2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards

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 :
• *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
• Best Supporting Actress:
• *Luminița Gheorghiu – The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
• *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
• *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 • 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, Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris – 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.