New York Film Critics Circle Awards - 2006
by Andre Soares
New York Film Critics Circle Awards - 2006
The 2006 New York Film Critics Circle Award winners were announced on December 10, 2006.
2006 New York Film Critics Circle Award Winners - Article
Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Runners-up: The Queen directed by Stephen Frears; The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese
Best Foreign-Language Film: L’Armée des ombres / Armies of Shadows directed by Jean-Pierre Melville†
Runners-up: Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar; Moartea domnului Lazarescu / The Death of Mr. Lazarescu directed by Cristi Puiu
Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Runners-up: Stephen Frears, The Queen; Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Runners-up: Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson; Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Runners-up: Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal; Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
Runners-up: Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls; Steve Carell, Little Miss Sunshine
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Runners-up: Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson; Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan, The Queen
Runners-up: William Monahan, The Departed; Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Best Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro, El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth
Runners-up: Zhao Xiaoding, Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia / Curse of the Golden Flower; Emmanuel Lubezki, Children of Men
Best Non-Fiction Film: Deliver Us from Evil directed by Amy Berg
Runners-up: 49 Up directed by Michael Apted; Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan directed by Larry Charles; An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
Best Animated Film: Happy Feet directed by George Miller
Runners-Up: A Scanner Darkly directed by Richard Linklater; Cars directed by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft
Best First Film: Half Nelson directed by Ryan Fleck
Runners-up: Little Miss Sunshine directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris; A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints directed by Dito Montiel
† Though a 1969 production, L’Armée des ombres was released in the U.S. in 2006. Director Jean-Pierre Melville died of a heart attack in 1973.
The New York Film Critics Circle consists of 27 writers for New York-based print media.
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2006 New York Film Critics Circle Award Winners - Article
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