Thursday, June 5, 2025

2006 Tyler's Choice Awards

(Boldface = winner; Italics = runner-up)

Best Picture
  • Babel (Alejandro González Iñárritu, Steve Golin & Jon Kilik)
  • The Departed (Graham King)
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (Clint Eastwood, Steven Spielberg & Robert Lorenz)
  • Little Miss Sunshine (David T. Friendly, Peter Saraf & Marc Turtletaub)
  • The Queen (Andy Harries, Christine Langan & Tracey Seaward)
    (Honourable Mentions: Borat, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Pan's Labyrinth, United 93)
Best Director
  • Bill Condon - Dreamgirls
  • Guillermo del Toro - Pan's Labyrinth
  • Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima
  • Alejandro González Iñárritu - Babel
  • Martin Scorsese - The Departed
    (Honourable Mentions: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine, Stephen Frears - The Queen, Paul Greengrass - United 93, Gore Verbinski - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Edward Zwick - Blood Diamond)
Best Lead Actor
  • Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
  • Leonardo DiCaprio - The Departed
  • Peter O'Toole - Venus
  • Will Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
  • Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
    (Honourable Mentions: Daniel Craig - Casino Royale, Johnny Depp - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Will Ferrell - Stranger Than Fiction, Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson, Ben Stiller - Night at the Museum)
Best Lead Actress
  • Penélope Cruz - Volver
  • Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal
  • Helen Mirren - The Queen
  • Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
  • Kate Winslet - Little Miss Sunshine
    (Honourable Mentions: Annette Bening - Running with Scissors, Beyoncé - Dreamgirls, Maggie Gyllenhaal - Sherrybaby, Gretchen Mol - The Notorious Bettie Page, Renée Zellweger - Miss Potter)
Best Supporting Actor
  • Laurence Fishburne - Akeelah and the Bee
  • Djimon Hounsou - Blood Diamond
  • Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls
  • Jack Nicholson - The Departed
  • Robin Williams - Night at the Museum
    (Honourable Mentions: Ben Affleck - Hollywoodland, Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine, Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children, Bill Nighy - Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, Mark Wahlberg - The Departed) 
Best Supporting Actress
  • Adriana Barraza - Babel
  • Cate Blanchett - Notes on a Scandal
  • Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
  • Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
  • Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
    (Honourable Mentions: Angela Bassett - Akeelah and the Bee, Emily Blunt - The Devil Wears Prada, Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson, Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration, Emma Thompson - Stranger Than Fiction)
Best Original Screenplay
  • Babel (Guillermo Arriaga)
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (Paul Haggis & Iris Yamashita)
  • Little Miss Sunshine (Michael Arndt)
  • Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo del Toro)
  • The Queen (Peter Morgan)
    (Honourable Mentions: Bobby, The Good Shepherd, Happy Feet, Stranger Than Fiction, United 93)
Best Adapted Screenplay
  • Borat! Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan (Sacha Baron Cohen, Peter Baynham, Anthony Hines, Dan Mazer & Todd Phillips; based on the character Borat Sagdiyev from the television series Da Ali G Show created by Sacha Baron Cohen)
  • The Departed (William Monahan; based on the film Internal Affairs written by Felix Chong & Alan Mak)
  • Little Children (Todd Field & Tom Perrotta; based on the novel by Tom Perrotta)
  • Notes on a Scandal (Patrick Marber; based on the novel by Zoe Heller)
  • Thank You for Smoking (Jason Reitman; based on the novel by Christopher Buckley)
    (Honourable Mentions: Children of Men, The Devil Wears Prada, Dreamgirls, Night at the Museum, The Prestige)
Best Cast Ensemble
  • The Departed [Ellen Lewis, casting director] (Leonardo DiCaprio, Matt Damon, Jack Nicholson, Mark Wahlberg, Martin Sheen, Ray Winstone, Vera Farmiga, Anthony Anderson, James Badge Dale & Alec Baldwin, et. al.)
  • Dreamgirls [Jay Binder & Debra Zane, casting directors] (Jamie Foxx, Beyoncé Knowles, Anika Noni Rose, Eddie Murphy, Jennifer Hudson, Keith Robinson, Sharon Leal & Danny Glover, et. al.)
