Online Film Critics Announce Annual Award Winners

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NEW YORK, January 8, 2007 -- "United 93" won Best Picture in the 10th Annual Online Film Critics Society Awards. The Online Film Critics Society (OFCS) is the international professional association of Internet-based cinema journalists which has been voting to honor worthy films and filmmakers since 1997.

Martin Scorsese was named Best Director for "The Departed," while the acting awards went to Forest Whitaker in "The Last King of Scotland" (Best Actor), Helen Mirren in "The Queen" (Best Actress), Jackie Earle Haley in "Little Children" (Best Supporting Actor) and Abigail Breslin in "Little Miss Sunshine" (Best Supporting Actress).

No single film dominated this year's awards. "United 93" won only one other award, for Best Editing. Three films also received two awards apiece: "Little Miss Sunshine" (for Best Breakthrough Filmmaker and for Abigail Breslin's performance), "Pan's Labyrinth" (for Best Original Screenplay and Best Foreign Language Film) and "Children of Men" (for Best Adapted Screenplay and Best Cinematography).

Here are the complete results:

BEST PICTURE: "United 93"

BEST DIRECTOR: Martin Scorsese - "The Departed"

BEST ACTOR: Forest Whitaker - The Last King of Scotland"

BEST ACTRESS: Helen Mirren - "The Queen"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR: Jackie Earle Haley - "Little Children"

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS: Abigail Breslin - "Little Miss Sunshine"

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY: Guillermo del Toro - "Pan's Labyrinth"

BEST ADAPTED SCREENPLAY: Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus and Hawk Ostby - "Children of Men"

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY: Emmanuel Lubeski - "Children of Men"

BEST EDITING: Clare Douglas, Richard Pearson and Christopher Rouse - "United 93"

BEST ORIGINAL SCORE: Clint Mansell - "The Fountain"

BEST DOCUMENTARY: "An Inconvenient Truth"

BEST FOREIGN LANGUAGE FILM: "Pan's Labyrinth" (Mexico)

BEST ANIMATED FILM: "A Scanner Darkly"

BREAKTHROUGH FILMMAKER: Jonathan Dayton & Valerie Faris - "Little Miss Sunshine"

BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMER: Sacha Baron Cohen - "Borat"

Founded in 1997, the Online Film Critics Society has been the key force in establishing and raising the standards for Internet-based film journalism. The OFCS membership spans the U.S., Canada, Europe, Latin America, Africa, and the Asia/Pacific Rim region. The Society's web site, which has been hosted since January 2001 by the highly influential film resource Rotten Tomatoes (www.rottentomatoes.com), provides the most comprehensive online listing of reviews and original interviews with the leading artists in today's cinema, plus links to the most important motion picture-related web sites. DVD Town's John J. Puccio and James Plath are members.

For more information, visit the Online Film Critics Society at www.ofcs.org.

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