**Official** 2006 Film Award Season Thread

[sirio11]

Broadcast Film Critics Association

The Critics' Choice Awards Nominees 2006

Best Picture
Babel
Blood Diamond
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes on a Scandal
The Queen
United 93

Best Actor
Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole - Venus
Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress
Penelope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren - The Queen
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet - Little Children

Best Supporting Actor
Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland
Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
Adam Beach - Flags Of Our Fathers
Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson - The Departed

Best Supporting Actress
Adriana Barraza - Babel
Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration
Emma Thompson - Stranger Than Fiction

Best Acting Ensemble
Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
A Prairie Home Companion

Best Director
Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Martin Scorsese - The Departed

Best Writer
Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine
Guillermo Arriaga - Babel
Todd Field, Tom Perrotta - Little Children
Zach Helm - Stranger Than Fiction
William Monahan - The Departed
Peter Morgan - The Queen

Best Animated Feature
Cars
Flushed Away
Happy Feet
Monster House
Over The Hedge

Best Young Actor
Cameron Bright - Thank You For Smoking
Joseph Cross - Running With Scissors
Paul Dano - Little Miss Sunshine
Freddie Highmore - A Good Year
Jaden Christopher Syre Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Young Actress
Ivana Baquero - Pan's Labyrinth
Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson
Dakota Fanning - Charlotte's Web
Keke Palmer - Akeelah and the Bee

Best Comedy Movie
Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
The Devil Wears Prada
For Your Consideration
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You For Smoking

Best Family Film (live action)
Akeelah and the Bee
Charlotte's Web
Flicka
Lassie
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best Picture Made for Television
Elizabeth I
The Librarian
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
The Ron Clark Story
When the Levees Broke

Best Documentary Feature
An Inconvenient Truth
Shut Up and Sing
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Who Killed the Electric Car
Wordplay

Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto
Days of Glory
Letters From Iwo Jima
Pan's Labyrinth
Volver
Water

Best Song
"I Need To Wake Up", Melissa Etheridge - An Inconvenient Truth
"Listen", Beyonce - Dreamgirls
"My Little Girl", Tim McGraw - Flicka
"The Neighbor", Dixie Chicks - Shut Up and Sing
"Never Gonna Break My Faith", Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige - Bobby
"Ordinary Miracle", Sarah McLachlan - Charlotte's Web

Best Soundtrack
Babel
Cars
Dreamgirls
Happy Feet
Marie Antoinette

Best Composer
Phillip Glass - The Illusionist
Clint Mansell - The Fountain
Thomas Newman - The Good German
Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel
Howard Shore - The Departed
Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code

[daveT]

National Board of Review:

Best film- Letters from Iwo Jima
Best Director- Marting Scorcese for The Departed
Best Actor- Forrest Witaker for King of Scotland
Best Actress- Helen Mirren for The Queen
Best Supproting Actor- Djimon Hounsou for Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress- Catherine O'hare for For Your Consideration
Best Foriegn Film Volver
Best Doc- An Inconviniet Truth
Best Animated- Cars
Best Ensemble- The Departed
Breakthrouhg performance by and Actor- Ryan Gosling for Half Nelson
Breakthrough for an Actress- Jennifer Hudson for DreamGirls and Rinko Kikuchi in Babel
Best Directorial Debut- Jason Reitman for Thank You for Smoking
Best Original Screenplay- Zach Helm for Stranger than Fiction
Best Adapted Screenplay- Ron Nyswaner for The Painted Veil
Top 10 films
Letters from Iwo Jima
Babel
Blood Diamond
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Flags of our Fathers
the History Boys
Notes on a Scandal
The Painted Veil

Top 5 Foreign
Volver
Curse of the Golden Flower
Days of Glory
Pan's Labyrinth
Water

Top 5 Docs
An Inconvenient Truth
51 Birch Street
Irag in Fragments
Shut Up and Sing
Wordplay

Top Indies
Akeela and the Bee
Bobby
Catch a Fire
Copying Beethoven
A Guide to Recognizing your Saints
Half Nelson
The Illusionist
Lonesome Jim
Sherrybaby
10 Items or Less
Thank you for Smoking

http://theenvelope.latimes.com/movie...br-awards-list,1,5239507.htmlstory?coll=env-home-headlines

[CharlieDontSurf]

Just saw Flags of our Father on dvd...it sucked
Hope Letters is way better like everyone says

[pryor15]

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Just saw Flags of our Father on dvd...it sucked
Hope Letters is way better like everyone says

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screener copy, i'm guessing?

i need to figure out how to get those sent to me

[CharlieDontSurf]

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Just saw Flags of our Father on dvd...it sucked
Hope Letters is way better like everyone says

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screener copy, i'm guessing?

i need to figure out how to get those sent to me

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Yeah..I've been watching everything. My boss gets just about everything that is "for your consideration"

[pryor15]

[ QUOTE ]
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[ QUOTE ]
Just saw Flags of our Father on dvd...it sucked
Hope Letters is way better like everyone says

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screener copy, i'm guessing?

i need to figure out how to get those sent to me

[/ QUOTE ]

Yeah..I've been watching everything. My boss gets just about everything that is "for your consideration"

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lucky bastard [img]/images/graemlins/smirk.gif[/img]

[MrMon]

San Francisco Film Critics Picks:

Best Picture – Little Children
Best Director – Paul Greengrass, United 93
Best Actor – Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat
Best Actress – Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor – Jackie Earle Haley, Little Childen
Best Supporting Actress – Adriana Barraza, Babel
Best Screenplay – Little Children
Best Foreign Film – Pan’s Labyrinth

[pryor15]

New York Online Critics

Picture
The Queen

Director
Stephen Frears, The Queen

Actor
Forrest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen

Supporting Actor
Michael Sheen, The Queen

Supporting Actress
(Tie) Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
and Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration

Screenplay
Peter Morgan, The Queen

Ensemble Cast
Little Miss Sunshine

Debut as Director
Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine

Breakthrough Performer
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls

Cinematography
Dick Pope, The Illusionist

Film Score
Philip Glass, The Illusionist

Documentary Feature
An Inconvenient Truth

Animated Feature
Happy Feet

Foreign Language Picture
Pan's Labrynth

Humanitarian Award
DEEPA MEHTA (Water) for taking risks to create films about
the difficulties of social change in India especially as it affects
women.

Ten Best Pictures (Alphabetical)
BABEL (Paramount Vantage)
THE FOUNTAIN (Warner Bros.)
INLAND EMPIRE (Absurda)
LITTLE CHILDREN (New Line)
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Fox Searchlight)
PAN'S LABYRINTH (Picturehouse)
THE QUEEN (Miramax)
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (Fox Searchlight)
VOLVER (Sony Pictures Classics)
WATER (Fox Searchlight)

Water getting some love. for those interested, i reviewed it back in June, here

apparently, (hint, db, hint), it isn't on the master list (nor is United 93)

[UMTerp]

This is a pretty good site: http://www.moviecitynews.com Lot of cool links and analysis, and has weekly updates as the Academy Awards get nearer.

[Dominic]

based on this review I'm wondering why Children of Men is not getting any notice...