Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2006

Best Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood

Runners-up: The Queen directed by Stephen Frears; United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass; L'Armée des ombres / Army of Shadows directed by Jean-Pierre Melville†

Best Foreign Language Film: Das Leben der Anderen / The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck

Runner-up: Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar

Best Director: Paul Greengrass, United 93

Runners-up: Clint Eastwood, Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima; Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men

Best Actor (tie): Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Runners-up: Peter O'Toole, Venus; Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson

Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen

Runners-up: Penélope Cruz, Volver; Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal; Kate Winslet, Little Children

Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen

Runners-up: Sergi López, El laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth; Mark Wahlberg, The Departed; Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls

Best Supporting Actress: Luminita Gheorghiu, Moartea domnului Lazarescu / The Death of Mr. Lazarescu

Runners-up: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls; Cate Blanchett (no film specified)*; Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada; Frances de la Tour, The History Boys

Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan, The Queen

Runners-up: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine; William Monahan, The Departed

Best Documentary / Nonfiction Film: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim

Runner-up: Darwin's Nightmare, directed by Hubert Sauper

Best Animated Feature: Happy Feet directed by George Miller

Runner-up: Cars directed by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft

Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, Children of Men

Runner-up: Tom Stern, Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Music Score: Alexandre Desplat, The Queen

Runner-up: Thomas Newman, The Good German and Little Children

Best Production Design: Eugenio Caballero, Pan’s Labyrinth

Runner-up: Jim Clay, Veronica Falzon, and Geoffrey Kirkland, Children of Men

Career Achievement Award: Robert Mulligan

New Generation Award: Michael Arndt (screenwriter), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (directors), Little Miss Sunshine

Douglas Edwards Experimental / Independent Film / Video (tie): Old Joy directed by Kelly Reichardt and In Between Days directed by So Yong Kim

Special Citations: To Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film Army of Shadows, which had its U.S. premiere in 2006, and to Jonas Mekas for his career as a critic and filmmaker

†Director Jean-Pierre Melville died of a heart attack in 1973.

* Blanchett's 2006 films were: Babel, Notes on a Scandal, and The Good German

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