Believe it or not, there are two more sets of movie critics’ awards that I took part in, that I have not yet mentioned here.
First, the American Film Renaissance Awards, which were actually posted a couple weeks ago — yeah, I’m way behind on this one:
Best Picture: The Pursuit of Happyness
Runners-up: Apocalypto, United 93, The Queen, The DepartedBest Documentary: Border War: The Battle Over Illegal Immigration
Runners-up: Islam: What the West Needs to Know, Abduction: The Megumi Yokota Story, 49 Up, This Film Is Not Yet RatedBest Hero: Chris Gardner (Will Smith) in The Pursuit of Happyness
Runners-up: Jaguar Paw (Rudy Youngblood) in Apocalypto, The Passengers in United 93, Jack Sparrow (Johnny Depp) in Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest, Joseph (Oscar Isaac) in The Nativity StoryBest Time at the Movies: Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhastan
Runners-up: Apocalypto, Little Miss Sunshine, Thank You for Smoking, Casino Royale
And then, the Faith and Film Critics Circle Awards, which were posted just this past Friday:
Most Significant Exploration of Spiritual Issues: The New World
Runner-up: Children of MenBest Narrative Film: The New World
Runner-up: L’EnfantBest Documentary: 49 Up, Jonestown: The Life and Death of Peoples Temple (tie)
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, The Departed
Runner-up: Forrest Whitaker, The Last King of SoctlandBest Actress: Helen Mirren, The Queen
Runner-up: Q’orianka Kilcher, The New WorldBest Supporting Actor: Michael Sheen, The Queen
Runner-up: Mark Wahlberg, The DepartedBest Supporting Actress: Rinko Kikuchi, Babel
Runner-up: Adrianna Barazza, BabelBest Director: Terrence Malick, The New World
Runner-up: Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s LabyrinthBest Ensemble Cast: Little Miss Sunshine
Runner-up: The DepartedBest Orginal Screenplay: Guillermo del Toro, Pan’s Labyrinth
Runner-up: Peter Morgan, The QueenBest Adapted Screenplay: Todd Field and Tom Perrotta, Little Children
Runner-up: Iris Yamashita/Paul Haggis, Letters From Iwo JimaBest Cinematography: Emanuel Lubezki, The New World
Runner-up: Emanuel Lubezki, Children of MenBest Original Score: Clint Mansell, The Fountain
Runner-up: Javier Navarrete, Pan’s LabyrinthBest Film For the Whole Family: Lassie
Runner-up: Over The Hedge
Needless to say, I don’t agree with all of these results, but for now, I’ll let you guess which way my own votes went.