2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards



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.

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