. The New York—based critics’ organization picked The Social Network as the best film of 2011. The other eight films on the list were, in alphabetic order, Another Year, The Fighter, Hereafter, Inception, The King’s Speech, Shutter Island, The Town, True Grit and Winter’s Bone.
Toy Story 3 also won the Best Animated Film prize. The org’s Spotlight Award went to French director Sylvain Chomet and the late Jacques Tati for The Illusionist. The awards ceremony will take place in New York on January 11. NBR is often the first critics’ group to designate their favorite films and performances each year.
Here is the complete list of winners:
Film: The Social Network
Director: David Fincher, The Social Network
Actor: Jesse Eisenberg, The Social Network
Actress: Lesley Manville, Another Year
Supporting Actor: Christian Bale, The Fighter
Supporting Actress: Jacki Weaver, Animal Kingdom
Foreign Language Film: Of Gods and Men
Documentary: Waiting for Superman
Animated Feature: Toy Story 3
Ensemble Cast: The Town
Breakthrough Performance: Jennifer Lawrence, Winter’s Bone
Debut Directors: Sebastian Junger and Tim Hetherington, Restrepo
Spotlight Award: Sylvain Chomet and Jacques Tati, The Illusionist
Original Screenplay: Chris Sparling, Buried
Adapted Screenplay: Aaron Sorkin, The Social Network
Special Filmmaking Achievement Award: Sofia Coppola for writing, directing, and producing Somewhere
William K. Everson Film History Award: Leonard Maltin
NBR Freedom of Expression: Fair Game, Conviction, Howl
Production Design Award: Dante Ferretti, Shutter Island
Five Best Foreign-Language Films
• I Am Love
• Incendies
• Life, Above All
• Soul Kitchen
• White Material
Five Best Documentaries
• A Film Unfinished
• Inside Job
• Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
• Restrepo
• The Tillman Story
Top Ten Independent Films:
• Animal Kingdom
• Buried
• Fish Tank
• The Ghost Writer
• Greenberg
• Let Me In
• Monsters
• Please Give
• Somewhere
• Youth in Revolt
