12th Critics' Choice Awards
{{Short description|2007 film awards}}
{{Infobox film awards
| number = 12
| award = Critics' Choice Awards
| date = January 14, 2007
| best_film = The Departed
| website = {{url|http://www.criticschoice.com}}
| next_link = 13th Critics' Choice Awards
| next = 13th
| last_link = 11th Critics' Choice Awards
| last = 11th
}}
The 12th Critics' Choice Awards were presented on January 14, 2007, honoring the finest achievements of 2006 filmmaking. The event was held at the Santa Monica Civic Auditorium in Santa Monica, California and broadcast on E!.{{cite web |url=https://www.hollywoodreporter.com/business/business-news/departed-wows-bcast-critics-128029/ |title='Departed' wows b'cast critics |last=Kit |first=Borys |work=The Hollywood Reporter |date=January 16, 2007 |access-date=January 16, 2007}}{{cite web |url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2007-jan-14-me-broadcast14-story.html |title='Departed,' Scorsese win Critics' Choice awards |last=Olsen |first=Mark |work=Los Angeles Times |date=January 14, 2007 |access-date=January 14, 2007}}{{cite web |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/26/movies/awardsseason/26osca.html |title='The Departed' Wins Best Picture, Scorsese Best Director |author1=David M. Halbfinger |author2=Sharon Waxman |work=The New York Times |date=February 26, 2007 |access-date=February 26, 2007}}{{cite web|url= https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-et-broadcast13-story.html |title= Critics’ Choice nominees selected |first= Susan |last= King |work= Los Angeles Times |date= December 13, 2006 |access-date= October 3, 2023 |archive-date= October 3, 2023 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20231003140836/https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-2006-dec-13-et-broadcast13-story.html |url-status=live}}{{cite web|url= http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/2006.php |title= The 12th Critics' Choice Movie Awards Winners And Nominees |work= Critics' Choice Movie Awards |access-date= September 4, 2012 |archive-date= September 4, 2012 |archive-url= https://web.archive.org/web/20120904014318/http://www.bfca.org/ccawards/2006.php |url-status=dead}}
Top 10 films
(in alphabetical order)
Winners and nominees
File:Martin Scorsese Cannes 2010 (cropped).jpg, Best Director winner]]
File:Forest Whitaker 2014.jpg, Best Actor winner]]
File:Helen Mirren 2014.jpg, Best Actress winner]]
File:Eddie Murphy by David Shankbone.jpg, Best Supporting Actor winner]]
File:Jennifer-Hudson 2012-01-17 Barnes-Noble Chicago photoby Adam-Bielawski (cropped).jpg, Best Supporting Actress winner]]
File:Paul Dano Cannes 2015.jpg, Best Young Actor winner]]
File:Abigail Breslin at 2010 TIFF adj.jpg, Best Young Actress winner]]
File:Michael Arndt, 2007.jpg, Best Writer winner]]
| class=wikitable |
valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Picture}}
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Director}} |
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Actor}}
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland as Idi Amin
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Actress}} Helen Mirren – The Queen as Queen Elizabeth II
|
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Supporting Actor}}
Eddie Murphy – Dreamgirls as James "Thunder" Early
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Supporting Actress}} Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls as Effie White
|
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Young Actor}}
Paul Dano – Little Miss Sunshine as Dwayne Hoover
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Young Actress}} Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine as Olive Hoover
|
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Acting Ensemble}}
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Writer}} |
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Animated Feature}}
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Documentary Feature}} |
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Family Film}}
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Foreign Language Film}} Letters from Iwo Jima • United States
|
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Composer}}
The Illusionist – Philip Glass
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Song}} "Listen" – Dreamgirls
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| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Comedy Movie}}
| valign="top" width="50%" | {{Award category|#A07EC9|Best Soundtrack}} |
=Best Picture Made for Television=
Statistics
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| scope="col" style="width:55px;"| Nominations
! scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Film |
|---|
| rowspan="4" | 7
| Babel |
| The Departed |
| Dreamgirls |
| Little Miss Sunshine |
| 4 |
| rowspan="5" | 3 |
| Charlotte's Web |
| Letters from Iwo Jima |
| Little Children |
| Notes on a Scandal |
| rowspan="16" | 2 |
| Bobby |
| Cars |
| The Devil Wears Prada |
| Dixie Chicks: Shut Up and Sing |
| Flicka |
| For Your Consideration |
| Half Nelson |
| Happy Feet |
| An Inconvenient Truth |
| Pan's Labyrinth |
| The Pursuit of Happyness |
| Stranger than Fiction |
| Thank You for Smoking |
| United 93 |
| Volver |
| class="wikitable" rowspan="2" style="text-align:center;" background: #f6e39c; |
| scope="col" style="width:55px;"| Wins
! scope="col" style="text-align:center;"| Film |
|---|
| rowspan="2" | 4 |
| Little Miss Sunshine |
| 2 |
References
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{{BFCA Awards Chron}}
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