Awards for 2006

Best Film

WINNER

Half Nelson: Ryan Fleck
NOMINEES

The Departed: Martin Scorsese

Little Children: Todd Field

Marie Antoinette: Sofia Coppola

Old Joy: Kelly Reichardt

Best Documentary

WINNER

Iraq in Fragments: James Longley
NOMINEES

Deliver Us from Evil: Amy Berg

Following Sean: Ralph Arlyck

An Inconvenient Truth: Davis Guggenheim

Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple: Stanley Nelson

Breakthrough Award

WINNERS

Babel: Rinko Kikuchi
Tied with Shareeka Epps for Half Nelson.

Half Nelson: Shareeka Epps
Tied with Rinko Kikuchi for Babel.
NOMINEES

A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints: Channing Tatum

Little Miss Sunshine: Abigail Breslin

Sleeping Dogs Lie: Melinda Page Hamilton

Breakthrough Director Award

WINNER

Half Nelson: Ryan Fleck
NOMINEES

In Between Days: So Yong Kim

The King: James Marsh

Man Push Cart: Ramin Bahrani

Sherrybaby: Laurie Collyer

Best Ensemble Cast

WINNER

Babel: Brad Pitt, Cate Blanchett, Gael García Bernal, Kôji Yakusho, Adriana Barraza, Rinko Kikuchi, Said Tarchani, Boubker Ait El Caid
NOMINEES

For Your Consideration: Bob Balaban, Jennifer Coolidge, Christopher Guest, John Michael Higgins, Eugene Levy, Jane Lynch, Michael McKean, Catherine O'Hara, Parker Posey, Harry Shearer, Fred Willard

Little Miss Sunshine: Greg Kinnear, Toni Collette, Steve Carell, Paul Dano, Abigail Breslin, Alan Arkin

A Prairie Home Companion: Woody Harrelson, Tommy Lee Jones, Garrison Keillor, Kevin Kline, Lindsay Lohan, Virginia Madsen, John C. Reilly, Maya Rudolph, Meryl Streep, Lily Tomlin, L.Q. Jones, Sue Scott, Tim Russell

Shortbus: Sook-Yin Lee, Paul Dawson, Lindsay Beamish, PJ DeBoy, Raphael Barker, Peter Stickles, Jay Brannan, Justin Bond

Best Film Not Playing at a Theater Near You

WINNER

Choking Man: Steve Barron
NOMINEES

Colma: The Musical: Richard Wong

The Great Happiness Space: Tale of an Osaka Love Thief: Jake Clennell

In Between Days: So Yong Kim

Wristcutters: A Love Story: Goran Dukic