Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2006 Explained

19th CFCA Awards

December 28, 2006

----Best Film:
The Departed

The 19th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards, given by the CFCA on December 28, 2006 honored the best in film for 2006.^{[1] [2] [3]}

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland

• Leonardo DiCaprio – The Departed
• Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson
• Peter O'Toole – Venus
• Will Smith – The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Actress

Helen Mirren – The Queen

• Penélope Cruz – Volver
• Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal
• Maggie Gyllenhaal – Sherrybaby
• Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
• Kate Winslet – Little Children

Best Cinematography

Children of Men – Emmanuel Lubezki

• Babel – Rodrigo Prieto
• The Departed – Michael Ballhaus
• The Fountain – Matthew Libatique
• Letters from Iwo Jima – Tom Stern

Best Director

Martin Scorsese – The Departed

• Clint Eastwood – Letters from Iwo Jima
• Stephen Frears – The Queen
• Alejandro González Iñárritu – Babel
• Paul Greengrass – United 93

Best Documentary Film

An Inconvenient Truth

• Deliver Us from Evil
• Jesus Camp
• Shut Up & Sing
• Wordplay

Best Film

The Departed

• Babel
• Little Miss Sunshine
• The Queen
• United 93

Best Foreign Language Film

Letters from Iwo Jima, United States

• Apocalypto, United States
• Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno), Mexico/Spain/United States
• Tsotsi, South Africa
• Volver, Spain

Best Original Score

The Fountain – Clint Mansell

• Babel – Gustavo Santaolalla
• Letters from Iwo Jima – Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
• Notes on a Scandal – Philip Glass
• The Queen – Alexandre Desplat

Best Screenplay – Adapted

The Departed – William Monahan

• Little Children – Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
• Notes on a Scandal – Patrick Marber
• A Prairie Home Companion – Garrison Keillor
• Thank You for Smoking – Jason Reitman

Best Screenplay – Original

The Queen – Peter Morgan

• Babel – Guillermo Arriaga
• Letters from Iwo Jima – Iris Yamashita
• Little Miss Sunshine – Michael Arndt
• United 93 – Paul Greengrass

Best Supporting Actor

Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children

• Ben Affleck – Hollywoodland
• Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls
• Jack Nicholson – The Departed
• Brad Pitt – Babel
• Michael Sheen – The Queen

Best Supporting Actress

Rinko Kikuchi – Babel

• Adriana Barraza – Babel
• Cate Blanchett – Notes on a Scandal
• Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine
• Toni Collette – Little Miss Sunshine
• Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls

Most Promising Performer

Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and

• Ivana Baquero – Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
• Shareeka Epps – Half Nelson
• Rinko Kikuchi – Babel
• Keke Palmer – Akeelah and the Bee

Most Promising Filmmaker

Rian Johnson – Brick

• Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris – Little Miss Sunshine
• Gil Kenan – Monster House
• James McTeigue – V for Vendetta
• Jason Reitman – Thank You for Smoking

Notes and References

1. Web site: This Year's Nominees . . December 18, 2006 . December 18, 2006 . https://web.archive.org/web/20061218135447/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/nominate.html . dead.
2. Web site: This Year's Nominees . . January 6, 2007 . January 6, 2007 . https://web.archive.org/web/20070106062016/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/nominate.html . dead.
3. Web site: 1988-2013 Award Winner Archives . . October 18, 2013 . October 18, 2013 . https://web.archive.org/web/20131018014253/http://www.chicagofilmcritics.org/1998-2006 . dead.