Boston Film Critics & AFI Top 10 & NYFCO & LAFCA

Boston Film Critics:

Best Picture - The Departed
(runner-up: United 93)

Best Director - Martin Scorsese - The Departed
(Paul Greengrass - United 93)

Best Actor - Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
(Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson)

Best Actress - Helen Mirren - The Queen
(Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal)

Best Supporting Actor - Mark Wahlberg - The Departed
(Michael Sheen - The Queen AND Alec Baldwin - The Departed / Running With Scissors The Good Shepherd)

Best Supporting Actress - Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson
(Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada)

Best Ensemble Cast - United 93
(The Departed)

Best Screenplay - The Departed
(The Queen)

Best Foreign Language Film - Pan's Labyrinth
(Volver)

Best Documentary - Deliver Us From Evil AND Shut Up and Sing
(51 Birch Street)

Best New Filmmaker - Ryan Fleck - Half Nelson
(Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine)

Best Cinematography - Guillermo Navarro - Pan's Labyrinth
(The Painted Veil AND Curse of the Golden Flower)


American Film Institute Movies of the Year - Official Selections:
Babel
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America For Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
Half Nelson
Happy Feet
Inside Man
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Miss Sunshine
United 93

New York Film Critics Online:
Picture - The Queen
Actor - Forest Whitaker -The Last King of Scotland
Actress - Helen Mirren - The Queen
Director - Stephen Frears - The Queen
Supporting Actor - Michael Sheen - The Queen
Supporting Actress - (tie) Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls AND Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration
Breakthrough Performer - Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Screenplay - Peter Morgan - The Queen
Documentary Feature - An Inconvenient Truth
Foreign Language Picture - Pan's Labyrinth
Animated Feature - Happy Feet
Cinematography - Dick Pope - The Illusionist
Film Music/Score - Philip Glass - The Illusionist
Humanitarian Award - Deepa Mehta - Water: for taking risks to create films about the difficulties of social change in India especially as it affects women.

Top 10 Films:
Babel (Paramount Vantage)
The Fountain (Warner Bros.)
Inland Empire (Absurda)
Little Children (New Line)
Little Miss Sunshine (Fox Searchlight)
Pan's Labyrinth (Picturehouse)
The Queen (Miramax)
Thank You for Smoking (Fox Searchlight)
Volver (Sony Pictures Classics)
Water (Fox Searchlight


2006 Los Angeles Critics Association winners:

Picture: "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Runner-up: "The Queen"

Director: Paul Greengrass, "United 93"
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat" and Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" (tie) (no runner-up)

Actress: Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Penelope Cruz, "Volver"

Supporting actor: Michael Sheen, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Sergi Lopez, "Pan's Labyrinth"

Supporting actress: Luminita Gheorghiu, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu"
Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"

Screenplay: Peter Morgan, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Runner-up: Tom Stern, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Production design: Eugenio Caballero, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Runner-up: Jim Clay and Geoffrey Kirkland, "Children of Men"

Music: Alexandre Desplat, "The Queen" and "The Painted Veil"
Runner-up: Thomas Newman, "The Good German" and "Little Children"

Foreign-language film: "The Lives of Others"
Runner-up: "Volver"

Documentary/non-fiction film: "An Inconvenient Truth"
Runner-up: "Darwin's Nightmare"

Animation: "Happy Feet"
Runner-up: "Cars"

Douglas Edwards experimental/independent film/video award: "Old Joy" (Kelly Reichardt) and "In Between Days" (So Yong Kim)

New generation award: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (directors) and Michael Arndt (screenwriter), "Little Miss Sunshine"

Career achievement award (previously announced): Robert Mulligan