National Board of Review Awards 2006

In alphabetical order:^[2]

• Babel
• Blood Diamond
• The Departed
• The Devil Wears Prada
• Flags of Our Fathers
• The History Boys
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Notes on a Scandal
• The Painted Veil

Best Film:^[2]

• Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Director:^[2]

• Martin Scorsese – The Departed

Best Actor:^[2]

• Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress:^[2]

• Helen Mirren – The Queen

Best Supporting Actor:^[2]

• Djimon Hounsou – Blood Diamond

Best Supporting Actress:^[2]

• Catherine O'Hara – For Your Consideration

Best Screenplay – Original:^[2]

• Zach Helm – Stranger Than Fiction

Best Screenplay – Adapted:^[2]

• Ron Nyswaner – The Painted Veil

Best Animated Feature:^[2]

• Cars

Best Foreign Language Film:^[2]

• Volver, Spain

Best Documentary Feature:^[2]

• An Inconvenient Truth

Best Acting by an Ensemble:^[2]

• The Departed

Breakthrough Male Performances:^[2]

• Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson

Breakthrough Female Performances (tie):^[2]

• Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
• Rinko Kikuchi – Babel

Best Directorial Debut:^[2]

• Jason Reitman - Thank You For Smoking

Career Achievement Award:^[2]

• Eli Wallach

Career Award for Producing:^[2]

• Irwin Winkler

William K. Everson Award for Film History:^[2]

• Donald Krim

Freedom of Expression Award:^[2]

• Water
• World Trade Center

• Curse of the Golden Flower^[2]
• Days of Glory
• Pan's Labyrinth
• Volver
• Water

• An Inconvenient Truth^[2]
• 51 Birch Street
• Iraq in Fragments
• Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing
• Wordplay

• 10 Items or Less^[2]
• Akeelah and the Bee
• Bobby
• Catch a Fire
• Copying Beethoven
• A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
• Half Nelson
• The Illusionist
• Lonesome Jim
• Sherrybaby
• Thank You for Smoking