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Pick Your Movies for Grownups™ 2006 Award Winners

March & April 2006

See how your favorites stack up against this year’s award winners, then share your opinions on these films—and any you think we missed—on our message board





1. Best Movie for Grownups

  Capote
  Cinderella Man
  Good Night, and Good Luck
  Walk The Line
  Crash

2. Best Actor

  Jeff Daniels, The Squid and the Whale
  Anthony Hopkins, The World’s Fastest Indian
  Kurt Russell, Dreamer: Inspired By a True Story
  Nathan Lane, The Producers
  Tom Wilkinson, Separate Lies

3. Best Actress

  Joan Plowright, Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
  Judi Dench, Ladies in Lavender
  Shirley MacLaine, In Her Shoes
  Meryl Streep, Prime
  Liv Ullmann, Saraband

4. Best Director

  Steven Spielberg, Munich
  Woody Allen, Match Point
  Ron Howard, Cinderella Man
  Ang Lee, Brokeback Mountain
  Fernando Meirelles, The Constant Gardener

5. Best Screenwriter

  Larry McMurtry and Diana Ossana, Brokeback Mountain
  Pedro Almodovar, Bad Education
  Paul Haggis, Crash
  Jim Jarmusch, Broken Flowers
  Sally Potter, Yes

6. Breakaway Accomplishment

  David Strathairn, Good Night, and Good Luck
  Pierce Brosnan, The Matador
  Tommy Lee Jones, The Three Burials of Melquiades Estrada
  Kate Montgomery, Christmas in the Clouds
  Susan Stroman, The Producers

7. Best Documentary

  Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room
  Grizzly Man
  March of the Penguins
  No Direction Home: Bob Dylan
  Tell Them Who You Are

8. Best Intergenerational Movie

  Dreamer: Inspired by a True Story
  Because of Winn-Dixie
  In Her Shoes
  Mrs. Palfrey at the Claremont
  The Squid and the Whale

9. Best Comedy for Grownups

  The Producers
  The Family Stone
  The 40-Year-Old Virgin
  In Her Shoes
  Rumor Has It

10. Foreign Language Film

  Ushpizin (Israel)
  Bad Education (Spain)
  Saraband (Sweden)
  Après Vous (France)
  Crónicas (U.S. Spanish)

11. Best Grownup Love Story

  Craig T. Nelson and Diane Keaton, The Family Stone
  Kevin Costner and Joan Allen, The Upside of Anger
  Peter Falk and Olympia Dukakis, The Thing About My Folks
  Al Pacino and Rene Russo, Two For the Money
  Penguin Couples, March of the Penguins

12. Best Movie Time Capsule

  Cinderella Man (1920s-30s)
  Good Night, And Good Luck (1950s)
  North Country (1980s)
  Capote (1960s)
  Munich (1972)

13. Best TV Movie

  The Girl in the Café
  Empire Falls
  Lackawanna Blues
  Sometimes in April
  Warm Springs

14. Movie for Grownups Who Refuse to Grow Up

  King Kong
  Batman Begins
  The Chronicles of Narnia: The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe
  Wallace and Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
  The Wedding Crashers