2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards Explained

72nd NYFCC Awards

January 7, 2007

----Best Film:
United 93

The 72nd New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2006, were announced on 11 December 2006 and presented on 7 January 2007.^{[1] [2] [3] [4]}

Winners

• Best Actor:
  • Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
  • Runners-up: Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson and Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
• Best Actress:
  • Helen Mirren – The Queen
  • Runners-up: Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal and Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
• Best Animated Feature:
  • Happy Feet
  • Runners-up: A Scanner Darkly and Cars
• Best Cinematography:
  • Guillermo Navarro – Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
  • Runners-up: Xiaoding Zhao – Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia) and Emmanuel Lubezki – Children of Men
• Best Director:
  • Martin Scorsese – The Departed
  • Runners-up: Stephen Frears – The Queen and Clint Eastwood – Letters from Iwo Jima
• Best Film:
  • United 93
  • Runners-up: The Queen and The Departed
• Best First Film:
  • Ryan Fleck – Half Nelson
  • Runners-up: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris – Little Miss Sunshine and Dito Montiel – A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres) • France/Italy
  • Runners-up: Volver • Spain and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu) • Romania
• Best Non-Fiction Film:
  • Deliver Us from Evil
  • Runners-up: 49 Up, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and An Inconvenient Truth
• Best Screenplay:
  • Peter Morgan – The Queen
  • Runners-up: William Monahan – The Departed and Michael Arndt – Little Miss Sunshine
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children
  • Runners-up: Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls and Steve Carell – Little Miss Sunshine
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
  • Runners-up: Shareeka Epps – Half Nelson and Catherine O'Hara – For Your Consideration

External links

• 2006 Awards

Notes and References

1. News: 'United 93' voted best picture by the N.Y. critics. 25 December 2017. Los Angeles Times. 11 December 2006. 7 November 2017. https://web.archive.org/web/20171107022839/http://goldderby.latimes.com/awards_goldderby/2006/12/hudson_voted_be.html. dead.
2. News: Zeitchik. Steven. ‘United 93’ tops N.Y. Critics Circle. 25 December 2017. Variety. 11 December 2006.
3. Web site: Brooks. Brian. New York Critics Pick “United 93” and “Letters from Iwo Jima” Top Choice in LA. IndieWire. 25 December 2017. 11 December 2006.
4. Web site: NY critics pick 'United 93' as best film. USA Today. 25 December 2017. 11 December 2006.