Chicago Film Critics Association Awards 2006



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.

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 ''Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
 * 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