2001 National Board of Review – Breakthrough Performance Winner
![Life as a House Hayden Christensen](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/life-as-a-house-irwin-winkler-image.jpg)
Life as a House
Hayden Christensen
When a man is diagnosed with terminal cancer, he takes custody of his misanthropic teenage son, for whom quality time means getting high, engaging in small-time prostitution, and avoiding his father.
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Mulholland Drive
Naomi Watts
After a car wreck on the winding Mulholland Drive renders a woman amnesiac, she and a perky Hollywood-hopeful search for clues and answers across Los Angeles in a twisting venture beyond dreams and reality.