Utah Film Critics Association Awards 2006
December 31st, 2006 by Andre Soares
If you’re all critics-awarded out, skip this post…
The Utah Film Critics Association, which consists of about a dozen or so Utah-ian reviewers, announced their winners this past Dec. 28.
The usual suspects — United 93, Letters from Iwo Jima, Helen Mirren — dominated the Utah critics’ list, but there were a handful of surprises.
For instance, the Best Director was Alfonso Cuarón for Children of Men. I’m quite sure that’s the first such award for the futuristic drama about the potential end of humankind (and, as a result — one would assume — the potential survival of the planet). Thus far, Children of Men has been widely acknowledged only for its cinematography, courtesy of Emmanuel Lubezki.
Rian Johnson’s Brick, which follows a student as he uncovers a crime ring at his high school, was chosen the Best Screenplay, while Steven Ascher and Jeanne Jordan’s documentary So Much So Fast, about one family’s fight with amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (aka Lou Gehrig’s disease), didn’t win anything but was the surprise runner-up in the Best Documentary category.
And finally, Sacha Baron Cohen was the unanimous choice for Borat. The unanimity surprised me, but then again we’re talking of a small group of film critics.
Full list of the Utah Film Critics Association’s 2006 winners
The Directors Guild of America’s 2007 Special Awards
307 Feature Films in Competition for 2006 Oscar
Chicago Film Critics Association Awards - 2006 Winners
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