page_title: 2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: 2006 New York Film Critics Circle Awards / Winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Jennifer Hudson signs copies of "Jennifer Hudson: I Got This: How I Changed My Ways and Lost What Weighed Me Down" at Barnes &amp; Noble Books in Skokie (Chicago) on January 17, 2012. Photo by Adam Bielawski
context_page_description: The 72nd New York Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2006, were announced on 11 December 2006 and presented on 7 January 2007.
context_section_description: Best Actor:
  Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
  Runners-up: Ryan Gosling – Half Nelson and Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  Best Actress:
  Helen Mirren – The Queen
  Runners-up: Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal and Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
  Best Animated Feature:
  Happy Feet
  Runners-up: A Scanner Darkly and Cars
  Best Cinematography:
  Guillermo Navarro – Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
  Runners-up: Xiaoding Zhao – Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia) and Emmanuel Lubezki – Children of Men
  Best Director:
  Martin Scorsese – The Departed
  Runners-up: Stephen Frears – The Queen and Clint Eastwood – Letters from Iwo Jima
  Best Film:
  United 93
  Runners-up: The Queen and The Departed
  Best First Film:
  Ryan Fleck – Half Nelson
  Runners-up: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris – Little Miss Sunshine and Dito Montiel – A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints
  Best Foreign Language Film:
  Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres) • France/Italy
  Runners-up: Volver • Spain and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu) • Romania
  Best Non-Fiction Film:
  Deliver Us from Evil
  Runners-up: 49 Up, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and An Inconvenient Truth
  Best Screenplay:
  Peter Morgan – The Queen
  Runners-up: William Monahan – The Departed and Michael Arndt – Little Miss Sunshine
  Best Supporting Actor:
  Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children
  Runners-up: Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls and Steve Carell – Little Miss Sunshine
  Best Supporting Actress:
  Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
  Runners-up: Shareeka Epps – Half Nelson and Catherine O'Hara – For Your Consideration
caption: Jennifer Hudson, Best Supporting Actress winner
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