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Best Picture
Blood Diamond
The Departed
Flags of Fathers
The Good Shepherd
The Queen
United 93

Best Actor
Forest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland)
Leonardo DiCaprio (Blood Diamond)
Matt Damon (The Good Shepherd)
Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness)
Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson)
Aaron Ekhart (Thank You For Smoking)

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)

Best Supporting Actress
Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine)
Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
Meryl Streep (Devil Wears Prada)
Rinko Kikuchi (Babel)
Jill Clayburgh (Running with Scissors)

Best Director
Clint Eastwood (Flags of our Fathers)
Edward Zwick (Blood Diamond)
Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
Paul Greengrass (United 93)
Robert DeNiro (The Good Shepherd)
Stephen Frears (The Queen)

Best Screenplay
Bobby
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Thank You for Smoking
The Departed
The Queen

Best Foreign Language Film
Apocalypto
Lives Of Others
Pan’s Labyrinth
Volver
Fateless
Three Times (Hou Hsiao-hsien, Taiwan)

Best Documentary
Inconvenient Truth
Why We Fight
Iraq For Sale
The Heart of the Game
Shut Up And Sing

Best Cinematography
Painted Veil
Blood Diamond
Flags of Our Fathers
The Departed
Babel
Hollywoodland

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

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

Most Original, Innovative or Creative Film
The Science Of Sleep
Little Miss Sunshine
Brick
United 93

Feel like they voted in November.

Feel like they have down syndrome.

Blood Diamond FIVE times? The Good Shephard? Flags of our Fathers AND Adam Beach? Running With Scissors? Or, my personal favorite, Keeping Up With The Steins? Really? This group is an all-time easy lay. I can't believe Bobby was relegated to only one nomination.

And I liked it a lot, but Little Miss Sunshine was about as "Original, Innovative or Creative" as the fried chicken they ate in the movie.

Running with Scissors should not be on any list other then the Razzies.

Ouch.

No.

Benning was good and the film gets an honorary award for properly using an Elton John song.


RwS still pisses me off. It was supposed to be perfect.

I'll give you that. Benning was "good", I wouldn't say "great" but she was adequate in the role. She didn't capture the character though in my opinion.

And yes, the Elton John song-scene was great (but totally different from the book).

Yeah, the book (sans ending) was amazing. The movie...not so much.

Here are the WINNERS of the St. Louis 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

Peace,
Mike.

Djimon Hounsou? Goddamnit, these people are not critics. STOP IT. You guys are making Jeffrey Lyons and Joel Siegel and their ilk look good.

This is not the only group to award Djimon Hounsou. Washington critics, Las Vegas critics and the NBR also awarded him with the win (and he received a nomination at the SAGs).

Peace,
Mike.

I know, and I was referring to every group that sees fit to award him. Don't defend them.

It never gets any easier!

The Best Supporting Actor race is still the most interesting one at the moment.

And looks like they REALLY loved Running with Scissors in St. Louis.