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