Best in Film 2006

Rating: Not reviewed


1. Children of Men
2. Army of Shadows
3. The Departed
4. Pan's Labyrinth
5. Inland Empire
6. Superman Returns
7. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
8. L'Enfant
9. The Black Dahlia
10. The Fountain
11. Three Times
12. Miami Vice
13. The Science of Sleep
14. The Proposition
15. United 93
16. Babel
17. A Scanner Darkly
18. Casino Royale
19. The Good Shepherd
20. Half Nelson
21. Iraq in Fragments
22. Brick
23. Battle in Heaven
24. Monster House
25. Marie Antoinette

Best Actor
Winner: Ryan Gosling in Half Nelson
Runners-Up: Lino Ventura in Army of Shadows, Ion Fiscuteanu in The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Sacha Baron Cohen in Borat: Cultural Learnings of America to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and Clive Owen in Children of Men

Best Actress
Winner: Sandra Hüller in Requiem
Runners-Up: Laura Dern in Inland Empire, Maggie Gyllenhaal in Sherrybaby, Shu Qi in Three Times and Maggie Cheung in Clean

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: Robert Downey Jr. in A Scanner Darkly
Runners-Up: Jack Nicholson in The Departed; Nick Nolte in Clean; Danny Huston in The Proposition, Marie Antoinette and Children of Men; and Ben Sliney in United 93

Best Supporting Actress
Winner: Mia Kirshner in The Black Dahlia
Runners-Up: Simone Signoret in Army of Shadows, Luminita Gheorghiu in The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, Shareeka Epps in Half Nelson and Rinko Kikuchi in Babel

Best Ensemble
Winner: Army of Shadows
Runners-Up: The Departed, Babel, The Proposition and A Prairie Home Companion

Best Director
Winner: Alfonso Cuarón for Children of Men
Runners-Up: Jean-Pierre Melville for Army of Shadows, Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth, Brian De Palma for The Black Dahlia and Martin Scorsese for The Departed

Best Original Screenplay
Winner: Guillermo del Toro for Pan's Labyrinth
Runners-Up: Darren Aronofsky and Ari Handel for The Fountain, Rian Johnson for Brick, Nick Cave for The Proposition and Eric Roth for The Good Shepherd

Best Adapted Screenplay
Winner: Jean-Pierre Melville for Army of Shadows
Runners-Up: William Monahan for The Departed, Alfonso Cuarón & Timothy J. Sexton and David Arata and Mark Fergus & Hawk Ostby for Children of Men, Josh Friedman for The Black Dahlia and Richard Linklater for A Scanner Darkly

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Army of Shadows
Runners-Up: Pan's Labyrinth, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu, L'Enfant and Three Times

Best Animated Film
Winner: A Scanner Darkly
Runners-Up: Monster House and Happy Feet

Best Documentary
Winner: Iraq in Fragments
Runners-Up: Deliver Us From Evil, An Inconvenient Truth, 49 Up and The Devil and Daniel Johnston

Best First Feature
Winner: Cristi Puiu for The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Runners-Up: Ryan Fleck for Half Nelson, Rian Johnson for Brick, Gil Kenan for Monster House and Laljos Koltai for Fateless

Best Cinematography
Winner: Emmanuel Lubezki for Children of Men
Runners-Up: Dion Beebe Miami Vice, Pierre Lhomme and Walter Wottiz for Army of Shadows, Vilmos Zsigmond for The Black Dahlia and Guillermo Navarro for Pan's Labyrinth

Best Film Editing
Winner: Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse for United 93
Runners-Up: William Goldberg and Paul Rubell for Miami Vice, Thelma Schoonmaker for The Departed, Douglas Crise and Stephen Mirrione for Babel and Stuart Baird for Casino Royale

Best Art Direction
Winner: The Science of Sleep
Runners-Up: Marie Antoinette, Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Pan's Labyrinth and Superman Returns

Best Costume
Winner: Marie Antoinette
Runners-Up: Perfume: The Story of a Murderer, Pan's Labyrinth, The Devil Wears Prada and The Prestige

Best Make-Up
Winner: Pan's Labyrinth
Runners-Up: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Marie Antoinette, Slither and Hostel

Best Dramatic Score
Winner: Nick Cave and Warren Ellis for The Proposition
Runners-Up: Javier Navarette for Pan's Labyrinth, Clint Mansell for The Fountain, John Murphy for Miami Vice and Gustavo Santaolalla for Babel

Best Musical or Comedy Score
Winner: Jean-Michel Bernard for The Science of Sleep
Runners-Up: Douglas Pipes for Monster House Mychael Danna for Little Miss Sunshine Danny Elfman for Nacho Libre and Theodore Shapiro for The Devil Wears Prada

Best Visual Effects
Winner: Superman Returns
Runners-Up: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, X-Men: The Last Stand, Pan's Labyrinth and Mission: Impossible III

Best Sound
Winner: Superman Returns
Runners-Up: Children of Men, The Departed, Casino Royale and United 93

Best Sound Effects Editing
Winner: Superman Returns
Runners-Up: Pan's Labyrinth, Monster House, Miami Vice and The Prestige

Best Song
Winner: "I'm Shipping Up to Boston" performed by Dropkick Murphys in The Departed
Runners-Up: "Black Swan" performed by Thom Yorke in A Scanner Darkly, "Till the End of Time" performed by DeVotchKa in Little Miss Sunshine, "O Kazakhstan" in Borat: Cultural Learnings to Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and "Bad Jokes" performed by Woody Harrelson and John C. Reilly in A Prairie Home Companion

Best Soundtrack
Winner: Marie Antoinette
Runners-Up: Dave Chappelle's Block Party, Children of Men, The Devil and Daniel Johnston and A Prairie Home Companion

Biggest Disappointment
Winner: Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
Runners-Up: Manderlay, Little Children, V for Vendetta and Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Most Overrated Film
Winner: Dreamgirls
Runners-Up: Little Children, The Last King of Scotland, The Queen and Letters from Iwo Jima

Most Pleasant Surprise
Winner: Clerks II
Runners-Up: 16 Blocks, The Devil Wears Prada, The Descent and Venus

Most Underrated Film
Winner: The Black Dahlia
Runners-Up: The Fountain, Miami Vice, Art School Confidential and The Good Shepherd

Posted Monday, January 22, 2007

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