Penghargaan National Board of Review ke-81, yang menghargai karya terbaik dalam perfilman untuk tahun 2009, diberikan pada 12 Januari 2010.

• Up in the Air^[1]
• (500) Days of Summer
• An Education
• The Hurt Locker
• Inglourious Basterds
• Invictus
• The Messenger
• A Serious Man
• Star Trek
• Up
• Where the Wild Things Are

• The Maid
• Revanche
• The Song of Sparrows
• Three Monkeys
• The White Ribbon

• Burma VJ: Reporting From A Closed Country
• Crude
• Food, Inc.
• Good Hair
• The Most Dangerous Man in America: Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

• Amreeka
• District 9
• Goodbye Solo
• Humpday
• In the Loop
• Julia
• Me and Orson Welles
• Moon
• Sugar
• Two Lovers