William Dalrymple (historian)

The 5th San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards, honoring the best in film for 2006, were given on 12 December 2006.

• Best Picture:
  • Little Children
• Best Director:
  • Paul Greengrass - United 93
• Best Original Screenplay:
  • Brick - Rian Johnson
• Best Adapted Screenplay:
  • Little Children - Todd Field and Tom Perrotta
• Best Actor:
  • Sacha Baron Cohen - Borat
• Best Actress:
  • Helen Mirren - The Queen
• Best Supporting Actor:
  • Jackie Earle Haley - Little Children
• Best Supporting Actress:
  • Adriana Barraza - Babel
• Best Foreign Language Film:
  • Pan's Labyrinth (El laberinto del fauno) • Mexico/Spain/United States
• Best Documentary:
  • An Inconvenient Truth
• Marlon Riggs Award (for courage & vision in the Bay Area film community):
  • Stephen Salmons, co-founder and artistic director of the San Francisco Silent Film Festival
• Special Citation (in honor of Arthur Lazere, a member of the critics group and founder of culturevulture.net who died earlier this year):
  • The Death of Mr. Lazarescu (Moartea domnului Lãzãrescu)

• 2006 San Francisco Film Critics Circle Awards

• SF Film Critics Awards announced