National Board of Review Announced Winners and Top 11 Films of 2009 with Carey Mulligan, An Education, and The Messenger as winners

The National Board of Review (NBR) just announced today their annual Top 11 Films of 2009 and winners of their NBR Awards include: Best Actress honor for Carey Mulligan, while her film, An Education along with Jena Malone's The Messenger (with co-star Woody Harrelson winning Best Supporting Actor) made their Top Eleven Films of 2009. Not too mention, Kelly Reilly's Me and Orson Welles and Tom Hollander's In The Loop made the Top 10 Independent Films list.

Congrats to Carey Mulligan and the following films recognized in the top 10 and 11 Films of 2009 lists by NBR: An Education, The Messenger, Me and Orson Welles, and In The Loop!

IndieWire has the following NBR Winners list of...

Top Eleven Films (In alphabetical order):
An Education
(500) Days Of Summer
The Hurt Locker
Inglourious Basterds
Invictus
The Messenger
A Serious Man
Star Trek
Up
Up In The Air
Where The Wild Things Are

Best Actress:
Carey Mulligan, An Education


Best Supporting Actor:
Woody Harrelson, The Messenger


Spotlight Award for Best Directorial Debut:
Duncan Jones, Moon, Oren Moverman,
The Messenger and Marc Webb, 500 Days of Summer (tie)

Top Ten Independent Films (In alphabetical order):
Amreeka
District 9
Goodbye Solo
Humpday
In The Loop
Julia
Me And Orson Welles
Moon
Sugar
Two Lovers

Read the full list at IndieWire!

Do you agree with their Top 11 Film of 2009 list or do you think there are movies missing in the list that you think are much better in those list? I agree with An Education (probably because it's the only film in the list I've seen, lol), but personally I think NBR snubbed these underrated and much better lil' films: Precious (esp. Mo'Nique for Best Supporting Actress, the best one I've seen this year, yet...NBR failed to recognized her and the film itself getting rave reviews both by critics and audiences, great box office gross, and other well-deserving accolades and recognition...yet NBR ignored this film) and The Young Victoria (Emily Blunt for Best Actress. I love Carey Mulligan and is happy for her being named the Best Actress, but acting-wise I heard Emily Blunt was amazing in The Young Victoria, which I'll be seeing very soon). Not too mention, these yet to be released films: Brothers, Nine (for Best Ensemble), and Sherlock Holmes were ignored or not mentioned in their top 11 list.