2006 NOMINEES
Winner; *runner-up

BEST ORIGINAL SCREENPLAY
THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN (Steve Carell & Judd Apatow)	GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK. (George Clooney & Grant Heslov)	THE MATADOR* (Richard Shepard)	SERENITY (Joss Whedon)	WALLACE AND GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT* (Nick Park, Bob Baker, Steve Box, Mark Burton)

BEST ENSEMBLE CAST
THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN (Steve Carell, Catherine Keener, Paul Rudd, Romany Malco, Seth Rogen, Elizabeth Banks, Leslie Mann, Jane Lynch, Gerry Bednob, Mindy Kaling)	CRASH (Sandra Bullock, Don Cheadle, Tony Danza, Keith David, Loretta Devine, Matt Dillon, Jennifer Esposito, William Fichtner, Brendan Fraser, Nona Gaye, Terrence Howard, Daniel Dae Kim, Ludacris, Thandie Newton, Michael Pena, Ryan Phillippe, Marina Sirtis, Bahar Soomekh, Larenz Tate)	HUSTLE & FLOW (Terrence Howard, Anthony Anderson, Taryn Manning, Taraji P. Henson, DJ Qualls, Paula Jai Parker, Elise Neal, Isaac Hayes, Ludacris)	JUNEBUG (Amy Adams, Embeth Davitdz, Benjamin McKenzie, Alessandro Nivola, Frank Hoyt Taylor, Celia Weston, Scott Wilson)	MARCH OF THE PENGUINS (Guy penguins, girl penguins, baby penguins, leopard seals, Morgan Freeman)	SERENITY* (Nathan Fillon, Gina Torres, Alan Tudyk, Morena Baccarin, Adam Baldwin, Jewel Staite, Sean Maher, Summer Glau, Ron Glass, Chiwetel Ejiofor, David Krumholtz, Michael Hitchcock, Sarah Paulson)

BEST SUPPORTING ACTRESS
Amy Adams, JUNEBUG	Isla Fisher, WEDDING CRASHERS*	Taraji P. Henson, HUSTLE & FLOW	Catherine Keener, CAPOTE	Rachel Weisz, THE CONSTANT GARDENER	Michelle Williams, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN

BEST SUPPORTING ACTOR
Clifton Collins Jr., CAPOTE	Paul Giamatti, CINDERELLA MAN	Jake Gyllenhaal, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN	Jesse L. Martin, RENT	Seth Rogen, THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN	Alexander Siddig, SYRIANA*

WORST ACTOR
Hayden Christiansen, STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH
Tom Cruise, WAR OF THE WORLDS*
Heath Ledger, THE BROTHERS GRIMM
Adam Pascal, RENT
Sam Rockwell, THE HITCHHIKER'S GUIDE TO THE GALAXY



WORST ACTRESS
Jessica Alba, FANTASTIC FOUR
Kirsten Dunst, ELIZABETHTOWN
Katie Holmes, BATMAN BEGINS*
Natalie Portman, STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH

BEST ACTOR
Ralph Fiennes, THE CONSTANT GARDENER	Philip Seymour Hoffman, CAPOTE	Terrence Howard, HUSTLE & FLOW	Heath Ledger, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN*	Andy Serkis, KING KONG	David Strathairn, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.

BEST ACTRESS
Embeth Davidtz, JUNEBUG	Georgie Henley, THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE	Catherine Keener, THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN	Keira Knightley, PRIDE & PREJUDICE	Naomi Watts, KING KONG	Reese Witherspoon, WALK THE LINE*

ACTOR WITH WHOM YOU MOST WANT TO GET IT ON
George Clooney, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.	Heath Ledger, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN	Matthew MacFadyen, PRIDE & PREJUDICE	Jesse L. Martin, RENT*	Alessandro Nivola, JUNEBUG	Clive Owen, SIN CITY

BEST DIRECTOR
Judd Apatow, THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN	George Clooney, GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK.*	Ang Lee, BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN	Fernando Meirelles, THE CONSTANT GARDENER*	Bennett Miller, CAPOTE	Nick Park, WALLACE AND GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT

WORST PICTURE
BE COOL
THE BROTHERS GRIMM
FANTASTIC FOUR*
STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH*
THE SQUID AND THE WHALE

SPECIAL JURY PRIZES
These awards are not voted on by the Virtual Crib, but are given out by the Cribbies administration based on voting patterns Cribwide.

The Mac Rogers Memorial Prize for Excessive Girth
KING KONG

The Emma Watson Prize for Girl We Would Have Had a Gigantic Crush On In Seventh Grade
Emma Watson, HARRY POTTER AND THE GOBLET OF FIRE

The Chris Columbus Prize for Unbelievably Botched Adaptation
RENT

The Pepe the Prawn Prize for Best Performance by a Cartoon Ensemble
WALLACE & GROMIT IN THE CURSE OF THE WERE-RABBIT

The Amy Poehler Prize for Hotness Unrecognized By You Assholes
Every single actress in SERENITY

HALL OF AWESOME INDUCTEES

VIRGIN HAS HIS WAY WITH GAY COWBOYS
"Brokeback" Helmer: "At Least It Wasn't 'Crash'"

Judd Apatow's THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN swept the Eighth Annual Cribbies, taking six awards, including Best Picture, Best Ensemble Cast, Best Original Screenplay, and three acting awards. No other film won more than one Cribbie; BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN's heartbreak continued, as its Cribbie performance matches its Oscar performance. Ang Lee won Best Director for his film about homosexual men of the West, but the film itself lost out for Best Picture. "At least it wasn't CRASH," said the director, who sensitively brought the groundbreaking story of true love between two cowboys to the screen. "That movie sucked major-league dick."

