2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Award nominations: December 19, 2006
2006 Chicago Film Critics Association Award winners: December 28, 2006
("*" denotes the winner in each category)
Matt Damon in The Departed
Best Picture
Babel
* The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
United 93
Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto
* Letters from Iwo Jima
Pan's Labyrinth
Tsotsi
Volver
Best Director
Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Paul Greengrass for United 93
Alejandro González Iñárritu for Babel
* Martin Scorsese for The Departed
Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed
Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness
* Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress
Penélope Cruz for Volver
Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby
* Helen Mirren for The Queen
Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet for Little Children
Best Supporting Actor
Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland
* Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson for The Departed
Brad Pitt for Babel
Michael Sheen for The Queen
Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza for Babel
Cate Blanchett for Notes on a Scandal
Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine
Toni Collette for Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
* Rinko Kikuchi for Babel
Best Original Screenplay
Babel — Guillermo Arriaga
Letters from Iwo Jima –Iris Yamashita
Little Miss Sunshine — Michael Arndt
* The Queen — Peter Morgan
United 93 — Paul Greengrass
Best Adapted Screenplay
* The Departed — William Monahan
Little Children — Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
Notes on a Scandal — Patrick Marber
A Prairie Home Companion — Garrison Keillor
Thank You for Smoking — Jason Reitman
Best Cinematography
Babel — Rodrigo Prieto
* Children of Men — Emmanuel Lubezki
The Departed – Michael Ballhaus
The Fountain — Matthew Libatique
Letters from Iwo Jima — Tom Stern
Best Original Score
Babel — Gustavo Santaolalla
* The Fountain — Clint Mansell
Letters from Iwo Jima — Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
Notes on a Scandal – Philip Glass
The Queen — Alexandre Desplat
Best Documentary
Deliver Us from Evil
* An Inconvenient Truth
Jesus Camp
Shut Up & Sing
Wordplay
Most Promising Performer
Ivana Baquero for Pan's Labyrinth
* Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Shareeka Epps for Half Nelson
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel
Keke Palmer for Akeelah and the Bee
Most Promising Director
* Rian Johnson for Brick
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine
Gil Kenan for Monster House
Jason Reitman Thank You for Smoking
James McTeigue for V for Vendetta
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