Golden Globes noms

Picture, Drama:

• "Babel"
• "Bobby"
• "The Departed"
• "Little Children"
• "The Queen"

Actress, Drama:

• Penelope Cruz, "Volver"
• Judi Dench, "Notes on a Scandal"
• Maggie Gyllenhaal, "Sherrybaby"
• Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
• Kate Winslet, "Little Children"

Actor, Drama:

• Leonardo DiCaprio, "Blood Diamond"
• Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Departed"
• Peter O'Toole, "Venus"
• Will Smith, "The Pursuit of Happyness"
• Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland"

Picture, Musical or Comedy:

• "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
• "The Devil Wears Prada"
• "Dreamgirls"
• "Little Miss Sunshine"
• "Thank You for Smoking"

Actress, Musical or Comedy:

• Annette Bening, "Running With Scissors"
• Toni Collette, "Little Miss Sunshine"
• Beyonce Knowles, "Dreamgirls"
• Meryl Streep, "The Devil Wears Prada"
• Renee Zellweger, "Miss Potter"

Actor, Musical or Comedy:

• Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan"
• Johnny Depp, "Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest"
• Aaron Eckhart, "Thank You for Smoking"
• Chiwetel Ejiofor, "Kinky Boots"
• Will Ferrell, "Stranger than Fiction"

Supporting Actress:

• Adriana Barraza, "Babel"
• Cate Blanchett, "Notes on a Scandal"
• Emily Blunt, "The Devil Wears Prada"
• Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"
• Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"

Supporting Actor:

• Ben Affleck, "Hollywoodland"
• Eddie Murphy, "Dreamgirls"
• Jack Nicholson, "The Departed"
• Brad Pitt, "Babel"
• Mark Wahlberg, "The Departed"

Director:

• Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers"
• Clint Eastwood, "Letters from Iwo Jima"
• Steven Frears, "The Queen"
• Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, "Babel"
• Martin Scorsese, "The Departed"

Screenplay:

• Guillermo Arriaga, "Babel"
• Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, "Little Children"
• Patrick Marber, "Notes on a Scandal"
• William Monahan, "The Departed"
• Peter Morgan, "The Queen"

Foreign Language:

• "Apocalypto," USA
• "Letters from Iwo Jima," USA/Japan
• "The Lives of Others," Germany
• "Pan's Labyrinth," Mexico
• "Volver" Spain

Animated Film:

• "Cars"
• "Happy Feet"
• "Monster House"

Original Score:

• Alexandre Desplat, "The Painted Veil"
• Clint Mansell, "The Fountain"
• Gustavo Santaolalla, "Babel"
• Carlo Siliotto, "Nomad"
• Hans Zimmer, "The Da Vinci Code"

Original Song:

• "A Father's Way" from "The Pursuit of Happyness"
• "Listen" from "Dreamgirls"
• "Never Gonna Break My Faith" from "Bobby"
• "The Song of the Heart" from "Happy Feet"
• "Try Not to Remember" from "Home of the Brave"
  

Broadcast Film Critics announce their nominations

NOMINEES FOR THE 12TH ANNUAL CRITICS’ CHOICE AWARDS

BEST PICTURE:

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

BEST ACTOR:

• Leonardo DiCaprio – “Blood Diamond”
• Leonardo DiCaprio – “The Departed”
• Ryan Gosling – “Half Nelson”
• Peter O’Toole – “Venus”
• Will Smith – “The Pursuit of Happyness”
• Forest Whitaker – “The Last King of Scotland”

BEST ACTRESS:

• Penelope Cruz – “Volver”
• Judi Dench – “Notes on a Scandal”
• Helen Mirren – “The Queen”
• Meryl Streep – “The Devil Wears Prada”
• Kate Winslet – “Little Children”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR:

• Ben Affleck – “Hollywoodland”
• Alan Arkin – “Little Miss Sunshine”
• Adam Beach – “Flags of Our Fathers”
• Djimon Hounsou – “Blood Diamond”
• Eddie Murphy – “Dreamgirls”
• Jack Nicholson – “The Departed”

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS:

• Adriana Barraza – “Babel”
• Cate Blanchett – “Notes on a Scandal”
• Jennifer Hudson – “Dreamgirls”
• Rinko Kikuchi – “Babel”
• Catherine O’Hara – “For Your Consideration”
• Emma Thompson – “Stranger Than Fiction”

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE:

• Babel
• Bobby
• The Departed
• Dreamgirls
• Little Miss Sunshine
• A Prairie Home Companion

BEST DIRECTOR:

