2006 Muriel Awards

Lucas McNelly

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100 Films

Lucas' ballot:

Best Feature-Length Film
1. United 93
2. Little Children
3. The Queen
4. Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
5. The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
6. Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
7. The Painted Veil
8. 13 Tzameti
9. An Inconvenient Truth
10. A Prairie Home Companion

Best Lead Performance, Male
1. Sacha Baron Cohen, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
2. Edward Norton, The Painted Veil
3. Ion Fiscuteanu, The Death of Mr. Lazarescu
4. Aaron Eckhart, Thank You for Smoking
5. Daniel Craig, Casino Royale

Best Lead Performance, Female
1. Helen Mirren, The Queen
2. Meryl Streep, The Devil Wears Prada
3. Kate Winslet, Little Children
4. Naomi Watts, The Painted Veil
5. Charlotte Gainsbourg, The Science of Sleep

Best Supporting Performance, Male
1. Paul Dano, Little Miss Sunshine
2. Robert Downey, Jr., A Scanner Darkly
3. Jason Schwartzman, Marie Antoinette
4. Jackie Earle Haley, Little Children
5. Michael Sheen, The Queen

Best Supporting Performance, Female
1. Catherine O'Hara, For Your Consideration
2. Adriana Barraza, Babel
3. Emma Thompson, Stranger Than Fiction
4. Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine
5. Emily Blunt, The Devil Wears Prada

Best Direction
1. Paul Greengrass, United 93
2. Todd Field, Little Children
3. Michael Winterbottom, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
4. Deepa Mehta, Water
5. Robert Altman, A Prairie Home Companion

Best Screenplay
1. Todd Field & Tom Perrotta, Little Children
2. Zach Helm, Stranger Than Fiction
3. Cédric Klapisch, Les Poupées russes
4. Ron Nyswaner, The Painted Veil
5. Garrison Keillor, A Prairie Home Companion

Best Cinematic Moment
1. The passengers storm the cockpit, United 93
2. Stephane TV, La Science des rêves
3. The Jewish Bed & Breakfast, Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan
4. Breaking an arm with a shoe, The Departed
5. "Let's start with ridiculous and work backwards.", Stranger Than Fiction

Best Breakthrough Performance
1. Al Gore, An Inconvenient Truth
2. Rob Brydon, Tristram Shandy: A Cock and Bull Story
3. Abigail Breslin, Little Miss Sunshine

Best First Feature by a Director
1. Géla Babluani, 13 Tzameti
2. Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris, Little Miss Sunshine
3. Jason Reitman, Thank You for Smoking

Best Ensemble Performance
1. A Prairie Home Companion
2. Babel
3. For Your Consideration

Best Cinematography
1. Robert Richardson, The Good Shepherd
2. Emmanuel Lubezki, Children of Men
3. Nicholas D. Knowland, The Piano Tuner of Earthquakes

Best new DVD Release
1. ESSENTIAL ART HOUSE: 50 YEARS OF JANUS FILMS (Criterion)...I mean, really, is there another answer?
2. La Double vie de Véronique (Criterion)
3. Mr. Arkadin (Criterion)

1. United 93

Additional category:

Films Better Served as Guitar Pics (or: three films I had the misfortune of seeing this year)
1. World Trade Center
2. Lucky Number Slevin
3. 4