<div style="float:right; font-size:smaller; background:lavender; padding:12px; margin-left:5em; margin-bottom:2em; width:180px; text-align:center;"> **19th CFCA Awards** December 28, 2006 Best Film: ** The Departed ** The **19th Chicago Film Critics Association Awards**, given by the [CFCA](https://bliptext.com/articles/chicago-film-critics-association) on December 28, [2006](https://bliptext.com/articles/2006-in-film) honored the best in film for [2006](https://bliptext.com/articles/2006-in-film).

Winners and nominees

Best Actor

Forest Whitaker – The Last King of Scotland

Best Actress

Helen Mirren – The Queen

Best Cinematography

Children of Men – Emmanuel Lubezki

Best Director

Martin Scorsese – The Departed

Best Documentary Film

An Inconvenient Truth

Best Film

The Departed

Best Foreign Language Film

Letters from Iwo Jima, United States

Best Original Score

The Fountain – Clint Mansell

Best Screenplay – Adapted

The Departed – William Monahan

Best Screenplay – Original

The Queen – Peter Morgan

Best Supporting Actor

Jackie Earle Haley – Little Children

Best Supporting Actress

Rinko Kikuchi – Babel

Most Promising Performer

Sacha Baron Cohen – Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan and ''Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby

Most Promising Filmmaker

Rian Johnson – Brick