Congratulations! You've stumbled upon the VideoHound Awards Watch Blog! (Your trophy will be arriving in the mail in the next 3 to 7 years. All awards acceptance speeches will be made by Pauly Shore who lovingly accepts the award in your behalf.)

Our purpose on this blog is to try to keep track of all the multitude of film awards being presented throughout the year (we'll be really busy in January-March, not so much in August); rant, moan, and complain about who won what; and make our own predictions and proselytizations about what we felt was award-worthy in this year of film.

To get us started, here are the winners of this year's National Board of Review Awards.

NATIONAL BOARD OF REVIEW AWARDS

• BEST FILM: No Country For Old Men
• BEST DIRECTOR: Tim Burton, Sweeney Todd
• BEST ACTOR: George Clooney, Michael Clayton
• BEST ACTRESS: Julie Christie, Away From Her
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Casey Affleck, The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford
• BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Amy Ryan, Gone Baby Gon
• BEST FOREIGN FILM: The Diving Bell and The Butterfly
• BEST DOCUMENTARY: Body Of War
• BEST ANIMATED FEATURE: Ratatouille
• BEST ENSEMBLE CAST: No Country For Old Men
• BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR: Emile Hirsch, Into The Wild
• BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS: Ellen Page, Juno
• BEST DIRECTORIAL DEBUT: Ben Affleck, Gone Baby Gone
• BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY (tie): Diablo Cody, Juno and Nancy Oliver, Lars and the Real Girl
• BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Joel Coen and Ethan Coen, No Country For Old Men
• CAREER ACHIEVEMENT: Michael Douglas
• WILLIAM K. EVERSON FILM HISTORY AWARD: Robert Osborne
• CAREER ACHIEVEMENT IN CINEMATOGRAPHY: Roger Deakins
• THE BVLGARI AWARD FOR NBR FREEDOM OF EXPRESSION: The Great Debaters and Persepolis