• Bill Condon – “Dreamgirls”
• Clint Eastwood – “Letters from Iwo Jima”
• Stephen Frears – “The Queen”
• Paul Greengrass – “United 93”
• Martin Scorsese – “The Departed”

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 ANIMATED FEATURE:

• “Cars”
• “Flushed Away”
• “Happy Feet”
• “Monster House”
• “Over the Hedge”

BEST YOUNG ACTOR:

• Cameron Bright – “Thank You For Smoking”
• Joseph Cross – “Running With Scissors”
• Paul Dano – “Little Miss Sunshine”
• Freddie Highmore – “A Good Year”
• Jaden Christopher Syre Smith – “The Pursuit of Happyness”

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS:

• Ivana Baquero – “Pan’s Labyrinth”
• Abigail Breslin – “Little Miss Sunshine”
• Shareeka Epps – “Half Nelson”
• Dakota Fanning – “Charlotte’s Web”
• Keke Palmer – “Akeelah and the Bee”

BEST COMEDY MOVIE:

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

BEST FAMILY FILM (LIVE ACTION):

• Akeelah and the Bee
• Charlotte’s Web
• Flicka
• Lassie
• Pirates of the Caribbean 2

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION:

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

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM:

• Apocalypto
• Days of Glory
• Letters from Iwo Jima
• Pan’s Labyrinth
• Volver
• Water

BEST SONG:

• “I Need to Wake Up” – Melissa Etheridge – “An Inconvenient Truth”
• “Listen” – Beyonce – “Dreamgirls”
• “My Little Girl” – Tim McGraw – “Flicka”
• “The Neighbor” – Dixie Chicks – “Shut Up & Sing”
• “Never Gonna Break My Faith” – Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige – “Bobby”
• “Ordinary Miracle” – Sarah McLachlan – “Charlotte’s Web”

BEST SOUNDTRACK:

• Babel
• Cars
• Dreamgirls
• Happy Feet
• Marie Antoinette

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 DOCUMENTARY FEATURE:

• An Inconvenient Truth
• Shut Up & Sing
• This Film Is Not Yet Rated
• Who Killed the Electric Car?
• Wordplay

Los Angeles Critics Association Winners

From Oscarwatch:

Picture: "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Runner-up: "The Queen"

Director: Paul Greengrass, "United 93"
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat" and Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" (tie) (no runner-up)

Actress: Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Penelope Cruz, "Volver"

Supporting actor: Michael Sheen, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Sergi Lopez, "Pan's Labyrinth"

Supporting actress: Luminita Gheorghiu, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu"
Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"

Screenplay: Peter Morgan, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine"

Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Runner-up: Tom Stern, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"

Production design: Eugenio Caballero, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Runner-up: Jim Clay and Geoffrey Kirkland, "Children of Men"

Music: Alexandre Desplat, "The Queen" and "The Painted Veil"
Runner-up: Thomas Newman, "The Good German" and "Little Children"

Foreign-language film: "The Lives of Others"
Runner-up: "Volver"

Documentary/non-fiction film: "An Inconvenient Truth"
Runner-up: "Darwin's Nightmare"

Animation: "Happy Feet"
Runner-up: "Cars"

Douglas Edwards experimental/independent film/video award: "Old Joy" (Kelly Reichardt) and "In Between Days" (So Yong Kim)

New generation award: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (directors) and Michael Arndt (screenwriter), "Little Miss Sunshine"

NY Film Critics Online Awards

From Oscarwatch:

Picture
THE QUEEN

Director
STEPHEN FREARS - The Queen

Screenplay
PETER MORGAN - The Queen

Cinematography
DICK POPE - The Illusionist

Actor
FOREST WHITAKER - The Last King of Scotland

Actress
HELEN MIRREN - The Queen

Supporting Actor
MICHAEL SHEEN - The Queen

Supporting Actress
JENNIFER HUDSON - Dreamgirls (tie)
CATHERINE O'HARA - For Your Consideration (tie)

Ensemble Cast
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE

Debut as Director
JONATHAN DAYTON, VALERIE FARIS - Little Miss Sunshine

Breakthrough Performer
JENNIFER HUDSON - Dreamgirls

Film Score
PHILIP GLASS - The Illusionist

Documentary Feature
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

Animated Feature
HAPPY FEET

Foreign Language Picture
PAN'S LABYRINTH

Humanitarian Award
DEEPA MEHTA (Water) for taking risks to create films about the difficulties of social change in India especially as it affects women.

