72nd NYFCC Awards

January 7, 2007

---- Best Film:
United 93

The 72nd New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for

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, were announced on 11 December 2006 and presented on 7 January 2007.

Winners

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*Best Actor: ** Forest Whitaker – '' The Last King of Scotland'' **Runners-up:

Ryan Gosling Ryan Thomas Gosling (born November 12, 1980) is a Canadian actor. Prominent in independent film, he has also worked in blockbuster films of varying genres, and has accrued a worldwide box office gross of over 1.9 billion USD. He has received ...

– ''

Half Nelson A nelson hold is a grappling hold which is executed by one person from behind the opponent, generally when both are on the mat face down with the opponent under the aggressor. One or both arms are used to encircle the opponent's arm under the armpi ...

'' and Sacha Baron Cohen – '' Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan'' *Best Actress: **

Helen Mirren Dame Helen Mirren (born Helen Lydia Mironoff; born 26 July 1945) is an English actor. The recipient of numerous accolades, she is the only performer to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting in both the United States and the United Kingdom. ...

– '' The Queen'' **Runners-up: Judi Dench – '' Notes on a Scandal'' and Meryl Streep – '' The Devil Wears Prada'' *Best Animated Feature: **'' Happy Feet'' **Runners-up: '' A Scanner Darkly'' and '' Cars'' *Best Cinematography: **

Guillermo Navarro Guillermo Jorge Navarro Solares, (born July 29, 1955) is a Mexican cinematographer and television director.Scott, A. O. (November 21, 2001). ''The New York Times''The Devil's Backbone (review overview)./ref> He has worked in Hollywood since 199 ...

– '' Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)'' **Runners-up: Xiaoding Zhao – '' Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia)'' and Emmanuel Lubezki – ''

Children of Men ''Children of Men'' is a 2006 dystopian action thriller film co-written and directed by Alfonso Cuarón. The screenplay, based on P. D. James' 1992 novel '' The Children of Men'', was credited to five writers, with Clive Owen making uncredi ...

'' *Best Director: ** Martin Scorsese – '' The Departed'' **Runners-up: Stephen Frears – '' The Queen'' and

Clint Eastwood Clinton Eastwood Jr. (born May 31, 1930) is an American actor and film director. After achieving success in the Western TV series '' Rawhide'', he rose to international fame with his role as the "Man with No Name" in Sergio Leone's "''Doll ...

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Letters from Iwo Jima is a 2006 Japanese-language American war film directed and co-produced by Clint Eastwood, starring Ken Watanabe and Kazunari Ninomiya. The film portrays the Battle of Iwo Jima from the perspective of the Japanese soldiers and is a companion pie ...

'' *Best Film: **'' United 93'' **Runners-up: '' The Queen'' and '' The Departed'' *Best First Film: **

Ryan Fleck Anna Boden and Ryan K. Fleck are an American filmmaking duo. They are best known for their collaborations on the films ''Half Nelson (film), Half Nelson'', ''Sugar (2008 film), Sugar'', '' It's Kind of a Funny Story (film), It's Kind of a Funny ...

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'' **Runners-up: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris – ''

Little Miss Sunshine ''Little Miss Sunshine'' is a 2006 American tragicomedy road film and the feature film directorial debut of the husband–wife team of Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris. The screenplay was written by first-time writer Michael Arndt. The film sta ...

'' and Dito Montiel – ''

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints ''A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints'' is a 2006 American drama film based on a 2001 memoir of the same name by author, director, and musician Dito Montiel, which describes his youth in Astoria, New York during the 1980s. Montiel wrote and directed ...

'' *Best Foreign Language Film: **'' Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres)'' • France/ Italy **Runners-up: '' Volver'' • Spain and '' The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu)'' • Romania *Best Non-Fiction Film: **''

Deliver Us from Evil " Deliver us from evil" is a line from the Lord's Prayer in the Bible. Deliver Us from Evil may also refer to: Books * ''Deliver Us from Evil'' (novel), a novel by David Baldacci * '' Deliver Us from Evil: Defeating Terrorism, Despotism, and Li ...

'' **Runners-up: ''

49 Up The ''Up'' series of documentary films follows the lives of ten males and four females in England beginning in 1964, when they were seven years old. The first film was titled ''Seven Up!'', with later films adjusting the number in the title t ...

'', '' Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan'', and '' An Inconvenient Truth'' *Best Screenplay: **

Peter Morgan Peter Julian Robin Morgan, (10 April 1963) is a British screenwriter and playwright. He is the playwright behind '' The Audience'' and '' Frost/Nixon'' and the screenwriter of ''The Queen'' (2006), '' Frost/Nixon'' (2008), ''The Damned United ...

– '' The Queen'' **Runners-up:

William Monahan William J. Monahan (born November 3, 1960) is an American screenwriter and novelist. His second produced screenplay was ''The Departed'', a film that earned him a Writers Guild of America Award and Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay. Wr ...

– '' The Departed'' and

Michael Arndt Michael Arndt is an American screenwriter. He is best known as the writer of the films ''Little Miss Sunshine'' (2006), ''Toy Story 3'' (2010), and '' Star Wars: The Force Awakens'' (2015). Arndt won the Academy Award for Best Original Screenpl ...

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'' *Best Supporting Actor: ** Jackie Earle Haley – '' Little Children'' **Runners-up:

Eddie Murphy Edward Regan Murphy (born April 3, 1961) is an American actor, comedian, writer, producer, and singer. He rose to fame on the sketch comedy show ''Saturday Night Live'', for which he was a regular cast member from 1980 to 1984. Murphy has als ...

– '' Dreamgirls'' and Steve Carell – ''

'' *Best Supporting Actress: ** Jennifer Hudson – '' Dreamgirls'' **Runners-up:

Shareeka Epps Shareeka Epps (born July 11, 1989) is an American actress. She is best known for starring in the 2006 film '' Half Nelson'', alongside Ryan Gosling. She won the Independent Spirit Award for Best Female Lead for her performance in the film. Life ...

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Catherine O'Hara Catherine Anne O'Hara (born March 4, 1954) is a Canadian-American actress. She is known for her comedy work on ''Second City Television'' (1976–84) and ''Schitt's Creek'' (2015–2020) and in films such as '' After Hours'' (1985), ''Beetleju ...

– '' For Your Consideration''

References

External links

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