12th Critics' Choice Awards

Top 10 Films

(alphabetical)

1. Babel
2. Blood Diamond
3. The Departed (Academy Award for Best Picture)
4. Dreamgirls
5. Letters from Iwo Jima
6. Little Children
7. Little Miss Sunshine
8. Notes on a Scandal
9. The Queen
10. United 93

Best Actor

Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Leonardo DiCaprio - Blood Diamond

Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed

Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson

Peter O'Toole - Venus

Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Actress

Helen Mirren - The Queen

Penélope Cruz - To Return (Volver)

Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal

Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada

Kate Winslet - Little Children

Best Animated Feature

Cars

Ice Age: The Meltdown

Happy Feet

Monster House

Over the Hedge

Best Cast

Little Miss Sunshine

Babel

Bobby

The Departed

Dreamgirls

A Prairie Home Companion

Best Composer

Philip Glass - The Illusionist

Clint Mansell - The Fountain

Thomas Newman - The Good German

Gustavo Santaolalla - Babel

Howard Shore - The Departed

Hans Zimmer - The Da Vinci Code

Best Director

Martin Scorsese - The Departed

Bill Condon - Dreamgirls

Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima

Stephen Frears - The Queen

Paul Greengrass - United 93

Best Documentary Feature

An Inconvenient Truth

Shut Up and Sing

This Film Is Not Yet Rated

Who Killed the Electric Car

Wordplay

Best Family Film

Charlotte's Web

Akeelah and the Bee

High School Musical

Lassie

Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest

Best Film

The Departed

Babel

Blood Diamond

Dreamgirls

Letters from Iwo Jima

Little Children

Little Miss Sunshine

Notes on a Scandal

The Queen

United 93

Best Film - Comedy

Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

The Devil Wears Prada

For Your Consideration

Little Miss Sunshine

Thank You for Smoking

Best Film - Made for TV

Elizabeth I

The Librarian

Nightmares & Dreamscapes

The Ron Clark Story

When the Levees Broke

Best Foreign Language Film

Letters from Iwo Jima, United States

Apocalypto, United States

Days of Glory (Indigènes), Algeria

Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno), Mexico

To Return (Volver), Spain

Water, Canada/India

Best Song

"Listen" performed by Beyoncé - Dreamgirls

"I Need To Wake Up" performed by Melissa Etheridge - An Inconvenient Truth

"My Little Girl" performed by Tim McGraw - Flicka

"The Neighbor" performed by Dixie Chicks - Shut Up and Sing

"Never Gonna Break My Faith" performed by Mary J. Blige and Aretha Franklin - Bobby

"Ordinary Miracle" performed by Sarah McLachlan - Charlotte's Web

Best Soundtrack

"Dreamgirls"

"Babel"

"Cars"

"Happy Feet"

"Marie Antoinette"

Best Supporting Actor

Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls

Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland

Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine

Adam Beach - Flags of Our Fathers

Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond

Jack Nicholson - The Departed

Best Supporting Actress

Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls

Adriana Barraza - Babel

Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal

Rinko Kikuchi - Babel

Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration

Emma Thompson - Stranger Than Fiction

Best Writer

Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine

Guillermo Arriaga - Babel

Todd Field and Tom Perrotta - Little Children

Zach Helm - Stranger Than Fiction

William Monahan - The Departed

Peter Morgan - The Queen

Best Young Actor

Paul Dano - Little Miss Sunshine

Cameron Bright - Thank You for Smoking

Joseph Cross - Running with Scissors

Freddie Highmore - A Good Year

Jaden Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Young Actress

Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine

Ivana Baquero - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)

Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson

Dakota Fanning - Charlotte's Web

Keke Palmer - Akeelah and the Bee