2006 FFCC Awards

So the big award ceremony you are all waiting for with baited breath is coming out...well, today, I was told.

Yes, it's the 2006 Faith and Film Critics Circle (FFCC) awards. This marks either the third or the fourth year I've voted in it, and if past performance is any indicator, generally nothing I vote for makes the top three in any category and there will be at least one award that makes me doubt my colleagues' sanity. (Lord of the Rings for best adapted screenplay?)[Ah, a quick peak at the archives suggests there is the rare synchronicity of opinion; I think I did vote for Philip Seymour Hoffman last year.] But I'm a member, and as long as they are going to keep counting my votes and not just throw me out of the group for not liking what everyone else does, I think I'm supposed to promote group activities...so here we go.

Aaaaaanyhoooo...for the three people who actually care about this that aren't, you know, in the the FFCC, below is a copy of the ballot I submitted. Can I give a shout out to Dennis Quaid? He almost did for American Dreamz what Johnny Depp did for the original Pirates of the Caribbean. If you are wondering what he's doing on this list, go rent the American Dreamz dvd and watch just the scenes he is in.

Pretty much everything else is either safely esoteric (I mean, if we lined up all the people who saw Climates on one side and all the people who saw Forgiving Dr. Mengele on the other--would we have enough for a girl's basketball game in the state of Iowa?) or so patently right that if you disagree with me you are, well....wrong.

MOST SIGNIFICANT EXPLORATION OF SPIRITUAL ISSUES

• 1) L'Enfant
• 2) Requiem
• 3) Forgiving Dr. Mengele

BEST NARRATIVE FILM

• 1) L'Enfant
• 2) Climates
• 3) Requiem
• 4) The Queen
• 5) Pan's Labyrinth

BEST DOCUMENTARY

• 1) Shut Up and Sing
• 2) Forgiving Dr. Mengele
• 3) When the Levees Broke
• 4) The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
• 5) Lake of Fire

BEST ACTOR

1) Jérémie Renier - L'Enfant

• 2) Edward Norton - The Illusionist

BEST ACTRESS

• 1) Sandra Huller - Requiem
• 2) Victoria Hill-MacBeth
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BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR

• 1) Dennis Quaid--American Dreamz
• 2) Rufus Sewell--The Illusionist
• 3) Paul Giammati--The Illusionist
• 4) Adrian Grenier--The Devil Wears Prada

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS

• 1) Déborah François - L'Enfant

BEST DIRECTOR

• 1) Luc and Jean -Pierre Dardenne - L'Enfant
• 2) Barbara Kopple--Shut Up and Sing
• 3) Sophie Fiennes--The Pervert's Guide to Cinema
• 4) Tony Kaye--Lake of Fire

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST

• 1)The Devil Wears Prada
• 2) Pan's Labyrinth

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY

• 1) Luc and Jean -Pierre Dardenne - L'Enfant
• 2) Pan's Labyrinth

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY

• 1) The Illusionist
• 2) V for Vendetta
• 3) The Devil Wears Prada

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY

• 1) Gorkhan Tiryaki--Climates

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE

• No vote

BEST FILM FOR THE WHOLE FAMILY

• No Vote