Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - 2006

 

27th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - 2006

The 27th Boston Society of Film Critics Award winners were announced on December 10, 2006.

 

Matt Damon, Leonardo DiCaprio in The Departed
Perhaps hoping to lure more major Hollywood productions to their hometown, the Boston Society of Film Critics picked Martin Scorsese’s Warner Bros. gangster thriller The Departed as the best film of the year. This inane tale of moles and rats in both the Boston police force and that city’s underworld, was adapted by William Monahan from Wai Keung Lau and Siu Fai Mak’s 2002 Hong Kong thriller Infernal Affairs. The Departed also (undeservedly) won in the best director, best screenplay, and best supporting actor (Mark Wahlberg) categories, but at least the Boston critics had enough sense to keep Jack Nicholson’s horrendous caricature out of their list. Best supporting actress Shareeka Epps, who plays a self-reliant inner-city girl in Half Nelson, was a surprise winner, and so was the best foreign language film, Guillermo del Toro’s haunting and ultra-violent Pan’s Labyrinth, which has also been picked by the Washington D.C. film critics.

 

Best Film: The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese

Runner-up: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass

Best Foreign-Language Film: El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro

Runner-up: Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Runner-up: Paul Greengrass, United 93

Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Runner-up: Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson

Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen

Runner-up: Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal

Best Supporting Actor: Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Runner-up (tie): Alec Baldwin, The Departed, and Michael Sheen, The Queen

Best Supporting Actress: Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson

Runner-up: Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada

Best Ensemble: United 93

Runner-up: The Departed

Best Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed

Runner-up: Peter Morgan, The Queen

Best Cinematography: Guillermo Navarro, El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth

Best Documentary (tie): Shut Up & Sing directed by Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck, and Deliver Us from Evil directed by Amy Berg

Runner-up: 51 Birch Street directed by David Block

David Brudnoy New Filmmaker Award: Ryan Fleck, Half Nelson

Best film series in the Boston area: "At Home and Abroad: The Vietnam War on Film/ From Both Sides: The Korean War on Film/ On All Fronts: World War II on Film," "Centennial Starlets: Anna May Wong and Janet Gaynor," and "Major and Minor Notes: A Billy Wilder Centennial," all at the Harvard Film Archive; and "50 Year of Janus Films," and "Man in the Dunes: Hiroshi Teshigahara," both at the Brattle

Best discoveries/rediscoveries: L’Armée des ombres / Armies of Shadows (1969) directed by Jean-Pierre Melville, The Fallen Idol (1948) directed by Carol Reed, Lucky Star (1929) directed by Frank Borzage, Körkarlen / The Phantom Carriage (1921) directed by Victor Sjöström, and The Red Badge of Courage (1951) directed by John Huston

Special Mention: Harvard Film Archive’s interim curator Ted Barron, and to local filmmaker, curator, and scholar John Gianvito for his book Andrei Tarkovsky: Interviews.

 

Boston Society of Film Critics Site

Boston Society of Film Critics Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007

Film Awards: 2004 2005 2006 2007 2008

 

British Academy of Film (Bafta) Awards

Golden Globes

Huelva Ibero-American Film Festival Awards

Independent Spirit Awards

Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

Los Angeles Latino Film Festival Awards

National Board of Review Awards

New York Film Critics Circle Awards

Stockholm Film Festival Awards

Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Awards

 

 

 

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