Ten Best Pictures (Alphabetical)
BABEL (Paramount Vantage)
THE FOUNTAIN (Warner Bros.)
INLAND EMPIRE (Absurda)
LITTLE CHILDREN (New Line)
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (Fox Searchlight)
PAN'S LABYRINTH (Picturehouse)
THE QUEEN (Miramax)
THANK YOU FOR SMOKING (Fox Searchlight)
VOLVER (Sony Pictures Classics)
WATER (Fox Searchlight)

Boston Film Critics Winners

From Oscarwatch:

Best Picture:

The Departed

(United 93, runner-up)

Best Director:

Martin Scorsese, The Departed

(Paul Greengrass, United 93, runner-up)

Best Actor:

Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

(Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson, runner-up)

Best Actress:

Helen Mirren, The Queen

(Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal, runner-up)

Best Supporting Actor:

Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

(TIE: Michael Sheen, The Queen; Alec Baldwin, The Departed/Running with

Scissors/The Good Shepherd, runners-up)

Best Supporting Actress:

Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson

(Meryl Streep, The Devil Wore Prada, runner-up)

Best Ensemble Cast:

United 93

(The Departed, runner-up)

Best Screenplay:

William Monahan, The Departed

(Peter Morgan, The Queen, runner-up)

Best Foreign Language Film:

Pan's Labyrinth

(Volver, runner-up)

Best Documentary:

TIE: Deliver Us From Evil/Shut Up & Sing

(51 Birch Street, runner-up)

Best New Filmmaker:

Ryan Fleck, Half Nelson

(Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine, runners-up)

Best Cinematography:

Guillermo Navarro. Pan's Labyrinth

(TIE: Stuart Dryburgh, The Painted Veil; Xiaoding Zhao, Curse of the Golden

Flower, runners-up)

AFI Movies of the Year

From Oscarwatch:

AFI MOVIES OF THE YEAR—OFFICIAL SELECTIONS

BABEL
BORAT: CULTURAL LEARNINGS OF AMERICA FOR MAKE BENEFIT GLORIOUS NATION OF KAZAKHSTAN
THE DEVIL WEARS PRADA
DREAMGIRLS
HALF NELSON
HAPPY FEET
INSIDE MAN
LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE
UNITED 93

National Board of Review Winners

From Oscarwatch

Best Film: LETTERS FROM IWO JIMA
Best Director: MARTIN SCORSESE, The Departed
Best Actor: FOREST WHITAKER, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: HELEN MIRREN, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: DJIMON HOUNSOU, Blood Diamond
Best Supporting Actress: CATHERINE O'HARA, For Your Consideration
Best Foreign Film: VOLVER
Best Documentary: AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH
Best Animated Feature: CARS
Best Ensemble Cast: THE DEPARTED
Breakthrough Performance by an Actor: RYAN GOSLING, Half Nelson
Breakthrough Performance by an Actress: (2)
JENNIFER HUDSON, Dreamgirls and RINKO KIKUCHI, Babel
Best Directorial Debut: JASON REITMAN, Thank You for Smoking
Best Original Screenplay: ZACH HELM, Stranger Than Fiction
Best Adapted Screenplay: RON NYSWANER, The Painted Veil

The top 10 from the National Board of Review:

"Letters From Iwo Jima"

"Babel"

"Blood Diamond"

"The Departed"

"The Devil Wears Prada"

"Flags Of Our Fathers"

"The History Boys"

"Little Miss Sunshine"

"Notes on a Scandal"

"The Painted Veil"

Top Five Foreign Films:

VOLVER

(and, in alphabetical order)

CURSE OF THE GOLDEN FLOWER

DAYS OF GLORY

PAN'S LABYRINTH

WATER

Top Five Documentary Films
AN INCONVENIENT TRUTH

(and, in alphabetical order)

51 BIRCH STREET

IRAQ IN FRAGMENTS

SHUT UP & SING

WORDPLAY

Top Independent Films
(in alphabetical order)

AKEELAH AND THE BEE

BOBBY

CATCH A FIRE

COPYING BEETHOVEN

A GUIDE TO RECOGNIZING YOUR SAINTS

HALF NELSON

THE ILLUSIONIST

LONESOME JIM

SHERRYBABY

10 ITEMS OR LESS

THANK YOU FOR SMOKING

Career Achievement - ELI WALLACH
Billy Wilder Award for Excellence in Directing - JONATHAN DEMME
Career Achievement in Producing - IRWIN WINKLER
William K. Everson Film History Award - DONALD KRIM
The BVLGARI Award for NBR Freedom of Expression - WATER and WORLD TRADE CENTER