Los Angeles Film Critics Awards 2006
2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Award winners: Dec. 10, 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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