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The
King and The Queen Rule
Washington, DC
DC Film Critics
Name Forest Whitaker Best Actor,
Helen Mirren
Best Actress
United 93 Takes Best Film As
Scorsese
Snares Best Director In
5th Annual WAFCA
Awards Selections
(Washington,
DC) - The Washington, DC Area Film Critics Association (WAFCA) today selected a
movie honoring the memories of the brave heroes of September 11, the
poignant United 93, as Best Film
of the Year in a victory that could spur the movie's burgeoning Oscar
hopes. Director
Martin Scorsese
was voted by the group as Best Director for his smash hit movie The Departed, while Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland) was named Best
Actor, and Helen Mirren
(The Queen) continued her march to
the Oscars
as she was named Best Actress as both actors brought characters to
real, and even sympathetic, life.
"What
a wonderful way to celebrate our fifth anniversary by honoring this
fine collection of talented films and groundbreaking
performances. This year gave us true cinematic royalty with a
Queen, a King and a Dreamgirl," said WAFCA
President Tim Gordon.
As
a sign of the strength of her performance and show stopping ability
that brought ovations during screenings in DC, Jennifer Hudson (Dreamgirls)
was a two time winner awarded Best Supporting Actress and Breakthrough
Performance of the Year. In
other categories, Djimon
Hounsou
(Blood Diamond) was named Best
Supporting Actor, Happy Feet danced
away with Best Animated Feature and Pan's
Labyrinth Best Foreign Language Film.
Additionally, WAFCA honored two first time
feature length screenwriters as Jason Reitman
walked away with Best Adapted Screenplay for the DC-based Thank You For Smoking and Michael Arndt won Best Original
Screenplay for the summer's surprise indie
hit Little Miss Sunshine.
The Washington, DC
Area Film Critics Association is comprised of 36 DC-based film critics
from television, radio, print and the internet.
Voting was conducted from December 9-10, 2006.
Final
Results
2006 Washington, DC Area Film Critics Association Awards
Best Film
United 93/Universal
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,
Original
Michael Arndt - Little
Miss Sunshine
Best Screenplay,
Adapted
Jason
Reitman -
Thank You For Smoking
Best Foreign Film
Pan's Labyrinth/Picturehouse
Best Animated
Feature
Happy Feet/Warner Brothers
Best Documentary
An Inconvenient
Truth/Paramount Classics
Best Breakthrough
Performance
Jennifer
Hudson - Dreamgirls
Best Ensemble
Little Miss
Sunshine/Fox Searchlight
Best Art Direction
Marie Antoinette/SONY Pictures Entertainment
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