This was a big weekend for awards, with several major critics’ organizations handing out their annual accolades for 2006 films. The New York Film Critics Online was in the mix honoring their list of movies. They became the first major critic’s organization to award the incredibly bland Princess Diana post-death movie The Queen Best Picture. With the inexplicably positive reaction this turd has gotten on the festival circuit, expect a lot more of this to come as the awards season wears on.
In addition to giving The Queen Best Picture they gave it four other awards, making it their most honored movie of 2006. The NYFCO awarded Actress Helen Mirren, Director Stephen Frears, Supporting Actor Michael Sheen, and Screenplay Peter Morgan.
Other boring winners included Dreamgirls star Jennifer Hudson for Breakthrough Performer and Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland. Notably absent was Clint Eastwood’s Letters from Iwo Jima, which won Best Picture from the National Board of Review and the Los Angeles Film Critics Association.
The NYFCO's full list of 2006 winners is below:
Best Picture - The Queen
Best Actor - Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress - Helen Mirren, The Queen
Best Director - Stephen Frears, The Queen
Best Supporting Actor - Michael Sheen, The Queen
Best Supporting Actress - (tie) Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls / Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration
Best Breakthrough Performer - Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Best Screenplay - Peter Morgan, The Queen
Best Documentary Feature - An Inconvenient Truth
Best Foreign Language Picture - Pan's Labyrinth
Best Animated Feature - Happy Feet
Best Cinematography - Dick Pope, The Illusionist
Best Film Music/Score - Philip Glass, The Illusionist
Humanitarian Award - Deepa Mehta, Water
