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After half a week’s worth of film critic circles awards, looks like Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker are shoe-ins for some major silverware (including the Oscars), and George Miller’s Happy Feet is looking to be the consensus top animated pic, but where it is getting interesting is in the best feature film category. United 93 was selected as the top pic of the year by the New York Film Critics Circle - an organization of film reviewers from New York-based publications that exists since 1935.

It is not a common occurrence to see a playwright to take over main screenwriting duties, but that isn’t much of a concern for the folks producing the picture for Focus Features. The Hollywood Reporter reports that Roy Lee and Doug Davison's Vertigo Entertainment have hired Jessica Goldberg to pen the remake.

If you were looking forward to some upbeat family films in 2007, independent producer Nick Wechsler is not your man. Instead he's getting behind some serious family drama with And the Word Was and Reservation Road.

The Los Angeles Critics Association picked their winners for 2006, and like the previously announced picks by the National Board of Review, it appears that this year’s clear fav is Letters From Iwo Jima. Also amongst the populist vote was The Queen – it picked up a no brainer best actress win for Helen Mirren, but also gave best supporting actor to Michael Sheen who did a great job at playing Tony Blair and a best screenplay for Peter Morgan – who manages to captivate the audiences’ attention from first act to last fade out. Some other worthy mentions that may not be the consensus with other associations are the nods to the production value for the upcoming Children of Men and a big cred goes to L.A Critics for having the balls to pick Sacha Baron Cohen (a tie with Whitaker) for Best Actor. The critics also had the foresight to vote the powerful and overlooked doc film Darwin's Nightmare for the runner-up prize and my biggest surprise was to see that more than one person manage to see the restrained yet commanding performance from Luminita Gheorghiu in The Death of Mr. Lazarescu. She picks up a Best Supporting actress win for a Romanian film that was released in the U.S by Tartan Films in the early calendar.

Pretty ironic the Boston Society of Film Critics would be such big fans of The Departed (wicked obvious, no?). The film received top honors in the 25th aniversary of the BSFC Awards. Their most recent winners of the past have been Brokeback Mounatin (2005), Sideways (2004), and Mystic River (2003). Formed in an attempt to showcase "Boston's unique critical perspective heard on a national and international level by awarding commendations to the best of the year's films and filmmakers," the BSFC also really liked the indie underdogs United 93 and Half Nelson.