Critics Choose Little Miss Sunshine

The Critic’s Choice Awards were held on Friday, awarding the Broadcast Film Critic’s Association’s 12th Annual picks for the Best of 2006. With every one of these ceremonies that are held, the Oscars become even more boring. Like everyone else, the BFCA further solidified Forest Whitaker and Helen Mirren as the only possible Oscar winners for Best Actor and Best Actress. There’s not an award they haven’t won. Anyone else nominated might as well not even show up. If they take the Golden Globes too, feel free to fast forward through those Academy Awards categories on your TiVo Feb 25th.

The biggest winner at the Critic’s Choice Awards though, was Little Miss Sunshine with four wins for Best Acting Ensemble, Best Writer, Best Young Actor, and Best Young Actress. Other notables included the incredible all ages movie Charlotte’s Web which took their Best Family Film Award. Dreamgirls won three for Best Supporting Actor Eddie Murphy, Best Supporting Actress Jennifer Hudson, and Best Song. The Departed nabbed two awards for Best Picture and Best Director.

Below is the full list of this year’s Critic’s Choice Awards winners:

Best Picture: The Departed

Best Actor: Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress: Helen Mirren - The Queen

Best Supporting Actor: Eddie Murphy - Dreamgirls