2006 LMI Movie Awards (Winners)

Winners to my first annual awards are listed below, followed by the runner-ups in each category.

As a side note, I will be trying to attend the actual Razzie Awards ceremony on Saturday, and so I will try and have an update on what the experience is like, having never been to an awards ceremony before (and especially of this unique type).

Best Director

Winner: Paul Haggis (Crash)
- Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)

Ang Lee (Brokeback Mountain)
Curtis Hanson (In Her Shoes)
Danny Boyle (Millions)
David Cronenberg (A History of Violence)
George Clooney (Good Night & Good Luck)
Luis Mandoki (Innocent Voices)
Michael Haneke (Cache)
Paul Haggis (Crash)
Peter Jackson (King Kong)
Robert Rodriguez (Sin City)
Werner Herzog (Grizzly Man)
Woody Allen (Match Point)

Best Actor

Winner: Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)

Daniel Auteuil (Cache)
David Strathairn (Good Night & Good Luck)
Heath Ledger (Brokeback Mountain)
Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain)
Jonathan Rhys-Meyers (Match Point)
Philip Seymour Hoffman (Capote)
Russell Crowe (Cinderella Man)
Steve Carell (40-Year-Old Virgin)
Terrence Howard (Hustle & Flow)
Tom Cruise (War of the Worlds)
Viggo Mortensen (A History of Violence)
Vince Vaughn (Wedding Crashers)

Best Actress

Winner: Joan Allen (The Upside of Anger)
- Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)

Cameron Diaz (In Her Shoes)
Gwyneth Paltrow (Proof)
Joan Allen (The Upside of Anger)
Joan Allen (Off the Map)
Juliette Binoche (Cache)
Reese Witherspoon (Walk the Line)
Toni Collette (In Her Shoes)

Best Supporting Actor

Winner: Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man)
- Mickey Rourke (Sin City)

Don Cheadle (Crash)
Terrence Howard (Crash)
Ryan Philippe (Crash)
Kevin Costner (The Upside of Anger)
George Clooney (Good Night & Good Luck)
Jeff Daniels (The Squid and the Whale)
William Hurt (A History of Violence)
Paul Giamatti (Cinderella Man)
Geoffrey Rush (Munich)
Mickey Rourke (Sin City)
Paul Rudd (40-Year-Old Virgin)
Seth Rogen (40-Year-Old Virgin)

Best Supporting Actress

Winner: Shirley MacLaine (In Her Shoes)
- Keri Russell (The Upside of Anger)

Michelle Williams (Brokeback Mountain)
Anna Faris (Brokeback Mountain)
Shirley MacLaine (In Her Shoes)
Thandie Newton (Crash)
Sandra Bullock (Crash)
Catherine Keener (Capote)
Catherine Keener (40-Year-Old Virgin)
Elizabeth Banks (40-Year Old Virgin)
Isla Fisher (Wedding Crashers)
Naomi Watts (King Kong)
Keri Russell (The Upside of Anger)
Maria Bello (A History of Violence)
Hope Davis (Proof)

Best Duo (or trio)

Winner: Joan Allen & Kevin Costner (The Upside of Anger)
- Steve Carell & Paul Rudd & Seth Rogen (40-Year-Old Virgin)

Matt Dillon & Ryan Phillippe (Crash)
Brendan Fraser & Sandra Bullock (Crash)
Terrence Howard & Thandie Newton (Crash)
Chris ?Ludacris? Bridges & Larenz Tate (Crash)
Heath Ledger & Jake Gyllenhaal (Brokeback Mountain)
Joan Allen & Kevin Costner (The Upside of Anger)
David Strathairn & George Clooney (Good Night & Good Luck)
Cameron Diaz & Toni Collette (In Her Shoes)
Cameron Diaz & Shirley MacLaine (In Her Shoes)
Will Smith & Kevin James (Hitch)
Nicolas Cage & Ethan Hawke (Lord of War)
Steve Carell & Catherine Keener (40-Year-Old Virgin)
Steve Carell & Elizabeth Banks (40-Year-Old Virgin)
Steve Carell & Paul Rudd & Seth Rogen (40-Year-Old Virgin)
Evan Rachel Wood & Erika Christensen & Keri Russell (The Upside of Anger)
Eric Bana & Daniel Craig & Ciaran Hinds (Munich)

Most Overrated Film

Winner: Cinderella Man (B-)
- March of the Penguins (C+)

Cinderella Man
Kung Fu Hustle
March of the Penguins
Murderball
Syriana
The Aristocrats
The Constant Gardener
Walk the Line
Wedding Crashers

Best Passed-Up Film

Winner: Innocent Voices
- The Weatherman

In Her Shoes
Innocent Voices
Millions
Rock School
The Chumscrubber
The Weatherman

Most Surprising Film on the Upside

Winner: Deuce Bigalow 2
- Grizzly Man

A History of Violence
Deuce Bigalow 2
Grizzly Man
In Her Shoes
Just Like Heaven
My Date with Drew
The Matador

Best Use of Music

Winner: Crash
- Brokeback Mountain

Brokeback Mountain
Broken Flowers
Cache (no soundtrack)
Crash
Elizabethtown
In Her Shoes
Millions
Paradise Now (no soundtrack)
Sin City
The Chumscrubber
The Matador

Director Who Needs to Rebound

Winner: Peter & Bobby Farrelly (Fever Pitch)
- Cameron Crowe (Elizabethtown)

Cameron Crowe (Elizabethtown)
Harold Ramis (The Ice Harvest)
John Singleton (Four Brothers)
Jon Favreau (Zathura)
Michael Bay (The Island)
Peter & Bobby Farrelly (Fever Pitch)
Rob Reiner (Rumor Has It)
Terry Gilliam (The Brothers Grimm)
Tim Burton (Charlie? and Corpse Bride)
Todd Solondz (Palindromes)
Wes Craven (Cursed and Red Eye)

