2006: Year in Review
Fritz Golden Superlatives

1. Marie Antoinette (dir: Sofia Coppola)

2. United 93 (dir: Paul Greengrass)

3. Volver (dir: Pedro Almodovar)

4. A Prairie Home Companion (dir: Robert Altman)

5. Inland Empire (dir: David Lynch)

6. This Is England (dir: Shane Meadows)

7. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (dir: Larry Charles)

8. Children of Men (dir: Alfonso Cuarón)

9. Miami Vice (dir: Michael Mann)

10. Déjà vu (dir: Tony Scott)

Honorable Mentions (in alphabetical order): Away from Her (dir: Sarah Polley), The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (dir: Cristi Puiu), The Departed (dir: Martin Scorsese), The Descent (dir: Neill Marshall), The Devil Wears Prada (dir: David Frankel), Inside Man (dir: Spike Lee), The Lives of Others (dir: Florian Henkel von Donnensmark), Notes on a Scandal (dir: Richard Eyre), Pan's Labyrinth (dir: Guillermo del Toro), Paprika (dir: Satoshi Kon), A Scanner Darkly (dir: Richard Linklater), The Science of Sleep (dir: Michel Gondry), Step Up (dir: Anne Fletcher), and Three Times (dir: Hsiao-Hsien Ho)

Best Film of the Year: Marie Antoinette
Director: Sofia Coppola Producers: Sofia Coppola, Ross Katz
US Distributor: Columbia Pictures

Best Director:
Sofia Coppola, Marie Antoinette
2. Alfonso Cuarón, Children of Men
3. Shane Meadows, This Is England
4. Paul Greengrass, United 93
5. David Lynch, Inland Empire

Best Actor:
Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit the Glorious Nation of Kazahkstan
2. Ulrich Muhe, The Lives of Others
3. Matt Damon, The Departed
4. Denzel Washington, Inside Man AND Déjà vu
5. Thomas Turgoose, This Is England

Best Actress:
Laura Dern, Inland Empire
2. Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
3. Penélope Cruz, Volver
4. Kate Winslet, Little Children
5. Kirsten Dunst, Marie Antoinette

Best Supporting Actor:
1. Stephen Graham, This Is England
2. Woody Harrelson, A Prairie Home Companion
3. Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
4. John C. Reilly, A Prairie Home Companion AND Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
5. Mark Wahlberg, The Departed

Best Supporting Actress:
Gong Li, Miami Vice
2. Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada AND A Prairie Home Companion
3. Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
4. Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
5. Olympia Dukakis, Away from Her

Best Original Screenplay:
Volver – Pedro Almodovar
2. The Science of Sleep – Michel Gondry
3. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu – Cristi Puiu and Razvan Radulescu
4. Three Times — Hsiao-Hsien Hou and T'ien-wen Chu
5. Inside Man — Russell Gewirtz

Best Adapted Screenplay:
Miami Vice – Michael Mann
2. Notes on a Scandal – Patrick Marber
3. A Scanner Darkly – Richard Linklater
4. The Devil Wears Prada – Aline Brosh McKenna
5. Little Children – Tom Perrota and Todd Field

Best Cinematography:
Children of Men – Emmanuel Lubezki
2. The Fall — Colin Watkinson
3. Little Children – Antonio Calvache
4. Marie Antoinette – Lance Acord
5. Miami Vice – Dion Beebe

Best Original Score:
United 93 — John Powell
2. The Fountain — Clint Mansell
3. Notes on a Scandal – Philip Glass
4. Pan’s Labyrinth – Javier Navarrette
5. Babel — Gustavo Santolalla

Best Film Editing:
Children of Men – Alfonso Cuarón and Alex Rodriguez
2. Marie Antoinette – Sarah Flack
3. United 93 — Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson, and Christopher Rouse
4. Pan’s Labyrinth — Bernat Vilaplana
5. Déjà vu — Jason Hellmann and Chris Lebenzon

Best Production Design:
Pan's Labyrinth – Eugenio Caballero and Pilar Revuelta
2. Children of Men — Jim Clay, Geoffrey Kirkland, and Jennifer Williams
3. Marie Antoinette – K.K. Barrett and Veronique Melery
4. The Science of Sleep – Ann Chakraverty, Pierre Pell and Stephane Rosenbaum
5. The Prestige – Nathan Crowley and Julie Ochipinti

Best Costume Design:
Marie Antoinette — Milena Canonero
2. The Fall — Eiko Ishioka
3. V for Vendetta — Sammy Sheldon
4. The Prestige — Joan Bergin
5. Perfume: The Story of a Murderer — Pierre Yves-Gayraud

Best Visual Effects
Silent Hill
2. Pan’s Labyrinth
3. The Fountain

Best Sound
Babel
2. Miami Vice
3. United 93

Best Makeup
Pan’s Labyrinth
2. Hostel
3. Silent Hill

Best Documentary Feature:
Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady, Jesus Camp

Best Animated Feature:
Satoshi Kon, Paprika

Best Limited Series:
Andrew Davies, Justin Chadwick, Susanna White, and Nigel Stafford-Clark, Bleak House

Best Ensemble Cast: 
A Prairie Home Companion

Orson Welles' Best First Feature:
Sarah Polley, Away from Her

Best Ensemble Cast (dir: Florian Henkel von Donnensmark; in alphabetical order): Woody Harrelson, L.Q. Jones, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan (pictured), Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep (pictured), and Lily Tomlin (pictured)

Best First Feature: Gordon Pinsent and Julie Christie in Sarah Polley's Away from Her

RECAP

W I N S :

Marie Antoinette — 3
Children of Men — 2, Miami Vice — 2, Pan’s Labyrinth — 2, Away from Her — 1, Babel — 1, Bleak House — 1, Borat — 1, Inland Empire — 1, Jesus Camp — 1, Paprika — 1, A Prairie Home Companion — 1, Silent Hill — 1, This Is England — 1, United 93 — 1, Volver — 1

M U L T I P L E
N O M I N A T I O N S :

Marie Antoinette — 7,
Children of Men — 6, Miami Vice — 6, Pan’s Labyrinth — 5, A Prairie Home Companion — 5, United 93 — 5, Little Children — 4, Notes on a Scandal — 4, This Is England — 4, Déjà vu — 3, Inland Empire — 3, Volver — 3, Away from Her – 2, Babel — 2, Borat — 2, The Devil Wears Prada — 2, The Fall — 2, The Fountain — 2, Inside Man — 2, The Prestige — 2, The Science of Sleep — 2

the year-end project:
2024, 2023, 2022, 2021, 2020, 2019, 2018, 2017, 2016, 2015, 2014, 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, 2009, 2008, 2007, 2006, 2005, 2004, 2003, 2002, 2001, 2000, 1999, 1998, 1997, 1996, 1995, 1994, 1993, 1992, 1991, 1990, 1989, 1988, 1987, 1986, 1985, 1984, 1983, 1982, 1981, 1980, 1979, 1978, 1977, 1976, 1975, 1974, 1973, 1972, 1971, 1970, 1969, 1968, 1967, 1966, 1965, 1964, 1963, 1962, 1961, 1960, 1959, 1958, 1957, 1956, 1955, 1954, 1953, 1952, 1951, 1950, 1940 - 1949, 1930 - 1939, 1920 - 1929 + Superlatives Index

Best of the Decade:
2010s, 2000s, 1990s, 1980s