# 2006 St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards

3rd SLGFCA Awards
January 7, 2007
Best Film:
The Departed
Best Directors:
Martin Scorsese The Departed
The 3rd St. Louis Gateway Film Critics Association Awards, retroactively known as the St. Louis Film Critics Association Awards, were given on January 7, 2007.

## Top Films of 2006

(in alphabetical order)
* Blood Diamond
* The Departed
* Dreamgirls
* Flags of Our Fathers
* The Good Shepherd
* The Last King of Scotland
* Notes on a Scandal
* The Queen
* United 93

## Winners & Nominees

Source:

### Best Actor

Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
* Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond
* Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
* Matt Damon - The Good Shepherd
* Aaron Eckhart - Thank You for Smoking
* Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
* Edward Norton - The Painted Veil
* Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

### Best Actress

Helen Mirren - The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II
* Annette Bening - Running with Scissors
* Juliette Binoche - Breaking and Entering
* Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
* Kate Winslet - Little Children

### Best Animated or Children's Film

Cars
* Charlotte's Web
* Happy Feet
* Monster House
* Over the Hedge

### Best Cinematography

The Painted Veil
* Babel
* Blood Diamond
* The Departed
* Flags of Our Fathers
* Hollywoodland
* Letters from Iwo Jima

### Best Director

Martin Scorsese - The Departed
* Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
* Robert De Niro - The Good Shepherd
* Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers
* Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
* Stephen Frears - The Queen
* Paul Greengrass - United 93
* Edward Zwick - Blood Diamond

### Best Documentary

An Inconvenient Truth
* Deliver Us from Evil
* The Heart of the Game
* Iraq for Sale
* Why We Fight

### Best Foreign Language Film

El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth) • Mexico/Spain/United States
* Apocalypto
* Das Leben der Anderen (The Lives of Others)
* Sorstalanság (Fateless)
* Volver (To Return)
* Zui hao de shi guang (Three Times)

### Best Overlooked Film

Running with Scissors
* Brick
* Brothers of the Head
* Kekexili: Mountain Patrol
* Keeping Up with the Steins
* Deliver Us from Evil
* Lonesome Jim

### Best Picture

The Departed
* Blood Diamond
* Dreamgirls
* Flags of Our Fathers
* The Good Shepherd
* The Last King of Scotland
* Notes on a Scandal
* The Queen
* United 93

### Best Screenplay

The Queen - Peter Morgan
* Bobby - Emilio Estevez
* The Departed - William Monahan
* Little Children - Todd Field
* Little Miss Sunshine - Michael Arndt
* Notes on a Scandal - Patrick Marber
* Thank You for Smoking - Jason Reitman

### Best Supporting Actor

Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond as Solomon Vandy
* Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland
* Adam Beach - Flags of Our Fathers
* Steve Carell - Little Miss Sunshine
* Chalo Gonzales - Quinceañera
* Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
* Jack Nicholson - The Departed

### Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls as Effie White
* Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
* Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
* Jill Clayburgh - Running with Scissors
* Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson
* Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
* Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
* Lili Taylor - Factotum

### Best Visual/Special Effects

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
* The Fountain
* El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)
* V for Vendetta
* Superman Returns
* District B-13

### Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film

United 93
* The Science of Sleep
* Little Miss Sunshine
* Brick
* Little Children
* Zen Noir
* El laberinto del fauno (Pan's Labyrinth)