Best of 2006

This list is NOT my “Who Will Win” – it’s not exactly even a “Who Should Win”, as most of my Best Of 2006 nominations aren’t even nominated. But along the lines of the format of AFI, I'm listing my choices for the Best in Movies and the Best in TV for 2006. Enjoy.

Movies:
Top 10 Movies of the year (in order):
1. United 93
2. Pan’s Labyrinth
3. Thank You For Smoking
4. The Departed
5. Apocalypto
6. Inside Man
7. The Last King Of Scotland
8. Little Miss Sunshine
9. X-Men: The Last Stand
10. The Queen

Best Actor:
1. Aaron Eckhart (Thank You For Smoking)
2. Matt Damon (The Departed)
3. Forrest Whitaker (The Last King Of Scotland)
4. Clive Owen (Inside Man)
5. Greg Kinnear (Little Miss Sunshine)

Best Actress:
1. Helen Mirren (The Queen)
2. Maribel Verdu (Pan’s Labyrinth)
3. Uma Thurmond (My Super Ex-Girlfriend)

Best Director:
1. Paul Greengrass (United 93)
2. Martin Scorsese (The Departed)
3. Mel Gibson (Apocalypto)
4. Guillermo del Toro (Pan’s Labyrinth)
5. Kevin Macdonald (The Last King Of Scotland)

Best Supporting Actor (couldn’t stop at 5):
1. Michael Sheen (The Queen)
2. Sergi Lopez (Pan’s Labyrinth)
3. Alan Arkin (Little Miss Sunshine)
4. Christian Clemenson (United 93)
5. James McAvoy (The Last King Of Scotland)
6. Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)
7. Stanley Tucci (The Devil Wears Prada)
8. Brad Pitt (Babel)

Best Supporting Actress:
1. Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine)
2. Maria Bello (Thank You For Smoking)
3. Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine)
4. Jodie Foster (Inside Man)
5. Vera Farmiga (The Departed)

And the Razzie awards:
Worst movie of the year (tie): Letters From Iwo Jima and World Trade Center
Worst Director of the year: M. Night Shalamingalingading
Worst Supporting Actor of the year: M. Night Shalamingalingading

I'll add a disclaimer that there are still movies from 2006 that I missed and want to see. So the following movies could be added at a later time:

• Blood Diamond
• Flags Of Our Fathers
• Half Nelson
• Hollywoodland
• Invincible
• Let’s Go To Prison
• Little Children
• Notes On A Scandal

Television (a little awkward halfway through the season):
Top 11 shows of the year (in order):

1. Battlestar Galactica
2. Survivor
3. 24
4. Veronica Mars
5. It’s Always Sunny In Philadelphia
6. Dexter
7. The Office
8. Heroes
9. How I Met Your Mother
10. Grey’s Anatomy
11. My Boys

Best Actor:
1. Kiefer Sutherland (24)
2. Michael C. Hall (Dexter)
3. James Roday (Psych)
4. Steve Carrell (The Office)
5. William Petersen (CSI)

Best Actress:
1. Mary McDonnell (Battlestar Galactica)
2. Evangeline Lilly (Lost)
3. Marg Helgenberger (CSI)

Best Supporting Actor:
1. Gregory Itzin (24)
2. Michael Emerson (Lost)
3. T. R. Knight (Grey’s Anatomy)
4. John Krasinski (The Office)
5. Masi Oka (Heroes)
6. Jesse Tyler Ferguson (The Class)
7. Justin Chambers (Grey’s Anatomy)
8. Neil Patrick Harris (How I Met Your Mother)

Best Supporting Actress:
1. Lucy Lawless (Battlestar Galactica)
2. Hayden Panettiere (Heroes)
3. Kate Walsh (Grey’s Anatomy)
4. Jean Smart (24)
5. Katherine Heigl (Grey’s Anatomy)
6. Jenna Fischer (The Office)
7. Katee Sackhoff (Battlestar Galactica)
8. Emily Procter (CSI: Miami)
9. Chandra Wilson (Grey’s Anatomy)
10. Jayne Atkinson (24)