Critics Awards 2006

Film Critics in a variety of countries voted, via their associations and societies, for the best films of the last year released in the cinemas of their territories. Here are first results.

Canada

The members of "AQCC - Association québécoise des critiques de cinéma" voted Babel by Alejandro Gonzáles Inárritu best international film of 2006.

Hungary

Prizes of the Hungarian Film Critics / 2006
Best Picture (László B. Nagy Prize): White Palms (dir. Szabolcs Hajdu)
Best Director: György Pálfi for Taxidermia
Special Prize: Peter Halász for Herminafield Apparitions
Best First Film: Fresh Air (dir. Ágnes Kocsis)
Prize for Visual Expression: István Szaladják for the cinematographic and directing achievement in short and full-length feature films.
Best  Experimental Film: A Guest for Life (dir. Tibor Szemző)
Best Short Film: Tripe and Onions (dir: Márton Szirmai)
Best Documentary: Threadbare (dir. János Litauszky)
Best Supporting Actress: Adél Stanczel in Taxidermia
Best Supporting Actor: Georghe Dinica in White Palms
Best Actress: Júlia Nyakó in Fresh Air
Best Actor: (ex aequo) Csaba Czene, Gergely Trócsányi, Marc Bischoff in Taxidermia
Lifetime Achievement Award: János Herskó, director    

Poland

The Polish section of FIPRESCI presented its annual "Golden Reel" for the best feature films released in Polish cinemas last year. Best international film: The Wind that Shakes the Barley by Ken Loach. Honorary mention: Babel by Alejandro González Inárritu. Best Polish film: Saviour's Square (Plac Zbawiciela) by Krzysztof and Joanna Krauze.

USA

The National Society of Film Critics, made up of 58 of the country's leading film critics, voted — in a meeting beginning of January in New York — as follows:
Best Picture: Pan’s Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
Best Director: Paul Greengrass (United 93)
Best Nonfiction Film: An Inconvenient Truth
Best Actor: Forest Whitaker (The Last King of Scotland)
Best Supporting Actor: Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)
Best Actress: Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Best Supporting Actress: Meryl Streep (The Devil Wears Prada and A Prairie Home Companion)
Best Screenplay: The Queen (Peter Morgan)
Best Cinematography: Children of Men (Emmanuel Lubezki)
Best Experimental Film: David Lynch's labyrinthine Inland Empire, a magnificent and maddening experiment with digital video possibilities.
Film Heritage Award: Jean-Pierre Melville's Army of Shadows (1969), lovingly restored and released by Rialto Pictures for the first time in the United States. And: The "Museum of the Moving Image" for presenting the first complete U.S. retrospective of French filmmaker Jacques Rivette, including the premiere American showing of the director’s legendary Out 1.
The results of the meeting were dedicated to the memory of Robert Altman.

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