National Board of Review Predictions

AKA the organization that likes to pretend they're critics and yell "FIRST!"

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Best Picture: The Social Network

Top 10:
Black Swan
Hereafter
Inception
The Kids Are All Right
The King's Speech
Love and Other Drugs
127 Hours
Rabbit Hole
The Town
Toy Story 3

Best Director: Ben Affleck, The Town
Best Debut Director: Derek Cianfrance, Blue Valentine

Best Lead Actor: Colin Firth, The King's Speech
Best Lead Actress: Nicole Kidman, Rabbit Hole
Best Supporting Actor: Mark Ruffalo, The Kids Are All Right
Best Supporting Actress: Kristin Scott Thomas, Nowhere Boy
Best Breakthrough Male Performance: Andrew Garfield, Never Let Me Go and The Social Network
Best Breakthrough Female Performance: Jennifer Lawrence, Winter's Bone
Best Ensemble: The Town

Best Original Screenplay: The Kids Are All Right
Best Adapted Screenplay: The Social Network

Best Animated Feature: Toy Story 3
Best Documentary: Waiting for "Superman"
Best Foreign Film: Biutiful

Top 5 Foreign Films:
Aftershock
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
I Am Love
Mic Macs
Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives

Top 5 Documentaries:
12th & Delaware
Casino Jack and the United States of Money
Inside Job
Joan Rivers: A Piece of Work
Wasteland

Top 10 Independent Films:
Blue Valentine
Get Low
Greenberg
Jack Goes Boating
Let Me In
Nowhere Boy
Please Give
Somewhere
Tiny Furniture
Winter's Bone