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Los Angeles Film Critics Choose "Letters from Iwo Jima" as 2006's Best Film

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Los Angeles Film Critics Choose

Helen Mirren in "The Queen."

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Updated December 11, 2006

Barely into the 2006 award season it appears Clint Eastwood's Letters from Iwo Jima might just wind up as the film to beat. The Los Angeles Film Critics Association selected Letters from Iwo Jima as the best film of the year, following in the footsteps of the National Board of Review.

LA Film Critics Association Winners - 2006

Best Film
Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen

Best Actor
Tie - Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best Supporting Actress
Luminita Gheorghiu, The Death of Mr Lazarescu

Best Supporting Actor
Michael Sheen, The Queen

Best Screenplay
Peter Morgan, The Queen

Best Director
Paul Greengrass, United 93

Best Animated Film
Happy Feet

Best Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth

Foreign Language Film
The Lives of Others

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