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United 93, Forest Whitaker, Helen Mirren Honored In 10th Annual Online Film Critics Society Awards

NEW YORK, January 8, 2007 -- United 93 won Best Picture in the 10th Annual Online Film Critics Society Awards. The awards were voted by the Online Film Critics Society (OFCS), the international professional association of Internet-based cinema journalists.

Martin Scorsese was named Best Director for The Departed. 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).

The complete winners list for the 10th Annual OFCS Awards are as follows:

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.

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

For a complete list of the year's nominees, click here. Click Here to Return to Listing of Awards.

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