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2006 Broadcast Film Critics Association Nominees and Winners

The BFCA Names "The Departed" as Best Picture of 2006

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2006 Broadcast Film Critics Association Nominees and Winners

Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Departed."

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The Broadcast Film Critics Association really spread the love around this year. The Departed took home the group's award for Best Picture, while best acting honors were spread out amongst the cast of The Last King of Scotland, The Queen, Dreamgirls, and Little Miss Sunshine. In other words, the BFCA picks did nothing to clear up the Oscar picture.

Best Picture
Winner: The Departed
Babel
Blood Diamond
Dreamgirls
Letters From Iwo Jima
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes on a Scandal
The Queen
United 93

Best Actor
Winner: 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
Winner: Helen Mirren - The Queen
Penelope Cruz - Volver
Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet - Little Children

Best Supporting Actor
Winner: 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
Winner: 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 Acting Ensemble
Winner: Little Miss Sunshine
Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Dreamgirls
A Prairie Home Companion

Best Director
Winner: Martin Scorsese - The Departed
Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears - The Queen
Paul Greengrass - United 93

Best Writer
Winner: Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine
Guillermo Arriaga - Babel
Todd Field, Tom Perrotta - Little Children
Zach Helm - Stranger Than Fiction
William Monahan - The Departed
Peter Morgan - The Queen

Best Animated Feature
Winner: Cars
Flushed Away
Happy Feet
Monster House
Over The Hedge

Best Young Actor
Winner: Paul Dano - Little Miss Sunshine
Cameron Bright - Thank You For Smoking
Joseph Cross - Running With Scissors
Freddie Highmore - A Good Year
Jaden Christopher Syre Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Young Actress
Winner: Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
Ivana Baquero - Pan's Labyrinth
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 Family Film (live action)
Winner: Charlotte's Web
Akeelah and the Bee
Flicka
Lassie
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best Picture Made for Television
Winner: Elizabeth I
The Librarian
Nightmares and Dreamscapes
The Ron Clark Story
When the Levees Broke

Best Documentary Feature
Winner: An Inconvenient Truth
Shut Up and Sing
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Who Killed the Electric Car
Wordplay

Best Foreign Language Film
Winner: Letters From Iwo Jima
Apocalypto
Days of Glory
Pan's Labyrinth
Volver
Water

Best Song
Winner: "Listen", Beyonce - Dreamgirls
"I Need To Wake Up", Melissa Etheridge - An Inconvenient Truth
"My Little Girl", Tim McGraw - Flicka
"The Neighbor", Dixie Chicks - Shut Up and Sing
"Never Gonna Break My Faith", Aretha Franklin, Mary J Blige - Bobby
"Ordinary Miracle", Sarah McLachlan - Charlotte's Web

Best Soundtrack
Winner: Dreamgirls
Babel
Cars
Happy Feet
Marie Antoinette

Best Composer
Winner: Phillip 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

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