Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - 2006
by Andre Soares
27th Boston Society of Film Critics Awards - 2006
The 27th Boston Society of Film Critics Award winners were announced on December 10, 2006.
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
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