Noms for the 12th Annual Critics' Choice Awards
 

The Critics' Choice Awards are scheduled to be presented Jan. 12. E! will broadcast the show on Jan. 20.

Best Picture:
Babel
Blood Diamond
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Letters from Iwo Jima
Little Children
Little Miss Sunshine
Notes on a Scandal
The Queen
United 93

Best Actor:
Leonardo DiCaprio, Blood Diamond
Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Ryan Gosling, Half Nelson
Peter O'Toole, Venus
Will Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness
Forest Whitaker, The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress:
Penélope Cruz, Volver
Judi Dench, Notes on a Scandal
Helen Mirren, The Queen
Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet, Little Children

Best Supporting Actor:
Ben Affleck, Hollywoodland
Alan Arkin, Little Miss Sunshine
Adam Beach, Flags of Our Fathers
Djimon Hounsou, Blood Diamond
Eddie Murphy, Dreamgirls
Jack Nicholson, The Departed

Best Supporting Actress:
Adriana Barraza, Babel
Cate Blanchett, Notes on a Scandal
Jennifer Hudson, Dreamgirls
Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration
Emma Thompson, Stranger Than Fiction

Best Acting Ensemble:
Babel
Bobby
The Departed
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
A Prairie Home Companion

Best Director:
Bill Condon, Dreamgirls
Clint Eastwood, Letters from Iwo Jima
Stephen Frears, The Queen
Paul Greengrass, United 93
Martin Scorsese, The Departed

Best Writer:
Michael Arndt, Little Miss Sunshine
Guillermo Arriaga, Babel
Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children
Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction
William Monahan, The Departed
Peter Morgan, The Queen

Best Animated Feature:
Cars
Flushed Away
Happy Feet
Monster House
Over the Hedge

Best Young Actor:
Cameron Bright, Thank You for Smoking
Joseph Cross, Running with Scissors
Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine
Freddie Highmore, A Good Year
Jaden Christopher Syre Smith, The Pursuit of Happyness

Best Young Actress:
Ivana Baquero, Pan's Labyrinth
Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
Shareeka Epps, Half Nelson
Dakota Fanning, Charlotte's Web
Keke Palmer, Akeelah and the Bee

Best Comedy Movie:
Borat
For Your Consideration
Little Miss Sunshine
The Devil Wears Prada
Thank You for Smoking

Best Family Film (Live Action):
Akeelah and the Bee
Charlotte's Web
Flicka
Lassie
Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man's Chest

Best Picture Made for Television:
Elizabeth I
The Librarian
Nightmares & Dreamscapes
The Ron Clark Story
When the Levees Broke

Best Foreign-Language Film:
Apocalypto
Days of Glory
Letters from Iwo Jima
Pan's Labyrinth
Volver
Water

Best Song:
"I Need to Wake Up," Melissa Etheridge for An Inconvenient Truth
"Listen," Beyoncé for Dreamgirls
"My Little Girl," Tim McGraw for Flicka
"The Neighbor," Dixie Chicks for Shut Up & Sing :)
"Never Gonna Break My Faith," Aretha Franklin and Mary J. Blige for Bobby
"Ordinary Miracle," Sarah McLachlan for Charlotte's Web

Best Soundtrack:
Babel
Cars
Dreamgirls
Happy Feet
Marie Antoinette

Best Composer:
Philip Glass, The Illusionist
Clint Mansell, The Fountain
Thomas Newman, The Good German
Gustavo Santaolalla, Babel
Howard Shore, The Departed
Hans Zimmer, The Da Vinci Code

Best Documentary Feature:
An Inconvenient Truth
Shut Up & Sing :)
This Film Is Not Yet Rated
Who Killed the Electric Car?
Wordplay

Best Actor looks like it could be the Oscar list, except Ken Watanabe is gaining some steam. I think the Director choices will be 100% the same on Oscar night.

Forest Whitaker looks to be winning it all....

No love for The Prestige? To me this was the best movie of the year followed by The Departed.

Nice to see Rinko Kikuchi from babel get some love...

Odd seeing Pirates of the Caribbean up for Best Family Film. Especially when you compare it to the other noms.

I really hope 'Cars' does not win for best animated film, the most disappointing Pixar film IMO. 'Ant Bully' and even 'Hoodwinked' were much better and more entertaining (EW raved about 'Hoodwinked' and I agreed)

no nom for 'Bleak House' for Best Picture Made for Television for shame. 'When the Levees Broke' is a documentary and IMO should not be counted in this catagory.

I have yet to see 'Shut Up and Sing' since its from acclamied director Barbara Koppel, yet the documentaries that stood out for me included was 'Iraq in Fragments'.
what - there's no competition here, it's going to Iwo Jima by a landslide

Monster House was my favorite of those (it's something of a classic, imho), though it'll probably be a race between Flushed Away (which I really enjoyed) and Happy Feet.

re: Happy Feet, I thought the animation was great but the story, oi!... waifer thin if you ask me, and then the whole eco thing a ma jig... (eye roll).

The Academy, and Golden Globe are the two most prestigious, merited awards for films. Critics' Choice, People's Choice and other secondary award ceremonies are standard acknowledgements.

I haven't seen it, but I know about the "eco lesson" and know how critics go apeshit for that kind of trite.