12th Critics' Choice Awards

The 12th Annual Critics' Choice Awards were presented on 14 January 2007 by the Broadcast Film Critics Association to honor the finest achievements in 2006 filmmaking. The event was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California and was broadcast 20 January 2007 in the United States on the E! channel.

Top 10 Films

(alphabetical)

1. Babel
2. Blood Diamond
3. The Departed (Academy Award for Best Picture)
4. Dreamgirls
5. Letters from Iwo Jima
6. Little Children
7. Little Miss Sunshine
8. Notes on a Scandal
9. The Queen
10. United 93

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

• Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
• 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 - To Return (Volver)
• Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
• Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
• Kate Winslet - Little Children

Best Animated Feature

Cars

• Ice Age: The Meltdown
• Happy Feet
• Monster House
• Over the Hedge

Best Cast

Little Miss Sunshine

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

Best Composer

Philip Glass - The Illusionist

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

Best Director

Martin Scorsese - The Departed

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

Best Documentary Feature

An Inconvenient Truth

• Shut Up and Sing
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated
• Who Killed the Electric Car
• Wordplay

Best Family Film

Charlotte's Web

• Akeelah and the Bee
• High School Musical
• Lassie
• Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best Film

The Departed

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

Best Film - Comedy

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 Film - Made for TV

Elizabeth I

• The Librarian
• Nightmares & Dreamscapes
• The Ron Clark Story
• When the Levees Broke

Best Foreign Language Film

Letters from Iwo Jima, United States

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

Best Song

"Listen" performed by Beyoncé - Dreamgirls

• "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 Soundtrack

"Dreamgirls"

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

Best Supporting Actor

Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls

• 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

Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

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

Best Writer

Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine

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

Best Young Actor

Paul Dano - Little Miss Sunshine

• 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

Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine

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

External links

• 12th Annual Critics' Choice Awards at BBC News
• 12th Annual Critics' Choice Awards at Fox News
• 12th Annual Critics' Choice Awards at E! online