page_title: 2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards
section_title: Winners
hierarchical_section_title: 2006 Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards / Winners
caption_attribution_description: English: Sacha Baron Cohen at the Hugo Premiere, New York City 2011.
context_page_description: The 32nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards, given by the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, honored the best in film for 2006.
context_section_description: Best Picture:
  Letters from Iwo Jima
  Runner-up: The Queen
  Best Director:
  Paul Greengrass – United 93
  Runner-up: Clint Eastwood – Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
  Best Actor (TIE):
  Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
  Best Actress:
  Helen Mirren – The Queen
  Runner-up: Penélope Cruz – Volver
  Best Supporting Actor:
  Michael Sheen – The Queen
  Runner-up: Sergi López – Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
  Best Supporting Actress:
  Luminița Gheorghiu – The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu)
  Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
  Best Screenplay:
  Peter Morgan – The Queen
  Runner-up: Michael Arndt – Little Miss Sunshine
  Best Cinematography:
  Emmanuel Lubezki – Children of Men
  Runner-up: Tom Stern – Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
  Best Production Design:
  Eugenio Caballero – Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
  Runner-up: Jim Clay, Veronica Falzon, and Geoffrey Kirkland – Children of Men
  Best Music Score:
  Alexandre Desplat – The Painted Veil and The Queen
  Runner-up: Thomas Newman – The Good German and Little Children
  Best Foreign-Language Film:
  The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) • Germany
  Runner-up: Volver • Spain
  Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
  An Inconvenient Truth
  Runner-up: Darwin's Nightmare
  Best Animation:
  Happy Feet
  Runner-up: Cars
  The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
  So Yong Kim – In Between Days
  Kelly Reichardt – Old Joy
  New Generation Award:
  Michael Arndt (screenwriter), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (co-directors) – Little Miss Sunshine
  Career Achievement Award:
  Robert Mulligan
  Special Citation:
  Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film Army of Shadows upon the occasion of its long-overdue U.S. release.
  Jonas Mekas for his contributions to American film culture as a filmmaker, critic and co-founder of Anthology Film Archives.
caption: Sacha Baron Cohen, Best Actor co-winner
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