Film Awards 2006 - THE WINNERS AND LOSERS

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BEST FILM

NOMINEES:
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Pan's Labyrinth
The Prestige

WINNER:
LITTLE MISS SUNSHINE (with 40% of the vote

OPINION:
Excellent choice and my own choice for best film of last year. Yay everyone who counts wins \o/

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BEST DIRECTOR

NOMINEES:
Alfonso Cuarón for 'Children of Men'
Christopher Nolan for 'The Prestige'
Guillermo del Toro for 'Pan's Labyrinth'

WINNER:
Alfonso Cuarón for 'Children of Men' (with 45.83% of the vote)

OPINION:
Excellent! My choice too. Shockingly well directed movie that dragged me into its world more than any other piece in 2006.

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BEST SCREENPLAY

NOMINEES:
Brick
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
The Squid and the Whale

WINNER:
Little Miss Sunshine (with 40% of the vote)

OPINION:
3-in-a-row agreeing with me! Funny, witty, charming, emotional. A no contest for me.

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BEST SCORE/SOUNDTRACK

NOMINEES:
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Walk the Line

WINNER:
Walk the Line (with 36.84% of the vote)

OPINION:
Not my own choice, but my 2nd choice. Catchy tunes, sung well. Good enough result.

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BEST DOCUMENTARY

NOMINEES:
Grizzly Man
An Inconvenient Truth

WINNER:
An Inconvenient Truth (with 62.5% of the vote)

OPINION:
Didn't get to see 'Grizzly Man' but did enjoy 'An Inconvenient Truth' so good enough for me...

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BEST ACTRESS/SUPPORTING ACTRESS

NOMINEES:
Abigail Breslin as Olive in 'Little Miss Sunshine'
Ellen Page as Hayley Stark in 'Hard Candy'
Natalie Portman as Evey in 'V for Vendetta'

WINNER:
Abigail Breslin with 50% of the vote.

OPINION:
Yay for Abigail. Great little talent that was a joy on screen and hopefully will rise to knoch the over-rated Dakota Fanning as the child actress to watch.

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BEST NEWCOMER

NOMINEES:
Abigail Breslin as Olive in 'Little Miss Sunshine'
Ivana Baquero as Ofelia in 'Pan's Labyrinth'/'El Laberinto del Fauno'

WINNER:
Ivana Baquero as Ofelia in 'Pan's Labyrinth'/'El Laberinto del Fauno' (with 60% of the vote)

OPINION:
Surprising winner given Abigail was voted Best Actress... Not my own choice here but she was in good competition with Ivana also being excellent.

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BEST ACTOR/SUPPORTING ACTOR

NOMINEES:
Christian Bale as Alfred Borden in 'The Prestige' and as Jim Luther Davis in 'Harsh Times'
Steve Carrell as Frank in 'Little Miss Sunshine'
Cillian Murphy as Damien in 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley'
Clive Owen as Theo Faron in 'Children of Men'

WINNER:
Christian Bale as Alfred Borden in 'The Prestige' and as Jim Luther Davis in 'Harsh Times' (with 40.74% of the vote)

OPINION:
My own choice too, with my vote going for his "Harsh Times" role more than "The Prestige". One of the best currently performing onscreen.

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BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FEATURE

NOMINEES:
Apocalypto
A Bittersweet Life/Dalkomhan insaeng
Pan's Labyrinth/Laberinto del Fauno, El
Sympathy for Lady Vengance/Chinjeolhan geumjassi

WINNER:
'Pan's Labyrinth' with a whopping 77.27% of the vote.

OPINION:
Was never going to be anything else and nor did it deserve to be.

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WORST FILM

NOMINEES:
Date Movie
The DaVinci Code
The Holiday
Hostel
Superman Returns

WINNER:
'The DaVinci Code' with 40.29% of the vote

OPINION:
None really as I only saw two of these and didn't think they were that bad...

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BEST CHARACTER

NOMINEES:
Borat from 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan'
Dignam from 'The Departed'
The Pale Man from 'Pan's Labyrinth'
Pan/The Fawn from 'Pan's Labyrinth'

WINNER:
Borat from 'Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan' with 44% of the vote

OPINION:
Kept constantly in character, and done well he's not my choice (that'd be Dignam). Still pretty well done and fair dues to Cohen.

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BEST SCENE

NOMINEES:
The parkour scene from 'Casino Royale'
The wood assault in 'Children of Men'
The Bexhill segment in 'Children of Men'
The execution scene in 'The Wind that Shakes the Barley'

WINNER:
The wood assault in 'Children of Men' (with 38.46% of the vote)

OPINION:
My choice wins again! The only scene in 2006 to terrify me because it was done so horribly well and completely out of the blue. Every time I hear the "beep beep" sound emitted by car warning systems, I recall this scene. True.

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FILM THAT DESERVED BETTER

NOMINEES:
Brick
Crank
Slither
The Squid and the Whale

WINNER:
'Slither' with 36.36% of the vote

OPINION:
You agree with me again! Sure, there's a bit of the Cult of Fillion about this vote but so what? It's funny and got some great action scenes and one of the few movies I've seen that was too damn short.

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BEST SFX

NOMINEES:
Children of Men
Pan's Labyrinth
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

WINNER:
'Pan's Labyrinth' with 37.5% of the vote.

OPINION:
Closest of all the polls. I voted 'Children of Men' personally for the authenticity of the world but 'Pan's Labyrinth''s magical creations are a perfectly good substitute.

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MOST OVER-RATED MOVIE

NOMINEES:
Borat
Brick
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
Superman Returns

WINNER:
'Superman Returns' with 36% of the vote.

OPINION:
Bah. You screwed up - I liked 'Superman Returns'! And 'Brick' was the most over-rated pretentious movie of last year. Oh well you had to mess up at some point...

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BEST ANIMATED FEATURE

NOMINESS:
Cars
Happy Feet
Monster House
Over the Hedge

WINNER:
'Monster House' with 52.94% of the vote

OPINION:
The movie that Tim Burton coulda made instead of the mildly disappointing "Corpse Bride". Good choice in winner here!