Los
Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
December
10, 2006
BEST
PICTURE
Letters from Iwo Jima
Runner Up: The Queen
DIRECTOR
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood,
Flags of our Fathers, Letters from Iwo Jima
ACTRESS
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Runner-up: Penelope
Cruz, Volver
ACTOR:
Tie - Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat
and Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
SCREENPLAY
The Queen by Peter Morgan
Runner-up: Little Miss
Sunshine by Michael Arndt
SUPPORTING
ACTRESS
Luminita Gheorghiu, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
Runner-up: Jennifer
Hudson, Dreamgirls
SUPPORTING
ACTOR
Michael Sheen, The Queen
Runner-up: Sergi Lopez,
Pan's Labyrinth
FOREIGN LANGUAGE
FILM
The Lives of Others directed by Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck
Runner-up: Volver directed
by Pedro Almodovar
DOCUMENTARY/NON-FICTION
FILM
An Inconvenient Truth directed by Davis Guggenheim
Runner-up: Darwin's
Nightmare directed by Hubert Sauper
PRODUCTION
DESIGN
Eugenio Caballero, Pan's Labyrinth
Runner-up: Jim Clay,
Veronica Falzon, Geoffrey Kirkland, Children of Men
ANIMATION
Happy Feet (George Miller)
Runner-up: Cars (John
Lasseter, Joe Ranft)
MUSIC
Alexandre Desplat, The Painted Veil and The Queen
Runner-up: Thomas Newman,
The Good German and Little Children
CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki, Children of Men
Runner-up: Tom Stern,
Flags of our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
NEW GENERATION
Michael Arndt, Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine
CAREER ACHIEVEMENT
Robert Mulligan
INDEPENDENT/EXPERIMENTAL
Tie - Old Joy directed by Kelly Reichardt
and In Between Days directed by So Yong Kim
SPECIAL CITATIONS
To Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film Army of Shadows which had its
U.S. premiere this year, and to Jonas Mekas for his career as a critic
and filmmaker.
LAFCA's 32nd
annual achievement awards ceremony will be held Sunday, January 14
at the Park Hyatt Hotel in Los Angeles. www.lafca.net