Retro IONCINEMA.com

Dallas critics opt for ‘United 93’

The Dallas film critics spread their best of 06′ picks this year – Scorsese walks off with Best Director, but Paul Greengrass’ United 93 is tops with Best Picture.

Eric Lavallée

Published on December 18, 2006

The Dallas film critics spread their best of 06′ picks this year – Scorsese walks off with Best Director, but Paul Greengrass’ United 93 is tops with Best Picture.

Here are the selected winners from the Dallas-Fort Worth Film Critics Assn.

Best Film: United 93
Top 10 include:
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
Babel
Letters From Iwo Jima
Dreamgirls
Blood Diamond
Little Children
Flags of Our Fathers

Best Director: Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress: Helen Mirren – The Queen
Best Supporting Actor: Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children
Best Supporting Actress: Cate Blanchett – Notes on a Scandal
Best Foreign Language film: Letters From Iwo Jima
Best Documentary Film: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Animated film: Happy Feet
Best Screenplay: Michael Arndt – Little Miss Sunshine
Best Cinematography: Dean Semler – Apocalypto

Related Topics:

Eric Lavallée

Eric Lavallée is the founder, CEO, editor-in-chief, film journalist and critic at IONCINEMA.com (founded in 2000). Eric is a regular at Sundance, Cannes and TIFF. He has a BFA in Film Studies at the Mel Hoppenheim School of Cinema. In 2013 he served as a Narrative Competition Jury Member at the SXSW Film Festival. He was an associate producer on Mark Jackson's This Teacher (2018 LA Film Festival, 2018 BFI London). In 2022 he served as a New Flesh Comp for Best First Feature at the 2022 Fantasia Intl. Film Festival. Current top films for 2022 include Tár (Todd Field), All That Breathes (Shaunak Sen), Aftersun (Charlotte Wells).