..Gary Dretzka
..Noah Forrest
..Leonard Klady
..David Poland
..Douglas Pratt
..Ray Pride
..Kim Voynar
..Michael Wilmington

Chicago
Film Critics Awards

BEST PICTURE
The Departed

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM
Letters From Iwo Jima

BEST DIRECTOR
Martin Scorsese for The Departed

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Peter Morgan, The Queen

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY
William Monahan, The Departed

BEST ACTOR
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland

BEST ACTRESS
Helen Mirren for The Queen

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Clint Mansell, The Fountain

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Emmanuel Lubezki, Children of Men

BEST DOCUMENTARY
An Inconvenient Truth

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

MOST PROMISING DIRECTOR
Rian Johnson for Brick

Nominations

BEST PICTURE
Babel
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
The Queen
United 93

BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM:
Apocalypto
Letters From Iwo Jima
Pan ’ s Labyrinth
Tsotsi
Volver

BEST DIRECTOR
Clint Eastwood for Letters From Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears for The Queen
Paul Greengrass for United 93
Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel
Martin Scorsese for The Departed

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
Babel — Guillermo Arriaga
Letters From Iwo Jima — Iris Yamashita
Little Miss Sunshine — Michael Arndt
The Queen — Peter Morgan
United 93 — Paul Greengrass

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY:
The Departed — William Monahan
Little Children — Todd Field & Tom Perrotta
Notes On A Scandal — Patrick Marber
A Prairie Home Companion — Garrison Keillor
Thank You For Smoking — Jason Reitman

BEST ACTOR
Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed
Ryan Gosling for Half-Nelson
Peter O ’ Toole for Venus
Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland

BEST ACTRESS
Penelope Cruz for Volver
Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal
Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby
Helen Mirren for The Queen
Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet for Little Children

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland
Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children
Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson for The Departed
Brad Pitt for Babel
Michael Sheen for The Queen

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Adriana Barraza for Babel
Cate Blanchett for Notes On a Scandal
Abigail Breslin for Little Miss Sunshine
Toni Collette for Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE
Babel — Gustavo Santaolalla
The Fountain — Clint Mansell
Letters From Iwo Jima — Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens
Notes On a Scandal — Philip Glass
The Queen — Alexandre Desplat

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
Babel — Rodrigo Prieto
Children of Men — Emmanuel Lubezki
The Departed — Michael Ballhaus
The Fountain — Matthew Libatique
Letters From Iwo Jima — Tom Stern

BEST DOCUMENTARY
Deliver Us From Evil
An Inconvenient Truth
Jesus Camp
Shut Up and Sing
Wordplay

MOST PROMISING PERFORMER
Ivana Baquero for Pan ’ s Labyrinth
Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby
Shareeka Epps for Half-Nelson
Rinko Kikuchi for Babel
Keke Palmer fro Akeelah and the Bee

MOST PROMISING DIRECTOR
Rian Johnson for Brick
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris for Little Miss Sunshine
Gil Kenan for Monster House
Jason Reitman Thank You For Smoking
James McTeigue for V For Vendetta