2006 EDA Awards Nominees
BEST FILM:
1. Dreamgirls - Bill Condon
2. Pan?s Labyrinth - Guillermo del Toro
3. The Departed - Martin Scorsese
4. The Queen - Stephen Frears
5. Volver - Pedro Almodovar
BEST DRAMA BY OR ABOUT WOMEN:
1. Little Children - Todd Field
2. Sherrybaby - Laurie Collyer
3. The Queen - Stephen Frears
4. Volver - Pedro Almodovar
5. Water - Deepa Mehta
BEST COMEDY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN:
1. The Devil Wears Prada - David Frankel
2. Friends With Money - Nicole Holofcener
3. Little Miss Sunshine - Jonathan Dayton, Valerie Faris
4. Prairie Home Companion - Robert Altman
5. Stranger Than Fiction - Marc Forster
BEST SCREENPLAY WRITTEN BY A WOMAN:
1. Catch A Fire - Shawn Slovo
2. The Devil Wears Prada - Aline Brosh McKenna
3. Half Nelson - Anna Boden
4. House of Sand - Elena Soarez
5. World Trade Center - Andrea Berloff
BEST DOCUMENTARY BY OR ABOUT WOMEN:
1. Deliver Us From Evil - Amy Berg
2. Shut Up & Sing - Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck
3. Highway Courtesans - Mystelle Brabbee
4. Jesus Camp - Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
5. My Country, My Country - Laura Poitras
BEST ACTRESS IN A DRAMATIC PERFORMANCE:
1. Penelope Cruz - Volver
2. Judi Dench - Notes on A Scandal
3. Maggie Gyllenhaal - Sherrybaby
4. Helen Mirren - The Queen
5. Kate Winslet - Little Children
BEST ACTRESS IN A COMEDIC PERFORMANCE:
1. Toni Colette - Little Miss Sunshine
2. Penelope Cruz - Volver
3. Catherine O?Hara - For Your Consideration
4. Meryl Streep - The Devil Wears Prada
5. Emma Thompson - Stranger Than Fiction
BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTRESS OR ACTOR IN SUPPORT OF A FEMALE PROTAGONIST OR FEMALE PERSPECTIVE:
1. Alan Arkin - Little Miss Sunshine
2. Adriana Barraza - Babel
3. Ryan Gosling - Half Nelson
4. Jennifer Hudson - Dreamgirls
5. Carmen Maura - Volve
BEST BREAKTHROUGH PERFORMANCE FOR A YOUNG ACTRESS:
1. Ivana Banquero - Pan?s Labyrinth
2. Abigail Breslin - Little Miss Sunshine
3. Abbie Cornish - Candy/Somersault
4. Shareeka Epps - Half Nelson
5. Rinko Kikuchi - Babel
BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
1. Babel
2. Little Children
3. Little Ms. Sunshine
4. Prairie Home Companion
5. Volver
THE HANGING IN THERE FOR THE BEST PERSISTENCE:
1. Susan Bauman - Shadow of Afghanistan
2. Mystelle Brabbee - Highway Courtesans
3. Jonathan Dayton and Valarie Faris - Little Miss Sunshine
4. Barbara Kopple and Cecilia Peck - Shut Up & Sing
5. Deepa Mehta - Water
ACTRESS MOST IN NEED OF A NEW AGENT:
1. Bryce Dallas Howard
2. Nicole Kidman
3. Sarah Jessica Parker
4. Meg Ryan
5. Uma Thurman
MOVIES YOU WANTED TO LOVE BUT JUST COULDN?T:
1. All The King?s Men
2. Lake House
3. Marie Antoinette
4. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man?s Chest
5. The Holiday
BEST DEPICTION OF NUDITY OR SEXUALITY:
1. Babel
2. Borat
3. Little Children
4. Notorious Bettie Page
5. Sherrybaby
DON?T STICK YOU HEAD IN THE SAND:
1. An Inconvenient Truth - Davis Guggenheim
2. Deliver Us From Evil - Amy Berg
3. Highway Courtesans - Mystelle Brabbee
4. Jesus Camp - Heidi Ewing and Rachel Grady
5. 3 Needles - Thom Fitzgerald
6. Who Killed the Electric Car? - Chris Paine

