I figured this deserved it's own thread, since it's really cool to look at things like this, and I'm sure it will generate some good discussion. Here are the BFCA tallies:

BEST PICTURE - Winner, The Departed - 49 votes
Runners up: United 93 - 19 votes / Letters From Iwo Jima - 18 votes / Dreamgirls - 16 votes / The Queen - 13 votes / Little Miss Sunshine - 9 votes / Babel - 7 votes / Little Children - 5 votes / Blood Diamond - 4 votes / Notes on a Scandal - 4 votes

BEST ACTOR - Winner, Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland - 68 votes
Runners up: Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed - 22 votes / Peter O'Toole - Venus - 21 votes / Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond - 19 votes / Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson - 7 votes / Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness - 7 votes

BEST ACTRESS - Winner, Helen Mirren - The Queen - 102 votes
Runners up: Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal - 21 votes / Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada - 10 votes / Kate Winslet - Little Children - 9 votes / Penelope Cruz - Volver - 2 votes

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR - Winner, Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls - 35 votes
Runners up: Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond - 32 votes / Jack Nicholson - The Departed - 25 votes / Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine - 21 votes / Adam Beach - Flags Of Our Fathers - 17 votes / Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland - 14 votes

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS - Winner, Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls - 74 votes
Runners up: Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal - 34 votes / Adriana Barraza - Babel - 11 votes / Rinko Kikuchi - Babel - 11 votes / Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration - 7 votes / Emma Thompson - Stranger Than Fiction - 6 votes

BEST ACTING ENSEMBLE - Winner, Little Miss Sunshine - 56 votes
Runners up: The Departed - 43 votes / A Prairie Home Companion - 18 votes / Babel - 11 votes / Dreamgirls - 9 votes / Bobby - 7 votes

BEST DIRECTOR - Winner, Martin Scorsese - The Departed - 69 votes
Runners up: Paul Greengrass - United 93 - 28 votes / Clint Eastwood - Letters From Iwo Jima - 22 votes / Bill Condon - Dreamgirls - 15 votes / Stephen Frears - The Queen - 10 votes

BEST WRITER - Winner, Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine - 41 votes
Runners up: Peter Morgan - The Queen - 33 votes / William Monahan - The Departed - 29 votes / Todd Field, Tom Perrotta - Little Children - 17 votes / Zach Helm - Stranger Than Fiction - 15 votes / Guillermo Arriaga - Babel - 8 votes

BEST ANIMATED FEATURE - Winner, Cars - 57 votes
Runners up: Happy Feet - 51 votes / Monster House - 18 votes / Flushed Away - 9 votes / Over The Hedge - 6 votes

BEST YOUNG ACTOR - Winner, Paul Dano - Little Miss Sunshine - 52 votes
Runners up: Jaden Christopher Syre Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness - 46 votes / Joseph Cross - Running With Scissors - 15 votes / Freddie Highmore - A Good Year - 13 votes / Cameron Bright - Thank You For Smoking - 12 votes

BEST YOUNG ACTRESS - Winner, Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine - 86 votes
Runners up: Ivana Baquero - Pan's Labyrinth - 20 votes / Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson - 13 votes / Keke Palmer - Akeelah and the Bee - 12 votes / Dakota Fanning - Charlotte's Web - 11 votes

BEST COMEDY MOVIE - Winner, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan - 58 votes
Runners up: Little Miss Sunshine - 49 votes / Thank You For Smoking - 18 votes / The Devil Wears Prada - 9 votes / For Your Consideration - 9 votes

BEST FAMILY FILM (LIVE ACTION) - Winner, Charlotte's Web - 52 votes
Runners up: Akeelah and the Bee - 37 votes / Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest - 35 votes / Lassie - 11 votes / Flicka - 6 votes

BEST PICTURE MADE FOR TELEVISION - Winner, Elizabeth I - 53 votes
Runners up: When the Levees Broke - 45 votes / The Ron Clark Story - 9 votes / Nightmares and Dreamscapes - 5 votes / The Librarian - 4 votes

