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• Sacha Baron Cohen may have missed out on a Best Actor nomination for Borat: Cultural Learnings of America for Make Benefit Glorious Nation of Kazakhstan, but he still figures in this year's contest, earning a nod (along with his four co-writers) for Best Adapted Screenplay. As Borat would say, "Nice!"
HOW THEY COMPARE
Oscar's 5 Best
These were the films nominated by the Academy for Best Picture.
1. Babel (7 nominations)
2. The Queen (6)
3. The Departed (5)
4. Letters From Iwo Jima (4)
5. Little Miss Sunshine (4)
Critics' 5 Best
Based on a national sampling of 200 reviewers, these were the films that appeared the most frequently on critics' 10 Best lists.
1. United 93
2. The Queen
3. The Departed
4. Letters From Iwo Jima
5. Pan's Labyrinth
(Primary source: www.moviecitynews.com)
Brunson's 5 Best
These were my picks for the year's best movies.
1. United 93
2. A Prairie Home Companion
3. The Queen
4. Thank You For Smoking
5. Letters From Iwo Jima
Moviegoers' 5 Best
These were the year's biggest moneymaking releases.
1. Pirates of the Caribbean: Dead Man's Chest
2. Cars
3. X-Men: The Last Stand
4. The Da Vinci Code
5. Night at the Museum
(Source: www.imdb.com)
...AND THE WORST
OK, we now have a sense of which films reigned as the biggest and/or best of 2006. But what about the worst? Glad you asked. We took a look at the "10 Worst" lists of 30 national critics and discovered that the following titles appeared most often:
1. Basic Instinct 2
2. Lady In the Water
3. The Wicker Man
4. Little Man
5. All the King's Men
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