2006 L.A. Film Crix Award Winners

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   L.A. Film Critics Name Favorites for 2006
'Letters From Iwo Jima,' 'The Queen' take top prizes

By DAILY VARIETY STAFF Posted: Sun., Dec. 10, 2006

'The Queen' earned four wins and one runner-up prize from L.A. Film Critics. 
The L.A. film critics have spoken, and "Letters From Iwo Jima" has taken home the prize from the Los Angeles Film Critics Association for best picture for 2006. However, the clear favorite of the critics was "The Queen," which earned four wins and one runner-up prize, including best actress for Helen Mirren, best supporting actor for Michael Sheen and best screenplay for Peter Morgan. 
Other big winners at the LAFCA were "Little Miss Sunshine," which won runner-up for the best screenplay prize and the new generation award, "Happy Feet" for best animation and "The Inconvenient Truth" for best documentary. 
Robert Mulligan won the career achievement award. 
2006 Los Angeles Critics Association winners: 
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" 
Career achievement award (previously announced): Robert Mulligan (IMDb LINK for Mulligan) 
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