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xiayun
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 LAFCA! 2006 Los Angeles Critics Association winners:
Picture: "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Runner-up: "The Queen"
Director: Paul Greengrass, "United 93"
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Actor: Sacha Baron Cohen, "Borat" and Forest Whitaker, "The Last King of Scotland" (tie) (no runner-up)
Actress: Helen Mirren, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Penelope Cruz, "Volver"
Supporting actor: Michael Sheen, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Sergi Lopez, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Supporting actress: Luminita Gheorghiu, "The Death of Mr. Lazarescu"
Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"
Screenplay: Peter Morgan, "The Queen"
Runner-up: Michael Arndt, "Little Miss Sunshine"
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Runner-up: Tom Stern, "Flags of Our Fathers" and "Letters From Iwo Jima"
Production design: Eugenio Caballero, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Runner-up: Jim Clay and Geoffrey Kirkland, "Children of Men"
Music: Alexandre Desplat, "The Queen" and "The Painted Veil"
Runner-up: Thomas Newman, "The Good German" and "Little Children"
Foreign-language film: "The Lives of Others"
Runner-up: "Volver"
Documentary/non-fiction film: "An Inconvenient Truth"
Runner-up: "Darwin's Nightmare"
Animation: "Happy Feet"
Runner-up: "Cars"
Douglas Edwards experimental/independent film/video award: "Old Joy" (Kelly Reichardt) and "In Between Days" (So Yong Kim)
New generation award: Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris (directors) and Michael Arndt (screenwriter), "Little Miss Sunshine"
Career achievement award (previously announced): Robert Mulligan
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Johnny Dollar
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Clint!
Big score for Michael Sheen, I think. He needed a win.
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Levy
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Go Germany! 
ANother no show for Departed, while United 93 gets a lot of help from today's awards.
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Libs
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Sacha Baron Cohen!
Jennifer Hudson is everywhere and everywhere
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MikeQ.
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I knew it! United 93 is picking up steam with the critics awards; it was one of the best reviewed films of the year.
My favourite wins:
Director: Paul Greengrass, "United 93"
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Peace,
Mike.
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android
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Sacha!
Mirren, Sheen, Whitaker and Hudson are everywhere... I want some variety 
Oh, and congrats to Letters - another lock for a BP nom. Looks like the 5th nominee will be between Babel and Little Miss Sunshine...
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the limey
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Yay for Clint! NBR, AFI & LAFCA - hat trick!
Good to see Lives of Others win the Best Foreign Language pic - I'm really looking forward to seeing that - & glad to see Michael Sheen get recognised because his performance has seemed to me to be slightly overlooked in the rush to praise Mirren.
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Jonathan
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I expected a win for CoM in Cinematography. It looks like the kind of work that everyone appreciates but the Academy.
And Sacha, whoo!
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dolcevita
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Re: LAFCA! xiayun wrote:
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Good stuff. Lubezki is so overdue an Oscar win. Maybe this will finally be his year?
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Joker's Thug #3
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Looks like Letters is the real deal, getting close to being a 3-way race for best picture ( Dreamgirls, Departed, and Letters ). Ofcourse Queen is almost a lock for a best picture nod, but it's basically a Capote or Good Night when it comes to it's chances at winning.
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zennier
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Re: LAFCA! dolcevita wrote: xiayun wrote:
Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Good stuff. Lubezki is so overdue an Oscar win. Maybe this will finally be his year? I was just about to say...
After the upset with New World (it was his), he really deserves a win this year. This just assuming Children of Men is beautiful. It will be. He always delivers the best cinematography.
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Gulli
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Nice to see Gore's Doc getting an award.
Children of Men for cinematography was a complete no brainer, its miles ahead of the rest in that area.
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Tyler
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Yeah, the cinematography and editing in Children Of Men are pretty phenomenal. I just hope it can sneak into other areas, which is getting increasingly difficult.
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Alex Y.
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Is Letters From Iwo Jima officially the strongest contender right now after today?
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Dkmuto
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Cool to see an unexpected emergence in Letters (which I'm totally pumped for now, btw).
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Gulli
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This whole saga with Letters could spark a new hollywood craze of directing 2 oscar bait movies per year just in case one doesn't cut the mustard.
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MovieDude
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I'm sure Letters from Iwa Jima is a great film and I can't wait to see it, but I really, really want Scorsese to get his due. I could see people rallying for him much more if the main competition was Clint rather then Dreamgirls, as Clint has won against him before.
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Dr. Lecter
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Looks like the main BP nominee contenders are really down to Iwo Jima, The Departed, LMS, U93, Dreamgirls and The Queen. I am very sure that five of them will make it. One won't...the question is which one? I am thinking Little Miss Sunshine as of now.
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Raffiki
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Dr. Lecter wrote: Looks like the main BP nominee contenders are really down to Iwo Jima, The Departed, LMS, U93, Dreamgirls and The Queen. I am very sure that five of them will make it. One won't...the question is which one? I am thinking Little Miss Sunshine as of now. Babel has an equal, if not better, shot at a nom as United 93.
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Dr. Lecter
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Raffiki wrote: Dr. Lecter wrote: Looks like the main BP nominee contenders are really down to Iwo Jima, The Departed, LMS, U93, Dreamgirls and The Queen. I am very sure that five of them will make it. One won't...the question is which one? I am thinking Little Miss Sunshine as of now. Babel has an equal, if not better, shot at a nom as United 93. Nope, it doesn't  _________________The greatest thing on earth is to love and to be loved in return!
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