Cadet Film Awards | 2006 | Winners & Nominees

best picture
Children of Men
The Departed
Little Miss Sunshine
Little Children
The Queen

best director
Martin Scorsese – The Departed
Pedro Almodóvar – Volver
Alfonso Cuarón – Children of Men
Guillermo Del Toro – Pan’s Labyrinth
Stephen Frears – The Queen

best lead actor
James McAvoy – The Last King of Scotland
Matt Damon – The Departed
Leonardo DiCaprio – The Departed
Hugh Jackman – The Fountain
Clive Owen – Children of Men

best lead actress
Helen Mirren – The Queen
Penelope Cruz – Volver
Judi Dench – Notes on a Scandal
Meryl Streep – The Devil Wears Prada
Kate Winslet – Little Children

best supporting actor
Sergi López – Pan’s Labyrinth
Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children
Michael Sheen – The Queen
Mark Wahlberg – The Departed
Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland

best supporting actress
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Cate Blanchett – Notes on a Scandal
Emily Blunt – The Devil Wears Prada
Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine
Rinko Kikuchi – Babel

best limited or cameo performance
Alec Baldwin – The Departed
Gillian Anderson – The Last King of Scotland
Gael Garcia Bernal – Babel
Julianne Moore – Children of Men
Phyllis Somerville – Little Children

best adapted screenplay
Todd Field & Tom Perotta – Little Children
Alfonso Cuarón, Timothy J Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby – Children of Men
William Monahan – The Departed
Jeremy Brock & Peter Morgan – The Last King of Scotland
Patrick Marber – Notes on a Scandal

best original screenplay
Peter Arndt – Little Miss Sunshine
Russell Gewirtz – Inside Man
Guillermo Del Toro – Pan’s Labyrinth
Peter Morgan – The Queen
Pedro Almodóvar – Volver

best original dramatic score
Clint Mansell – The Fountain
Thomas Newman – Little Children
Javier Navarette – Pan’s Labyrinth
Alexandre Desplat – The Queen
Alberto Iglesias – Volver

best original musical or comedy score
Mychael Danna, DeVotchKa – Little Miss Sunshine
Theodore Shapiro – The Devil Wears Prada
Henry Krieger – Dreamgirls
John Powell – Happy Feet
Hans Zimmer – The Holiday

best song (original or adapted)
“Volver” – Volver
“I Need to Wake Up” – An Inconvenient Truth
“Listen” – Dreamgirls
“Love You I Do” – Dreamgirls
“A Father’s Way” – The Pursuit of Happyness

best non-english language film
Pan’s Labyrinth (Mexico)
Letters From Iwo Jima (USA)
The Lives of Others (Germany)
Il Mio Migliore Nemico (Italy)
Volver (Spain)

best cinematography
Emmanuel Lubezki – Children of Men
Matthew Libatique – The Fountain
Dick Pope – The Illusionist
Thomas Stern – Letters From Iwo Jima
Guillermo Navarro – Pan’s Labyrinth

best film editing
Thelma Schoonmaker – The Departed
Alex Rodríguez, Alfonso Cuarón – Children of Men
Leo Trombetta – Little Children
Barry Alexander Brown – Inside Man
Claire Douglas, Richard Pearson, Christopher Rouse – United 93

best production design
James Chinlund – The Fountain
Geoffrey Kirkland – Children of Men
John Myhre – Dreamgirls
Eugenio Caballero – Pan’s Labyrinth
Nathan Crowley – The Prestige

best costume design
Sharen Davis – Dreamgirls
Patricia Field – The Devil Wears Prada
Ngila Dickson – The Illusionist
Lala Huete – Pan’s Labyrinth
Consolata Boyle – The Queen

best sound mixing
Dreamgirls
Apocalypto
The Fountain
Happy Feet
Letters From Iwo Jima

best sound editing
Children of Men
Blood Diamond
Casino Royale
Flags of Our Fathers
The Prestige

best makeup/hairstyling
Pan’s Labyrinth
The Descent
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
The Queen
X Men: The Last Stand

best visual effects
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest
Casino Royale
Children of Men
The Fountain
Pan’s Labyrinth

best australian film
Suburban Mayhem

best ensemble
The Departed
Babel
Dreamgirls
Little Miss Sunshine
Volver

best breakthrough or debut
Abigail Breslin – Little Miss Sunshine
Jennifer Hudson – Dreamgirls
Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris – Little Miss Sunshine
Ivana Baquero – Pan’s Labyrinth
Jaden Smith – The Pursuit of Happyness

best animated feature
Happy Feet
best documentary feature
An Inconvenient Truth

best titles sequence
Casino Royale

best poster
The Departed
The Devil Wears Prada
Dreamgirls
The Prestige (winner)
United 93

best scene
Children of Men – Cease Fire
Children of Men – Car Ambush (winner)
The Departed – Rooftop Encounter
The Descent – The Ending
Dreamgirls – ”And I’m Telling You I’m Not Going”
The Fountain – Tree of Life
Little Miss Sunshine – First Push
Pan’s Labyrinth – Pale Man
The Queen – Flowers For The Queen
United 93 – Let’s Roll

tallies wins
Children of Men – 4
The Departed – 4

Dreamgirls – 3
Little Miss Sunshine – 3
Pan’s Labyrinth – 3

An Inconvenient Truth – 1
Casino Royale – 1
Little Children – 1
The Fountain – 1
Happy Feet – 1
The Last King of Scotland – 1
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – 1
The Prestige – 1
The Queen – 1
Volver – 1

multiple nominations
Children of Men – 12
Pan’s Labyrinth – 12

The Departed – 11

The Queen – 9

Dreamgirls – 8
Little Miss Sunshine – 8

The Fountain – 7
Little Children – 7
Volver – 7

The Devil Wears Prada – 5

The Last King of Scotland – 4

Babel – 3
Casino Royale – 3
Happy Feet – 3
Letters From Iwo Jima – 3
Notes on a Scandal – 3
The Prestige – 3
United 93 – 3

An Inconvenient Truth – 2
The Descent – 2
The Illusionist – 2
Inside Man – 2
Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man’s Chest – 2
The Pursuit of Happyness – 2