**Official** 2006 Film Award Season Thread

[pryor15]

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Dreamgirls
Letters
United 93
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine

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CDS,

is this your projected Best Picture race? It seems about right.

[CharlieDontSurf]

No its more my general hope.

The Queen will most likely knock out United 93 or Little Miss Sunshine.

Letters
Dreamgirls
The Queen seem locks
Departed is most likely going to get a spot
Then the 5th would most likely go to a indie--so probably Little Miss Sunshine.

Of any film I imagine United 93 will get the snub

[pryor15]

Boston Film Critics

PICTURE: The Departed
(United 93, runner-up)

DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese, The Departed
(Paul Greengrass, United 93, runner-up)

ACTOR: Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
(Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson, runner-up)

ACTRESS: Helen Mirren, The Queen
(Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal, runner-up)

S. ACTOR: Mark Wahlberg, The Departed
(TIE: Michael Sheen, The Queen; Alec Baldwin, The Departed/Running with Scissors/The Good Shepherd, runners-up)

S. ACTRESS: Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson
(Meryl Streep, The Devil Wore Prada, runner-up)

ENSEMBLE: United 93
(The Departed, runner-up)

SCREENPLAY: William Monahan, The Departed
(Peter Morgan, The Queen, runner-up)

FOREIGN: Pan's Labyrinth
(Volver, runner-up)

DOCUMENTARY (TIE): Deliver Us From Evil/Shut Up & Sing
(51 Birch Street, runner-up)

NEW FILMMAKER: Ryan Fleck, Half Nelson
(Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine, runners-up)

CINEMATOGRAPHY: Guillermo Navarro. Pan's Labyrinth
(TIE: Stuart Dryburgh, The Painted Veil; Xiaoding Zhao, Curse of the Golden Flower, runners-up)

[pryor15]

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My ten Best of the year will be posted after the New Year...

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mine too

[SoloAJ]

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Boston Film Critics

PICTURE: The Departed

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I don't know how these films are picked...but does the whole Boston setting thing help this movie out?

On a side note: What movies are out on video that I need to see (that are making waves?)

I have seen United 93, Illusionist, Departed, and Little Miss Sunshine.

Since I can compile a list myself, let me change the question: Which ones that ARE out on video, should I check out first?

[pryor15]

i think the Boston thing couldn't have hurt, certainly, but i don't imagine it was much more than a bit of a tiebreaker.

on DVD (that i can think of)

49 UP
An Inconvenient Truth
Cars (winning some animation stuff)
L'Enfant was well received
The Death of Mr. Lazarescu could end up in the foreign language categories (and is quite good)
The Devil Wears Prada and World Trade Center come out Tuesday

[SoloAJ]

Thanks pryor, Netflix'd.

[pryor15]

a nice look at the process by which the New York Film Critics made their choices

Best Picture wound up being the most contentious category. Most winners are decided on the second or third ballot; a handful require four. In this case, however, the fourth ballot was a tie between UNITED 93 and THE QUEEN, thus necessitating a rare fifth and tiebreaking ballot...

[pryor15]

Washington, D.C. film critics

Best Film
United 93

Best Actor
Forrest Whitaker, Last King of Scotland

Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen

Best Supporting Actor
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond

Best Supporting Actress
Jennifer Hudson, Best Supporting Actress

Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Original Screenplay
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine

Best Adapted Screenplay
Jason Reitman, Thank You For Smoking

Best Foreign Film
Pan's Labrynth

Best Animated Feature
Happy Feet

Best Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth

Best Ensemble
Little Miss Sunshine

Best Art Direction
Marie Antoinette


more love for Scorsese and United 93.

[KOTLP]

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more love for Scorsese and United 93.

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Awesome. United 93 deserves best pic, I'm thinking the nom is a near lock.