Most Promising Director

Winner: Paul Haggis (Crash)
- Judd Apatow (40-Year-Old Virgin)
- Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger)

George Clooney (Good Night & Good Luck)
Hany Abu-Assad (Paradise Now)
Judd Apatow (40-Year-Old Virgin)
Mike Binder (The Upside of Anger)
Paul Haggis (Crash)

(Pretty) Good Movie that Could?ve Been Great

Winner: Hustle & Flow
- Charlie and the Chocolate Factory

Charlie & the Chocolate Factory
Hustle & Flow
Jarhead
King Kong
Thumbsucker
War of the Worlds

Worst Actor

Winner: Matthew Broderick (The Producers)
- Tyler Perry (Diary of a Mad Black Woman)

Edward Burns (A Sound of Thunder)
Eugene Levy (The Man)
Jimmy Fallon (Fever Pitch)
Matthew Broderick (The Producers)
Nick Cannon (The Underclassman)
Orlando Bloom (Kingdom of Heaven and Elizabethtown)
Paul Reiser (The Thing about My Folks)
Tyler Perry (Diary of a Mad Black Woman)

Worst Actress

Winner: Selma Blair (The Deal and The Fog)
- Tea Leoni (Fun with Dick and Jane)

Jennifer Lopez (Monster-in-Law)
Jessica Alba (Fantastic Four and Into the Blue)
Jessica Simpson (Dukes of Hazzard)
Scarlett Johansson (The Island)
Selma Blair (The Deal and The Fog)
Tea Leoni (Fun with Dick and Jane)

Worst Supporting Actor

Winner: Burt Reynolds (The Longest Yard and Dukes of Hazzard)
- Robert Duvall (Kicking & Screaming)

Adam Baldwin (Serenity)
Burt Reynolds (The Longest Yard and Dukes of Hazzard)
Robert Patrick (Walk the Line)
Robert Duvall (Kicking & Screaming)

Worst Supporting Actress

Winner: Jane Fonda (Monster-in-Law)
- Uma Thurman (Be Cool and The Producers)

Claire Daines (The Family Stone)
Jane Fonda (Monster-in-Law)
Summer Glau (Serenity)
Uma Thurman (Be Cool and The Producers)

Lamest Movie

Winner: Must Love Dogs
- Serenity

Fantastic Four
Hichhikers Guide to the Galaxy
Must Love Dogs
Rumor Has It
Sahara
Serenity
Sky High
The Exorcism of Emily Rose
The Wedding Date

Biggest Sentimental Piece of Crap

Winner: The Thing about My Folks
- The Family Stone

North Country
The Family Stone
The Thing about My Folks
Transamerica

Why Must It Be So Predictable?

Winner: Cinderella Man
- Mad Hot Ballroom

Cinderella Man
Coach Carter
Just Friends
Mad Hot Ballroom
Must Love Dogs
The Great Raid
Wedding Crashers

Most Straightforward Directing

Winner: Hideo Nakata (The Ring Two)
- Ron Howard (Cinderella Man)

Hideo Nakata (The Ring Two)
James Mangold (Walk the Line)
Mike Newell (Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire)
Rob Marshall (Memoirs of a Geisha)
Ron Howard (Cinderella Man)
Stephen Gaghan (Syriana)
Sydney Pollack (The Interpreter)

Worst Directing

Winner: Lawrence Guterman (Son of the Mask)
- Angela Robinson (D.E.B.S.)

Angela Robinson (D.E.B.S.)
Henry Alex Rubin and Dana Adam Shapiro (Murderball)
Jay Chandrasekhar (Dukes of Hazzard)
Karyn Kusama (Aeon Flux)
Kevin Rodney Sullivan (Guess Who)
Lawrence Guterman (Son of the Mask)
Lee Tamahori (xXx: State of the Union)
Mike Mitchell (Sky High)
Paul Schrader (Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist)
Raymond De Felitta (The Thing about My Folks)
Rob Reiner (Rumor Has It)
Susan Stroman (The Producers)
Wes Craven (Cursed)

Worst Screenplay

Winner: Supercross (Ken Solarz and Bart Baker)
- Son of the Mask (Lance Khazei)

Aeon Flux (Phil Hay and Matt Manfredi)
D.E.B.S. (Angela Robinson)
Diary of a Mad Black Woman (Tyler Perry)
Dukes of Hazzard (John O'Brien)
Fantastic Four (Mark Frost and Michael France)
Fun with Dick & Jane (Judd Apatow and Nicholas Stoller)
Serenity (Joss Whedon)
Son of the Mask (Lance Khazei)
Supercross (Ken Solarz and Bart Baker)
The Fog (Cooper Layne)
The Man (Jim Piddock and Margaret Oberman)
The Producers (Mel Brooks and Thomas Meehan)
The Thing about My Folks (Paul Reiser)
Underclassman (David Wagner and Brent Goldberg)

Worst Use of a Talent

Winner: Peter Falk (The Thing about My Folks)
- Johnny Depp (Corpse Bride)

Chloe Sevigny (Broken Flowers)
Chris Rock (The Longest Yard)
Dakota Fanning (War of the Worlds)
David Allen Grier (Bewitched)
David Krumholtz (Serenity)
Jim Carrey (Fun with Dick and Jane)
Johnny Depp (Corpse Bride)
Keira Knightley (The Jacket)
Peter Falk (The Thing about My Folks)
Steve Buscemi (The Island)
Wanda Sykes (Monster-in-Law)

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