2006 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

3rd SLGFCA Awards

January 7, 2007

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Best Film:
The Departed

The 3rd St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards were given on 7 January 2007.

Top Films of 2006

(in alphabetical order)

1. Blood Diamond
2. The Departed
3. Dreamgirls
4. Flags of Our Fathers
5. The Good Shepherd
6. The Last King of Scotland
7. Notes on a Scandal
8. The Queen
9. United 93

Winners

• Best Actor:
  • Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin

• Best Actress:
  • Helen Mirren - The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II

• Best Animated or Children's Film:
  • Cars

• Best Cinematography:
  • The Painted Veil

• Best Director:
  • Martin Scorsese - The Departed

• Best Documentary Film:
  • An Inconvenient Truth

• Best Film:
  • The Departed

• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) • Mexico/Spain/USA

• Best Overlooked Film:
  • Running with Scissors

• Best Screenplay:
  • The Queen - Peter Morgan

• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond

• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls as Effie White

• Best Visual/Special Effects:
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

• Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film:
  • United 93

Nominees

• Best Actor:
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
  • Matt Damon - The Good Shepherd
  • Aaron Eckhart - Thank You for Smoking
  • Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
  • Edward Norton - The Painted Veil
  • Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
• Best Actress:
  • Annette Bening - Running with Scissors
  • Juliette Binoche - Breaking and Entering
  • Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
  • Kate Winslet - Little Children
• Best Animated or Children's Film:
  • Charlotte's Web
  • Happy Feet
  • Monster House
  • Over the Hedge
• Best Cinematography:
  • Babel
  • Blood Diamond
  • The Departed
  • Flags of Our Fathers
  • Hollywoodland
  • Letters from Iwo Jima
• Best Director:
  • Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
  • Robert De Niro - The Good Shepherd
  • Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers
  • Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
  • Stephen Frears - The Queen
  • Paul Greengrass - United 93
  • Edward Zwick - Blood Diamond
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Apocalypto
  • Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others), Germany
  • Volver (To Return), Spain
  • Sorstalanság (Fateless)
  • Zui hao de shi guang (Three Times)
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland
  • Adam Beach - Flags of Our Fathers
  • Steve Carell - Little Miss Sunshine
  • Chalo Gonzales - Quinceañera
  • Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
  • Jack Nicholson - The Departed
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
  • Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
  • Jill Clayburgh - Running with Scissors
  • Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson
  • Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
  • Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
  • Lili Taylor - Factotum