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The Chicago's film critics gave a trio of year’s best prizes to The Departed picking up Best Feature, director and adapted screenplay. The usual suspects won for acting awards and Emmanuel Lubezki looks like a sure pick for best cinematography at the Oscars this year for Children of Men. Futuristic film The Fountain won for best original score. Finally Rian Johnson was named most promising filmmaker for Brick.

Promoting themselves as a barometer for Oscar predictions – this pretty much group all the favorites and safe picks. Leading the pack are “Babel," "The Departed," "Dreamgirls" and "Little Miss Sunshine" each with seven nominations each. Now its in 12th year, the Critics Choice Award is voted on by film critics from almost 200 television, radio and online critics. The 12th annual Critics’ Choice Awards ceremony will be held on Friday, January 12, 2007, at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium.

Here is the top 20 with a recap from picks 20 to 11. Enjoy!

I had my reservations about it specially since I wasn't a big fan of "Hedwig" but to watch it with more than 2000 thousand people at the most prestigious festival was quite a treat. The sex at first was shocking and draw giggles from the audience but after the film’s final credits rolled up one notices that it wasn’t the vulnerability of naked bodies but the honesty of the character that makes one care. It got a standing ovation from audience. It's a daring peace of work of art. I'm wondering what John Cameron Mitchell is up to next. The "actors" are quite good and go on having careers with the worst behind them.

Following up on a Screen Daily piece written moments after the Berlin film festival, we’ve decided to go with that list and make a...