BEST DOCUMENTARY FEATURE - Winner, An Inconvenient Truth - 80 votes
Runners up: Shut Up and Sing - 29 votes / Wordplay - 15 votes / This Film Is Not Yet Rated - 9 votes / Who Killed the Electric Car - 6 votes

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM - Winner, Letters From Iwo Jima - 62 votes
Runners up: Pan's Labyrinth - 35 votes / Volver - 23 votes / Apocalypto - 16 votes / Water - 5 votes / Days of Glory - 1 votes

BEST SONG - Winner, "Beyonce", Listen - Dreamgirls - 50 votes
Runners up: "Dixie Chicks", The Neighbor - Shut Up and Sing - 22 votes / "I Need To Wake Up", Melissa Etheridge - An Inconvenient Truth - 17 votes / "My Little Girl", Tim McGraw - Flicka - 15 votes / "Never Gonna Break My Faith", Aretha Franklin, Mary J. Blige - Bobby - 15 votes / "Ordinary Miracle", Sarah McLachlan - Charlotte's Web - 14 votes

BEST SOUNDTRACK - Winner, Dreamgirls - 80 votes
Runners up: Happy Feet - 23 votes / Babel - 16 votes / Marie Antoinette - 11 votes / Cars - 10 votes

BEST COMPOSER - Winner, Phillip Glass - The Illusionist - 47 votes
Runners up: Howard Shore - The Departed - 27 votes / Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel - 26 votes / Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code - 17 votes / Thomas Newman - The Good German - 13 votes / Clint Mansell - The Fountain

The thing that strikes me most is how Babel wasn't close to winning any category. It was 7th in voting in the Best Picture category.

Peace,
Mike.

Thanks, Mike!

My feeling:
Best Picture - surprised to see The Departed won by that big a margin. Look like there is no strong camp/passion behind any of the others, especially LMS and Babel, but this is the critics group, so I guess it's understandable.

Best Actor - Whitaker won big, and Dicaprio did split himself.

Best Actress - Expected, but still WOW.

Best Supporting Actor - can't believe Hounsou came in second and this close to winning. That would have been something.

Best Supporting Actress - I expect Blanchett to maintain her runner-up status, as people can't decide which Babel girl is more deserving.

Best Director - maybe a good omen that Greengrass beats out Eastwood? Could the same thing happen for the final director spot at Oscar?

Best Writer - Expected close race between the top 3, but surprised that Babel couldn't even get more votes than Stranger Than Fiction.

Best Documentary Feature - yeah, An Inconvenient Truth has it in the bag all the way.

Best Foreign Language Film - Pan's Labyrinth is looking strong.

Thanks Mike.

Just on Babel - the only one I think it should have a shot at is Rinko for Best Supporting Actress. I have no idea how Adriana Barazza's performance is considered even in the same league.

Pretty good for Leo considering the split vote.

If he was put in supporting for Departed and Jack as a no-chance for win lead, Dicaprio would probably be the easy frontrunner right now for the award. Despite angrying us, going with that probably would've been a smarter decision... it would give Departed a landslide acting award.

That train of thought made Jamie Foxx get the still contested Best Supporting Actor nomination for Collateral... And probably was a sizable factor in him winning Best Actor.

Here are the data from past years:

http://www.bfca.org/cca_vote_data.asp?year=2005
http://www.bfca.org/cca_vote_data.asp?year=2004
http://www.bfca.org/cca_vote_data.asp?year=2003
http://www.bfca.org/cca_vote_data.asp?year=2002
http://www.bfca.org/cca_vote_data.asp?year=2001
http://www.bfca.org/cca_vote_2000.asp

From Oscarwatch:

The post that was up today was taken down because the Critics Choice (Broadcast Film Critics) have decided against publicly releasing their vote counts. They don't feel it's the right thing to do and could cause more harm than good. You can probably still find them if you're industrious enough but that was our decision. And as Shirley MacLaine says in Terms of Endearment, "We'll just leave it at that."

And yet the BFCA released this year's tallies, and have all previous years tallies up on their site. I don't get it.

I guess we won't be seeing vote tallies anymore from the BFCA, apparently...

Peace,
Mike.

This past couple of years, they didn't officially advertise the link from other parts of the website but still added the new page. Hope they're still going to do the same in the future.