2006 19th Chicago Film Critics Awards BEST PICTURE * The Departed Babel Little Miss Sunshine The Queen United 93 BEST FOREIGN-LANGUAGE FILM: * Letters From Iwo Jima Apocalypto Pan’s Labyrinth Tsotsi Volver BEST DIRECTOR * Martin Scorsese for The Departed Clint Eastwood for Letters From Iwo Jima Stephen Frears for The Queen Paul Greengrass for United 93 Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu for Babel BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY * The Queen — Peter Morgan Babel — Guillermo Arriaga Letters From Iwo Jima — Iris Yamashita Little Miss Sunshine — Michael Arndt 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 * Forest Whitaker for The Last King of Scotland Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed Ryan Gosling for Half-Nelson Peter O ’ Toole for Venus Will Smith for The Pursuit of Happyness BEST ACTRESS * Helen Mirren for The Queen Penelope Cruz for Volver Judi Dench for Notes on a Scandal Maggie Gyllenhaal for Sherrybaby Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada Kate Winslet for Little Children BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR * Jackie Earle Haley for Little Children Ben Affleck for Hollywoodland Eddie Murphy for Dreamgirls Jack Nicholson for The Departed Brad Pitt for Babel Michael Sheen for The Queen BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS * Rinko Kikuchi for Babel 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 BEST ORIGINAL SCORE * The Fountain — Clint Mansell Babel — Gustavo Santaolalla Letters From Iwo Jima — Kyle Eastwood and Michael Stevens Notes On a Scandal — Philip Glass The Queen — Alexandre Desplat BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY * Children of Men — Emmanuel Lubezki Babel — Rodrigo Prieto The Departed — Michael Ballhaus The Fountain — Matthew Libatique Letters From Iwo Jima — Tom Stern BEST DOCUMENTARY * An Inconvenient Truth Deliver Us From Evil Jesus Camp Shut Up and Sing Wordplay MOST PROMISING PERFORMER * Sacha Baron Cohen for Borat and Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby Ivana Baquero for Pan’s Labyrinth Shareeka Epps for Half-Nelson Rinko Kikuchi for Babel Keke Palmer for 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 for Thank You For Smoking James McTeigue for V For Vendetta ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------