The 12th Critics' Choice Movie Awards were given on 14 January 2007 to honor the finest achievements in 2006 filmmaking.

 

 

BEST PICTURE

Winner: The Departed

Nominees:
• Babel
• Blood Diamond
• Dreamgirls
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Little Children
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Notes on a Scandal
• The Queen
• United 93

BEST DIRECTOR

Winner: Martin Scorsese - The Departed

Nominees:
• Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
• Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
• Stephen Frears - The Queen
• Paul Greengrass - United 93

BEST ACTOR

Winner: Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Nominees:
• Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
• Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
• Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
• Peter O'Toole - Venus
• Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

BEST ACTRESS

Winner: Helen Mirren - The Queen

Nominees:
• Penelope Cruz - To Return (Volver)
• Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
• Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
• Kate Winslet - Little Children

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

Winner: Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls

Nominees:
• Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland
• Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
• Adam Beach - Flags of Our Fathers
• Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
• Jack Nicholson - The Departed

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

Winner: Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Nominees:
• Adriana Barraza - Babel
• Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
• Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
• Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration
• Emma Thompson - Stranger Than Fiction

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE

Winner: Little Miss Sunshine

Nominees:
• Babel
• Bobby
• The Departed
• Dreamgirls
• A Prairie Home Companion

BEST WRITER

Winner: Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine

Nominees:
• Guillermo Arriaga - Babel
• Todd Field and Tom Perrotta - Little Children
• Zach Helm - Stranger Than Fiction
• William Monahan - The Departed
• Peter Morgan - The Queen

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

Winner: Cars

Nominees:
• Flushed Away
• Happy Feet
• Monster House
• Over the Hedge

BEST YOUNG ACTOR

Winner: Paul Dano - Little Miss Sunshine

Nominees:
• Cameron Bright - Thank You for Smoking
• Joseph Cross - Running with Scissors
• Freddie Highmore - A Good Year
• Jaden Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS

Winner: Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine

Nominees:
• Ivana Baquero - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
• Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson
• Dakota Fanning - Charlotte's Web
• Keke Palmer - Akeelah and the Bee

BEST COMEDY MOVIE

Winner: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

• The Devil Wears Prada
• For Your Consideration
• Little Miss Sunshine
• Thank You for Smoking

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM

Winner: Letters from Iwo Jima, USA

Nominees:
• Apocalypto, USA
• Days of Glory (Indigènes), Algeria
• Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno), Mexico
• To Return (Volver), Spain
• Water, Canada/India

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION

Winner: Elizabeth I

Nominees:
• The Librarian
• Nightmares and Dreamscapes
• The Ron Clark Story
• When the Levees Broke

BEST FAMILY FILM

Winner: Charlotte's Web

Nominees:
• Akeelah and the Bee
• Flicka
• Lassie
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE

Winner: An Inconvenient Truth

Nominees:
• Shut Up & Sing
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated
• Who Killed The Electric Car?
• Wordplay

BEST SONG

Winner: "Listen" (performed by Beyoncé) - Dreamgirls

Nominees:
• "I Need To Wake Up" (performed by Melissa Etheridge) - An Inconvenient Truth
• "My Little Girl" (performed by Tim McGraw) - Flicka
• "The Neighbor" (performed by Dixie Chicks) - Shut Up and Sing
• "Never Gonna Break My Faith" (performed by Mary J. Blige and Aretha Franklin) - Bobby
• "Ordinary Miracle" (performed by Sarah McLachlan) - Charlotte's Web

BEST COMPOSER

Winner: Phillip Glass - The Illusionist

Nominees:
• Clint Mansell - The Fountain
• Thomas Newman - The Good German
• Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel
• Howard Shore - The Departed
• Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code

BEST SOUNDTRACK

Winner: "Dreamgirls"

Nominees:
• "Babel"
• "Cars"
• "Happy Feet"
• "Marie Antoinette"