More award announcements with the Austin Film Critics Association Awards and the National Society of Film Critics both announcing their winners of this years winners.

For the Austin Film Critics the Best Film went to United 93 (Filmstalker review) which I don't think is a huge surprise, with Best Actor going to Leonardo DiCaprio for The Departed (Filmstalker review). Actually looking at the list it's quite a break from the other awards that are being nominated and announced just now.

The National Film Critics announced Pan's Labyrinth (Filmstalker review) the best film, and that really is a surprise. Helen Mirren and Forest Whitaker were awarded Best Actor and Actress for The Queen and The Last King of Scotland respectively, royalty winning out this year.

Paul Greengrass took Best Director for United 93, Peter Morgan's screenplay for The Queen was voted the best, as were Mark Wahlberg for The Departed and Meryl Streep for The Devil Wears Prada and A Prairie Home Companion (Filmstalker review). Quite an interesting list again.

Here's the complete lists...

The Austin Awards in full via Austin Movie blog:

Top Ten:
1. United 93
2. The Departed
3. Pan's Labyrinth
4. Children of Men
5. Brick
6. Borat!
7. Little Children
8. The Queen
9. The Prestige
10. The Fountain

Best Film: "United 93"
Best Director: Alfonso Cuaron, "Children of Men"
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio, "The Departed"
Best Actress: Ellen Page, "Hard Candy"
Best Supporting Actor: Jack Nicholson, "The Departed"
Best Supporting Actress: Rinko Kikuchi, "Babel"
Best Original Screenplay: Guillermo del Toro, "Pan's Labyrinth"
Best Adapted Screenplay: Alfonso Cuaron, Timothy J. Sexton, David Arata, Mark Fergus, Hawk Ostby, "Children of Men"
Best Cinematography: Emmanuel Lubezki, "Children of Men"
Best Foreign Film: "Pan's Labyrinth" ("El Laberinto del Fauno;" Mexico)
Best Documentary: "This Film Is Not Yet Rated"
Best Animated Film: "Cars"
Best First Film: Rian Johnson, "Brick"
Breakthrough Artist: Jennifer Hudson, "Dreamgirls"
Austin Film Award: Richard Linklater, "A Scanner Darkly"

I struggled to find the full listing for the National Society of Film Critics and made do with the press release from Reuters, so if you find it, let me know and let's get them up here.