32nd Los Angeles Film Critics Association Awards (2006)
Best Picture:
Letters from Iwo Jima
Runner-up: The Queen
Best Director:
Paul Greengrass - United 93
Runner-up: Clint Eastwood - Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
Best Actor (TIE):
Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
Best Actress:
Helen Mirren - The Queen
Runner-up: Penélope Cruz - Volver
Best Supporting Actor:
Michael Sheen - The Queen
Runner-up: Sergi López - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
Best Supporting Actress:
Luminița Gheorghiu - The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu)
Runner-up: Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
Best Screenplay:
Peter Morgan - The Queen
Runner-up: Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine
Best Cinematography:
Emmanuel Lubezki - Children of Men
Runner-up: Tom Stern - Flags of Our Fathers and Letters from Iwo Jima
Best Production Design:
Eugenio Caballero - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
Runner-up: Jim Clay, Veronica Falzon, and Geoffrey Kirkland - Children of Men
Best Music Score:
Alexandre Desplat - The Painted Veil and The Queen
Runner-up: Thomas Newman - The Good German and Little Children
Best Foreign-Language Film:
The Lives of Others (Das Leben der Anderen) • Germany
Runner-up: Volver • Spain
Best Documentary/Non-Fiction Film:
An Inconvenient Truth
Runner-up: Darwin's Nightmare
Best Animation:
Happy Feet
Runner-up: Cars
The Douglas Edwards Experimental/Independent Film/Video Award:
So Yong Kim - In Between Days
Kelly Reichardt - Old Joy
New Generation Award:
Michael Arndt (screenwriter), Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris (co-directors) - Little Miss Sunshine
Career Achievement Award:
Robert Mulligan
Special Citation:
Jean-Pierre Melville's 1969 film Army of Shadows upon the occasion of its long-overdue U.S. release.
Jonas Mekas for his contributions to American film culture as a filmmaker, critic and co-founder of Anthology Film Archives.