2006 Year in Review

The year 2006 had a good number of quality films worth seeing.
I've included my top 20, and some of my favourite performances of this year.

10 Best Movies of 2007

1

Pan's Labyrinthe

2

A Scanner Darkly

3

Dixie Chicks: Shut Up And Sing

4

The Queen

5

Little Miss Sunshine

6

An Inconvenient Truth

7

Casino Royale

8

Thank You For Smoking

9

Marie Antoinette

10

Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America

The Next 10: Honourable Mentions

11

Manufactured Landscapes

12

Notes On A Scandal

13

Letters From Iwo Jima

14

Children Of Men

15

V For Vendetta

16

Miami Vice

17

The Departed

18

The Devil Wears Prada

19

Babel

20

Curse Of The Golden Flower



The Most Overrated Films I Saw This Year

The Journals Of Knud Rasmussen

L'Enfant



Outstanding Performance from a Lead Actress

Ivana Baquero

Pan's Labyrinthe

Cate Blanchett

Notes On A Scandal

Toni Collette

Little Miss Sunshine

Penelope Cruz

Volver

Judi Dench

Notes On A Scandal

Kirsten Dunst

Marie Antoinette

Gong Li

Curse Of The Golden Flower

Eva Green

Casino Royale

Helen Mirren

The Queen

Ellen Page

Hard Candy



Outstanding Performance from a Lead Actor

Sacha Baron Cohen

Borat: Cultural Learnings Of America

Daniel Craig

Casino Royale

Leonardo DiCaprio

The Departed

Aaron Eckhardt

Thank You For Smoking

Al Gore

An Inconvenient Truth

Ryan Gosling

Half Nelson

Michael Sheen

The Queen

Hugo Weaving

V For Vendetta



Outstanding Performance from a Supporting Actress

Abigail Breslin

Little Miss Sunshine

Lola Duenas

Volver

Shareeka Epps

Half Nelson

Rinko Kikuchi

Babel

Carmen Maura

Volver

Meryl Streep

The Devil Wears Prada

Maribel Verdu

Pan's Labyrinthe



Outstanding Performance from a Supporting Actor

Alan Arkin

Little Miss Sunshine

Steve Carell

Little Miss Sunshine

James Cromwell

The Queen

Steve Coogan

Marie Antoinette

Matt Damon

The Departed

Robert Downie Jr.

A Scanner Darkly

Stephen Fry

V For Vendetta

Woody Harrelson

A Scanner Darkly

Sergi Lopez

Pan's Labyrinthe

Anthony Mackie

Half Nelson

Bill Nighy

Notes On A Scandal

J. K. Simmons

Thank You For Smoking

Mark Wahlberg

The Departed