New York Film Critics Awards 2006

Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass

Runners-up: The Queen directed by Stephen Frears; The Departed directed by Martin Scorsese

Best Foreign Language Film: L'Armée des ombres / Army of Shadows directed by Jean-Pierre Melville†

Runners-up: Volver directed by Pedro Almodóvar; Moartea domnului Lazarescu / The Death of Mr. Lazarescu directed by Cristi Puiu

Best Director: Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Runners-up: Stephen Frears, The Queen; Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Runners-up: Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson; Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen

Runners-up: Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal; Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada

Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children

Runners-up: Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls; Steve Carell, Little Miss Sunshine

Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

Runners-up: Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson; Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration

Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan, The Queen

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

Best Cinematographer: Guillermo Navarro, El laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth

Runners-up: Zhao Xiaoding, Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia / Curse of the Golden Flower; Emmanuel Lubezki, Children of Men

Best Non-Fiction Film: Deliver Us from Evil directed by Amy Berg

Runners-up: 49 Up directed by Michael Apted; Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan directed by Larry Charles; An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim

Best Animated Film: Happy Feet directed by George Miller

Runners-Up: A Scanner Darkly directed by Richard Linklater; Cars directed by John Lasseter and Joe Ranft

Best First Film: Half Nelson directed by Ryan Fleck

Runners-up: Little Miss Sunshine directed by Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris; A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints directed by Dito Montiel

† Though a 1969 production, Army of Shadows was released in the U.S. in 2006. Director Jean-Pierre Melville died of a heart attack in 1973.

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