National Board of Review awards announced

Per this release:

Partial list of film awards given by National Board of Review, announced Thursday:

Best Film: “Up in the Air”

Best Director: Clint Eastwood, “Invictus”

Best Actor(s): 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 Foreign Language Film: “A Prophet”

Best Documentary: “The Cove”

Best Animated Feature: “Up”

Best Ensemble Cast: “It’s Complicated”

Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: Jeremy Renner, “The Hurt Locker”

Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: Gabourey Sidibe, “Precious”

Special Filmmaking Achievement Award: Wes Anderson, “The Fantastic Mr. Fox”

And the screenplay winners:

Best Original Screenplay: Joel and Ethan Coen, “A Serious Man”

Best Adapted Screenplay: Jason Reitman and Sheldon Turner, “Up in the Air”

I’ve seen A Serious Man. Can’t wait to see Up in the Air, I’ve been tracking that since its great reviews at Toronto. In fact, I’ll be posting something — hopefully tomorrow — with a lot of interviews with Jason Reitman, who directed and co-wrote the screenplay (Sheldon Turner also received writing credit) and background on the movie.

Re A Serious Man: Has anybody else heard the rumor that the movie is The Wizard of Oz in reverse? Perhaps that explains the ending…