The National Board of Review has named Disney-Pixar’s Up the best animated film of the year and gave a special awards to director Wes Anderson for Fantastic Mr. Fox.
The organization announced its annual awards winners Thursday, singling out the 3-D animated picture in a category dedicated to the medium.
Anderson’s award was a Special Filmmaking Achievement honor for the animated film, which used stop-motion to adapt the classic children’s book by Roald Dahl.
The group gave its top award, for Best Film, to Up in the Air.
Up also made the critics’ list of the year’s top ten films, along with the sci-fi action film Star Trek and director Spike Jonze’s version of Where the Wild Things Are. Also making the list were An Education, (500) Days of Summer, The Hurt Locker, Inglorious Basterds, Invictus, The Messenger and A Serious Man.
The group will present its awards to the winners at a ceremony set for Jan. 12 in New York City.