  • Happy Feet [Kristy Carlson, casting director] (Elijah Wood, Robin Williams, Brittany Murphy, Hugh Jackman, Nicole Kidman, Hugo Weaving, Carlos Alazraqui, Lombardo Boyar, Anthony LaPaglia & Steve Irwin, et. al.)
  • Little Miss Sunshine [Justine Arteta & Kim Davis-Wagner, casting directors] (Greg Kinnear, Alan Arkin, Steve Carell, Toni Collette, Paul Dano, Bryan Cranston, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Dean Norris & Abigail Breslin, et. al.)
  • Night at the Museum [Ilene Starger, casting director] (Ben Stiller, Robin Williams, Dick Van Dyke, Carla Gugino, Mickey Rourke, Bill Cobbs, Steve Coogan, Jake Cherry & Owen Wilson, et. al.)
    (Honourable Mentions: Babel, Bobby, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, A Prairie Home Companion, The Queen)
Best Young Actor (18 or Under)
  • Ivana Baquero - Pan's Labyrinth
  • Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
  • Jake Cherry - Night at the Museum
  • Keke Palmer - Akeelah and the Bee
  • Jaden Smith - The Pursuit of Happyness
    (Honourable Mentions: Joseph Cross - Running with Scissors, Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson, Dakota Fanning - Charlotte's Web, Freddie Highmore - A Good Year, Tristen Lake Leabu - Superman Returns)
Best Foreign Language Film
  • Apocalypto [United States] (Mel Gibson)
  • Letters from Iwo Jima [Japan] (Clint Eastwood)
  • The Lives of Others [Germany] (Florian Henckel von Donnersmarck)
  • Pan's Labyrinth [Mexico] (Guillermo del Toro)
  • Volver [Spain] (Pedro Almodóvar)
    (Honourable Mentions: After the Wedding, Black Book, Days of Glory, L'Enfant, Water)
Best Documentary Feature
  • Deliver Us from Evil (Amy J. Berg, Matthew Cooke & Frank Donner)
  • An Inconvenient Truth (Davis Guggenheim, Lawrence Bender & Scott Z. Burns)
  • Jesus Camp (Heidi Ewing & Rachel Grady)
  • This Film is Not Yet Rated (Kirby Dick & Eddie Schmidt)
  • Wordplay (Patrick Creadon, Michael Creadon & Christine O'Malley)
    (Honourable Mentions: Iraq in Fragments, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple, Neil Young: Heart of Gold, Shut Up & Sing, Who Killed the Electric Car?)
Best Original Score
  • Babel (Gustavo Santaolalla)
  • The Da Vinci Code (Hans Zimmer)
  • Notes on a Scandal (Philip Glass)
  • Pan's Labyrinth (Javier Navarrete)
  • The Queen (Alexandre Desplat)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Departed (Howard Shore), The Good German (Thomas Newman), Happy Feet (John Powell), The Illusionist (Philip Glass), The Painted Veil (Alexandre Desplat))
Best Original Song
  • "I Need to Wake Up" - An Inconvenient Truth (Melissa Etheridge)
  • "Listen" - Dreamgirls (Scott Cutler, Henry Krieger & Anne Preven)
  • "Our Town" - Cars (Randy Newman)
  • "Patience" - Dreamgirls (Henry Krieger & Willie Reale)
  • "Upside Down" - Curious George (Jack Johnson)
    (Honourable Mentions: "A Father's Way" - The Pursuit of Happyness, "Love You I Do" - Dreamgirls, "Never Gonna Break My Faith" - Bobby, "Ordinary Miracle" - Charlotte's Web, "You Know My Name" - Casino Royale)
Best Sound Editing
  • Blood Diamond (Lon Bender)
  • Cars (Tom Myers & Michael Silvers)
  • Flags of Our Fathers (Alan Robert Murray & Bub Asman)
  • Letters from Iwo Jima (Alan Robert Murray & Bub Asman)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Christopher Boyes & George Watters II)
    (Honourable Mentions: Apocalypto, Babel, Casino Royale, Pan's Labyrinth, X-Men: The Last Stand)
Best Sound Mixing
  • Apocalypto (Kevin O'Connell, Greg P. Russell & Fernando Cámara)
  • Blood Diamond (Andy Nelson, Anna Behlmer & Ivan Sharrock)
  • Dreamgirls (Michael Minkler, Bob Beemer & Willie D. Burton)
