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2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
Annual US film awards ceremony
Annual US film awards ceremony
| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| name | 32nd LAFCA Awards |
| date | December 2006 |
| award1_type | Best Picture |
| award1_winner | Letters from Iwo Jima |
| previous | 31st |
| main | LAFCA Awards |
| next | 33rd |
The 32nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association (LAFCA), honored the best in film for 2006.
Winners
- Best Picture:
- Letters from Iwo Jima
- Runner-up: The Queen
- Best Director:
- Paul Greengrass – United 93
- Runner-up: Clint Eastwood – Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
- Best Actor (TIE):
- Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
- Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
- Best Actress:
- Helen Mirren – The Queen
- Runner-up: Penélope Cruz – Volver
- Best Supporting Actor:
- Michael Sheen – The Queen
- Runner-up: Sergi López – Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
- Best Supporting Actress:
- Luminița Gheorghiu – The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu)
- Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
- Best Screenplay:
- Peter Morgan – The Queen
- Runner-up: Michael Arndt – Little Miss Sunshine
- Best Cinematography:
- Emmanuel Lubezki – Children of Men
- Runner-up: Tom Stern* – Flags of Our Fathers* and Letters from Iwo Jima
- Best Production Design:
- Eugenio Caballero – Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
- Runner-up: Jim Clay, Veronica Falzon, and Geoffrey Kirkland – Children of Men
- Best Music Score:
- Alexandre Desplat – The Painted Veil and The Queen
- Runner-up: Thomas Newman – The Good German and Little Children
- Best Foreign-Language Film:
- The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) • Germany
- Runner-up: Volver • Spain
- Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
- An Inconvenient Truth
- Runner-up: Darwin's Nightmare
- Best Animation:
- Happy Feet
- Runner-up: Cars
- The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
- So Yong Kim – In Between Days
- Kelly Reichardt – Old Joy
- New Generation Award:
- Michael Arndt (screenwriter), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (co-directors) – Little Miss Sunshine
- Career Achievement Award:
- Robert Mulligan
- Special Citation:
- Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film Army of Shadows upon the occasion of its long-overdue U.S. release.
- Jonas Mekas for his contributions to American film culture as a filmmaker, critic and co-founder of Anthology Film Archives.
References
References
- (11 December 2006). "New York Critics Pick “United 93” and “Letters from Iwo Jima” Top Choice in LA".
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