2006

Best Picture

The Departed
-Apocalypto
-Letters from Iwo Jima
-A Prairie Home Companion
-United 93

Best Director

"It makes me curious to see you in this neighborhood. And if I can slander my own environment, it makes me sad."
Martin Scorsese for The Departed
-Paul Greengrass for United 93
-Clint Eastwood for Letters from Iwo Jima
-Mel Gibson for Apocalypto
-Robert Altman for A Prairie Home Companion

Best Actor

"Look... look, I'm having panic attacks, alright? The other night I thought I was having a fucking heart attack. I puked in a trash barrel on the way over here. I haven't slept for fucking weeks."
Leonardo DiCaprio as Billy Costigan in The Departed
-Will Smith as Chris Gardner in The Pursuit of Happyness
-Forest Whitaker as Idi Amin in The Last King of Scotland
-Ulrich Muhe as Hauptmann Gerd Wiesler in The Lives of Others
-Edward Norton as Walter Fane in The Painted Veil

Best Actress

"I'm not ashamed. Adam and Eve were naked in the Garden of Eden, weren't they? When they sinned, they put on clothes."
Gretchen Mol as Bettie Page in The Notorious Bettie Page
-Helen Mirren as The Queen in The Queen
-Kate Winslet as Sarah Pierce in Little Children
-Laura Dern as Nikkie Grace/Susan Blue in Inland Empire
-Naomi Watts as Kitty Fane in The Painted Veil

Best Supporting Actor

"I will be on television in a month... Wearing brown and gray underpants."
Ben Affleck as George Reeves in Hollywoodland
-Jack Nicholson as Frank Costello in The Departed
-Jackie Earle Haley as Ronnie J. McGorvey in Little Children
-Alan Arkin as Grandpa Edwin Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine
-Irfan Khan as Ashoke in The Namesake

Best Supporting Actress

"Duct tape will not make an honest man out of you."
Meryl Streep as Yolanda Johnson in A Prairie Home Companion
-Rinko Kikuchi as Chieko Wataya in Babel
-Emily Blunt as Emily in The Devil Wears Prada
-Abigail Breslin as Olive Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine
-Diane Lane as Toni Mannix in Hollywoodland

Best Screenplay

"I'm the guy who does his job. You must be the other guy."
The Departed
-A Prairie Home Companion
-Letters from Iwo Jima
-The Pursuit of Happyness
-Half Nelson
-Inside Man