Kansas City Film Critics Awards 2007

2007 Kansas City Film Critics Circle Awards
2007 Kansas City Film Critics Circle award winners: January 4, 2007
 

 

Best Film: United 93 directed by Paul Greengrass
Best Foreign Language Film: Letters from Iwo Jima directed by Clint Eastwood
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
Best Animated Film: Over the Hedge directed by Tim Johnson and Karey Kirkpatrick
Robert Altman Award for Directing: Paul Greengrass, United 93
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen
Best Supporting Actress: Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Original Screenplay: Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Best Adapted Screenplay: William Monahan, The Departed
Vince Koehler Award for Outstanding Science Fiction, Fantasy or Horror Film: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo [...]

by Andre Soares | January 4, 2007   
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New York Film Critics Online Awards 2006

2006 New York Film Critics Online Awards
2006 New York Film Critics Online Award winners: December 11, 2006
 

 

Best Film: The Queen directed by Stephen Frears
Runners up (in alphabetical order):
Babel
The Fountain
Inland Empire
Pan’s Labyrinth
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
Volver
Water
Best Foreign-Language Film: Pan’s Labyrinth directed by Guillermo del Toro (Spain / Mexico / U.S.)
Best Director: Stephen Frears, The Queen
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen
Best Supporting Actress (tie): Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls and Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Screenplay: Peter Morgan, The Queen
Best Documentary Feature: An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
Best Animated Feature: Happy Feet directed by George Miller
Best Ensemble Cast: [...]

by Andre Soares | December 11, 2006   
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2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Award Winners

The most interesting winner at the 2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards was best supporting actress Luminita Gheorghiu (above, with Ion Fiscuteanu), who plays a nurse assisting a sick old man in Cristi Puiu’s acclaimed Romanian comedy-drama The Death of Mr. Lazarescu.
Not only was Gheorghiu’s win a major surprise — U.S. film critics only sporadically opt for performers acting in non-English-language productions — but I could visualize Catherine O’Hara, one of this year’s top best supporting actress contenders and National Board of Review Award winner going nuts because L.A. critics chose a Romanian instead of her. (I saw the funny For Your Consideration yesterday; in that film, there’s a French Oscar nominee who inadvertently pushes O’Hara’s Oscar contender [...]

by Andre Soares | December 10, 2006   
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National Board of Review Awards 2006

2006 National Board of Review Awards
2006 National Board of Review Award winners: Dec. 6, 2006
 

 

Best Film
Letters from Iwo Jima by Clint Eastwood
Runners-up (in alphabetical order)
Babel, Blood Diamond, The Departed, The Devil Wears Prada, Flags of Our Fathers, The History Boys, Little Miss Sunshine, Notes on a Scandal, The Painted Veil
Best Foreign Film
Volver by Pedro Almodóvar
Runners-up (in alphabetical order)
Indigènes / Days of Glory, El Laberinto del fauno / Pan’s Labyrinth, Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia / Curse of the Golden Flower, Water
Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed
Best Actor
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress
Catherine O’Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Acting by an Ensemble
The Departed
Best Adapted Screenplay
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil
Best [...]

by Andre Soares | December 6, 2006   
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