VIRGIN's Seth Rogen, winner of a Best Supporting Actor award, drank every single one of the film's six Cribbie awards -- glasses of the finest Jack Daniels sippin' whiskey -- and spent the aftermath of the ceremony weeping into the décolletage of pregnant nominee Rachel Weisz, whose THE CONSTANT GARDENER picked up the award for Best Original Screenplay. Other non-VIRGIN winners included CAPOTE's Philip Seymour Hoffman for Best Actor, WEDDING CRASHERS for Tastes Great, Less Filling, and JUNEBUG's Amy Adams, in a landslide, for Best Supporting Actress.

Catherine Keener won her first two Cribbies after seven nominations, sharing in VIRGIN's Ensemble Cast award and taking her own Cribbie for Best Actress. The coveted Get It On awards went to adorable snaggle-toothed Brits Keira Knightley and Clive Owen.

This year's inductees into the Cribbies Hall of Awesome are Alan Rickman and zombies.

EIGHTH ANNUAL CRIBBIES NOMINATIONS ANNOUNCED
Clooney Adds Three to Record Nom Total; "Brokeback," "Virgin" Lead the Way

Two very different films about shy men suppressing their sexual desire led the Eighth Annual Cribbie Nominations, Celebrating Achievement in Filmmaking, Acting and Hotness. BROKEBACK MOUNTAIN, Ang Lee's adaptation of Annie Proulx's short story about barebackin' cowpokes, received eight nominations, including Best Picture and four acting nominations. Meanwhile, Judd Apatow's comic riff on delayed gratification THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN also collected eight nominations, including an unprecedented six acting nods. Close behind these two films were Fernando Meirelles' political thriller THE CONSTANT GARDENER and George Clooney's historical agitprop GOOD NIGHT, AND GOOD LUCK, both with seven nominations, including Best Picture. Led by strong performances in the acting categories, Craig Brewer's a-rapper-is-born drama HUSTLE & FLOW collected six nominations; CAPOTE and JUNEBUG garnered five, and Joss Whedon's space opera SERENITY collected four.

Another space opera dominated the Worst nominations, as STAR WARS EPISODE III: REVENGE OF THE SITH collected the now-customary hat trick of noms. Joining George Lucas' final cinematic abomination in the Worst Picture category are BE COOL, FANTASTIC FOUR, THE SQUID AND THE WHALE, and THE BROTHERS GRIMM, which also gained star Heath Ledger a dubious honor, that of being among both the best and worst actors of the year.

The surprise nominee among this year's Best Picture nominees is MARCH OF THE PENGUINS. This adorable nature documentary has been officially certified by the Cribbies administration as the worst possible movie to take your wife to on her first night out after she has a baby, as the theme of the film -- in a nutshell -- is that if you leave your child alone for even a minute, it will freeze to death or be devoured by a ravenous predatory bird. PENGUINS also marked a new first in the traditionally strong Cribbies recognition of the acting performances of animals; nominated for Best Ensemble Cast, this marks the first time a film has received such a nomination for a cast that consists entirely of wild animals and Morgan Freeman.

Triple nominee George Clooney continues his reign as the most-nominated person in Cribbies history; his nods for Get It On, Director, and Adapted Screenplay give him twelve total nominations in eight years, four more than runner-up Kate Winslet -- though Winslet has won five Cribbies to Clooney's mere one (Get It On, 1999, OUT OF SIGHT). Joining Clooney as triple nominees were Terrence Howard (Ensemble Cast for CRASH and HUSTLE & FLOW, Actor for HUSTLE & FLOW), rapper Ludacris (Ensemble Cast for CRASH and HUSTLE & FLOW, Bit Part for HUSTLE & FLOW), and Catherine Keener (Ensemble Cast and Actress for THE 40 YEAR-OLD VIRGIN, Supporting Actress for CAPOTE). Keener's nominations give her seven for her career, the most ever for someone who's never won an award. 

For the first time since ANGELS IN AMERICA garnered three nominations in 2004, a television production received a Cribbie nomination, as a Best Music nod went to LAZY SUNDAY, the rap video made famous on Saturday Night Live for its chorus, "The Chronic-(what?!)-cles of Narnia." Other surprise nominees include THE MATADOR for Original Screenplay, Lissa Ridder (aka "the annoying sister") for Bit Part in FUNNY HA HA, and Alexander Siddig (aka "the hot prince") for Supporting Actor in SYRIANA. Andy Serkis once more gained a Cribbie nomination for a mostly-digital performance, this time for KING KONG -- Serkis' sixth nomination all-time.

Nominees for the Cribbies Hall of Awesome include perennial also-ran Drew Barrymore, hack director Uwe Boll, claymator Nick Park, and zombies. Also nominated is Malin Akerman, "the girl who took her shirt off in Harold and Kumar."

So now, it's time to vote! Send in your votes before the night of SATURDAY, MARCH 4, 2006 at MIDNIGHT. The Cribbies winners will be announced immediately after those other, less prestigious awards on the 5th.

Thanks to all of you who sent in your nominations. Even if you didn't have a chance to nominate anything, though, PLEASE be sure to vote! It's your participation that makes this fun. And please, everyone, be sure to campaign for your favorites -- though it would be swell to keep the family-threatening to a minimum.