| 5th San Francisco Bay Area Film Critics Circle Awards (2006) |
| Best Picture: |
| Little Children |
| Best Director: |
| Paul Greengrass - United 93 |
| Best Actor: |
| Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat |
| Best Actress: |
| Helen Mirren - The Queen |
| Best Supporting Actor: |
| Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children |
| Best Supporting Actress: |
| Adriana Barraza - Babel |
| Best Original Screenplay: |
| Brick - Rian Johnson |
| Best Adapted Screenplay: |
| Little Children - Todd Field and Tom Perrotta |
| Best Foreign Language Film: |
| Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) • Mexico/Spain/United States |
| Best Documentary: |
| An Inconvenient Truth |
| Marlon Riggs Award (for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community): |
| Stephen Salmons, co-founder and artistic director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival |
| Special Citation (in honor of Arthur Lazere, a member of the critics group and founder of culturevulture.net who died earlier this year): |
| The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu) |