2006 Grimmy Awards
By Bob GrimmLeonardo DiCaprio (The Departed and Blood Diamond)
Runners-up: Hugh Jackman (The Fountain); Will Smith (The Pursuit of Happyness); Ryan Gosling (Half Nelson); Patrick Wilson (Little Children and Hard Candy); Sacha Baron Cohen (Borat)
Best Actress
Helen Mirren (The Queen)
Runners-up: Ellen Page (Hard Candy); Kate Winslet (Little Children); Judi Dench (Notes on a Scandal); Penelope Cruz (Volver); Kirsten Dunst (Marie Antoinette)
Best Supporting Actor
Mark Wahlberg (The Departed)
Runners-up: Jack Nicholson (The Departed); Eddie Murphy (Dreamgirls); Bill Nighy (Notes on a Scandal); Sacha Baron Cohen, Gary Cole and John C. Reilly (Talladega Nights); Jackie Earle Haley (Little Children)
Best Supporting Actress
Catherine O'Hara (For Your Consideration)
Runners-up: Shareeka Epps (Half Nelson); Adriana Barraza (Babel); Cate Blanchett (Babel and Notes on a Scandal); Toni Collette (Little Miss Sunshine); Abigail Breslin (Little Miss Sunshine)
Best Director
Darren Aronofsky (The Fountain)
Worst Actor (Overall)
Nicolas Cage (The Wicker Man ... I still can't believe they got him into that bear suit!)
Worst Actress (Overall)
Sharon Stone (Basic Instinct 2: Risk Addiction)
Best Male Performance in a Bad Movie
Christian Slater (Bobby ... Slater was damn good in this garbage film.)
Worst Male Performance in a Good Movie
Larry the Cable Guy's voice (Cars)
Best Female Performance in a Bad Movie
Uma Thurman (My Super Ex-Girlfriend ... that's two years in a row for Uma.)
Worst Female Performance in a Good Movie
Parker Posey (Superman Returns)
Overrated
A Prairie Home Companion, The Devil Wears Prada
Underrated
The Fountain, Harsh Times
Best Comeback
Sylvester Stallone (Rocky Balboa)
Most Spastic Performance
Sean Penn waving his arms like a freaking maniac (All the King's Men)
Best Foreign Film
Pan's Labyrinth
Best Documentary
Jesus Camp
Film You Thought I Was Going to Name Best Documentary
An Inconvenient Truth
Best Animated Movie
A Scanner Darkly
Best Song
"Running the World" by Jarvis Cocker (Children of Men)
Best Score
The Fountain
Best Line of Dialogue
"Your injury is one of ignorance and pride!" --Jean Girard (Sacha Baron Cohen), Talladega Nights
Best Jackass Stunt
Johnny Knoxville getting gored by a bull while blindfolded
Worst Jackass Stunt
Anything involving shit; the puke stuff was actually kind of funny
Best Remake
The Departed
Worst Remake
The Wicker Man
Most Mishandled Movie
Idiocracy (It got dumped into only a couple hundred theaters, and it is one of the funniest movies of the year.)
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