UP IN THE AIR & INVICTUS get awards season head-start from NBR

UP IN THE AIR & INVICTUS get awards season head-start from NBR

Dec 04

The National Board of Review has given Up In The Air a good head-start to the upcoming awards season, honouring it as Best Picture of 2009 and awarding its star George Clooney Best Actor (sharing with Morgan Freeman in Clint Eastwood’s Invictus… even despite his questionable accent).

Up In The Air is director Jason Reitman’s third film (following Thank You For Smoking and Juno), and has been buzzing online since playing at the Telluride Film Festival and Toronto International Film Festival in September.

I have been looking forward to it since the first teaser and trailer dropped (pasted below) and can’t wait to take a seat before a cinema screen and watch it soon. It looks kooky and smart with an air of that George Clooney smug charm.

The National Board of Review also named their ‘Ten Best Films of 2009′ in alphabetical order, it reads like this:

• An Education
• (500) Days Of Summer
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Invictus
• The Messenger
• A Serious Man
• Star Trek
• Up
• Where the Wild Things Are

Check out the complete Variety run-down to see the long list of winners in all categories.

UP IN THE AIR TRAILER:

source: Variety