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Awards for 2006:

Best Acting By An Ensemble
The Departed

Best Actor
Forest Whitaker, The Last King Of Scotland

Best Actress
Helen Mirren, The Queen

Best Adapted Screenplay
Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil

Best Animated Feature
Cars

Best Director
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Directorial Debut
Jason Reitman, Thank You For Smoking

Best Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth

Best Film
Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Foreign Film
Volver

Best Original Screenplay
Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction

Best Supporting Actor
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond

Best Supporting Actress
Catherine O´Hara, For Your Consideration

Billy Wilder Award For Excellence In Directing
Jonathan Demme

Breakthrough Performance - Female
(2) Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls and Rinko Kikuchi, Babel

Breakthrough Performance - Male
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson

Career Achievement Award
Eli Wallach

Career Achievement in Producing
Irwin Winkler

The Bvlgari Award for NBR Freedom of Expression
Water and World Trade Center

Top Five Documentaries
An Inconvenient Truth, (and, in alphabetical order) 51 Birch Street, Iraq In Fragments, Shut Up & Sing, Wordplay

Top Five Foreign Films
Volver, (and, in alphabetical order) Curse Of The Golden Flower, Days Of Glory, Pan´s Labyrinth, Water

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

Top Ten Films
Letters from Iwo Jima, (and, in alphabetical order) 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

William K. Everson Award For Film History
Donald Krim

 

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