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Vital Pictures"Hugo" The Nation's Board of Review, a NY-based panel of film professionals, teachers, historians, and students that's been meting out best-of-the-year movie honours since 1909 -- two decades more than the Academy -- selected its 2011 honorees the 2009 mid-day, and provided an attention-boost for several challengers that certainly needed one.our editor recommendsBAFTA Los Angeles' Britannia Honours Recognition Ben Stiller, Helena Bonham Carter'The Artist,' 'Take Shelter' Dominate Indie Spirit Award Nominations'The Artist' Wins NYFCC 2011 Best Picture AwardWhat the Gotham Honours Results Mean -- And Do Not (Analysis)Gotham Honours 2011: 'Tree of Existence,' 'Beginners' Tie for the best Feature The greatest beneficiary from the announcement was most likely Vital's three dimensional family-fantasy-adventure flick Hugo, which won best film, as well as for which Martin Scorsese won best director. The film -- i'm happy to report, I have to admit -- has skyrocketed with experts (94 percent on Rotten Tomato plants) and audiences (it designed a fortune last week in limited release), as well as before today was beginning to resemble a solid wager for any best picture Oscar nom, but this showing indicates that this kind of result's now more likely these days. Scorsese is really a favorite of numerous people from the group, because he is both a local NYer along with a champion of film background and upkeep (a couple of a common causes), but Hugo was still being a somewhat surprising choice for the NBR's top honors, thinking about the group has in the past gravitated towards films with greater gravitas, relevance to the current, and academic value. Indeed, the final two best film those who win, Up up and also the Social Networking, worked using the implications of globalization and modern-day communications neither won the very best picture Oscar, but both were nominated for this. PHOTOS: BAFTA La' Britannia Honours Another best picture Oscar hopeful that needed a pick-me-up was Fox Searchlight's The Descendants, which lost the 3 honours that it had been nominated at Monday's Gotham Honours after which on Tuesday had its leading guy, George Clooney, refused a nomination for top actor Indie Spirit Award. Today, the film brought the NBR area with four wins: Clooney for the best actor Shailene Woodley for the best supporting actress Alexander Payne, Nat Faxon and Jim Rash for the best modified script and also the film itself among the top ten of the season. Clooney's award may have been described away as just wanting the A-lister to appear for their party, however the script win, especially the win for Woodley -- who's rapidly proving itself to be main threat to Octavia Spencer (The Assistance) in the Academy awards -- reveal that the audience has real affection for that film. PHOTOS: Gotham Honours Red-colored Carpet Arrivals The NBR's choice of Christopher Plummer (Beginners) for the best supporting actor wasn't unpredicted, because the veteran thespian continues to be obtaining statuettes right and left for his performance like a guy who decides late in existence to be released as gay. That which was not even close to expected, however, was Tilda Swinton (We have to Discuss Kevin) would bag the prize for the best actress -- not since the veteran Oscar champion isn't in a high regard (even though NBR, unlike the Academy, had not before honored her), but because her film, which stories the evolution from the relationship from a mother and her troubled boy over a long time, has heretofore shown to be incredibly divisive and upsetting. This attention could re-inject her in to the best actress discussion, although she'll need to battle two more youthful challengers who have been also identified by the NBR today. Felicity Johnson (Constantly), coming from a large win for the best breakthrough actor in the Gothams, and Rooney Mara (The Lady using the Dragon Tattoo), that has only started to screen, tied for the best breakthrough actor. The NBR is known for distributing its love around among many films -- simply, a minimum of, because it draws in more stars for their honours dinner as well as enables these to sell tables to some greater quantity of galleries. This season wasn't any exception, with 39 films symbolized among their choices: 13 Assassins (among the year's 5 best foreign fllms) 50/50 (among the year's top ten independent films) Another Earth (among the year's top ten independent films) The Artist (among the year's top ten films) Beginners (best supporting actor Plummer, among the year's top ten independent films) A Much Better Existence (among the year's top ten independent films) Born to become Wild (among the year's 5 best documentaries) Buck (among the year's 5 best documentaries) Cedar plank Rapids (among the year's top ten independent films) Crime After Crime (NBR Freedom of Expression Award) A Harmful Method (Spotlight Award champion Michael Fassbender) The Descendants (best actor Clooney, best supporting actress Woodley, best modified script) Drive (among the year's top ten films) Elite Squad: The Enemy Within (among the year's 5 best foreign fllms) Footnote (among the year's 5 best foreign fllms) George Harrison: Residing in the fabric World (among the year's 5 best documentaries) The Lady using the Dragon Tattoo (best breakthrough actor Mara, among the year's top ten films) J. Edgar (among the year's top ten films -- Wesleyan College film professor Jeanine Basinger, Eastwood's friend and chronicler, is really a prominent person in the NBR, and also the group honors him each time he constitutes a film, even when it isn't broadly accepted by virtually other people, out of the box the situation with that one) Harry Potter and also the Deathly Shallows: Part 2 (special achievement in filmmaking and among the year's top ten films) The Assistance (best ensemble), Jane Eyre (these Fassbender) Hugo (best picture, best director Scorsese) The Ides of March (among the year's top ten films) Le Havre (among the year's 5 best foreign fllms) Constantly (best breakthrough actor Johnson) Margin Call (best debut director J.C. Chandor, among the year's top ten independent films) Paradise Lost 3: Purgatory (best documentary) Pariah (NBR Freedom of Expression Award) Point Blank (among the year's 5 best foreign fllms) Project Nim (among the year's 5 best documentaries) Rango (best animated feature) Senna (among the year's 5 best documentaries) A Separation (best language film) Shame (these Fassbender, among the year's top ten independent films) Take Shelter (among the year's top ten independent films) The Tree of Existence (among the year's top ten films) War Equine (among the year's top ten films) We have to Discuss Kevin (best actress Swinton, among the year's top ten independent films) Mutually Beneficial (among the year's top ten independent films) X-Males: Top Class (these Fassbender) Significant snubs range from the Iron Lady, Martha Marcy May Marlene, Night time in Paris, Moneyball, My Week with Marilyn, and Mess Tailor Soldier Spy. Very Noisy and extremely Close, however, was not prepared for the audience just before voting. An enjoyable fact: both best film and also the best animated feature those who win -- Hugo and Rango, correspondingly, were compiled by exactly the same guy, John Logan, who may potentially enroll in a really small club of individuals to become nominated for the best modified script Oscar and also the best original script Oscar within the same year for individuals two films. The NBR those who win is going to be feted in a gala dinner in NY City at Cipriani's 42nd St. on Jan. 10, 2012. PHOTO GALLERY: View Gallery Gotham Honours 2011: The Red-colored Carpet Arrivals George Clooney Martin Scorsese Shailene Woodley Tilda Swinton Alexander Payne We have to Discuss Kevin The Artist Beginners The Descendants Hugo