Winners of the 2006 St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Awards
Best Picture: The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland)
Best Actress: Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Best Supporting Actor: Djimon Hounsou (Blood Diamond)
Best Supporting Actress: Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
Best Director: Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
Best Screenplay: The Queen
Best Foreign Language Film: Pan’s Labyrinth
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Cinematography: The Painted Veil
Best Comedy or Musical: Little Miss Sunshine
Best Animated or Children’s Film: Cars
Best Visual/Special Effects: Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Best Overlooked Film: Running With Scissors
Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film: United 93
To be eligible, films had to be shown in St. Louis, by 1) opening at theaters in St. Louis, 2) having a press
screening for area critics, or 3) being shown at the St. Louis International Film Festival. The deadline for screening
films for critics was December 21, 2006.
Nominees in the award categories were announced December 22, 2006. Additional, late opening films were
nominated from the floor during the vote. Nominated films were:
Best Picture: Blood Diamond, The Departed, Flags of Fathers, Good Shepherd, The Queen, United 93.
Nominated from the floor: The Last King of Scotland, Dreamgirls, Notes on a Scandal.
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland), Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond), Matt Damon
(Good Shepherd), Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness), Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson), Aaron Eckhart (Thank You
For Smoking). Nominated from the floor: Edward Norton (The Painted Veil), Leonardo DiCaprio (The Departed).
Best Actress: Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal), Helen Mirren (The Queen), Kate Winslet (Little Children),
Annette Benning (Running with Scissors), Juliette Binoche (Breaking and Entering).
Best Supporting Actor: Adam Beach (Flags of Our Fathers), Ben Affleck (Hollywoodland), Djimon Hounsou
(Blood Diamond), Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls), Jack Nicholson (The Departed), Steve Carell (Little Miss Sunshine).
Nominated from the floor: Chalo Gonzales (Quinceanera).
Best Supporting Actress: Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine), Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls), Meryl Streep
(Devil Wears Prada), Rinko Kikuchi (Babel), Jill Clayburgh (Running with Scissors).
Nominated from the floor: Shareeka Epps (Half Nelson), Lili Taylor (Factotum), Cate Blanchett (Notes On A
Scandal).
Best Director: Clint Eastwood (Flags of Our Fathers), Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond), Martin Scorsese (The
Departed), Paul Greengrass (United 93), Robert DeNiro (Good Shepherd), Stephen Frears (The Queen).
Nominated from the floor: Clint Eastwood (Letters From Iwo Jima), Bill Condon (Dreamgirls).
Best Screenplay: Bobby, Little Children, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank You for Smoking, The Departed, The Queen.
Nominated from the floor: Notes On A Scandal.
Best Foreign Language Film: Apocalypto, Lives Of Others, Pan’s Labyrinth, Volver, Fateless, Three Times.
Best Documentary: An Inconvenient Truth, Why We Fight, Iraq For Sale, The Heart of the Game, Shut Up And
Sing.
Nominated from the floor: Deliver Us From Evil.
Best Cinematography: The Painted Veil, Blood Diamond, Flags of Our Fathers, The Departed, Babel,
Hollywoodland.
Nominated from the floor: Letter From Iwo Jima.
Best Comedy or Musical: Little Miss Sunshine, Keeping Mum, Dreamgirls, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America
for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, Thank You for Smoking, Jackass: Number Two.
Nominated from the floor: Prairie Home Companion.
Best Animated or Children’s Film: Happy Feet, Over the Hedge, Cars, Monster House, Charlotte’s Web.
Best Special Effects: The Fountain, Pan's Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, V For Vendetta,
Superman Returns, District B-13.
Best Overlooked Film: Brick, Running With Scissors, Brothers of the Head, Mountain Patrol: Kekexili, Keeping
Up With the Steins.
Nominated from the floor: Deliver Us From Evil, Lonesome Jim.
Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film: The Science Of Sleep, Little Miss Sunshine, Brick, United 93.
Nominated from the floor: Little Children, Zen Noir, Pan’s Labyrinth.