  • Flags of Our Fathers (John T. Reitz, David E. Campbell, Gregg Rudloff & Walt Martin)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Paul Massey, Christopher Boyes & Lee Orloff)
    (Honourable Mentions: Babel, Casino Royale, The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth, United 93)
Best Animated Feature
  • Cars (John Lasseter & Darla K. Anderson)
  • Happy Feet (George Miller, Bill Miller & Doug Mitchell)
  • Ice Age: The Meltdown (Carlos Saldanha & Lori Forte)
  • Monster House (Gil Kenan, Jack Rapke & Steve Starkey)
  • Over the Hedge (Tim Johnson, Karey Kirkpatrick & Bonnie Arnold)
    (Honourable Mentions: Everyone's Hero, Flushed Away, Open Season, Paprika, A Scanner Darkly)
Best Voice-Over Performance
  • Hugh Jackman - Flushed Away for voicing Roddy St. James
  • Ian McKellen - Flushed Away for voicing The Toad
  • Paul Newman - Cars for voicing Doc Hudson
  • Wanda Sykes - Over the Hedge for voicing Stella
  • Robin Williams - Happy Feet for voicing Lovelace
    (Honourable Mentions: Billy Connolly - Open Season, Maggie Gyllenhaal - Monster House, Mitchel Musso - Monster House, Ray Romano - Ice Age: The Meltdown, Bruce Willis - Over the Hedge)
Best Cinematography
  • Apocalypto (Dean Semler)
  • The Black Dahlia (Vilmos Zsigmond)
  • Children of Men (Emmanuel Lubezki)
  • Pan's Labyrinth (Guillermo Navarro)
  • The Prestige (Wally Pfister)
    (Honourable Mentions: Babel, Curse of the Golden Flower, The Fountain, The Illusionist, Letters from Iwo Jima)
Best Film Editing
  • Babel (Douglas Crise & Stephen Mirrione)
  • Children of Men (Alfonso Cuarón & Alex Rodríguez)
  • The Departed (Thelma Schoonmaker)
  • Dreamgirls (Virginia Katz)
  • United 93 (Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson & Christopher Rouse)
    (Honourable Mentions: Blood Diamond, Casino Royale, Flags of Our Fathers, Pan's Labyrinth, The Queen)
Best Art Direction
  • Dreamgirls (John Myhre & Nancy Haigh)
  • Night at the Museum (Claude Paré & Lin Macdonald)
  • Pan's Labyrinth (Eugenio Caballero & Pilar Revuelta)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Rick Heinrichs & Cheryl Carasik)
  • The Prestige (Nathan Crowley & Julie Ochipinti)
    (Honourable Mentions: Babel, Flags of Our Fathers, The Good Shepherd, Marie Antoinette, V for Vendetta)
Best Costume Design
  • Curse of the Golden Flower (Yee Chung Man)
  • The Devil Wears Prada (Patricia Field)
  • Dreamgirls (Sharen Davis)
  • Marie Antoinette (Milena Canonero)
  • The Queen (Consolata Boyle)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Black Dahlia, Little Miss Sunshine, Pan's Labyrinth, Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest, The Prestige)
Best Makeup
  • Apocalypto (Aldo Signoretti & Vittorio Sodano)
  • Pan's Labyrinth (David Martí & Montse Ribé)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (Ve Neill & Martin Samuel)
    (Honourable Mentions: The Devil Wears Prada, Marie Antoinette, The Prestige, The Queen, X-Men: The Last Stand)
Best Visual Effects
  • Casino Royale (Steven Begg, Chris Corbould, John Paul Docherty & Angela Barson)
  • Night at the Museum (Jim Rygiel, Joe Letteri, Dan DeLeeuw & Bruce Woloshyn)
  • Pan's Labyrinth (Everett Burrell, Edward Irastorza, Brad Achorn & Alex Friderici)
  • Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest (John Knoll, Hal Hickel, Charles Gibson & Allen Hall)
  • Superman Returns (Mark Stetson, Neil Corbould, Richard R. Hoover & Jon Thum)
    (Honourable Mentions: Charlotte's Web, Eragon, Mission Impossible III, Poseidon, X-Men: The Last Stand)

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