72nd New York Film Critics Circle Awards (2006)

Best Film:

	United 93
	Runners-up: The Queen and The Departed

Best Director:

	Martin Scorsese - The Departed
	Runners-up: Stephen Frears - The Queen and Clint Eastwood - Letters from Iwo Jima

Best Actor:

	Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland
	Runners-up: Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson and Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan

Best Actress:

	Helen Mirren - The Queen
	Runners-up: Judi Dench - Notes on a Scandal and Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada

Best Supporting Actor:

	Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
	Runners-up: Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls and Steve Carell - Little Miss Sunshine

Best Supporting Actress:

	Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
	Runners-up: Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson and Catherine O'Hara - For Your Consideration

Best Screenplay:

	Peter Morgan - The Queen
	Runners-up: William Monahan - The Departed and Michael Arndt - Little Miss Sunshine

Best Cinematography:

	Guillermo Navarro - Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno)
	Runners-up: Xiaoding Zhao - Curse of the Golden Flower (Man cheng jin dai huang jin jia) and Emmanuel Lubezki - Children of Men

Best Foreign Language Film:

	Army of Shadows (L'armée des ombres) • France/Italy
	Runners-up: Volver • Spain and The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lăzărescu) • Romania

Best Non-Fiction Film:

	Deliver Us from Evil
	Runners-up: 49 Up, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, and An Inconvenient Truth

Best Animated Feature:

	Happy Feet
	Runners-up: A Scanner Darkly and Cars

Best First Film:

	Ryan Fleck - Half Nelson
	Runners-up: Jonathan Dayton and Valerie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine and Dito Montiel - A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints